1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,120 I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,640 In this week's episode, we'll be talking about the NBA as we're roaring up to the 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:10,640 playing and the playoffs. 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:15,320 We'll be talking about the NBA, the conclusion of their draft, and we'll be talking about 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:21,120 Jack's hot take, which will be in, of course, our last segment of the show. 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:25,040 As always, don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to the Justin Time Sports Podcast 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,720 on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:34,800 And as always, don't forget to follow the social media handle at J Times Sports, I repeat, 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,960 at J Times Sports for all of your breaking news, coverage, and 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00:03:47,680 For those of you who have subscribed, thank you. 34 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,760 For those of you who subscribed and got somebody else to subscribe, really thank you. 35 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:56,960 And make sure, of course, you guys are liking the podcast, subscribing to the podcast, wherever 36 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:57,960 you get your podcast. 37 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,920 Like I said, iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, wherever you get your podcast, make sure you 38 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,560 hit that subscribe button. 39 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,200 Really appreciate that helping grow the Justin Time Sports family. 40 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:14,880 But I truly believe that we are all one big conglomerate of a family. 41 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,240 I believe we're all one opinionated family. 42 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,680 I will tell you that much. 43 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,800 There's one thing I do see being on this side of it, is that you guys have your opinions 44 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,000 and when you're passionate about something, you are not afraid to share it. 45 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,960 So definitely shout out you guys, shout out the WNBA. 46 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,720 I'm recording this on Tuesday night, so the draft was last night. 47 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:36,720 You guys are hearing this on Wednesday. 48 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,200 Shout out the WNBA, or Tuesday afternoon, I should say. 49 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,040 Shout out the WNBA for the draft last night. 50 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,040 We'll talk about them. 51 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,760 But of course, we have to start with the NBA as we are on playing day. 52 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,040 I'm recording this right before 5 o'clock. 53 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,320 Local time, I mean central time zone, so local time in Louisiana. 54 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:57,840 I'm a Pelicans fan. 55 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,280 We have a huge playing game tonight against the Lakers. 56 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,760 But we'll start of course with what we do know. 57 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:12,040 What we do know is that out east, the Boston Celtics are awaiting the best loser out of 58 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,160 the 8-9 game, or out of the playing tournament. 59 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,280 They are the number one seed, the number one overall record in the NBA. 60 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,360 The playoffs run through Boston. 61 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:25,640 So Boston will have game one and game seven of every series in Boston. 62 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,280 With games one, two, and seven, I forgot since the NBA kind of changed the final format a 63 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:32,680 few years ago, they have games one and two and seven in Boston. 64 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,280 So every series starts and every series ends with the Boston Celtics in Boston if they 65 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:38,280 are still in the playoffs. 66 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,000 Congratulations to the Celtics on a hell of a year. 67 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,880 And they're going to do all this despite their best player, Jason Tatum, not being a top 68 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,800 five MVP candidate. 69 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,960 He may get fifth. 70 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:57,840 But it's like, you know, Jokic, SGA, no one really cares. 71 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:04,440 Honestly after that, he may end up as high as five, four, I think, Bontemps did his straw 72 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,760 poll which he got like 50 other voters or 50 big voters. 73 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,920 People that are known to vote and Tatum finished like fourth, fifth or sixth. 74 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,840 And a lot of people's voting. 75 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:17,840 So that's intriguing there. 76 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:22,800 And the New York Knicks, also with the guy who probably finished around fifth in the 77 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,680 NBA repeat race, they even get the second seed, their highest finish in a decade. 78 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,920 And they again, wait the winner of the seven, eight games. 79 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,120 So they'll know tonight. 80 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:42,760 I think the seven, eight games for both conferences is tonight. 81 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,680 I'll double check that really quickly. 82 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,800 But I believe that both seven, eight games are now. 83 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,040 I know the Pelicans play the Lakers. 84 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,040 We'll talk about that. 85 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,040 They play at 630. 86 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,040 And this is east, west, east, west. 87 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,160 Oh no, okay. 88 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:57,320 So it's west, east, west. 89 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:04,480 So the benefit of being the three seed, if you are the benefit of being in the two seed 90 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,760 if you're the Knicks is you're going to know your opponent Wednesday night. 91 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,920 Because when the seven, eight game plays, whoever wins that game becomes a seven seed 92 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,400 and you know your opponent. 93 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,680 The Celtics have to wait until Friday to know their opponent, which is why I've always kind 94 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,960 of pushed back at how the play in turn is done. 95 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,200 There's no benefit to being the one seed. 96 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,880 I don't know my opponent until the, I'm the last, especially here in Boston. 97 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,720 Boston may be the last person to have their playoff opponent because they're going to 98 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:34,120 play the loser of seven, eight or the winner of nine, 10. 99 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,080 And they're not going to find out until Friday who they're going to play. 100 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:46,160 Everybody else in the playoffs will have had at least 24 hours to prepare. 101 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,160 That's why I kind of like it. 102 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:53,800 If we're going to have the play in tournament, the one seed plays last because they're going 103 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,480 to have the least amount of prep. 104 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:00,360 So that's wrong of me and say like, for instance, the three, six matchup is known, Milwaukee 105 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,360 versus Indiana. 106 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,600 They're going to have about a week to prep. 107 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,800 So if they play on the same day as the one seed, the one seed gets three days. 108 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,440 How is that fair to the one seed? 109 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,120 I'd rather be a three seed and know who I'm going to play, be able to prep. 110 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,680 I should still win this series either way. 111 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,040 And at least now I get an entire week off. 112 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:25,800 I keep the entire week off and I know who I'm going to play. 113 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,720 So to me, it's why the play in tournament has its faults. 114 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,520 It's the fact that it kind of punishes the one seed because they have to wait the longest 115 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,520 to find out who they're going to play. 116 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,760 And I'll talk about an adjustment to the play in tournament I would make a little bit later. 117 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:46,160 As I already spoke about, Milwaukee plays Indiana and then the Cavs have the Magic. 118 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:51,800 And we're going to talk about some machinations that happened in both the series, but in the 119 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,080 East, the play in tournament, which again, we'll kick off when you guys hear this Wednesday 120 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,360 night. 121 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,360 The 76ers play the Heat in the 7-8 matchup. 122 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,200 Winner draws the Knicks. 123 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:07,520 Loser plays the winner of the Chicago Bulls versus the Atlanta Hawks for the eight seed. 124 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,040 I truly believe it will be sixes of Heat. 125 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,040 We'll follow how they should, 7-8. 126 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,520 I think the sixes are going to win Wednesday night, going to beat the Heat. 127 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,440 And the Heat are going to crush whoever wins out of Chicago and Atlanta. 128 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,640 And they'll follow exactly how they should, 7-8. 129 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,800 It won't be any weirdness or machinations going on out East. 130 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,800 Out West, shout out to the Oklahoma City Thunder. 131 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,800 They have become the youngest team to ever win a conference by two years average age. 132 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:34,800 And they win the West. 133 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,560 And to me, the most competitive West in a decade plus. 134 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:44,760 I mean, I will look at it as the Warriors won 46 games and they're the 10th seed. 135 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,600 The Pelicans won 49 games. 136 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,120 They're the ninth seed. 137 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,240 The Boston Sub's have the number one record in NBA. 138 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,800 Rutgers two, three, four, and five are all in the West. 139 00:09:54,800 --> 00:10:02,360 I mean, so it's just the talent level, the management, the ownership, the fan-based support, 140 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,200 and just the overall basketball culture of teams in the West is so much higher than these. 141 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,280 I mean, you look at the Spurs. 142 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:16,080 Like Wimby B in the last few weeks of the season, he's got a Nuggets win, a Pelicans win, and 143 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,840 I believe he got a Clipper win in the last few weeks of the season. 144 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,640 Greatly actually affecting the standings. 145 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,440 You add a win to the Nuggets, they're the first seed. 146 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,440 They lost it on tiebreaker to the Thugnets. 147 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,680 You add a win to the Pelicans, they're the sixth seed. 148 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:31,800 They're not in the playing. 149 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:38,480 So as crazy, as bad as the Spurs were record-wise, they strongly affected the standings coming 150 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:39,480 down the stretch. 151 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,480 But again, shout out to the Oklahoma City Thunder for winning the West. 152 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:44,880 They weighed their opponent. 153 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,920 The Denver Nuggets also weighed their opponent as the two seed, but they're going to find 154 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,920 out their opponent Thursday because the West is going first. 155 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,360 No, they're going to find out their opponent tonight. 156 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:56,360 My apologies. 157 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,520 Denver will find out who they're playing tonight because they'll draw the winner of the New 158 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,960 Orleans Pelicans and the Los Angeles Lakers. 159 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,120 So the Denver Nuggets are going to find out who they have tonight. 160 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,440 Oklahoma City will find out Thursday who they have. 161 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,080 But two series we do know, the Minnesota Timbukes are playing the Phoenix Suns. 162 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,480 This is going to be a very interesting series. 163 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,880 Very, very interesting series. 164 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,240 We'll get to a little bit more series specifics in a couple of minutes. 165 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,320 And then the Clippers play the Dallas Mavericks. 166 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,760 Thank you, basketball gods. 167 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,400 Kawhi's coming in nicked up. 168 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,720 So we'll have the, we'll have the juice. 169 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,080 The Luka versus Clippers. 170 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,800 It's almost better than Luka versus the Suns. 171 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,160 But now the Clippers can't use a usual strategy because Kyrie Irvin's out there too. 172 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,760 You know, they used to do a lot of things and switch the ball and make sure Luka got 173 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,560 tired and tried to force him into 1v1s. 174 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:56,560 That's great. 175 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:58,280 But Kyrie Irvin's out there now. 176 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,480 So you can't rotate away from certain people. 177 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,400 And because Kyrie's on one wing, Luka's on the other. 178 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:04,400 One of them has the ball. 179 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,480 You can't rotate off anything because they can see the hole for it and they can get the 180 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:09,480 ball to each other. 181 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,680 So that's a very dangerous situation for the Clippers. 182 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,680 But the Western Conference playing tournament. 183 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:16,680 Again, it begins tonight. 184 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:20,080 So by the time you guys hear this, you'll know who won the games. 185 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,560 The Pelicans play the Lakers for the 7-8 game. 186 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,040 Kicks tips in about an hour and a half. 187 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,920 And the Sacramento Kings play the Golden State Warriors in the 9-10 game. 188 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:35,640 Of course, the loser of the Pelz Lakers plays the winner of the Kings Warriors for the right 189 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,080 to play the Oklahoma City. 190 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,640 The winner of the Pelz Lakers plays the Denver Nuggets. 191 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:44,520 Alright, so I'm going to jump back to the top of my paper. 192 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,120 And I'm going to jump into the East. 193 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,760 And I mentioned a couple, well whatever. 194 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,640 I'll start off with the biggest news coming out today. 195 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:58,800 Which is Milwaukee Bucks would not have Giannis Atikumpo to start the playoffs. 196 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,360 He's dealing with left calf strain. 197 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,880 His treatment has not gotten him to the point where he is going to be able to play at the 198 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:07,880 start of the series. 199 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:15,600 Now, they are hoping that, oh wait a little bit of breaking news. 200 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:21,640 Kawhi Leonard is going to be the 12th person on Team USA in Paris. 201 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,920 But we'll definitely talk about that a lot more. 202 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,880 Spoiler alert, Jack's Hot Take is about the Olympic team. 203 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,840 So we're going to talk about them a lot more in Jack's Hot Take. 204 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,560 We're going to discuss the Olympic team more. 205 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,600 We have a lot more information on them. 206 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,200 Don't want to dive too far into it. 207 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,560 Not going to dive too far into it. 208 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:40,920 So we're going to talk about the Olympic team a lot more in Jack's Hot Take. 209 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,840 Anyway, back to the injury news with Giannis in that Milwaukee Pacers series. 210 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,760 His left calf is just not ready. 211 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,040 And even though they're not going to play for another week, the team has already kind 212 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,120 of decided, the team has already let it be known, he's not going to be ready for the 213 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,120 start of the series. 214 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:03,840 Therefore, they're going to have to win potentially a game or two without him. 215 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:11,280 This vaguely remember, remember the Heat series where he played and got injured and then he 216 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:12,280 came back. 217 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:13,280 It was weird. 218 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,720 It was like trying to fight through an injury and they ended up getting smoked by the Heat. 219 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,640 This has a very similar feeling to it. 220 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:20,640 You have Doc Rivers. 221 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,640 I mean, Doc Rivers was higher. 222 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,200 They were 30 and 13. 223 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,640 They never got to 50 wins. 224 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:31,040 So that means they were 40, 43 games, 39 games. 225 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,040 They won 19 of them. 226 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:39,120 As Doc Rivers, the head man in Milwaukee, you got Damon Liller reportedly not happy 227 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,920 now, according to Steven A. And it's not a basketball thing. 228 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,880 You say he's legitimately just not happy in Milwaukee. 229 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,840 And so you got that going on. 230 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,080 You got Giannis' left calf. 231 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:55,880 You have a guy, remember the very beginning of the season, Terry Stotz was supposed to 232 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,400 be the head assistant under Adrian Griffin. 233 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,640 And then Terry Stotz quit for the season starts. 234 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,080 It's been downhill ever since. 235 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,720 Stotz is supposed to be the Dame Smoother for like a better term. 236 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:09,720 Dame cut it for me. 237 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,720 He's facing the building. 238 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,720 He knows Terry Stotz. 239 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:12,720 He's under Terry Stotz. 240 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:13,720 He worked. 241 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,400 He's been in the building for an extra amount of years in Portland. 242 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,400 He put back the Dame Littleman. 243 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:19,400 Stotz ends up quitting. 244 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:27,440 I'm sure that kind of rattled the relationship a little bit with management. 245 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,600 And so it's been an interesting situation ever since. 246 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:30,600 Dame's been out of injury. 247 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,600 Giannis is about an injury. 248 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:32,600 They hardly had Chris Middleton this year. 249 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:33,600 They finally get everybody back. 250 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:34,600 Giannis goes down with the left calf. 251 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:42,320 As you can see, those calf strains, we've dealt with them in the past. 252 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,040 If you really pay attention to basketball, you know we've dealt with them in the past. 253 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,800 Kevin Durant is the most famous example I can think of and probably get you guys to 254 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,800 recall. 255 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,800 That's the name I recall fast. 256 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,800 Remember the finals against Toronto? 257 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Remember the playoffs? 258 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:56,800 He had a calf strain. 259 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:01,760 And we kept saying, you know, a lot of people were saying, myself included, like don't play 260 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,400 around with the calf strain. 261 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,920 The calf is connected to the foot by one thing. 262 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:07,920 It's called an Achilles. 263 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:13,360 Doesn't matter if your ankle is intact, it doesn't matter if your bones are there. 264 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:19,680 If you strain your calf, the calf muscle goes to the ankle and the foot with one thing. 265 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,080 It's called an Achilles. 266 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,600 Everybody knows how dangerous the Achilles is. 267 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,680 The Achilles heel is one of the most popular things ever said. 268 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,480 Even the story of Achilles is spectacular. 269 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,280 He has one area of weakness. 270 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:33,280 His heel. 271 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,720 Like you just, you don't mess around with a calf strain. 272 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,480 Especially in a game like football, sorry, especially in a game like basketball, where 273 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:43,960 it's out of cutting, out of jumping. 274 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,880 These are larger than normal people. 275 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,440 They're larger than football players. 276 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,880 Like, if we were to suspect it, who's the biggest Stephen the NFL right now? 277 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,160 Biggest strongest fast Stephen the NFL right now? 278 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,160 DK Metcalf? 279 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,880 He's 6'4", 235. 280 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,280 Giannis is 7'2", 60. 281 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:07,360 Like, so when you have that sort of mass moving and running and jumping and cutting, on a 282 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:11,280 hardwood floor, you don't have keys to help you dig in, you're getting bumped and bruised, 283 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,800 when you have like a calf strain, you're in very legitimate damage, adding further, a 284 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:23,440 very legitimate danger from adding further damage to the calf and ultimately affecting 285 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,520 the Achilles just because of the way that the game is played. 286 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,480 So I think the team is hoping that Giannis comes back around game three or four, in which 287 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,440 case they're hoping to not be down 2-0. 288 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,000 Indiana's a really good team. 289 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,760 Indiana's a damn good team. 290 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,560 They're a really good offensive team. 291 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,920 They've been playing defense a lot better after they traded Buddy Hilton. 292 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:49,320 I think Buddy Hilton was the reason, but conveniently after they did one thing and their defense 293 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,720 improved massively and the team he went to, the defense fell off. 294 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,440 But they're also a really great offensive team. 295 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:02,800 Tyrese Halliburton has been dragging around a leg for most of the season, or most of the 296 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:03,800 second half of the season. 297 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,720 Now he gets the week to rest himself. 298 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,480 So this is going to be a very interesting situation with the Milwaukee Bucks. 299 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,920 I think the Bucks will if they split until Giannis comes back. 300 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,840 So if Giannis comes back game five, they hope to go into that game five 2-2. 301 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,720 If I was the Bucks, I'm hoping to go into that game 2-2. 302 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,520 Giannis returns in game five and will let the chips fall where they may. 303 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,880 If he comes back in game three, I'm hoping to go into that game one, or tie that one, 304 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,660 and again, let the chips fall where they may. 305 00:18:32,660 --> 00:18:38,800 So again, Milwaukee enters the playoff series, sans their best player. 306 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,720 And Giannis has a title. 307 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,920 Ultimately, this won't become a thing. 308 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:51,000 But Giannis is going into a lot of injury situation, and a lot of people question about 309 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,440 him and his extensions. 310 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,160 Anthony Davis signed the five-year extension in the Los Angeles and was open about it. 311 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,760 I'm doing it for my health. 312 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:05,840 But I'm going to make sure, yes, he could have waited a year, literally. 313 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:14,680 He could have waited a year and gotten the 10-year vested interest and shot through the 314 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,000 cap and all those other stuff. 315 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 But he didn't. 316 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,560 He signed the big mass extension in the fifth year. 317 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:23,560 Then was open about it. 318 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,360 Again, I'm signing this because I have health problems. 319 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:27,280 I have health concerns. 320 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,000 I'm not always the healthiest guy. 321 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,920 I'm going to make sure I secure the most money when I can. 322 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,760 And therefore, he went ahead and signed the extension then. 323 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,840 Giannis has now dealt with multiple injuries that have affected multiple playoffs. 324 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,800 He's extension eligible sooner rather than later. 325 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,920 Milwaukee seems to be kind of a crap shoot at the moment. 326 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,200 Ownership seems to be kind of all over the place. 327 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,800 Management doesn't know what they got going on. 328 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,520 You fire Adrian Griffin for Doc Rivers. 329 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,080 Clearly, it seems to be a downgrade after you got rid of it. 330 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,080 I believe they had Budenhozer. 331 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,400 You got rid of Budenhozer kind of randomly. 332 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,920 Adrian Griffin was gone kind of randomly. 333 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,040 And now Doc Rivers is bad. 334 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,920 But do you really want to pay three coaches that don't coach for you along with highly 335 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,080 compensating another coach? 336 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,920 Because it seemed like the lease didn't very long. 337 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:20,920 Like what? 338 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,880 Like Milwaukee's in a crap shoot, Dames reportedly not happy, Chris Middleton's body falling 339 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:26,880 apart. 340 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,680 Get traded, Drew Holliday in the Dane Lillard trade. 341 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,880 Drew seems to have been a better player than Dane Lillard this year. 342 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:34,880 What do you do? 343 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,000 Like if you're Giannis? 344 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Because financially, you could extend out three years, you know, and bring your total 345 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,520 contract value north of $250 million. 346 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,920 Or you could wait. 347 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,160 You could request a trade. 348 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,160 What do you do if you're Giannis? 349 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,920 You know, one of the bigger questions because he's dealing with injury history. 350 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:58,480 The Bucks will offer him the mass extension the first day they can offer it. 351 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:03,160 But if you're if you're if you're Giannis, what do you do is one of the bigger questions. 352 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,440 Probably into his offseason, but getting him healthy for the rest of the Pacers series 353 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:08,800 is going to be key for the Bucks. 354 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,880 I believe he misses at least the first two games. 355 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,920 I think their trigger point may be game four or five. 356 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,960 No, hopefully they're not for them. 357 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,600 Whether or not down three or when he comes back because he's down three or do you even 358 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760 play him being targeted into those questions? 359 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,320 Is it worth potentially 90 percent? 360 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:26,320 Let's say it's game four. 361 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,320 You're down three or is it worth it? 362 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,840 Because you come back and pops the Achilles out to all the next season. 363 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,800 Ask Kevin Grant and it's to last year. 364 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,240 This year was lost and all of next year was lost because Dane didn't want to sit there 365 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,880 and wait with broken down Chris Middleton, Brook Lopez and Bobby Portis. 366 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,040 Is he now looking to get his way out? 367 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:56,600 There's a lot can happen with this first round series, especially considering the injury 368 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,640 to Giannis Astucumbo. 369 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,680 But moving into the shark tainery that happened in Cleveland. 370 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,160 So as you guys know, people pick and choose their playoff spot. 371 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,400 For instance, I'm a Pelicans fan. 372 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,600 I really want them to just tank tonight like lose the game. 373 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,040 Oh, Zion sick. 374 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,120 Brandon has a sprained toe and CJ McCollum eight bad gumbo. 375 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,600 None of them can play. 376 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:31,680 Trey Murphy, Herb Jones was caught violating team rules. 377 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:38,280 Jonas Valanchunis looking for the eclipse and it had delayed effects like just just 378 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,400 do something where they're not playing tonight. 379 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,400 Right. 380 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,560 So they just have the seven seed allow them to play the Denver Nuggets. 381 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:47,560 Congratulations. 382 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,600 Have fun with that and we'll deal with whoever wins out of Sacramento and Golden State. 383 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:52,600 Right. 384 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Probably sack. 385 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,640 We've beat sack five times already. 386 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:56,960 We just beat Golden State. 387 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,840 So I feel very confident in a in a in that game in New Orleans. 388 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,800 I got like I feel very confident. 389 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,800 Right. 390 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:04,800 Incredibly confident. 391 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,280 However, we're not going to do that because rightfully so. 392 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:16,480 The integrity of the game and you know who knows if you're actually going to win that 393 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,480 game. 394 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,240 You know what I'm saying. 395 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:25,120 So it's not like there's an issue. 396 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,000 It's not like there's a guarantee you win. 397 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,800 It's not like this game is seven or eight where if you lose this game you become eight. 398 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,800 You win the game. 399 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:33,800 You become seven. 400 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,720 You know it's not that you have to go win it with another game. 401 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,260 Anything can happen. 402 00:23:37,260 --> 00:23:43,080 So I truly believe this is going to be truly my competitive spirit going to game tonight. 403 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,080 Denver be damned. 404 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,280 Like if you're going to win the title you're going to have to beat him anyway. 405 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,600 So who cares. 406 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,440 Right. 407 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,400 The Cavs didn't share that. 408 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,120 The Cavs did not share that sentiment. 409 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,320 JB Biggestaff is a liar. 410 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,280 They were performing shark and so the game 82 for them. 411 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,280 They were up. 412 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,440 It was a really good game until halftime because they were playing the Nets. 413 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,160 Well they were playing the Nets. 414 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,160 They were a really good game. 415 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,760 They were a really good game at halftime. 416 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:19,280 And then they go and they basically finished the game with like four centers and what's 417 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,280 his name? 418 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:21,440 The guy Imani Bates. 419 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:30,920 Like 2G like Tristan Thompson, Evan Mobley, a couple of other random bigs and Imani Bates 420 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,200 closed the game. 421 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,240 They got blew off the floor in the second half. 422 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,800 Above the floor at the end of the game. 423 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:38,800 Cavs lose. 424 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:45,600 Fall to four and then they draw the magic instead of potentially winning the game going 425 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:51,680 to two and getting the sixers as strong possibility or the heat as strong possibility. 426 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,240 They said screw both of those. 427 00:24:54,240 --> 00:25:03,040 So we so they fell on back into number four to draw the land of magic. 428 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:09,320 And similar to what people were wondering at if the Kings had a firm playoff spot or 429 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,880 the Pelicans had a firm playoff spot out west. 430 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,280 Would certain west teams start to maneuver their way in the third to draw the Kings or 431 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,280 draw the Pelicans? 432 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,840 Well the Cavs did it. 433 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,760 The Cavs flat out drew the magic. 434 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,960 They did everything they could to get the magic. 435 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,800 And so you know they said some BS about oh the guys were scheduled to play not play after 436 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,480 halftime and they didn't want to risk their injury after they had cooled off and mentally 437 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,040 checked out of the game and you know so on and so forth. 438 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,040 BS BS and more BS. 439 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:45,600 The Cavs did their best to tank their way into the fourth seed. 440 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,040 None of their guys are closer to 65 game limits so they didn't have to play 20 minutes. 441 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,040 I think it's a BS rule. 442 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,480 I feel like if you're appearing in a game it's a count. 443 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:55,480 But neither here nor there. 444 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,440 So none of them had to appear in the game for 20 minutes. 445 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,960 So none of the other stuff they just simply tanked their way into the playoffs. 446 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,200 They literally picked their seed. 447 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,200 They knew they were in. 448 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,740 They knew they were in no danger of slipping. 449 00:26:06,740 --> 00:26:08,880 They knew if they lost they'd go to fourth. 450 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,360 They went to fourth and to play the Orlando Magic. 451 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:12,360 It's simple as that. 452 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:14,040 There's no way around it. 453 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,480 There's no inference. 454 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,480 There's no guesswork. 455 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,920 They went out of their way to play the Orlando Magic and they drew the magic. 456 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,440 Now this could all go to hell in a hand basket if they lose to the Magic in the first round 457 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,720 or let's just say the Sixers lose both playing games. 458 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,320 You know what I'm saying? 459 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,360 This strategy could go completely by the wayside or even worse. 460 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:36,080 They beat the Magic and get killed by the Sub2. 461 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,760 Then it was like it's all for naught. 462 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,440 They're in a position. 463 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,920 They're attempting rather to finesse their way to the playoffs but they may end up drawing 464 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,960 Boston around too if they even beat the Magic and all this would be for naught. 465 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:57,320 It was a downright open trickery, open seating manipulation by the Cleveland Cavaliers. 466 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:02,320 I honestly hope the NBA cracks down on this because as much as I joke, half-heartedly 467 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,440 joke about how I want the Pelicans to take this game out and how if I was the Lakers 468 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,240 I would take this game out like 80's got a bad back. 469 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,560 Okay 80 plays five minutes. 470 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,920 Oh his back hurts and he leaves the court. 471 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,480 Then Lebronzo with left ankle injuries. 472 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,880 Oh he stepped on somebody's foot and hobbles and just walks out the court. 473 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,520 Right and just give the Pelicans, just hand them over, just give the Pelicans the 14, 474 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,520 the 17 and give them the nuggets. 475 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,080 If I'm from the Lakers and I get Oklahoma City Thunder who they dominate. 476 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,600 So the Pelicans have whooped up on the Thunder this year too. 477 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,280 If I was those guys I would just simply, I'm almost trying to out tank it. 478 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:43,280 I see whose bench is better. 479 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,800 If I'm the Pelicans and none of my guys play, none of my top five play from the Lakers, 480 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:54,480 we use Lebron and 80 don't play and if you don't let the chips fall they may. 481 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,440 But as much as I half-heartedly joke about that and that was tossed around a lot on ESPN 482 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:05,760 like should one of them take the game to give the other team the seventh seed, as much as 483 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,280 I half-heartedly joke about that. 484 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,280 The Cavs actually did it. 485 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,840 And I actually hope the NBA comes down on them and it's like bro we can't have this. 486 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,280 That's messing with the integrity because if the Cavs win the second seed, not the two 487 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,920 seed, the Cavs win the two seed, then Knicks I believe are a three seed and then Milwaukee 488 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:22,920 is the four seed. 489 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,680 So then Milwaukee's up playing Orlando, Knicks end up drawing the Pacers, Cavs probably get 490 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,560 the Sixers in my opinion. 491 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:36,080 So it's just get the Heat and it's the kind of stuff that they really affected multiple 492 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,560 places off the strength of they're trying to get through Orlando Magic. 493 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:41,560 And the Magic is no slaps. 494 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,000 I thought the Magic were not that good until they smacked the Thunder Pelicans. 495 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,440 I was like, okay, no, they're real. 496 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:48,920 I had to watch them smack my team. 497 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:49,920 They're legit, right? 498 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:55,480 But I do hope the NBA at least comments on it, like make it know like we saw what you 499 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,480 did. 500 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:03,200 And so that can probably stop guys, hopefully stop people from doing it in the future. 501 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,200 On to the West Plains. 502 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,400 And we talked a lot about the West Plains. 503 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:12,440 We kind of mentioned it a lot in the opening segment throughout the East and stuff. 504 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,600 Pels and Lakers are the night, right, and then Kings and Warriors follow. 505 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,720 Pels and Lakers, I spoke about them a lot. 506 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:19,720 I'm a huge Pelicans fan. 507 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,240 I'm also a huge LeBron fan. 508 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:29,280 I was very conflicted in game 82 because I wanted LeBron out of the 9-10 game, but also 509 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,880 I wanted the Pelicans at 16. 510 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,000 So in a perfect world, Lakers would have beat the Pels and then the Timbos would have beat 511 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 the Sun. 512 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,800 And then the Timbos would have went to one, Pels would have went to six, Suns would have 513 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,520 went to seven, Lakers would have went to eight, right, and it had been just a perfect situation 514 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,520 for me. 515 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,840 I got one of those things. 516 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,360 Lakers smacked up on the Pelicans. 517 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,240 LeBron went prime, made it to Johnson in the first half, and then Peake, not Peake LeBron, 518 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,440 but slightly off Peake LeBron in the second half. 519 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,440 It's ridiculous. 520 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,920 He had 13 assists in the first half, which is insane, right? 521 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:02,920 The Pelicans had no answers. 522 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:03,920 Zion had a bad night. 523 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,480 It was England's first game back. 524 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,040 No threes were falling. 525 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,920 Like Darwin Ham learned how to coach. 526 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,960 A lot of anomalies were happening in that game, right? 527 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,360 But I do have faith in the Pelicans tonight. 528 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,240 Legitimately, I think the Lakers give us the game. 529 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,680 Now I do think ultimately we win the game. 530 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,840 Even if they don't just give it to us. 531 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,920 I do think we ultimately win the game. 532 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,800 But I can kind of see the Lakers giving us the game. 533 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,800 Here's how. 534 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,240 AD is coming in with a sore back. 535 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,240 He's going to have to battle Valentunas. 536 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,560 Valentunas hits him and knocks to the floor as Zion runs over and knocks to the floor. 537 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,560 He gets him with back. 538 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,120 He's out the rest of the game. 539 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,160 LeBron's already built in the left ankle excuse. 540 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,720 So if LeBron steps on somebody's foot and howls off, he's out for the game. 541 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,840 So now at this point, it's the Pelicans versus D'Angelo Russell and the Friends. 542 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,760 Sorry, it's the Pelicans versus Austin Reeves, D'Angelo Russell and the Friends. 543 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,240 And the Pelicans are going to run through them and get the seven seed. 544 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,920 So I can see the Lakers doing something like that. 545 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,320 In the first couple of, right after halftime, AD back steps up and can't play. 546 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,720 And then LeBron is like rolls on ankle, quote unquote, and he can't play. 547 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,320 And so now the Pelicans go from like down 10 to ups 15 into the third and then they 548 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,320 draw the Nuggets. 549 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,320 You know what I'm saying? 550 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,320 And then magically the Lakers are perfectly healthy for Thursday. 551 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,320 Right? 552 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,320 I can totally see that happen. 553 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,640 But even if that doesn't happen, I think the Pelicans get this one. 554 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:37,920 I was talking to a few of my friends and my wife, and I was saying that in order for the 555 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:45,960 Pelicans to win 49 games and then not make the playoffs, they'd have to lose three consecutive 556 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:46,960 home games. 557 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,760 Game 82 to the Lakers, playing one to the Lakers and then playing two to either the 558 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,600 Kings or the Warriors. 559 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:54,600 I don't see that happening. 560 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,600 Right? 561 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,520 So some reason the Pelicans do lose tonight, I'll pick them on when on Thursday because 562 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:04,000 there's no way in my opinion they lose three consecutive home games and go from 49 wins. 563 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,680 At one point was trying to fight for the fourth seed when England got hurt. 564 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,680 They were in a battle for the fourth. 565 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,920 They had the fourth seed actually to falling completely out and technically the ninth seed. 566 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,560 Like that just doesn't work for me mentally. 567 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,560 Right? 568 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:24,400 So therefore I've got the Pelicans winning tonight, which sends the Lakers into the hosting, 569 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,840 the winner of the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors, which I believe will 570 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,720 be the Sacramento Kings. 571 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,720 I like the Warriors. 572 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,720 I really do. 573 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:38,000 But I think it's time and I think they need a crash and burn moment. 574 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000 I think the Kings need to beat them by like 30. 575 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:45,040 I think it's going to be a crash and burn moment and everybody can sit around the campfire 576 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,040 and reevaluate. 577 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,720 Remember last year the Kings beat the Warriors in like seven. 578 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,520 So it wasn't really a crash and burn moment. 579 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,320 It wasn't even a pass or torch moment. 580 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:58,600 It was man, we're a couple of shots away in a few of these games for winning the series. 581 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,760 I need the Kings to beat them by like 30. 582 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:08,200 And that way they can all sit down and just Joe Laker and Orange Shiff and just sit down 583 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,000 and go it's time. 584 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Right? 585 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,680 Like we had an amazing run. 586 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,320 These guys have been with us since like 2009. 587 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,720 Like we've had an amazing run. 588 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,720 It's time. 589 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,600 It's time for Clay to finally win. 590 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,640 It's time for Dream on Edge to be somebody else's problem. 591 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:26,640 Like it's time. 592 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:27,640 Like it's just time. 593 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,000 And I don't think they'll ever let Steph go. 594 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,840 I think he'll retire a Warrior, but I think they began to, I mean they have uncomfortable 595 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:36,840 conversations with Steph. 596 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,840 Meaning you're going to have to trade some of your friends. 597 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,840 You're going to have to sign and trade them and try and get other pieces around you. 598 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,800 You're going to be our centerpiece. 599 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,400 But it's time. 600 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:53,600 Like it's just time to move on and try and create the next iteration of the Golden State 601 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,320 Warriors and the Dynasty itself. 602 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,160 It's just time. 603 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,240 And then I would have, because you guys won't hear from me before that, I would have the 604 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:09,320 Pels, I would have the Lakers beating the Kings for LeBron to get the AC and the standings 605 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,000 go unaffected. 606 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,280 So I have unaffected standings on both sides. 607 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,240 Six, seven, six to beating the Heat and then Heat turning around and beating the Bulls. 608 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:21,240 And then I have the Pelicans beating the Lakers and Lakers turning around and beating the 609 00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:22,240 Kings. 610 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:27,000 Again, completely unaffected standings as far as one through eight. 611 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,320 And then a couple of quick hitters in the NBA. 612 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:35,080 The Nets are planning to hire Jordy Fernandez, who is the top assistant coach for the Sacramento 613 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,400 Kings as their new head coach. 614 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,800 Kevin Olley obviously didn't do enough to hold the title. 615 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,360 They moved the interim tag, so they're bringing in Jordy Fernandez. 616 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,720 And Blake Griffin has officially retired. 617 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:53,800 The Prince of Lob City, or the King of Lob City really, slam dunk champion, six time 618 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,520 All-Star, five or six time All-NBA guy. 619 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:03,560 Really, like I said, helped revitalize the Clippers franchise. 620 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,720 The Clippers, for most of them, the history of the dead franchise. 621 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:11,280 Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, JJ Reddick, Doc Rivers, Jamal Crawford, Lou 622 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:16,520 Will helped revitalize the Clippers franchise. 623 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:22,840 He's the source of one of the more heartless trades in recent NBA history. 624 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,920 When he resigned with the Clippers, they made him mock the jersey retirement, where they 625 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:33,520 walked him and his family through the arena with all these black curtains and then put 626 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,240 his number in there, his 32 in the rafters. 627 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:38,240 And that's what convinced him to resign. 628 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:39,240 Because Blake was going to move on. 629 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:44,880 He was going to move on, but then that convinced him to resign. 630 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,760 And then that year, he gets traded to the Pistons. 631 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,160 Now he does bring the Pistons to their last playoff appearance, but it also took the rest 632 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,520 of his legs to do it. 633 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,920 And so that is the story of Blake Griffin. 634 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,880 He kind of fades off to the ether as that Celtics bench run, whatever. 635 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,400 But he had an amazing career. 636 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,960 I believe he's not a first battle Hall of Famer, but he gets in because it's the basketball 637 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,960 Hall of Fam. 638 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:11,960 They count everything. 639 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:12,960 So I think he gets in at some point. 640 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,720 But congratulations to Blake Griffin on a hell of a career. 641 00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:19,000 He's made multiples of hundreds of millions of dollars. 642 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,760 He's got all the all-star, he's got all the NBA slam dunk champion. 643 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:27,200 I don't think he's the NBA champion, but congratulations to Blake Griffin on a hell 644 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,600 of a career. 645 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:30,600 What up next? 646 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,360 In our B block, we're going to shift to the WNBA and talk about what's going down there, 647 00:36:35,360 --> 00:37:00,360 including the draft last night. 648 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:06,560 Welcome back into the show. 649 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:13,960 Enter our B block discussing the fastest growing league in America, the WNBA entering its 27th 650 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,960 year. 651 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,240 27th, 28th year of existence. 652 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:19,920 They came out in 1997. 653 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,920 So 27th, 28th year of existence. 654 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:31,200 Shout out the draft last night as we ushered in the famed high school class 2020, now become 655 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,320 the rookie class of 2024. 656 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,880 They changed college basketball forever. 657 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:39,880 They made it mainstream. 658 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,440 I mean, they get the top five names in the class. 659 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:48,440 It's Paige Becker's, it's Angel Reese, it's Camila Codoso, it's Caitlin Clark, and it 660 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,040 is Cameron Boynt. 661 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,960 That is the top five of the high school class of 2020. 662 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:55,960 They delivered. 663 00:37:55,960 --> 00:38:00,720 I believe they have every title in the four years they were in school. 664 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:02,800 I don't recall anybody else winning it. 665 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,000 Angel Reese got one, Codoso has two. 666 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Yeah. 667 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,680 And then Brink has the one in the freshman. 668 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:16,120 So Brink has the one in the freshman, as a freshman, Codoso has two because she won one 669 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,800 sophomore one of the senior and Angel Reese has the one in the middle. 670 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,240 So yeah, they won all four championships. 671 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:22,240 They were in school. 672 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:27,560 Paige Becker is trying to make it a five for five next year. 673 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,480 Caitlin Clark, of course, is the all time leading scorer, division one men and women. 674 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,200 She broke all kinds of scoring records, all kinds of three point records. 675 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,920 She smashed the assist record in March Madness. 676 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,480 Angel Reese is a double double queen. 677 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:46,400 She has, feels like every LSU record as far as double double, as far as rebounding in 678 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,400 the single season. 679 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,560 She's got all that stuff, she owns it. 680 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:56,480 The body barbie herself, you have Camila Codoso, the six foot seven Brazilian, absolutely dominant 681 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,760 force. 682 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,720 She's just thrown people out of the way. 683 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:04,680 Not as aggressive as she could be at times, but she's an absolute dominant force in the 684 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,680 middle. 685 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:13,440 And of course you have Cameron Brink, who is God brothers or God siblings with Steph 686 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,440 Curry. 687 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,600 She's been involved in that family her whole life. 688 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,760 She's six foot four. 689 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:19,760 She's a shooter. 690 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,080 She's a shot blocker, short in there, rim protector. 691 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,240 So that class entered the WNBA. 692 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:30,780 So we're going to run through the top seven picks and then we're going to jump into what 693 00:39:30,780 --> 00:39:32,920 this could mean for the WNBA. 694 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,920 We already see it. 695 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,880 So number one, of course, Caitlin Clark goes to Indiana Fever. 696 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,000 Cameron Brink to the Los Angeles Sparks. 697 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,760 Camila Codoso to the Chicago Sky. 698 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,920 Rekia Jackson, who is from Tennessee, absolute baller. 699 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,360 Also to the Los Angeles Sparks, joining Cameron Brink. 700 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:58,720 Joie Sheldon, I can't, I'm sorry, J.C. Sheldon, I'm sorry, from Ohio State goes to Dallas 701 00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,720 Wings. 702 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,080 Aliyah Edwards of UConn goes to the Washington Mystic. 703 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:07,800 And running out the top seven, Angel Reese of LSU, the body Barbie herself, joins Camila 704 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:14,840 Codoso, her former rival in the SEC with the Chicago Sky. 705 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:23,280 So absolute great draft, like Nika Muell ends up with the Seattle Storm. 706 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:28,160 The third all time leading scorer, the little guard from Syracuse ends up with the Aces. 707 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,720 So some big names went to some high places. 708 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:34,240 The WNBA draft is murderous row. 709 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:39,400 Kate Martin, who openly admitted that she was there mainly to support Keelan Clark. 710 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,480 She was in the crowd, like she wasn't even going to have her own table. 711 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,200 Like she was literally an audience member and she gets drafted. 712 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,360 So they give her the moment of going to the stage. 713 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,520 But you know, she's an ace as well. 714 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:55,320 But the WNBA draft is always on a cannibalistic situation. 715 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,600 There's 36 people get drafted, only 144 in the entire league. 716 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:05,600 On average, half of them play a game, you know, like 18 of them get cut before they 717 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,880 ever play a game. 718 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,360 Holly Rose showed up, asked Kate Martin, like, how do you plan on making the roster? 719 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,400 Like it's not, it's always, oh, what are you planning on doing in your rookie year? 720 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,600 How do you physically plan on making the team? 721 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,200 So it's a cannibalistic situation. 722 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,720 People in the top, people in the first round don't get cut. 723 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:27,640 It's usually when you get to that second round, the Aces you have three people. 724 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,840 The guard is the only one I'm guaranteeing a spot for. 725 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,720 The one, the absolute bucket of a guard. 726 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:35,280 That's the only one I'm guaranteeing a spot for. 727 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,280 Everybody else? 728 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,920 You know, we'll see what happens, right? 729 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,800 Like Mule's going to make Seattle's roster. 730 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,160 Meekim Mule's going to make Seattle's roster. 731 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,880 Like I said, the whole first round is going to make it. 732 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,720 After that, it gets real dicey as far as if you're going to make it. 733 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:58,320 Maybe it's team need, surprise at training camp, maybe a training camp injury or a player 734 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,280 that was supposed to come over decides to not. 735 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,840 So that sort of thing will open up a roster spot. 736 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,760 But for the most part, you kind of go in the draft knowing we're going to draft three of 737 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,760 them, we're not going to keep one kind of situation. 738 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:18,040 So that makes the WNBA so challenging to join because you could be a national champion and 739 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:25,360 have all these accolades and then barely get drafted and then get no playing time and no 740 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,600 any WNBA experience at all. 741 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,360 So that is interesting there. 742 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:39,560 But I want to talk about, first of all, the draft itself was watched four times more than 743 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,000 last year and broke the record for the most watched draft. 744 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:51,440 The no WNBA draft had gone over 600,000, 600,000, 2000 viewers last night went about 2.4 million. 745 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:52,440 So massive jump. 746 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,640 And again, what's about the excitement of this class? 747 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,400 About Kaelin Clark, about Angel Reese, about Camila Cardoso, about Rekia Jackson, about 748 00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,560 Cameron Brink. 749 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:04,040 You know, those ladies were the stars of college basketball last year. 750 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,160 They are into the W together. 751 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,840 So huge shout out to them. 752 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:16,360 But again, I want to speak about the contracts of the WNBA. 753 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,040 And that is something that's now being very popularized. 754 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:25,880 Kaelin Clark's contract, her re-contract is four years, $336,000. 755 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,080 And her team option for last year's her big, cause she had about 95k. 756 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,480 Now I reach out to a lot of people on Twitter saying, man, she got a good degree, she can 757 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,120 get a regular job and make more than that. 758 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,920 Her first year's salary is 7, 6k. 759 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,440 You know, Angel Reese's was very similar. 760 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:43,440 She was similar to her other draft pick. 761 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,440 Her re-contract was incredibly similar. 762 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,440 I think her first, I think her year one was like 7, 2k. 763 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,560 And her max was like 315, 320, right? 764 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:52,560 Okay. 765 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,880 The WNBA does not have the revenue of the NBA. 766 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,320 People are comparing it to WNBA's $13 million in year one. 767 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,840 The WNBA does not have the NBA's revenue. 768 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,000 The NBA is a trillion dollar conglomerate. 769 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,120 The WNBA lose, loses money in most of their opportunities. 770 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,120 Number one. 771 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,440 Number two, the revenue sharing in the WNBA is a lot worse than the NBA. 772 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:16,440 Why? 773 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,920 Because the owners have to make their money in a short amount of time. 774 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:23,680 And if you're not affiliated with the NBA team, you have to operate that business, you 775 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:29,320 know, with staff and stuff that you're not making any gate revenue on, T-revenue on, 776 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:30,320 et cetera. 777 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,120 Number three, the WNBA works four months. 778 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,400 The NBA works about nine months. 779 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:45,640 So if you take everybody's salary and get double it, they'd still, they'd make 152,000 780 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:46,640 year one. 781 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:52,600 And by the time they finish the deal, they're, you know, total values are over $700,000. 782 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:57,800 And that's simply from, you know, per game situation, X amount of thousand dollars is 783 00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,800 going to be made. 784 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,800 Like, yes. 785 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,680 Is the NBA way more paid than the NBA? 786 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:04,680 Yes. 787 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,960 But does the WNBA have a history of the NBA? 788 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:07,960 No. 789 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:15,720 The NBA is about 75ish years older than the WNBA. 790 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:20,400 And so, the NBA was 75 years old. 791 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:29,920 The WNBA is, oh, mental math, 47, 48 years younger than the NBA. 792 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,600 Like, yeah, it tends to be some growing pains and financial situations. 793 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:41,200 But Kathy Engelbert, who's the WNBA commissioner, is looking at ways to increase that revenue 794 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,960 one through ads, two is they're going to do it through expansion. 795 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,920 The Golden State franchise is already coming in 2025. 796 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:53,400 However, Engelbert is looking to expand to 16 teams by 2028. 797 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:59,800 She's in negotiations with several cities regarding the WNBA team, whether that is NAACP, 798 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,400 Nashville, whether that is Toronto. 799 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,720 Those are a couple of cities I remember immediately. 800 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:09,280 So, like, if your team, your city was mentioned and I didn't call it by name, don't blame 801 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,160 me or don't get mad at me or anything. 802 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,360 I was just kind of recalling them from memory from little tidbits that me and the guys had 803 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,360 those conversations. 804 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:24,680 So, that is what can fix the WNBA contracts. 805 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:29,400 But as much as I lamented Kailin Clark and her fandom, it may actually be beneficial 806 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:35,120 here because now so many people are going to rise up, excuse me, in defense of her contract 807 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,920 and how she should pay more and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, that it might get the 808 00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:50,160 WNBA to finally A, play in one arena, but B, to grow and develop their league. 809 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,040 Because I'm being honest, I'm a huge fan of Pop Expansion. 810 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,440 It gives a lot of new markets, a lot of something to look for. 811 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,280 It gives people buying tickets. 812 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,640 It gives the excitement of the players, like you don't know what city you're going to land 813 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,640 in. 814 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,600 You can be in the one you're in now or you can be in Golden State. 815 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:04,600 You can be in Vegas. 816 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:11,360 You know, there's a plethora of options in the WNBA. 817 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:18,080 And so now they get a chance to utilize and to capitalize on this financial windfall by 818 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:25,400 expanding their league with valuable owners and valuable teams into different markets. 819 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:31,240 But up next, we'll have our Jax Hot Take, which will be a discussion about the USA Olympian 820 00:47:31,240 --> 00:48:00,480 Pairs. 821 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,680 Welcome back into the show. 822 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:11,520 And now I want to talk about Jax Hot Take, which is going to be about Team USA. 823 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:16,000 The men's basketball roster has been decided. 824 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,280 Entering this podcast, we had 11 of the 12 spots. 825 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,120 Then of course, in the A block, I broke some news to you guys. 826 00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:26,380 It came out, of course, all over the Justin Tomsport social medias that Kawhi Leonard 827 00:48:26,380 --> 00:48:28,760 was going to be the 12th person on the team. 828 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,000 So we're going to list them, the first 11 that we got. 829 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,920 Then I'm going to give you guys my hot take. 830 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:40,480 So the Team USA is as followed. 831 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:41,480 LeBron James. 832 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:42,480 Okay, okay, barring the back up. 833 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:43,480 This is barring injury. 834 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,000 Of course, many of these guys make the finals. 835 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,000 It could get dicey. 836 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,520 Some of the some guys sometimes some guys back out. 837 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,560 Like I know LeBron did double duty in 2012. 838 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,520 Kobe did double duty in 2008. 839 00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:02,480 Well, a lot of times guys, they push it through the finals, made back out of the Olympics. 840 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,600 But for a lot of these guys, it's truly to me the last right team. 841 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:12,280 So again, barring injury, in my opinion, LeBron James, also in his Lakers, Stefan Curry of 842 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:17,960 the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant of the Phoenix Suns, Joel Embiid of the 76ers, 843 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:23,600 Jason Talem of the Celtics, Devin Booker, also of the Suns, Drew Holliday, also of the 844 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:29,560 Celtics, Anthony Davis, also of the Lakers, Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami 845 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:36,760 Heat, Bama Di Baio, Tyrese Halliburton of the Indiana Pacers, and of course, Kawhi Leonard 846 00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,760 as of the Los Angeles Clippers. 847 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,080 This is the last ride. 848 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:47,440 And my hot take is this team is going to absolutely dominate the Olympics. 849 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:48,440 This is the last ride. 850 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,440 Think about it. 851 00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,440 The next Olympics is four years away. 852 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:51,920 LeBron is not going to be in the league. 853 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,880 Kevin Durant and Stefan Curry might not be in the league. 854 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:59,280 Kawhi Leonard might not be in the league. 855 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,560 Jason Talem is going to be the old head on that team. 856 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,520 Joel Embiid is going to be in the league, but who knows if he's going to be up for 857 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:06,520 an Olympics. 858 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,520 He's already having health issues as is. 859 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,880 Who knows in four years if he's going to be ready to play in the Olympics in Los Angeles. 860 00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:13,880 Talem is going to be the old head. 861 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:19,720 It's going to be a lot of Jason Talem, Cooper Flags, Zion Williamson is going to be on the 862 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:20,720 team. 863 00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:23,920 I know those guys, Shama Rank hopefully is going to be on the team. 864 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,720 Like Talem is going to be the old head. 865 00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:26,720 But this team is going to dominate. 866 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,920 And I was in an argument in a group chat about it. 867 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,920 Oh, I'll tell you this is a team really. 868 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,880 And people are saying, oh, you take Steph Curry and LeBron off the team is not that 869 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:35,880 good. 870 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,560 Kevin Durant, there's 12 NBA All-Stars on the team. 871 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,720 It's only 24 All-Stars in the league. 872 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,080 12 of them play for us. 873 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,440 I mean, Drew Holliday is not an All-Star, so 11 of them plays for us. 874 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,120 The band made it, I think. 875 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,520 So 11 of the 24 All-Stars play for Team USA. 876 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,040 We're not going to pretend that this team is bad, right? 877 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,720 Out of the MVP race, six of them are going to be on Team USA. 878 00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:04,400 Again, we're not going to pretend that this team is bad. 879 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,480 This team potentially may struggle out of the gate. 880 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:08,480 I will say that. 881 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:13,280 Because again, Team USA is the only country in the world that does their team like this. 882 00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,680 Where they take 12 guys who've never played together and throw them in an international 883 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:18,680 competition. 884 00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,240 And they do it for every single one, and it's never the same 12. 885 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:27,040 It's not like this 12 is going to go play in the World Championships in 2026. 886 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,640 They're going to be an entire different 12. 887 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,720 And then that 12 is going to be an entire different 12 from the 12 that plays in LA 888 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:34,720 in 2028. 889 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:35,720 Insane, right? 890 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:36,720 It's insane logic. 891 00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:43,080 But we haven't, we've lost one Olympic since 92. 892 00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:47,240 As crazy as the strategy is, we've lost one Olympic since 92. 893 00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:52,440 Which by the way, we were doing that before with college kids. 894 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,440 Because we don't have any, we're going to have a set international team. 895 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:59,520 And that was something that when we were losing the Olympics and the World Cups, that was 896 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:00,960 something that came up. 897 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,680 Should America convert to how other countries do it? 898 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:07,920 Which is, if they have an NBA star, obviously on the international team. 899 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:13,200 But out of the 12 people on the international team, seven or eight of them play for the 900 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:14,200 international team. 901 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,600 That's their career international team players. 902 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,640 They fly around the world playing for Serbia. 903 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,200 They fly around the world playing for Serbia. 904 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,360 They'll play regular season basketball in other leagues. 905 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:29,520 But every single international competition, this same group of six to nine plays for the 906 00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:30,520 international team. 907 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:35,000 I think Slovenia, I think it's like 10 of them always play for the national team. 908 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,200 Nine of them always play for the national team. 909 00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,380 Serbia, eight of them always play for the national team. 910 00:52:40,380 --> 00:52:43,920 So when they come together, they're playing with their own friends and you add a Luka 911 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,560 or you add a Jokic. 912 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:50,120 You know, France is going to be pretty splintered because Wimby is over here now. 913 00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:51,800 They didn't get Joel Embiid. 914 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,760 They're going to have Wimby and Gobert on the floor. 915 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,240 That's going to be a pain in the butt. 916 00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:58,760 International rules, that's going to be a pain in the butt. 917 00:52:58,760 --> 00:52:59,760 Wimby and Gobert. 918 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:04,480 So the rims basically cut off because you can't get there. 919 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,920 Seven for Wimby and then the future with three or four times Defensive Player of the Year, 920 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,200 Rudy Gobert, they're going to be on each block. 921 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,200 Like you can't move. 922 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,840 So it's going to be interesting to see with Embiid, we have a real center. 923 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:21,360 That was something we went into the competition not knowing that Embiid decides he's going 924 00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,000 to play for France. 925 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,680 We don't have a real center. 926 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:25,680 Like at all. 927 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:32,520 So that was something I know that was in the discussion points for sure of whether or not 928 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,520 Embiid will play. 929 00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:34,520 We have a real center. 930 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:35,520 But I think this team is going to dominate. 931 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:36,520 I really do. 932 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:37,520 It's the last ride. 933 00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,520 None of the superstars, none of the legends are going to be in 2020. 934 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,920 They're going to roll. 935 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,280 I think early the young guys are going to carry it. 936 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,560 I think there will be a lot of Halliburton, a lot of Edwards, a lot of Tatum, a lot of 937 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:51,560 Bam. 938 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,920 Especially in the group stages, you got to be in the top two to make it to the knockout 939 00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:56,920 round. 940 00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,560 Like even if you're in the group of Def, you got to be in the top two to make it to the 941 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:01,560 knockout round. 942 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:05,760 And even if you're not in the top two, if you get like certain tiebreakers, you'll still 943 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,760 make it. 944 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,600 Like them not making the knockout rounds is not a concern. 945 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,800 Now getting a good spot in the knockout rounds could be an issue. 946 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:18,200 I think LeBron and Steph and KD will kind of ease their way into it. 947 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:19,680 Steph's never played in the Olympics before. 948 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,400 He's on a couple of world championships. 949 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,160 He's never been on the Olympic stage before. 950 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:31,840 LeBron is going for his third gold because he lost in 04, won in 08, won in 12. 951 00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:32,840 He didn't play in 16 and 20. 952 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:33,840 Now he's playing again. 953 00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:34,840 No, he's going for his fourth goal. 954 00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,800 He played in 16 and 2. 955 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:37,800 Didn't play in 21. 956 00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:38,800 Now he's going again. 957 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,800 KD's going for his fourth goal. 958 00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,600 Steph said Steph never played in it. 959 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,760 I think Edwards played in 21. 960 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,160 I think Ingram was on that team if I'm not mistaken. 961 00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:51,160 They squeaked it out. 962 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:56,080 So it's going to be very interesting to see this group come together. 963 00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:00,200 It's a very smart put together roster. 964 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,160 Tyrese Halliburton is kind of like your ultimate international point guard. 965 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:07,040 He's big, he's long, he's rangy. 966 00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:17,560 He's got that international point guard feel where he's going to be a guy that he can play 967 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:21,120 defense on a guy, he can pass, he can shoot it. 968 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:22,640 Then the other point guard is Juholliday. 969 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,440 Again, another point that's physical, he's a dominating defender. 970 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,920 Then Steph Curry, of course, being the real point guard. 971 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:30,840 LeBron being the alternate point guard. 972 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,760 So a lot of passing ability on this team. 973 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,400 A lot of cutting. 974 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:35,400 Everybody can do everything. 975 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,760 It will be interesting how Steph handles the Olympic physicality. 976 00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,760 It's different than the World Championships. 977 00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:44,480 FIBA in the World Championships is kind of like the G League. 978 00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,760 Then you get to the Olympics, maybe those same players, but it means a hell of a lot 979 00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:49,760 more. 980 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:55,240 So the physicality is going to be something that I would love to see how Steph reacts 981 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:56,240 to it. 982 00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:01,520 Then Kawhi, of course, he's going to be able to lock down anybody in the international 983 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:02,520 competition. 984 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,360 So that was definitely going to be fun. 985 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:12,240 I think their average margin of victory is going to be around 15 to 20. 986 00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:14,200 To me, this is the third best team of all time. 987 00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:18,640 If this team, the exact same team, played four years ago, they'd be unbeatable. 988 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:22,280 They'd be literally beating everybody by about 40. 989 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,600 But because they're a little bit older, I think they're going to beat everybody by about 990 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:26,600 15 to 20. 991 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:33,400 Like I said, they'll win the gold and celebrate and kind of ride off out of the international 992 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,400 careers. 993 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,600 It's kind of the last ride. 994 00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:39,600 Pretty dope of them. 995 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,600 It's in Paris, which doesn't hurt. 996 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,600 So pretty dope is going to do this one more time. 997 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,000 Steve Curry is going to not get a gold medal, actually. 998 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,000 That's got coaches going to get golds. 999 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,520 But that is going to be very interesting to watch. 1000 00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:52,520 They're going to dominate. 1001 00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:56,200 They'll go down to third best team behind the Dream Team and the Redeem Team. 1002 00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,200 The 2018 was insane. 1003 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:03,200 So me and the 2012 team was a better team. 1004 00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,800 But Redeem Team was dope. 1005 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,360 The 2012 team was ridiculous. 1006 00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:14,160 I think they'll be battling that 018 for third place as far as all time team USA basketball 1007 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,960 teams. 1008 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,080 But that is all I have for you guys today. 1009 00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,880 I hope you have a great rest of your Wednesday. 1010 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,640 The playing tournament is about to start. 1011 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,280 So perfect timing for me recording. 1012 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,880 I hope you guys have a great rest of your day. 1013 00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:32,200 I hope my predictions come true so you guys don't think I'm a doofus tomorrow. 1014 00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,240 But as always, this is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.