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

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I am your host, Justin Jackson.

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In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA Finals as we are finally in the finals.

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We will be touching on the conference finals as quick as they were.

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To you straight.

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Welcome into the show.

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Oh, that intro song never gets old, it really doesn't.

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Truly it doesn't.

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Again, B-Roy outdid himself.

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If you wanna listen to his latest music, he is on Apple Music.

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Simply it's capital B space, capital R-O-Y, B-Roy is his name.

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Out of the Northeast Philadelphia area, Delaware area.

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So huge shout out to him.

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Again, every time the track comes on, it gets me excited.

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It gets me ready to do this.

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It gets me ready to do this show and excited to do this show.

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And so welcome in again to season five, episode 10 of the Justin Tom Sports podcast.

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And huge shout out to our NBA finalists.

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We've had a long season.

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The NBA is a marathon, not a sprint.

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They got the NFL season.

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You start playing September, you end in February, six month season.

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The NBA starts playing in like October, late September.

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They don't finish until June.

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So July, August.

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There's no, the only time the NBA is not on, true NBA is July and August.

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Cause in September, I think it's September, it's late September, early October,

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you're playing again.

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So you may have three months in terms of off where you're not dealing with the NBA.

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If you go to the finals every year, think about a guy like LeBron James,

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who went 10 straight years and in that time with two Olympics.

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So he was never off, right?

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You think about those guys, like a lot of these guys are going to play the Olympics

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that are in the finals.

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Look at Luca, look at Tatum.

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I think they're both on Olympic teams.

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You have a really, really, really long season ahead.

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They're really not going to get a break and then they're going to go

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right into the next NBA season.

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So incredibly long season.

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We've been whining and battling through.

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We are finally at the NBA finals.

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And anyway, we do have our two NBA finalists.

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We have the Boston Celtics out East and we have the Dallas Mavericks out West.

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So we're going to do a quick, quick recap of the series that they went through

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as both series, well, we're quick.

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So on the East, the Boston Celtics completed a sweep of the Indiana Pacers,

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which Boston was the best team in the East, right?

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They had a cakewalk through the East.

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Their final record in the East was 12-2.

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They lost the first round game and lost the second round game.

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Then, like I said, of course, they achieved the sweep of the Indiana Pacers.

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Now, this sweep did not come with a lot of controversy.

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The Indiana Pacers should be very, and I do mean very upset at themselves.

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The Pacers legitimately after four games should have been up three to one.

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Game one, they had.

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They had game one, right?

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They got a rebound.

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They rebounded the basketball on a defensive rebound with like 30 seconds left.

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The Celtics won that game.

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Then in the second round, second game, Boston runs away with it.

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In game three, Boston's down 18 in the second half.

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Indiana loses the game in regulation.

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In game four, again, late, Indiana has a lead bigly, double digit lead in the second half.

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Boston wins the game again in regulation.

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So, Indiana blows three.

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In your mind, they have this game lead.

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with 30 seconds left up four, you're thinking you got the game, right?

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you're thinking, okay, we got a game.

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You know, and you're down, it's not even down, you're out of the series in four games

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when you possess three double digit leads in the second half.

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So, this series could have been very good for the Boston Celtics, but ultimately,

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they kept coming back to win games.

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And so, they end up finishing, like I said, through the East at 12-2.

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So, what does it mean for Indiana?

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I don't think Indiana ever gets here again with this core.

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I don't think the core of Miles Turner, Tyrese Halliburton, Pascal Siakam,

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Benedict Maverin, TJ McConnell and crew ever get back to this point.

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Because think about it, think about what it took for the Indiana pace to get here.

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Giannis and Milwaukee and Dame and crew were completely injured.

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Giannis never played in the playoffs, Dame missed half the series, Milwaukee's out.

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Philadelphia comes in, beat to hell.

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They end up a seventh seed instead of the two or the three seed they probably should have been.

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They're beat to smithereens.

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Miami, no title hero for a vast majority of the year.

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Jimmy Butler doesn't play in the playoffs.

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They're beat to hell.

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You look at the New York Knicks, they're beat to smithereens.

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You're going to play without Jalen Brunson.

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You're going to the playoffs without the Bunyanovich.

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You end up losing Mr. Robinson with the Joe Allen Beach tuition.

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Jalen Brunson finally cries his hands at the end.

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And it's like, you know, injury, basketball, luck, thou hast the Indiana Pacers.

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Right?

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And so you got that going.

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I don't have to pay to ever get back.

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Their styles, the reason they lost the games.

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You know, you're up three with 18 seconds left and you're firing a transition 30s footer from Tyrese Halliburton.

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No, you simply just dribble.

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Like, and Gilbert Arenas had an interesting hypothesis.

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He said, I said it's style.

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I said simply, you know, you can't you can't show old dog new tricks all year.

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They had been playing really, really, really fast.

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First good shot, they shoot.

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And that's why they were historically one of the greatest offenses of all time, because they get a good shot and they shoot it.

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You know, Tyrese Halliburton, again, had that stretch of like two, three games.

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He was like 25 assists, two turnovers.

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And the reason is they don't necessarily look for the best shot.

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They look for the first good shot.

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You know, if they get a transition three, they shoot it.

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If they get if it's 18 seconds on the shot clock, somebody fires to the corner and they got space, they fire it.

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Like they look for the first good shot, not necessarily the best shot.

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So in that situation, a good shot is a wide open three.

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That's a good shot.

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And then the special guy who shoots it as well as Tyrese Halliburton shoots it, even with that funky shot is that's a good shot in the NBA.

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So Halliburton took it.

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And I said they play that way all season.

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They just how they play.

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That's just how they it's what they do.

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It's how they play.

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And so it cost them a lot in this game where they had to battle and they went to war in situations where I said Tyrese Halliburton could have just dribbled in that situation.

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But back to the good with Arenas hypothesis, his hypothesis is that Halliburton's handle isn't that tight or and or Halliburton doesn't have the belief in his handle that he could

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sit there and dribble in the crowd while they're trying to rip it because usually, especially in the NBA, they don't give that first foul like the NFL or the college sorry college basketball, not the NFL.

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I don't know why I said the NFL college basketball that first reached down if the ball isn't really, really clean, they call a foul.

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In the NBA, they'll probably give one or two reaches at the ball. You know what I'm saying? Before they call the foul.

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Let's just do some grab.

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Right. They give one or two reaches at the foul before they before they call that foul.

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Right. Like they'll like, unless you just grab on up and grab an arm or something. But if you're swiping at the ball and you're slapping the hand, they'll give a couple of those before.

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So Gilbert Arenas hypothesis was Halliburton doesn't believe he can sit there and dribble in the crowd like he doesn't believe he can sit there and dance and maneuver and all that stuff while they're slapping at him because

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any event one of those early ones they slap a hand and then the ball comes out and then he's going to lay up. You know, say Halliburton doesn't believe you can do that sort of thing.

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That's what Gilbert Arenas hypothesis is. I think it's simply all year I've shot this shot.

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So why in this scenario am I going to decide to not shoot this shot because all year I've shot this shot.

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And so it cost him late and that sort of place that I remind me of Houston.

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Remember the Golden, the Rockets were playing the Houston.

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Sorry, the Houston Rockets were playing the Golden State Warriors.

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Right.

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And it's the Kevin Durant Warriors.

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The Rockets

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had scored the Rockets had scored all these threes. It was the greatest three point shooting team of all time.

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They pretty much the Rockets know it was math. We're going to hit you with 55-63s. We're going to shoot.

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Chris Paul was out there again.

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The game hamstring. The Rockets shot 27.

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Oh, sorry. My apologies.

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The Rockets missed 27 consecutive threes.

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And at no point did the Rockets decide to stop shooting the three.

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They kept firing. Like again, hear me when I'm saying this.

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They missed 27 consecutive threes.

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And at no point did the Rockets decide, huh, maybe we should stop shooting the three.

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Right. And so Indiana at no point thought maybe we should slow it down.

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Keep shooting the most ones if we get it.

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We're going to keep firing them if we get it.

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And so that's definitely something that the Indiana person have to consider.

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I just don't think they'll get this many injuries all at one time ever again out of these.

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I think Indiana doesn't actually get back to this point with this group.

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And then shifting over to the Western Conference.

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Dallas, kind of a similar story. They ended up winning in five.

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Although you could have very well said after five it's three-two.

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Dallas even three-two Minnesota.

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Minnesota had a couple of chances in this game to win.

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But at the same time, the one game Minnesota won, Dallas had any chance to win that game late.

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It wasn't like Boston series where they just kept correcting these huge deficits or stealing the game late.

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They had no business even putting in the overtime. They put in overtime and win it.

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Conversely, for the Minnesota Timbukts and Dallas Mavericks series,

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Dallas controlled it.

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Controlled it throughout.

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You look at Minnesota, of course, Luka hits the shot over Go Bears.

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That was a game that Minnesota could have won.

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But the same time in the game that Minnesota did win, Dallas had their shots and they just didn't make them.

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But it's kind of crazy when you look at what happened in the series.

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Luka Donchison was the best player on the floor.

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Derrick Lively, no sorry, Nas Reed was probably the second best player on the floor.

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Derrick Lively's impact to me had felt bigger than Katz and Go Bears put together.

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Nas Reed was the Timberwolves' best big man.

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That's a problem.

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Now, Nas Reed's a good player. NBA 6th man of the year.

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It's not like it was Kyle Anderson all of a sudden.

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I know they didn't expect Kyle Anderson, but he's not in that position anymore.

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Nas Reed was the NBA 6th man of the year.

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It's not a painful thing for him.

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It's not shocking that he played well.

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It is shocking that he was the best big.

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It is shocking that when Go Bears left the floor, the defense got better.

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It is shocking that Carl Anthony Towns was less offensively consistent than Nas Reed.

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It is shocking that Nas Reed was the second best defender and the best offensive big in the series.

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That's a problem.

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When you pay all this money to Rudy Go Bear, a max guy.

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You pay all this money to Carl Anthony Towns, a max guy.

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Rudy Go Bear is a four-time Defensive Player of the Year award winner.

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Carl Anthony Towns is a self-proclaimed best shooting big man of all time.

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And Nas Reed, the sixth man, the third big, was the second best player on the team.

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Anthony Edwards did his thing.

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Ant-Man jumped into superstardom with this run.

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Ant-Man jumped into superstardom again with this run.

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No doubt about it, right?

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He's the face of the ideas brand at this point.

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No doubt about it.

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But Nas Reed was the second best player and the gap isn't nearly as big as people want to talk about.

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Or the gap isn't as close, rather, as people want to talk about.

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People want to talk about Ant was a super player and nobody showed up to help.

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There was a couple of them games where Nas showed up and he was looking for Ant.

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And that's a problem because Luca and Kyrie had a system.

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Kyrie kind of started them, Luca finished them.

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Or if Luca started them, Kyrie finished them.

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Like game seven, game five, rather, they both went for 32.

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Or 35, I'm sorry.

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They both went crazy.

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Like, so in the event that those guys went to war, Minnesota, rather, went to war,

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and you look up for your guy, calling Anthony Towns, oh, is he a Max player?

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No, he wasn't in this series.

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You look at, you look at, I can't think of his name, Gerruda Gobert, is he a Max player?

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No, he wasn't in this series, right?

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Defensively, he was hunted.

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I mean, it was like consecutive possessions.

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Luca got him, Kyrie got him, and then Jayden Hardy called for an ISO and scored.

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It was like he called for ISO and got stuffed, but he scored.

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All three of them did, and so that's a problem if you're the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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I do think that they have to do something.

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Anthony Edwards is too good of a player.

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He's entering his second Max.

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He's entering his rookie Max extension, aka the Fun Max.

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I think that you're going to have to get him some help.

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And, you know, what help do you need?

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You know, you have four-time offensive player of the year.

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You've got Carl Anthony Towns, who's his great offensive player.

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You've got all this different stuff.

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What is it that you're looking for for Anthony Edwards as far as help?

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And I think that's where you look at and you say, I have three bigs.

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One of them's got to go.

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And I think around the league, if I had to take value, it's Nasri.

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Now, you're not trading Nasri, but I say Carl Anthony Towns.

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Rudy Gobert isn't looked at by fans.

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It's all that great.

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Although NBA GM shouldn't love him, but coaches showed it with torture.

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Because in the event that they had to get a bucket, where they do,

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they found Rudy Gobert, they forced the switch, and then they attacked him one-on-one.

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Or the Timberwolves simply took Gobert off the floor.

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So that being said, that's not a high-value play, especially on a match contract.

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Nasri is way too valuable in his match.

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Carl Anthony Towns is the player.

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Now, there's several options if you're Minnesota.

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I'm sure Minnesota could engage in trade talks with Brandon Ingram from the New Orleans Pelicans.

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There's a rumor going around that the Phoenix Suns,

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that Kevin Durant may be interested in partnering.

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She's partnering with Anthony Edwards in Minnesota,

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and therefore KD finds himself in Minnesota in exchange for Carl Anthony Towns,

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and some sort of deal there.

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Definitely what people are trying to negotiate, trying to figure out,

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because it's clear to a lot of people in the circles that Carl Anthony Towns may be done in Minnesota.

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So that is something that Minnesota is going to have to consider.

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It's definitely something there that the guys are going to have to fight with and battle with.

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But up next, we're going to shift to the NBA finals to talk about, well, the finals.

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Welcome back into the show.

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Welcome to the NBA finals.

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We won't get NBA finals until Thursday, because shout out to Indiana and Minnesota,

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because they didn't put up much of a fight.

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So we're not going to get NBA finals until Thursday.

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It kind of gives everybody a break, but it's going to lead to a lot of terrible discourse.

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You know it is, right?

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It's going to lead to a lot of horrible discourse on ESPN about what could possibly happen

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and if this team loses and how fast and this, that, and the third,

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you know what could happen and this coaching staff.

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It's going to get some nonsense and, you know, what happens to legacy,

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what legacy counts is going to happen and whatever, whatever.

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This show is going to be about that.

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The promise is not.

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That's why I couldn't even think of the stuff to say,

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because this show isn't going to be like that at all.

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I could care less about all that dumb discourse that always happens this time of year

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when it comes down to ESPN shows and Fox shows and this, that, and the third,

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whenever something happens, right?

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So I could care less about that.

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I'm going to get right down to nitty gritty.

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Now I will actually mention a little legacy stuff, but not a whole lot.

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So let's get right to it.

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It's the Boston Terps out of the East and it's the Dallas Mervids out of the West.

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You've got Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Drew Holiday, Derrick White,

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Christas Poziengus, Al Horsford and crew with Joe Mazzulli as the head coach of the Boston Celtics.

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And in the West, you have the Dallas Mavericks represented by Luca Dunst,

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it's Kyrie Irving, Tim Hardaway Jr., PJ Washington, Derrick Liven, Maxie Kleba,

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and Jason Kidd, of course, the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks representing the West.

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We're going to start off with prediction time.

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So I got the Dallas Mavericks in sixth and I told you guys before,

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I was like, hey, I told you guys in the pocket, the pocket came out a couple weeks ago,

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I said, hey, I'm starting to get the feeling Dallas is going to win the finals.

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And yeah, that was before the conference finals, that was before they played Minnesota.

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That's when they were underdogs against Minnesota in every game pretty much.

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I'm like, I'm starting to get the suspicion the Mavericks are going to win the title.

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And I kind of said if I was a betting man, I'd place the bet.

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At the time, they were the third most likely to win.

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They were plus 350 plus 400 on some sites to win the title.

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Some were even more.

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And so I was like, I'm kind of getting the feeling Dallas is going to win the title.

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Even now, when the finals first drop, Dallas is plus 225.

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So if you're a betting man, that's the side to bet.

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And I'm officially saying the Dallas Mavericks are going to win the title and they're going to win it in six games.

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I think they're going to win it in Dallas.

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It'll be Dallas' first title in 2011, oddly, when Jason Kidd was the coach.

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Right?

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Like, I'm sorry, Jason Kidd was the point guard for that team.

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And so I think he secures Dallas' first title since 2011 when they defeat the Mavericks in Dallas in game six.

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It's going to be a great series.

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And I think Luke Kudais is going to win his first finals in MVP.

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And he jumps into the best Euro ever discussion.

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I think that that's often time deemed yokich, unapologetically.

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Like, no one even considers anybody but yokich.

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I think at this point it's yokich unapologetically.

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Dirk Nowitzki is in that discussion, of course.

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Giannis is in that discussion, of course.

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I think Luke Kudais jumps right into that discourse.

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He doesn't even have to think about it.

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He jumps right into that conversation.

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Winning a finals in MVP here.

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Let's look at it from Boston's side.

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Sorry, let's look at it from Boston's side.

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I always talk about how can someone win the series.

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Now, I'm picking Dallas to win, but I kind of want to look at, okay, how can Boston win the series?

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Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, fight out, go get you a game.

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I don't think either one of them can win you a game by themselves.

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But I do think, or a quote unquote by themselves.

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But I do think Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown coming together in their efforts can go get you a game.

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Where the threes are just not falling off from anybody else.

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True Holliday can't throw a shot in the ocean.

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Derrick White is just playing defense.

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Al Horford is giving you a 10.

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And you look up and you're going, it's 99-97.

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Boston has the ball up, two with 30 seconds left, kind of thing.

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Tatum and Brown, just go get you a game.

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The second way they can win it is if the shooter is hit.

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Boston has shooting, has rare level shooting.

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I think they are the greatest offensive all time based on analytics.

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They just go get you a damn game.

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The shooters just rain threes.

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They hit 17, 18 threes and they win it.

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The third way that Boston can win a game is that they can play defense.

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You look up and the game is 90-80.

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Three minutes left in the fourth quarter.

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You know, Boston just flat, wow.

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That's wild.

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I'm sorry, I'm watching the UFL and I'll talk about them later.

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That's Sportal Alert, that's Jax Hattate.

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I'm watching the UFL and the second consecutive game in their basically

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conference championship game Mulligans was decided when a kicker missed.

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That's pretty wild.

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Yeah, that's insane.

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But anyway, back to the NBA.

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The Boston Celtics defense just stifles the Max.

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Tell me the fourth way they win a game.

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Seriously, the bench?

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And the only way I think the fourth way they can win a game is they just

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fight out bench overload.

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Like, you know, where they score 50 bench points and they carry Tatum and

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Brown long enough to win and somebody hits a shot at the end.

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Kind of thing like they just, think Indiana series, one of those games,

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they just won a game off the bench.

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So I guess the fourth way they could win would be the bench.

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And I kind of, I didn't have that in my original list.

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It's more likely in the finals.

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I can't think of a finals game of recent note where the bench won the game.

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It's pretty unlikely in the NBA finals.

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Let's go to Dallas' side.

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Luka wins your game.

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It's one way.

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He goes 39, 12, and 10 and win your 107-103 finals game.

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It's possible.

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It's likely.

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Kyrie Irving goes get you a game.

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He's, it's been what, seven long years since he's been in his last finals.

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Kyrie Irving goes and gets you a game of 40 point, we seen it when he went 41-41

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LeBron where Luka has 28 so he keeps you occupied or 25 keeps you occupied.

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Kyrie goes for 41, nine, and seven and win your game.

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The shooters win you a game.

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And by the shooters, I mean, I'm counting Kyrie and Luka, but Kyrie, Luka,

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Hardaway Jr., PJ Washington, Maxie Kaliber, oh my God, Jaden Hardy, et cetera,

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hit again 17, 18, 19 threes and just avalanche the Celtics from three.

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The shooters win you a game and they can win a defensive game as well where they

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can go out and just say Boston's going to have a bad night because shooting.

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That starting lineup since the end of the season is like 27-4, 27-6.

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I don't let that count in the playoffs.

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I know they finished 25-5 and then in that lineup, of course, they've been

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winning games.

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So they finished 25-5 in the regular season.

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Like that's the lineup that they win.

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It's Lively, Washington, Derek Jones, Luka, and Kyrie, I believe, is the five.

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And that group is really athletic.

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All four of the five are shooting threads.

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Four of the five are really high level NBA athletes.

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They have great defensive versatility and that's a strong lineup.

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That's a smart lineup.

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And I love that lineup for them.

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Boston, of course, has the best track in the NBA.

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Boston, of course, has the best NBA rating in the NBA.

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Boston, of course, has the greatest offensive rating in NBA history.

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Boston, of course, has home court advantage.

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Boston, of course, had the easier time.

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Boston's advantage died when the Mavericks won game five.

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And I think that the advantage that they were going to have was they were going

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to be able to have a lot of rest.

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No one anticipated the Mavericks getting the Timberwolves out so fast.

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A lot of people said Timberwolves in six.

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Some had Timberwolves in seven.

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Those who picked the Mavs, many had Mavs in six.

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I believe I had Mavs in six.

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Mavs fans would even say, costly, would go six.

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Some may even say seven.

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For the Mavs to get them in five, so the Celtics in the sweep on a Tuesday,

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or a Wednesday, and the Mavs in the series on the Thursday,

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that was unexpected, right?

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Like, no one saw that coming.

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So now Boston and the Mavs get a week off, right?

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Like, that was an unexpected occurrence.

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So now, even though Boston's played less games throughout this entire playoffs,

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they both get a week entering the finals.

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They both get a week of film study.

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They both get a week of treatment.

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They both get a week of health and recovery.

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They both get the same amount of time to really work on their bodies

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and to fix their bodies.

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Luca was kind of banged up in Genfi.

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Kyrie, you kind of see some of the progressive fatigue on his body.

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Derrick Lively, of course, almost got decapitated.

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Bacchus Anthony Townes, multiple times in that series.

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You know, so you get all these different pieces of the Mavericks resting and recovered,

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and now Boston gets a week for Christos Prozengis to come back.

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Maxie Kleba kind of got his feet wet in Game 5.

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Now he gets a week full blast of practice.

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You actually get to practice.

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You can have two or three practices.

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In the NBA, they don't have what you think of a high school basketball practice,

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where it's stretch, then it's drills, then it's scrimmage, then it's all the...

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They don't have that in the NBA.

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At this point, it's play recognition, it's scout team recognition, it's a lot of film,

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and you have two to three on-court practices with a Maxie Kleba, with a Derrick Lively.

455
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:59,200
And they're trying to get these guys back into the fray, trying to get these guys back into the fold.

456
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,200
Let's talk worst-case scenario for both teams.

457
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,200
Worst-case scenario for the Mavericks.

458
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,200
You never get back here again.

459
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,200
You don't make it back.

460
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,200
You just don't make it back.

461
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,200
What do you mean?

462
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,200
You don't make it back.

463
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,200
Kyrie's aging, right?

464
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,200
Kyrie's aging.

465
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,200
What are you going to do about the Grizzlies?

466
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,200
They're coming back.

467
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,200
Jemma Rank's back next year.

468
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,200
Let's say Paul Joy stayed with the Clippers.

469
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,200
They had a great season.

470
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,200
Let's say Paul Joy stayed with the Clippers.

471
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,200
They have a new arena, a lot more energy.

472
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,200
They'll be back next year.

473
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:55,200
Denver is not going anywhere at all.

474
00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,200
Oklahoma City, they don't have a financial problem for two more seasons away, so next year they'll be back.

475
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,200
New Orleans, David Griffin's pissed.

476
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,200
Last time David Griffin was this level of pissed, openly, LeBron and Kevin Love showed up in Cleveland.

477
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,200
I'm not saying the Pelicans are getting LeBron and Kevin Love level players,

478
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,200
but they're not going to run the same team back, and they gave people fits.

479
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:26,200
Zion in that playing game, three minutes left with his hamstrings pulled, he's got 40.

480
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,200
Nobody on the Lakers can stop him.

481
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,200
AD, LeBron, nobody.

482
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,200
Right?

483
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,200
So it's not going to be, and then it's the West.

484
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,200
It's never a cakewalk.

485
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,200
It's never easy.

486
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,200
Also, I didn't name Phoenix.

487
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,200
They keep that core together, Bill Booker and Durant year two.

488
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200
I didn't even name them.

489
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:54,200
They're going to be right there, battling, ready to go, scrapping.

490
00:33:54,200 --> 00:34:02,200
So the worst case scenario for Dallas is this was their last best shot for years.

491
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,200
And then Luca doesn't sign the extension.

492
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,200
He goes into the next season, flame out on the first round,

493
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,200
and he enters free agency and said, I'm going to see what's out there.

494
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,200
Like, that's the worst case scenario.

495
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,200
The more likely bad scenario is you lose a close series,

496
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,200
Luca inks on the dotted line, and you've got your superstar for the next five years

497
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,200
locked up on supermax money.

498
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:28,200
Which due to the new CBA, makes it really hard to move.

499
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,200
Worst case scenario, you got them for another three to four years.

500
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,200
Just do the financials.

501
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,200
Right?

502
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:40,200
What is the worst possible scenario for the Boston substance?

503
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,200
This is it.

504
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,200
The window closes.

505
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,200
It's over.

506
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,200
Drew Holliday is aging.

507
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,200
Our horse is aging.

508
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:55,200
Those old guys who keep stashing on the bench go get mid-level deals elsewhere.

509
00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,200
You got to commit a lot of, you got to commit a max supermax deal to disontain them.

510
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,200
Now two players on your roster taking up 60% of your cap.

511
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,200
That's not even counting what you got from Drew Holliday or Christas Prozinski.

512
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,200
You got a four man team with a second tax apron.

513
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,200
You can't get second round picks at players on the other financial rules

514
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:17,200
that you have to deal with being a second tax, second apron tax team.

515
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,200
Because you gave two middle fingers to it as you flew by it.

516
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,200
That's the worst case scenario.

517
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,200
Is that you're a very highly paid second round and out team.

518
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:36,200
Think about it. What happens if a Paul George or a LeBron for some high strange reason.

519
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,200
Or well Phoenix can't do it.

520
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,200
I would say Phoenix, Philly cobbles together salary and pulls Kevin Durant to Philly.

521
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,200
Or Jimmy Butler is in Philly.

522
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,200
Miami pulls a star because they're nowhere near the second tax apron.

523
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:53,200
They get a superstar in the building.

524
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:58,200
Yeah, you can't acquire more salary as second tax apron team.

525
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,200
The next thing you need to know is the Knicks.

526
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,200
They have at least one full max slot.

527
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,200
At least.

528
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,200
But in true talk if James Dolan is willing to spend luxury tax.

529
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,200
They can max Brunson.

530
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,200
Max out a free agent and get a middle level exception player.

531
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,200
If Dolan is willing to spend the money.

532
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,200
Brooklyn wants big.

533
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,200
Brooklyn is trying to put two max slots together.

534
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Like the East isn't going to be a walk over anymore.

535
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,200
Atlanta has a possibility of landing Brandon Ingo.

536
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,200
If they do it they'll lose Tray DeJontay.

537
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,200
So whatever.

538
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,200
The East is going to be a cakewalk next year.

539
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,200
It's not.

540
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,200
The Boston South has had a five year run window.

541
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,200
They've been in the four conference finals.

542
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,200
Three conference finals.

543
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,200
Two NBA finals.

544
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,200
And have currently zero titles to show for.

545
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,200
No 18th banner in the rafters.

546
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:56,200
Or in their case 18th slot on the thing.

547
00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:01,200
But no 18th title in their rafters.

548
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,200
That's what's at stake for Boston.

549
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,200
I think they win one with E. Mayodoka.

550
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,200
And then he did what he did and had what he had.

551
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,200
And he left.

552
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:16,200
They got rid of him and now he's in Houston trying to build that thing up.

553
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,200
Joe Masulo almost got canned out the last season.

554
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,200
I don't think they canned a guy out of the finals.

555
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:22,200
But the Cavs canned Joe.

556
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,200
Not Joe Black.

557
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:25,200
David Black.

558
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,200
But canned him.

559
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,200
It was possible.

560
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,200
You can get canned out of making the finals run.

561
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,200
It's plausible.

562
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,200
It's on the table.

563
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,200
We've seen it.

564
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:38,200
So it would be very interesting to see what happens there.

565
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,200
What happens in this series.

566
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,200
Again I have the Dallas Mavericks in sixth.

567
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:47,200
I think Kyrie Irving gets kind of his poke-poke revenge on the Celtics.

568
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,200
The fans are going to be brutal on both sides.

569
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,200
Of course Ingeis goes back to Dallas.

570
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,200
Kyrie goes back to Boston.

571
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,200
The fans are going to be pretty brutal on both sides.

572
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,200
The home course advantage would be massive.

573
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:03,200
I think you'll see a blue wall in Dallas playing and a green wall in Boston playing.

574
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,200
This is going to be an all-time series.

575
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,200
I think it's going to be an absolute war.

576
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,200
You've got two superstars with great support and help on both sides.

577
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,200
You've got two great coaches.

578
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,200
Masulo got a lot of flack for last year.

579
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,200
Masulo can coach basketball.

580
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,200
Jason Kisven has coached the game a long time.

581
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,200
You kind of forget that he got his head coach job like two or three years after he finished playing.

582
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,200
Masulo retired after 2011.

583
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,200
I think he was the head coach of the Bucs in 2013.

584
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,200
He still had the old uniform.

585
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,200
Wim Jay Kidd was the coach of the Bucs.

586
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,200
He's had the Bucs for next.

587
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,200
And now he's in Dallas.

588
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:35,200
He's stationed in Dallas.

589
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:36,200
Dallas is his home.

590
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,200
He probably should have always been in Dallas and the Carlisle.

591
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,200
But it is what it is.

592
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,200
Here we are.

593
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,200
Great all-time series.

594
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,200
I'm expecting great things out of the series.

595
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Again, Dallas in sixth is my pick.

596
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,200
And I've got Luka as the final MVP.

597
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,200
Quick hitters before we shift out of the NBA.

598
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,200
LeBron James expects to opt out of his contract.

599
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,200
Rich Paul sort of in a Freudian slip.

600
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,200
Referring to LeBron James as a pre-agent.

601
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,200
I don't know if it was a Freudian slip.

602
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,200
I don't know if he put anything past Rich Paul.

603
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,200
Maybe he set it on purpose to make people go away.

604
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,200
He's not a free agent.

605
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:14,200
He's going to opt out, start the bidding, start the negotiation, start whatever you need to do.

606
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,200
I do think this is a plan ultimately to get Brawny higher.

607
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,200
I think there is a Brawny agenda going around in media.

608
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:27,200
Stephen A. Smith referenced it that he went into the combine ranked 98th.

609
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,200
He left the combine ranked 54th.

610
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,200
He really didn't do all that special with the combine.

611
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:39,200
Got a good vertical leap, showed a good floater, knocked down, opened threes.

612
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,200
Didn't do anything we didn't expect him to do.

613
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:47,200
And he jumped 32 spots, 34 spots, whatever, conveniently to the Lakers pick.

614
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:52,200
He's projected number 54 overall and the Lakers have picked 54.

615
00:39:52,200 --> 00:40:02,200
Lately, he's been targeted to the Warriors, which is interesting.

616
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:06,200
This all stood again after Rich Paul's comments saying LeBron's just raising.

617
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,200
So LeBron is expected to opt out.

618
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,200
And I do believe, as I said before, whether that's smoke, that's fire in the NBA.

619
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,200
The NFL is one thing you can hear about a receiver getting moved for six months

620
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,200
into the end of the contract extension.

621
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:24,200
Like in the NBA where there's heavy smoke, there's fire.

622
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,200
I can see the flames in New Orleans for Brandon Engel.

623
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,200
I'm looking at the orange sky.

624
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:35,200
I can see the flames, Rich Paul told us there's a fire over there

625
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,200
when it comes to LeBron James opting out of his contract.

626
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:43,200
Right?

627
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:49,200
There's billows of smoke coming off Steve Ballmer's new Intuit Dome,

628
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,200
Intuit Arena, whatever you want to call it, in Inglewood

629
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,200
that Paul George will soon be an ex-clipper.

630
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,200
No proof of it yet in terms of confirmed documentation

631
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,200
as far as former trade requests, et cetera.

632
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,200
But there's billows of smoke coming.

633
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:11,200
It could be steaming him off of a river, or it could be a fire.

634
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,200
I'm going to guess it's a fire.

635
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,200
I think Paul George is out of Los Angeles.

636
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,200
Where does he land?

637
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,200
I've said Philly for about a month or so.

638
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,200
I'm going to stick with that.

639
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:29,200
I think he does ultimately land in Philly and partner with Joe LNB and Tyrese Maxey.

640
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,200
Philly is getting another one of those scenes.

641
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,200
I also go out to New York and make a max slot.

642
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:34,200
Philly has a max slot.

643
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,200
They ain't even got to make it.

644
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,200
New York has some maneuver contracts and people around.

645
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,200
This, that, and the third.

646
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,200
Philly ain't got to do none of that.

647
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:47,200
They right now can simply sign Paul George to a four-year max contract outright

648
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,200
and then sign Maxey to his rookie max extension

649
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,200
and play basketball with a big three of Maxey, Paul George, and Joe LNB.

650
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,200
Which to me immediately is the favorite of these.

651
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,200
So that is something to think about there.

652
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,200
I think it's like Paul George lands in Philly.

653
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:10,200
If Pascal Siakam could be on the move, he'd never sign an extension in Indiana.

654
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Now, common sense.

655
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,200
Do you make that trade with Toronto, give up what you gave up,

656
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,200
and not have at least a weak, weak handshake deal with Siakam ready to go?

657
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:21,200
Yes.

658
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,200
Financially, does it help Siakam if he goes to frequency and then signs a five-year deal with Indiana?

659
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:26,200
Yes.

660
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,200
So maybe that's the plan, that they're going to five-year max him in Indiana?

661
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,200
I wouldn't.

662
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,200
But I'm sure Siakam will.

663
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,200
Siakam's agency made it known to the Pacers,

664
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,200
Pascal would be willing to take a max contract from you guys if you were to offer the fifth year.

665
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:46,200
The Pacers made it clear to Pascal Siakam's agent,

666
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:52,200
we would be willing to offer Pascal Siakam the fifth year if he were to accept the trade here.

667
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:59,200
So nobody really negotiated, but both sides' thoughts on the situation were no.

668
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:03,200
And so Pascal Siakam, I believe, is going to resign Indiana for a full five years.

669
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,200
However, if negotiations go sideways, do I think Pascal could move?

670
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,200
Yeah.

671
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,200
I think he'd fit in Miami.

672
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,200
He's a dude.

673
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:17,200
Long wing defender, scrappy, don't really need the ball to score, great in transition, I think he'd fit in Miami.

674
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:21,200
But that's definitely something to look at as well.

675
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:29,200
But up next, we're going to shift to the WNBA and talk about the explosion of the W.

676
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:59,200
Welcome back into the show, into our WNBA segment.

677
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:07,200
The WNBA, the W, as I'm going to call it, 95% of the time, the W is in full force.

678
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,200
The W is in full effect.

679
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,200
They're all over social media.

680
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,200
You're getting all of the TV coverage.

681
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,200
I mean, weird time slots feel.

682
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,200
For instance, I had a, I admit I had a late morning this morning, I admit.

683
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,200
Oh, and I woke up into sky fever.

684
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,200
Right?

685
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,200
Like I knew it was today, today being Saturday.

686
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:33,200
I knew it was today, but I kind of rolled into it.

687
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,200
Kind of thing.

688
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,200
I woke up into it like I saw the sky.

689
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,200
I was tweeting about the game.

690
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:37,200
I was like, oh yeah, that is today.

691
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,200
You know, so me and my wife turned it on.

692
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,200
She's a huge fever fan.

693
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,200
She loves Leah Boston.

694
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,200
I'm a sky.

695
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,200
We both love the Aces who doesn't love Asia Wilson.

696
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:51,200
I'm leaning towards sky fandom because of injuries.

697
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,200
I'm an LSU alum and super fan.

698
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,200
So I'm kind of leaning into sky fandom because of injuries.

699
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:59,200
So that was always interested.

700
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,200
And it was always, you know, the thing to do.

701
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,200
It was an interesting game.

702
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,200
Kind of on both sides of the same thing, but not really too serious.

703
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,200
But indeed the W has exploded all over.

704
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,200
We're going to talk about kind of the different areas of where we're getting in that point.

705
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:21,200
But today, like I mentioned, was Angel and Cadoza v. Katelyn 1.

706
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:28,200
And the reason why I included Camila Cadoza is because although she isn't getting the hype train that Angel and Katelyn Clark are,

707
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:39,200
she is just as deserving as them because she went to war in college.

708
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,200
She's a two time national champion.

709
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,200
She's a most outstanding player of the tournament herself.

710
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:49,200
And so she deserves all the recognition and honor that the other two are getting all the notoriety.

711
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,200
But she's been hurt to start her career.

712
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,200
That's in her debut today.

713
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,200
She's done with a shoulder injury, but she made it on the court for this game.

714
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,200
Looked really, really good.

715
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,200
Very efficient.

716
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,200
Not surprising.

717
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,200
She's smart.

718
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:04,200
She's six foot seven.

719
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,200
She's got some size.

720
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,200
She's got some touch.

721
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,200
She looks really, really good.

722
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,200
Katelyn Clark and Angel Reese struggled.

723
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,200
Katelyn shot horribly in this game.

724
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:19,200
I think she might have had more air balls and made shots.

725
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,200
I'm not kidding.

726
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:27,200
She air balled a few actually shots in this game.

727
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,200
Again, I'm not kidding.

728
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:34,200
Again, you're going to only see the two she made.

729
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,200
She started off two for two.

730
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,200
And then it was a long time before she made another one.

731
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,200
Again, I'm not slanting Katelyn Clark.

732
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,200
I just like the fact that I'm here as the moderator of news.

733
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,200
Now, she also...

734
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,200
See, and this is what I'm saying.

735
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,200
This is what I'm saying.

736
00:46:51,200 --> 00:47:01,200
The article named Clark and Fever hold on late to pick up first home win of the season.

737
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:07,200
Katelyn Clark had 11 points, I believe.

738
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,200
Yeah, I'm trying to find the box score now.

739
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:17,200
I'm on the ESPN, the website, which is not very user friendly.

740
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,200
All right, so I'm on the box score now.

741
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Katelyn Clark had 11 points.

742
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,200
Remember, now the highlights say Clark and the Fever.

743
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,200
She shot four of 11, two for nine from three.

744
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,200
She had five turnovers.

745
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:36,200
She was minus two, the only starter with a minus plus minus with 11 points.

746
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:43,200
Meanwhile, Nellisa Smith had 17 and nine, was a plus four.

747
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,200
Aliyah Boston, 10 and eight, was a plus four.

748
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:47,200
Aliyah Boston shot worse.

749
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,200
She shot full 14.

750
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,200
Kelsey Mitchell was a plus five, 18 points.

751
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:58,200
Wallace, also with a 10 piece, she was four for eight.

752
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:03,200
Again, Katelyn Clark was the only starter with a minus plus minus.

753
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:08,200
And then on the Sky side, they should have played Cordoza more.

754
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:09,200
She was plus 11.

755
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,200
She was easily the best.

756
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,200
Now, I'm sure she had administration her first game back.

757
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,200
She was easily the best player in terms of effectiveness.

758
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,200
In just 18 minutes, she was plus 11.

759
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:24,200
She had 11.6 rebounds on five for seven shooting, but she picked up five fouls in those 18 minutes.

760
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,200
Definitely got to get that down.

761
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,200
But it might have been Angel Reese's first couple games too.

762
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,200
She was fouled crazy.

763
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,200
And then she got it down.

764
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,200
Kennedy Carter, eight for 12, 19 points, plus six.

765
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:41,200
She had the foul that's been talked about all over where she kind of hip checked Katelyn Clark.

766
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,200
Put her on the floor.

767
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:46,200
That was after Katelyn said something to her.

768
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,200
Kennedy Carter retaliated on the next possession.

769
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,200
Called her a little B from what lip experts are saying.

770
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,200
And put her on the floor.

771
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,200
It's a hip check.

772
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:57,200
It's a warning.

773
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,200
It's a business in college shot.

774
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,200
You can't talk to me however you want to talk to me.

775
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,200
And then I'm going to take my shot.

776
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,200
And my wife is upset.

777
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:06,200
Katelyn was upset.

778
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,200
And I was like, Kennedy, that's what Kennedy does.

779
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,200
She's a little unhinged.

780
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,200
But she's not unhinged in terms of I'm just going to pick at you.

781
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,200
She's a hell of a retaliator.

782
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,200
And she retaliated.

783
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:23,200
Don't start nothing won't be nothing.

784
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,200
Effectively, right?

785
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,200
And so big minutes out of Marina Mabry.

786
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,200
She was a minus two, 15.

787
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,200
Williams was the worst player for Chicago according to plus minus.

788
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,200
She was a minus 12 in 22 minutes.

789
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:41,200
Angela Reese had one of her most inefficient games, two for nines on the eight points.

790
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,200
But she had 13 boards.

791
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,200
So she was really all over the glass.

792
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,200
She looked out of it a lot.

793
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:50,200
I don't know.

794
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,200
She looked like she did when she was early.

795
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,200
Like the early last year, she was in LSU.

796
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:55,200
She just looked out of it.

797
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,200
Right.

798
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:57,200
But it was a definite close game.

799
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,200
Came down to free throws at the end.

800
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,200
One was missed late.

801
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,200
That cost Chicago.

802
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,200
I forgot who missed it.

803
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:06,200
I think it's Mabry.

804
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,200
Missed one late that cost Chicago the game.

805
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,200
Also, they couldn't get a foul on Indiana.

806
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,200
Indiana picked their first win.

807
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,200
Of course, the question after the game to Kennedy Carter was about Katelyn Clark.

808
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,200
She didn't answer the first time.

809
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,200
I'm not answering the Katelyn Clark questions.

810
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,200
The reporter kept pestering it.

811
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,200
Kennedy, you can physically feel was getting frustrated.

812
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,200
Camila Cordoza sitting next to her.

813
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,200
Started to smile like she said she wasn't answering.

814
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:33,200
Gotta keep going.

815
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,200
Coach Teresa Witherspoon jumped in and goes, that's enough.

816
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,200
You know, she says she can't answer the questions.

817
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,200
Move on, basically.

818
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,200
Let me see if I can find the audio clip and I'll play it for you guys.

819
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,200
So you guys can hear exactly what happened.

820
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,200
Let's see if I can get that for you guys.

821
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:51,200
Oh, here it is.

822
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,200
I'm going to play it for you right now.

823
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,200
You guys are.

824
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:56,200
Yeah.

825
00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:00,200
Like, Katelyn seemed like she turned to you a little bit.

826
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,200
Yeah.

827
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,200
After the...

828
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,200
I ain't answering no Katelyn Clark questions.

829
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,200
I don't know what she's saying.

830
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,200
I didn't say anything.

831
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:08,200
That's enough.

832
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,200
We're good.

833
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:10,200
She's good.

834
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:14,200
Both players, we're playing another young team like you guys are.

835
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:15,200
All right.

836
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,200
So you heard, if it might have been a little low.

837
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,200
Sorry if you guys was playing it off my phone.

838
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:26,200
So you heard a little bit of the reporter's question.

839
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:27,200
He asked about Katelyn Clark.

840
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,200
You know, if it turned to you,

841
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,200
can you come and answer any Katelyn Clark questions?

842
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,200
Then she said, what did she say to you?

843
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:34,200
She didn't say anything.

844
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,200
What did you say to her?

845
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,200
And she was about to say, I didn't say anything.

846
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,200
And then that's when you heard Teaspoon jump in.

847
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,200
The last you hear is Kermit the Cadoza.

848
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,200
Because Teaspoon said, that's enough.

849
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,200
Whatever.

850
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,200
Cadoza starts to laugh.

851
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,200
Like, bro, stop.

852
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,200
She's not going to tell you.

853
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,200
Stop asking.

854
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,200
In the headline of the ESPN headline.

855
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,200
Oh, man, I wish I had it.

856
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,200
Let me see if I can grab it.

857
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,200
Let's look at how it was covered.

858
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Basically like Clark won the game kind of thing.

859
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,200
It's like, no, she didn't.

860
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,200
Like, didn't at all.

861
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:13,200
Was the Fever's worst player actually.

862
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:19,200
And it's sort of the thing that people talk about in this league.

863
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,200
You're going to make it where people don't like her.

864
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:23,200
Like, stop forcing it.

865
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,200
You're going to make it where people don't like her.

866
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,200
She played horrible.

867
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,200
And yet the headline was Clark and the Fever win.

868
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:32,200
She played awful.

869
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:33,200
She was the worst shooter.

870
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:34,200
She had the worst plus minus.

871
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,200
She had the most turnovers.

872
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:40,200
And yet everyone's talking about she's the only starter with a minus plus minus.

873
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,200
She was the only one.

874
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,200
Melissa Smith and the others had great games.

875
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,200
And yet no one's talking about them.

876
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,200
They're talking about Clark.

877
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,200
And it's like, that's going to piss people off.

878
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:52,200
Her team is going to smile.

879
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:54,200
And they're going to say, we love her and whatever.

880
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,200
And she may be loved.

881
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:01,200
But from the outside looking in, when you want people to partner with her in Indiana,

882
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
you're going to try to recruit people in free agency.

883
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:05,200
They're not going to want to go to her.

884
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:11,200
Because if I have a great game and she does anything, they're going to talk about her.

885
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,200
For instance, Aaliyah Boston had three shots to the rim.

886
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,200
And one of them, she finally gets in.

887
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,200
She catches it off a deflection, off a loose ball.

888
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,200
Catches it, powers through, and gets the layup.

889
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,200
And the announcer goes, Clark deflected it to Aaliyah.

890
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,200
Who got it?

891
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:27,200
No.

892
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:28,200
Clark was trying to get the ball herself.

893
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:29,200
Itches.

894
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:30,200
She slapped it down.

895
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:31,200
It bounced off somebody's foot.

896
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,200
Went to Aaliyah and Aaliyah laid it up.

897
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,200
For the other guy, Aaliyah got two offensive rebounds.

898
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,200
Forget the persistence of Aaliyah Boston getting two offensive rebounds

899
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,200
and fighting down there by herself.

900
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,200
And there's no other little ring red tonight.

901
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:48,200
Red jersey, or today, red jersey in the mix helping her out down there.

902
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,200
She's scrapping and fighting.

903
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,200
And yet, it's about a Caitlin Clark deflection.

904
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,200
Like, that's going to be not like her.

905
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,200
But all in all, it was a good game.

906
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,200
It was a good battle.

907
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:01,200
It was a great game.

908
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:02,200
I watched it in my truck a little bit.

909
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:03,200
I watched it at home.

910
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,200
I watched it in the restaurant.

911
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,200
But it was a good battle, all in all.

912
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,200
But she's doing her job.

913
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,200
And by she, I mean Caitlin Clark.

914
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:19,200
The Indiana Fever in 10 games basically are going to smash the attendance record

915
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,200
that they had all last season.

916
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,200
In about a third of the season, they're going to blow out the generation they had last season.

917
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,200
They're averaging the biggest crowd in the WNBA, 19,000 fans.

918
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:32,200
They're playing all their games exclusively in the Pacers arena.

919
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,200
They're averaging 19,000 fans.

920
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:40,200
When Caitlin came to the Sparks, they moved them to the Crypto.com arena.

921
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,200
That crowd was bigger than any Lakers game.

922
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:47,200
Like, you know, the Caitlin Clark effect is real.

923
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,200
People want to watch her play.

924
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:50,200
Kudos to her.

925
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,200
It's happening in the Fremes and the Roos in the skies.

926
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,200
Well, they're moving their games.

927
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,200
LA is going to have a couple games moving.

928
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,200
LA moves into the Crypto.com arena for the second half of the year anyway.

929
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:04,200
Currently, they're playing at UC Irvine.

930
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:05,200
They're a high school gym.

931
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,200
Like, they have shadows on the court.

932
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,200
Like, the lighting is horrible.

933
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:13,200
But they usually move into the Crypto for the second half of the season, et cetera.

934
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,200
But the aces of the aces, you know, they deal with attendance.

935
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:21,200
But congratulations to the Fever, the smashing attendance records.

936
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:25,200
They're doing what they drafted her for.

937
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:29,200
They're being a bad team who sells out tickets.

938
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,200
She's being a horribly inefficient player who sells out tickets.

939
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,200
They're being a horrible player.

940
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:35,200
They drafted her for it.

941
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,200
But what I do enjoy is the social media equality.

942
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,200
We're getting a lot more WNBA talk on social media, good and bad.

943
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,200
We're getting, oh my god, they're beating up Caitlin Clark.

944
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,200
She's your cash cow.

945
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,200
She's making all you guys all your money.

946
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,200
She's the reason you're on private jets.

947
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:54,200
That corner of Twitter, you have the corner of Twitter that's all up in the mess

948
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,200
and the drama of the relationships and the personal dynamics.

949
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,200
You have the corner of social media that's all up in the basketball

950
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,200
and the drama of the person and you're killing my parlay and all the other stuff.

951
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,200
You got the section of Twitter that's into the fashion.

952
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,200
You got the diehard WNBA fans going, none of this matters.

953
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,200
What happens on the court?

954
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,200
So it's cool that you got kind of the same thing in the NBA.

955
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,200
You're getting that NBA equality.

956
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:26,200
Like people don't put cat in parlays and the interpersonal drama of this person,

957
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,200
baby mama with that person.

958
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,200
The fit, the fashion, the street wear.

959
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:36,200
You have the, oh my god, don't hit this person.

960
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:37,200
They're the next blah, blah, blah.

961
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:42,200
You have all these different discourses, all these different discourses rather,

962
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,200
in the NBA and their social media.

963
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:48,200
So it's cool to see it in the W, what's happening there.

964
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:51,200
And it's an opportunity for you to build on that.

965
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,200
You get stuff like the Skims ad.

966
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,200
You get stuff like the Gatorade.

967
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,200
Like Asia Wilson's in the Gatorade commercial.

968
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:02,200
She really turns into her own statue that's still on the campus of South Carolina.

969
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,200
You have the A1 coming out next year.

970
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,200
Asia Wilson signature shoe.

971
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,200
You have Kailyn Clark's shoe that's going to drop.

972
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,200
You have a Coach Sabrina Unescu has one of,

973
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:15,200
if not the best basketball shoes in the world right now,

974
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,200
as far as current people.

975
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,200
I'm currently making shoes like NBA players are rocking her shoes in the playoffs.

976
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:26,200
Talk about this, the most comfortable shoe I own.

977
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,200
That's the kind of momentum you need to capitalize on.

978
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:30,200
Brianna Stewart's shoe is pretty dope too.

979
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,200
That's what you got to capitalize on.

980
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:36,200
That's the kind of momentum you need to move into.

981
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,200
Angel Reese's got her line with Reebok.

982
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:43,200
That she's debuting a new player exclusive shoe almost every game.

983
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:48,200
That's the kind of stuff you need to capitalize on the WNBA.

984
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:49,200
And that's bigger marketing.

985
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:50,200
That's bigger contracts.

986
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,200
That's bigger expansion fees.

987
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,200
You need to do everything you can to capitalize on this.

988
00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:01,200
And for the W Player Association, you need to get your money.

989
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,200
That split is horrible.

990
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:09,200
Like, people bought all that Kailyn Clark Indiana stuff.

991
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,200
Kailyn Clark don't see one dime of that.

992
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,200
They don't get Jersey sale revenue.

993
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:20,200
Like they get half of the league's excess.

994
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:21,200
It's some weird thing.

995
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,200
Like the league sets a number.

996
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:28,200
I've talked about it before, but the league sets a number plus 20%.

997
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,200
Whatever is left after that is what the players get.

998
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,200
Or some weird thing like it's in the chain.

999
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:37,200
They don't get every single dollar related to revenue in the NBA.

1000
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,200
The players get 50 cents.

1001
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:45,200
So if the league makes $8 billion, the player gets four automatically.

1002
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:51,200
Like the salary cap is set for $4 billion in salary and benefits.

1003
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:52,200
Period.

1004
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,200
The NBA can make $200 million and the players end up splitting 50 with the team.

1005
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,200
So the owners get 175 and the players get 25 split among 12 ways.

1006
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,200
How you get a one point something million dollar salary cap.

1007
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,200
Like it's ridiculous.

1008
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,200
Instead they should be splitting $100 million.

1009
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:12,200
In which case each team has $8 million spent on salaries.

1010
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,200
Retrofit the contract.

1011
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,200
You've got multiple million dollar NBA players walking around.

1012
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,200
Rookies making multiple hundreds of grand.

1013
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:27,200
Yes, it's not NBA money, but Jackie Young, Asia Wilson will be making $1.2 million a year instead of $200 grand.

1014
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:31,200
Katelyn Glock will be making times 6, $420 grand.

1015
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,200
Her rookie deal as opposed to $70.

1016
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,200
You know what I'm saying?

1017
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:38,200
That's this kind of money.

1018
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,200
$70 grand, I make that as a high school football coach.

1019
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:47,200
Several multiple high school football coaches in Texas make more than that.

1020
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:53,200
Like high school teachers in some districts, long team ones make more than that.

1021
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,200
22 year olds on a lot of fields can make more than $70 grand.

1022
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,200
Now they can't do it in three months, but they can do it annually.

1023
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:06,200
As opposed to if you do the contracts right and you do the CBA right and you fight like hell to do it.

1024
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,200
You can make $420 grand in three months.

1025
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,200
That's the money you ain't making nowhere else.

1026
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:14,200
So that's probably the next step is to really capitalize on this momentum.

1027
01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,200
Do a lot more social media promotion.

1028
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,200
Do a lot more stuff on social where the cost is a lot less.

1029
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:24,200
As opposed to mainstream media, you hit this running and you fix that CBA.

1030
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:47,200
But up next, Jack's hot take, the UFL is a success.

1031
01:00:54,200 --> 01:01:06,200
Welcome back into the show.

1032
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:11,200
And now we're going to discuss the United Football League.

1033
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,200
It's a success.

1034
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,200
I watched both basically mulligan.

1035
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:20,200
I want basically the first one on the playoffs today because, you know,

1036
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:25,200
the UFL is the combination of the USFL and the XFL.

1037
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,200
They came together, made the UFL.

1038
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:32,200
They took the top four teams from each conference and made the schedule.

1039
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,200
Top four teams in the conference made the league.

1040
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:40,200
So it's the 18th league, spring football, the XFL conference, the UFL conference.

1041
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,200
I think it's top, it might be top 16 from each league.

1042
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,200
I think it's top 16 from each 12th team conference, whatever.

1043
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:52,200
But you, that's what happened.

1044
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,200
So the UFL came together, no it's 18.

1045
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,200
Top four teams from each, I thought so.

1046
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,200
Top four teams from the XFL, top four teams from the USFL came together,

1047
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,200
they made the UFL.

1048
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,200
The reason why these teams were selected, not because of talent,

1049
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,200
but because of, what ended up being this way, attendance.

1050
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:11,200
So like they didn't want, like Seattle to me should be in the league.

1051
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,200
Seattle supported the Dragons really, really, really well.

1052
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:19,200
I thought Seattle probably should have been in the league, that's just me.

1053
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:23,200
I didn't think San Antonio was going to be in the league, but they're in.

1054
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:24,200
So that's what I think.

1055
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:28,200
But, and maybe they expanded to 10 or 12 later, but right now it's 18th league.

1056
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:33,200
And the conferences are split in the USFL teams and the XFL teams.

1057
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:37,200
They'll come together, there'll be a XFL champion and a USFL champion.

1058
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:42,200
They'll play to see who's the best spring team in the world.

1059
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:43,200
It's success.

1060
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:44,200
It's great.

1061
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:47,200
This is the business model that works.

1062
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,200
Both leagues had TV deals.

1063
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:54,200
When they went to TV companies to say, hey, we're going to come together

1064
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:59,200
under Dwayne Johnson's leadership and his ex-life business partner,

1065
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:02,200
Danny Garcia's leadership, we're going to come together.

1066
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,200
Both of these leagues have TV deals.

1067
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:09,200
Keep the TV deals while the games are on Fox and ESPN.

1068
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,200
Keep the TV deals in place.

1069
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:12,200
Same amount of money.

1070
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:14,200
We're going to give you the same amount of games.

1071
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,200
Just less teams are going to spit the pot.

1072
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:21,200
The operation costs are lower because they were only putting two games a week on TV anyway.

1073
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:22,200
ESPN and our Fox.

1074
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:26,200
So now we're going to give you those games anyway.

1075
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,200
Everyone's on TV all the time.

1076
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,200
The operation costs are lower.

1077
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:33,200
We're only in our four, we're only in our eight biggest markets per,

1078
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,200
we're in our four biggest markets per league.

1079
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,200
We really get the streamlined cost.

1080
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:39,200
We don't have all these.

1081
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,200
We don't have two sets of executives to pay.

1082
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,200
We don't have two sets of officials to pay.

1083
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:44,200
None of that stuff.

1084
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:49,200
The best of everything comes to one league.

1085
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:50,200
And then success.

1086
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,200
The talent's crazy.

1087
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:55,200
Starting quarterback gets hurt and the backup's just as good.

1088
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,200
Starting receiver goes down, the backup's just as good.

1089
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:58,200
Why?

1090
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,200
Because maybe he was the best tight end on the Seattle Dragons.

1091
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,200
Or yeah, they were the Dragons I believe.

1092
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:06,200
Well, he goes into the UFL free agency pool.

1093
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,200
Now he's the second straight tight end for the Brahmas.

1094
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:10,200
I'm not saying this just happened,

1095
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,200
but he's the second tight end for the Brahmas.

1096
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,200
So now when the starter goes down, he's playing,

1097
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,200
he's a starting level tight end in spring football.

1098
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,200
Right?

1099
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,200
So it's a smash success.

1100
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:20,200
The football is high quality.

1101
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:23,200
The quarterback play could be a little better,

1102
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:27,200
but that's going to happen because a practice squad quarterback

1103
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:31,200
makes more than the UFL quarterback.

1104
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,200
Plus in the UFL I can get hit.

1105
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,200
In the practice squad I'm not going to get hit.

1106
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:37,200
And I'm on money and I'm in the building.

1107
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,200
So that's where the kind of drop off phase,

1108
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:43,200
you got guys like A.J. McCarran who said like I could be,

1109
01:04:43,200 --> 01:04:45,200
he's made enough money though,

1110
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:48,200
he's like I could be a practice squad quarterback.

1111
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,200
I may even be a friend's backup.

1112
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:54,200
But he said my kids never got to see me actually play.

1113
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,200
So he plays spring football.

1114
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,200
He was like it's four months, I make 70, 80 grand,

1115
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:03,200
whatever the salary is, maybe 100 grand for quarterbacks.

1116
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,200
And then I go home to my kids.

1117
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,200
He's made millions and millions of dollars in the NFL already.

1118
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,200
He's financially set for life.

1119
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,200
He plays A to stay in shape,

1120
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,200
B the off chance that like he gets a pretty solid offer.

1121
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,200
But he's like his kids have never seen him play.

1122
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:25,200
So that's why he chose spring football over,

1123
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:29,200
that's why he chose spring football over just being like

1124
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,200
a practice squad quarterback in the NFL.

1125
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:32,200
So that's a rare case.

1126
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,200
But like all these guys are trying to get to the NFL.

1127
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,200
Now you have guys who were in the NFL flamed out

1128
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:40,200
and instead of the practice squad route,

1129
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,200
they went to get more tape in the UFL.

1130
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:48,200
I recognize a few names today in the games that were on.

1131
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:50,200
Both games came down to field goals.

1132
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,200
Both field goals were missed.

1133
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,200
The kicker who missed for the Burman for the Michigan Panthers

1134
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:58,200
though he's like in the Hall of Fame or at least his football is

1135
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:01,200
because he made a 63 yard field goal in the UFL.

1136
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,200
He also made a 62 yard field goal.

1137
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:05,200
He's 17 to 21 field goals.

1138
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:08,200
He's probably going to get signed after the season is over.

1139
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:09,200
He shanked his field.

1140
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:10,200
He didn't shake it.

1141
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:11,200
He pushed a little bit to the right.

1142
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:12,200
He missed.

1143
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:13,200
And then in the battle,

1144
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:19,200
Hawks versus the Brahmans that field goal kind of came a little.

1145
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:20,200
I came off the foot weird.

1146
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,200
He missed his like down and left.

1147
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,200
It was like a 51 yarder.

1148
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,200
So great action.

1149
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:28,200
I don't know the financials.

1150
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,200
Birmingham didn't have a lot of fans in the crowd.

1151
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:32,200
Seattle did though.

1152
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:36,200
And I noticed DC keeps a good crowd as well.

1153
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,200
Most of the crowds are really great.

1154
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:44,200
The battle Hawks have been very highly supported since that team came into existence.

1155
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:45,200
Like they were so good.

1156
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,200
Remember when this offshoot when the XFL first came back,

1157
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,200
Seattle ended up having to open their upper deck,

1158
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:53,200
open their upper deck.

1159
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:56,200
St. Louis had to open their upper deck.

1160
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,200
DC had to open their heads because these were,

1161
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,200
I know for instance Seattle loves football.

1162
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:02,200
There's not much to do in the spring.

1163
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:03,200
There's not much to do in Seattle.

1164
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,200
They love football.

1165
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:10,200
St. Louis were treating it like their football here because they lost the Rams.

1166
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,200
So they were treating it like, no, this is our team.

1167
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:14,200
This is our team.

1168
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:16,200
So they were their crazy support.

1169
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,200
And that's when Jordan Teyama was the quarterback.

1170
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,200
So that was fun.

1171
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:23,200
Right.

1172
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:24,200
And so this has been pretty cool.

1173
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,200
The U.F.L. has been great.

1174
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:30,200
Birmingham is kind of the host site for the league.

1175
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:34,200
Remember the first year of the XFL, all the games were played in Birmingham.

1176
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:38,200
And then like the next year they were like, we're going to go into our different markets.

1177
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:43,200
When they went into the markets, that's when like St. Louis started going crazy and everything.

1178
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:47,200
People had to open their upper decks to sell tickets.

1179
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:48,200
I mean, it was great.

1180
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,200
Right. It was crazy.

1181
01:07:49,200 --> 01:07:53,200
And so that's kind of what's going on there.

1182
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:54,200
I'm loving the U.F.L.

1183
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:55,200
It's a hit.

1184
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,200
Like I said, I don't know all the business financials.

1185
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:58,200
I'm at the crowd today.

1186
01:07:58,200 --> 01:07:59,200
St. Louis had a great one.

1187
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,200
Birmingham needed work.

1188
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:05,200
Last week, I believe, was it Houston?

1189
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:08,200
Didn't have a good crowd at all at their game.

1190
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,200
So I don't know what it's looking like financially.

1191
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,200
I'm hoping they can bring it back.

1192
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:17,200
I would love for them to be good enough to add two teams.

1193
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:22,200
But they'd have to add two teams on each side to kind of keep everybody playing because five and five.

1194
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,200
We know ten teams, five matchups.

1195
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,200
You'd have a cross match every week.

1196
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,200
So, yeah, you can add a team on each side.

1197
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:30,200
So that'd be pretty cool.

1198
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:36,200
Like, again, bring Seattle's back and then bring.

1199
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:39,200
Now I'm trying to think of somebody else.

1200
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,200
Shanty Tony. No, Shanty Tony has the Brahmas.

1201
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:42,200
I can't think of an answer.

1202
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:43,200
Bring back West Side of Seattle.

1203
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:44,200
Remember, they're sick of eight.

1204
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:45,200
But it's a success.

1205
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:46,200
I love it.

1206
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:47,200
I'm hoping they can keep going.

1207
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:54,200
It kind of gives us football fans something to do while the NFL is in their offseason.

1208
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,200
That is all I have for you guys today.

1209
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,200
I hope you guys enjoyed the show.

1210
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:01,200
Thank you guys for rocking with me during my break.

1211
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:07,200
I planned on recording last week, ended up going on vacation until the time it didn't work out.

1212
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:12,200
But I do plan on maintaining consistency, of course, you guys know, until my summer break.

1213
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:17,200
I used to get in there late June between the finals and Fourth of July.

1214
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:24,200
And then after Fourth of July, we're balls to the wall as far as recording all the way through the Super Bowl.

1215
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,200
So I hope you guys enjoy.

1216
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,200
I will be talking with you guys, of course, during the NBA finals.

1217
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,200
Expect another show next week.

1218
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:34,200
And I would definitely be with you guys during the NBA finals.

1219
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:36,200
Keep your eye out on the YouTube show.

1220
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:39,200
We should be getting back to the YouTube show sooner rather than later.

1221
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,200
Talking to my production team.

1222
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:43,200
We're behind the scenes.

1223
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,200
Talk about production team and my company, IMS Productions.

1224
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:49,200
About getting the YouTube show back going full-fledged.

1225
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:51,200
But that's all I have for you guys today.

1226
01:09:51,200 --> 01:10:18,200
This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.

1227
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,200
We'll see you guys next time.