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And so welcome in again to season five, episode 10 of the Justin Tom Sports podcast.
And huge shout out to our NBA finalists.
We've had a long season.
The NBA is a marathon, not a sprint.
They got the NFL season.
You start playing September, you end in February, six month season.
The NBA starts playing in like October, late September.
They don't finish until June.
So July, August.
There's no, the only time the NBA is not on, true NBA is July and August.
Cause in September, I think it's September, it's late September, early October,
you're playing again.
So you may have three months in terms of off where you're not dealing with the NBA.
If you go to the finals every year, think about a guy like LeBron James,
who went 10 straight years and in that time with two Olympics.
So he was never off, right?
You think about those guys, like a lot of these guys are going to play the Olympics
that are in the finals.
Look at Luca, look at Tatum.
I think they're both on Olympic teams.
You have a really, really, really long season ahead.
They're really not going to get a break and then they're going to go
right into the next NBA season.
So incredibly long season.
We've been whining and battling through.
We are finally at the NBA finals.
And anyway, we do have our two NBA finalists.
We have the Boston Celtics out East and we have the Dallas Mavericks out West.
So we're going to do a quick, quick recap of the series that they went through
as both series, well, we're quick.
So on the East, the Boston Celtics completed a sweep of the Indiana Pacers,
which Boston was the best team in the East, right?
They had a cakewalk through the East.
Their final record in the East was 12-2.
They lost the first round game and lost the second round game.
Then, like I said, of course, they achieved the sweep of the Indiana Pacers.
Now, this sweep did not come with a lot of controversy.
The Indiana Pacers should be very, and I do mean very upset at themselves.
The Pacers legitimately after four games should have been up three to one.
Game one, they had.
They had game one, right?
They got a rebound.
They rebounded the basketball on a defensive rebound with like 30 seconds left.
The Celtics won that game.
Then in the second round, second game, Boston runs away with it.
In game three, Boston's down 18 in the second half.
Indiana loses the game in regulation.
In game four, again, late, Indiana has a lead bigly, double digit lead in the second half.
Boston wins the game again in regulation.
So, Indiana blows three.
In your mind, they have this game lead.
Like, not inconceivable, obviously, but for getting a defensive rebound with the ball,
with 30 seconds left up four, you're thinking you got the game, right?
Similar to, you're up 18 in the second half, the way the game's been going,
you're thinking, okay, we got a game.
You know, and you're down, it's not even down, you're out of the series in four games
when you possess three double digit leads in the second half.
So, this series could have been very good for the Boston Celtics, but ultimately,
they kept coming back to win games.
And so, they end up finishing, like I said, through the East at 12-2.
So, what does it mean for Indiana?
I don't think Indiana ever gets here again with this core.
I don't think the core of Miles Turner, Tyrese Halliburton, Pascal Siakam,
Benedict Maverin, TJ McConnell and crew ever get back to this point.
Because think about it, think about what it took for the Indiana pace to get here.
Giannis and Milwaukee and Dame and crew were completely injured.
Giannis never played in the playoffs, Dame missed half the series, Milwaukee's out.
Philadelphia comes in, beat to hell.
They end up a seventh seed instead of the two or the three seed they probably should have been.
They're beat to smithereens.
Miami, no title hero for a vast majority of the year.
Jimmy Butler doesn't play in the playoffs.
They're beat to hell.
You look at the New York Knicks, they're beat to smithereens.
You're going to play without Jalen Brunson.
You're going to the playoffs without the Bunyanovich.
You end up losing Mr. Robinson with the Joe Allen Beach tuition.
Jalen Brunson finally cries his hands at the end.
And it's like, you know, injury, basketball, luck, thou hast the Indiana Pacers.
Right?
And so you got that going.
I don't have to pay to ever get back.
Their styles, the reason they lost the games.
You know, you're up three with 18 seconds left and you're firing a transition 30s footer from Tyrese Halliburton.
No, you simply just dribble.
Like, and Gilbert Arenas had an interesting hypothesis.
He said, I said it's style.
I said simply, you know, you can't you can't show old dog new tricks all year.
They had been playing really, really, really fast.
First good shot, they shoot.
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.
You know, Tyrese Halliburton, again, had that stretch of like two, three games.
He was like 25 assists, two turnovers.
And the reason is they don't necessarily look for the best shot.
They look for the first good shot.
You know, if they get a transition three, they shoot it.
If they get if it's 18 seconds on the shot clock, somebody fires to the corner and they got space, they fire it.
Like they look for the first good shot, not necessarily the best shot.
So in that situation, a good shot is a wide open three.
That's a good shot.
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.
So Halliburton took it.
And I said they play that way all season.
They just how they play.
That's just how they it's what they do.
It's how they play.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Let's just do some grab.
Right. They give one or two reaches at the foul before they before they call that foul.
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.
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
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.
That's what Gilbert Arenas hypothesis is. I think it's simply all year I've shot this shot.
So why in this scenario am I going to decide to not shoot this shot because all year I've shot this shot.
And so it cost him late and that sort of place that I remind me of Houston.
Remember the Golden, the Rockets were playing the Houston.
Sorry, the Houston Rockets were playing the Golden State Warriors.
Right.
And it's the Kevin Durant Warriors.
The Rockets
had scored the Rockets had scored all these threes. It was the greatest three point shooting team of all time.
They pretty much the Rockets know it was math. We're going to hit you with 55-63s. We're going to shoot.
Chris Paul was out there again.
The game hamstring. The Rockets shot 27.
Oh, sorry. My apologies.
The Rockets missed 27 consecutive threes.
And at no point did the Rockets decide to stop shooting the three.
They kept firing. Like again, hear me when I'm saying this.
They missed 27 consecutive threes.
And at no point did the Rockets decide, huh, maybe we should stop shooting the three.
Right. And so Indiana at no point thought maybe we should slow it down.
Keep shooting the most ones if we get it.
We're going to keep firing them if we get it.
And so that's definitely something that the Indiana person have to consider.
I just don't think they'll get this many injuries all at one time ever again out of these.
I think Indiana doesn't actually get back to this point with this group.
And then shifting over to the Western Conference.
Dallas, kind of a similar story. They ended up winning in five.
Although you could have very well said after five it's three-two.
Dallas even three-two Minnesota.
Minnesota had a couple of chances in this game to win.
But at the same time, the one game Minnesota won, Dallas had any chance to win that game late.
It wasn't like Boston series where they just kept correcting these huge deficits or stealing the game late.
They had no business even putting in the overtime. They put in overtime and win it.
Conversely, for the Minnesota Timbukts and Dallas Mavericks series,
Dallas controlled it.
Controlled it throughout.
You look at Minnesota, of course, Luka hits the shot over Go Bears.
That was a game that Minnesota could have won.
But the same time in the game that Minnesota did win, Dallas had their shots and they just didn't make them.
But it's kind of crazy when you look at what happened in the series.
Luka Donchison was the best player on the floor.
Derrick Lively, no sorry, Nas Reed was probably the second best player on the floor.
Derrick Lively's impact to me had felt bigger than Katz and Go Bears put together.
Nas Reed was the Timberwolves' best big man.
That's a problem.
Now, Nas Reed's a good player. NBA 6th man of the year.
It's not like it was Kyle Anderson all of a sudden.
I know they didn't expect Kyle Anderson, but he's not in that position anymore.
Nas Reed was the NBA 6th man of the year.
It's not a painful thing for him.
It's not shocking that he played well.
It is shocking that he was the best big.
It is shocking that when Go Bears left the floor, the defense got better.
It is shocking that Carl Anthony Towns was less offensively consistent than Nas Reed.
It is shocking that Nas Reed was the second best defender and the best offensive big in the series.
That's a problem.
When you pay all this money to Rudy Go Bear, a max guy.
You pay all this money to Carl Anthony Towns, a max guy.
Rudy Go Bear is a four-time Defensive Player of the Year award winner.
Carl Anthony Towns is a self-proclaimed best shooting big man of all time.
And Nas Reed, the sixth man, the third big, was the second best player on the team.
Anthony Edwards did his thing.
Ant-Man jumped into superstardom with this run.
Ant-Man jumped into superstardom again with this run.
No doubt about it, right?
He's the face of the ideas brand at this point.
No doubt about it.
But Nas Reed was the second best player and the gap isn't nearly as big as people want to talk about.
Or the gap isn't as close, rather, as people want to talk about.
People want to talk about Ant was a super player and nobody showed up to help.
There was a couple of them games where Nas showed up and he was looking for Ant.
And that's a problem because Luca and Kyrie had a system.
Kyrie kind of started them, Luca finished them.
Or if Luca started them, Kyrie finished them.
Like game seven, game five, rather, they both went for 32.
Or 35, I'm sorry.
They both went crazy.
Like, so in the event that those guys went to war, Minnesota, rather, went to war,
and you look up for your guy, calling Anthony Towns, oh, is he a Max player?
No, he wasn't in this series.
You look at, you look at, I can't think of his name, Gerruda Gobert, is he a Max player?
No, he wasn't in this series, right?
Defensively, he was hunted.
I mean, it was like consecutive possessions.
Luca got him, Kyrie got him, and then Jayden Hardy called for an ISO and scored.
It was like he called for ISO and got stuffed, but he scored.
All three of them did, and so that's a problem if you're the Minnesota Timberwolves.
I do think that they have to do something.
Anthony Edwards is too good of a player.
He's entering his second Max.
He's entering his rookie Max extension, aka the Fun Max.
I think that you're going to have to get him some help.
And, you know, what help do you need?
You know, you have four-time offensive player of the year.
You've got Carl Anthony Towns, who's his great offensive player.
You've got all this different stuff.
What is it that you're looking for for Anthony Edwards as far as help?
And I think that's where you look at and you say, I have three bigs.
One of them's got to go.
And I think around the league, if I had to take value, it's Nasri.
Now, you're not trading Nasri, but I say Carl Anthony Towns.
Rudy Gobert isn't looked at by fans.
It's all that great.
Although NBA GM shouldn't love him, but coaches showed it with torture.
Because in the event that they had to get a bucket, where they do,
they found Rudy Gobert, they forced the switch, and then they attacked him one-on-one.
Or the Timberwolves simply took Gobert off the floor.
So that being said, that's not a high-value play, especially on a match contract.
Nasri is way too valuable in his match.
Carl Anthony Towns is the player.
Now, there's several options if you're Minnesota.
I'm sure Minnesota could engage in trade talks with Brandon Ingram from the New Orleans Pelicans.
There's a rumor going around that the Phoenix Suns,
that Kevin Durant may be interested in partnering.
She's partnering with Anthony Edwards in Minnesota,
and therefore KD finds himself in Minnesota in exchange for Carl Anthony Towns,
and some sort of deal there.
Definitely what people are trying to negotiate, trying to figure out,
because it's clear to a lot of people in the circles that Carl Anthony Towns may be done in Minnesota.
So that is something that Minnesota is going to have to consider.
It's definitely something there that the guys are going to have to fight with and battle with.
But up next, we're going to shift to the NBA finals to talk about, well, the finals.
Welcome back into the show.
Welcome to the NBA finals.
We won't get NBA finals until Thursday, because shout out to Indiana and Minnesota,
because they didn't put up much of a fight.
So we're not going to get NBA finals until Thursday.
It kind of gives everybody a break, but it's going to lead to a lot of terrible discourse.
You know it is, right?
It's going to lead to a lot of horrible discourse on ESPN about what could possibly happen
and if this team loses and how fast and this, that, and the third,
you know what could happen and this coaching staff.
It's going to get some nonsense and, you know, what happens to legacy,
what legacy counts is going to happen and whatever, whatever.
This show is going to be about that.
The promise is not.
That's why I couldn't even think of the stuff to say,
because this show isn't going to be like that at all.
I could care less about all that dumb discourse that always happens this time of year
when it comes down to ESPN shows and Fox shows and this, that, and the third,
whenever something happens, right?
So I could care less about that.
I'm going to get right down to nitty gritty.
Now I will actually mention a little legacy stuff, but not a whole lot.
So let's get right to it.
It's the Boston Terps out of the East and it's the Dallas Mervids out of the West.
You've got Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Drew Holiday, Derrick White,
Christas Poziengus, Al Horsford and crew with Joe Mazzulli as the head coach of the Boston Celtics.
And in the West, you have the Dallas Mavericks represented by Luca Dunst,
it's Kyrie Irving, Tim Hardaway Jr., PJ Washington, Derrick Liven, Maxie Kleba,
and Jason Kidd, of course, the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks representing the West.
We're going to start off with prediction time.
So I got the Dallas Mavericks in sixth and I told you guys before,
I was like, hey, I told you guys in the pocket, the pocket came out a couple weeks ago,
I said, hey, I'm starting to get the feeling Dallas is going to win the finals.
And yeah, that was before the conference finals, that was before they played Minnesota.
That's when they were underdogs against Minnesota in every game pretty much.
I'm like, I'm starting to get the suspicion the Mavericks are going to win the title.
And I kind of said if I was a betting man, I'd place the bet.
At the time, they were the third most likely to win.
They were plus 350 plus 400 on some sites to win the title.
Some were even more.
And so I was like, I'm kind of getting the feeling Dallas is going to win the title.
Even now, when the finals first drop, Dallas is plus 225.
So if you're a betting man, that's the side to bet.
And I'm officially saying the Dallas Mavericks are going to win the title and they're going to win it in six games.
I think they're going to win it in Dallas.
It'll be Dallas' first title in 2011, oddly, when Jason Kidd was the coach.
Right?
Like, I'm sorry, Jason Kidd was the point guard for that team.
And so I think he secures Dallas' first title since 2011 when they defeat the Mavericks in Dallas in game six.
It's going to be a great series.
And I think Luke Kudais is going to win his first finals in MVP.
And he jumps into the best Euro ever discussion.
I think that that's often time deemed yokich, unapologetically.
Like, no one even considers anybody but yokich.
I think at this point it's yokich unapologetically.
Dirk Nowitzki is in that discussion, of course.
Giannis is in that discussion, of course.
I think Luke Kudais jumps right into that discourse.
He doesn't even have to think about it.
He jumps right into that conversation.
Winning a finals in MVP here.
Let's look at it from Boston's side.
Sorry, let's look at it from Boston's side.
I always talk about how can someone win the series.
Now, I'm picking Dallas to win, but I kind of want to look at, okay, how can Boston win the series?
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, fight out, go get you a game.
I don't think either one of them can win you a game by themselves.
But I do think, or a quote unquote by themselves.
But I do think Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown coming together in their efforts can go get you a game.
Where the threes are just not falling off from anybody else.
True Holliday can't throw a shot in the ocean.
Derrick White is just playing defense.
Al Horford is giving you a 10.
And you look up and you're going, it's 99-97.
Boston has the ball up, two with 30 seconds left, kind of thing.
Tatum and Brown, just go get you a game.
The second way they can win it is if the shooter is hit.
Boston has shooting, has rare level shooting.
I think they are the greatest offensive all time based on analytics.
They just go get you a damn game.
The shooters just rain threes.
They hit 17, 18 threes and they win it.
The third way that Boston can win a game is that they can play defense.
You look up and the game is 90-80.
Three minutes left in the fourth quarter.
You know, Boston just flat, wow.
That's wild.
I'm sorry, I'm watching the UFL and I'll talk about them later.
That's Sportal Alert, that's Jax Hattate.
I'm watching the UFL and the second consecutive game in their basically
conference championship game Mulligans was decided when a kicker missed.
That's pretty wild.
Yeah, that's insane.
But anyway, back to the NBA.
The Boston Celtics defense just stifles the Max.
Tell me the fourth way they win a game.
Seriously, the bench?
And the only way I think the fourth way they can win a game is they just
fight out bench overload.
Like, you know, where they score 50 bench points and they carry Tatum and
Brown long enough to win and somebody hits a shot at the end.
Kind of thing like they just, think Indiana series, one of those games,
they just won a game off the bench.
So I guess the fourth way they could win would be the bench.
And I kind of, I didn't have that in my original list.
It's more likely in the finals.
I can't think of a finals game of recent note where the bench won the game.
It's pretty unlikely in the NBA finals.
Let's go to Dallas' side.
Luka wins your game.
It's one way.
He goes 39, 12, and 10 and win your 107-103 finals game.
It's possible.
It's likely.
Kyrie Irving goes get you a game.
He's, it's been what, seven long years since he's been in his last finals.
Kyrie Irving goes and gets you a game of 40 point, we seen it when he went 41-41
LeBron where Luka has 28 so he keeps you occupied or 25 keeps you occupied.
Kyrie goes for 41, nine, and seven and win your game.
The shooters win you a game.
And by the shooters, I mean, I'm counting Kyrie and Luka, but Kyrie, Luka,
Hardaway Jr., PJ Washington, Maxie Kaliber, oh my God, Jaden Hardy, et cetera,
hit again 17, 18, 19 threes and just avalanche the Celtics from three.
The shooters win you a game and they can win a defensive game as well where they
can go out and just say Boston's going to have a bad night because shooting.
That starting lineup since the end of the season is like 27-4, 27-6.
I don't let that count in the playoffs.
I know they finished 25-5 and then in that lineup, of course, they've been
winning games.
So they finished 25-5 in the regular season.
Like that's the lineup that they win.
It's Lively, Washington, Derek Jones, Luka, and Kyrie, I believe, is the five.
And that group is really athletic.
All four of the five are shooting threads.
Four of the five are really high level NBA athletes.
They have great defensive versatility and that's a strong lineup.
That's a smart lineup.
And I love that lineup for them.
Boston, of course, has the best track in the NBA.
Boston, of course, has the best NBA rating in the NBA.
Boston, of course, has the greatest offensive rating in NBA history.
Boston, of course, has home court advantage.
Boston, of course, had the easier time.
Boston's advantage died when the Mavericks won game five.
And I think that the advantage that they were going to have was they were going
to be able to have a lot of rest.
No one anticipated the Mavericks getting the Timberwolves out so fast.
A lot of people said Timberwolves in six.
Some had Timberwolves in seven.
Those who picked the Mavs, many had Mavs in six.
I believe I had Mavs in six.
Mavs fans would even say, costly, would go six.
Some may even say seven.
For the Mavs to get them in five, so the Celtics in the sweep on a Tuesday,
or a Wednesday, and the Mavs in the series on the Thursday,
that was unexpected, right?
Like, no one saw that coming.
So now Boston and the Mavs get a week off, right?
Like, that was an unexpected occurrence.
So now, even though Boston's played less games throughout this entire playoffs,
they both get a week entering the finals.
They both get a week of film study.
They both get a week of treatment.
They both get a week of health and recovery.
They both get the same amount of time to really work on their bodies
and to fix their bodies.
Luca was kind of banged up in Genfi.
Kyrie, you kind of see some of the progressive fatigue on his body.
Derrick Lively, of course, almost got decapitated.
Bacchus Anthony Townes, multiple times in that series.
You know, so you get all these different pieces of the Mavericks resting and recovered,
and now Boston gets a week for Christos Prozengis to come back.
Maxie Kleba kind of got his feet wet in Game 5.
Now he gets a week full blast of practice.
You actually get to practice.
You can have two or three practices.
In the NBA, they don't have what you think of a high school basketball practice,
where it's stretch, then it's drills, then it's scrimmage, then it's all the...
They don't have that in the NBA.
At this point, it's play recognition, it's scout team recognition, it's a lot of film,
and you have two to three on-court practices with a Maxie Kleba, with a Derrick Lively.
And they're trying to get these guys back into the fray, trying to get these guys back into the fold.
Let's talk worst-case scenario for both teams.
Worst-case scenario for the Mavericks.
You never get back here again.
You don't make it back.
You just don't make it back.
What do you mean?
You don't make it back.
Kyrie's aging, right?
Kyrie's aging.
What are you going to do about the Grizzlies?
They're coming back.
Jemma Rank's back next year.
Let's say Paul Joy stayed with the Clippers.
They had a great season.
Let's say Paul Joy stayed with the Clippers.
They have a new arena, a lot more energy.
They'll be back next year.
Denver is not going anywhere at all.
Oklahoma City, they don't have a financial problem for two more seasons away, so next year they'll be back.
New Orleans, David Griffin's pissed.
Last time David Griffin was this level of pissed, openly, LeBron and Kevin Love showed up in Cleveland.
I'm not saying the Pelicans are getting LeBron and Kevin Love level players,
but they're not going to run the same team back, and they gave people fits.
Zion in that playing game, three minutes left with his hamstrings pulled, he's got 40.
Nobody on the Lakers can stop him.
AD, LeBron, nobody.
Right?
So it's not going to be, and then it's the West.
It's never a cakewalk.
It's never easy.
Also, I didn't name Phoenix.
They keep that core together, Bill Booker and Durant year two.
I didn't even name them.
They're going to be right there, battling, ready to go, scrapping.
So the worst case scenario for Dallas is this was their last best shot for years.
And then Luca doesn't sign the extension.
He goes into the next season, flame out on the first round,
and he enters free agency and said, I'm going to see what's out there.
Like, that's the worst case scenario.
The more likely bad scenario is you lose a close series,
Luca inks on the dotted line, and you've got your superstar for the next five years
locked up on supermax money.
Which due to the new CBA, makes it really hard to move.
Worst case scenario, you got them for another three to four years.
Just do the financials.
Right?
What is the worst possible scenario for the Boston substance?
This is it.
The window closes.
It's over.
Drew Holliday is aging.
Our horse is aging.
Those old guys who keep stashing on the bench go get mid-level deals elsewhere.
You got to commit a lot of, you got to commit a max supermax deal to disontain them.
Now two players on your roster taking up 60% of your cap.
That's not even counting what you got from Drew Holliday or Christas Prozinski.
You got a four man team with a second tax apron.
You can't get second round picks at players on the other financial rules
that you have to deal with being a second tax, second apron tax team.
Because you gave two middle fingers to it as you flew by it.
That's the worst case scenario.
Is that you're a very highly paid second round and out team.
Think about it. What happens if a Paul George or a LeBron for some high strange reason.
Or well Phoenix can't do it.
I would say Phoenix, Philly cobbles together salary and pulls Kevin Durant to Philly.
Or Jimmy Butler is in Philly.
Miami pulls a star because they're nowhere near the second tax apron.
They get a superstar in the building.
Yeah, you can't acquire more salary as second tax apron team.
The next thing you need to know is the Knicks.
They have at least one full max slot.
At least.
But in true talk if James Dolan is willing to spend luxury tax.
They can max Brunson.
Max out a free agent and get a middle level exception player.
If Dolan is willing to spend the money.
Brooklyn wants big.
Brooklyn is trying to put two max slots together.
Like the East isn't going to be a walk over anymore.
Atlanta has a possibility of landing Brandon Ingo.
If they do it they'll lose Tray DeJontay.
So whatever.
The East is going to be a cakewalk next year.
It's not.
The Boston South has had a five year run window.
They've been in the four conference finals.
Three conference finals.
Two NBA finals.
And have currently zero titles to show for.
No 18th banner in the rafters.
Or in their case 18th slot on the thing.
But no 18th title in their rafters.
That's what's at stake for Boston.
I think they win one with E. Mayodoka.
And then he did what he did and had what he had.
And he left.
They got rid of him and now he's in Houston trying to build that thing up.
Joe Masulo almost got canned out the last season.
I don't think they canned a guy out of the finals.
But the Cavs canned Joe.
Not Joe Black.
David Black.
But canned him.
It was possible.
You can get canned out of making the finals run.
It's plausible.
It's on the table.
We've seen it.
So it would be very interesting to see what happens there.
What happens in this series.
Again I have the Dallas Mavericks in sixth.
I think Kyrie Irving gets kind of his poke-poke revenge on the Celtics.
The fans are going to be brutal on both sides.
Of course Ingeis goes back to Dallas.
Kyrie goes back to Boston.
The fans are going to be pretty brutal on both sides.
The home course advantage would be massive.
I think you'll see a blue wall in Dallas playing and a green wall in Boston playing.
This is going to be an all-time series.
I think it's going to be an absolute war.
You've got two superstars with great support and help on both sides.
You've got two great coaches.
Masulo got a lot of flack for last year.
Masulo can coach basketball.
Jason Kisven has coached the game a long time.
You kind of forget that he got his head coach job like two or three years after he finished playing.
Masulo retired after 2011.
I think he was the head coach of the Bucs in 2013.
He still had the old uniform.
Wim Jay Kidd was the coach of the Bucs.
He's had the Bucs for next.
And now he's in Dallas.
He's stationed in Dallas.
Dallas is his home.
He probably should have always been in Dallas and the Carlisle.
But it is what it is.
Here we are.
Great all-time series.
I'm expecting great things out of the series.
Again, Dallas in sixth is my pick.
And I've got Luka as the final MVP.
Quick hitters before we shift out of the NBA.
LeBron James expects to opt out of his contract.
Rich Paul sort of in a Freudian slip.
Referring to LeBron James as a pre-agent.
I don't know if it was a Freudian slip.
I don't know if he put anything past Rich Paul.
Maybe he set it on purpose to make people go away.
He's not a free agent.
He's going to opt out, start the bidding, start the negotiation, start whatever you need to do.
I do think this is a plan ultimately to get Brawny higher.
I think there is a Brawny agenda going around in media.
Stephen A. Smith referenced it that he went into the combine ranked 98th.
He left the combine ranked 54th.
He really didn't do all that special with the combine.
Got a good vertical leap, showed a good floater, knocked down, opened threes.
Didn't do anything we didn't expect him to do.
And he jumped 32 spots, 34 spots, whatever, conveniently to the Lakers pick.
He's projected number 54 overall and the Lakers have picked 54.
Lately, he's been targeted to the Warriors, which is interesting.
This all stood again after Rich Paul's comments saying LeBron's just raising.
So LeBron is expected to opt out.
And I do believe, as I said before, whether that's smoke, that's fire in the NBA.
The NFL is one thing you can hear about a receiver getting moved for six months
into the end of the contract extension.
Like in the NBA where there's heavy smoke, there's fire.
I can see the flames in New Orleans for Brandon Engel.
I'm looking at the orange sky.
I can see the flames, Rich Paul told us there's a fire over there
when it comes to LeBron James opting out of his contract.
Right?
There's billows of smoke coming off Steve Ballmer's new Intuit Dome,
Intuit Arena, whatever you want to call it, in Inglewood
that Paul George will soon be an ex-clipper.
No proof of it yet in terms of confirmed documentation
as far as former trade requests, et cetera.
But there's billows of smoke coming.
It could be steaming him off of a river, or it could be a fire.
I'm going to guess it's a fire.
I think Paul George is out of Los Angeles.
Where does he land?
I've said Philly for about a month or so.
I'm going to stick with that.
I think he does ultimately land in Philly and partner with Joe LNB and Tyrese Maxey.
Philly is getting another one of those scenes.
I also go out to New York and make a max slot.
Philly has a max slot.
They ain't even got to make it.
New York has some maneuver contracts and people around.
This, that, and the third.
Philly ain't got to do none of that.
They right now can simply sign Paul George to a four-year max contract outright
and then sign Maxey to his rookie max extension
and play basketball with a big three of Maxey, Paul George, and Joe LNB.
Which to me immediately is the favorite of these.
So that is something to think about there.
I think it's like Paul George lands in Philly.
If Pascal Siakam could be on the move, he'd never sign an extension in Indiana.
Now, common sense.
Do you make that trade with Toronto, give up what you gave up,
and not have at least a weak, weak handshake deal with Siakam ready to go?
Yes.
Financially, does it help Siakam if he goes to frequency and then signs a five-year deal with Indiana?
Yes.
So maybe that's the plan, that they're going to five-year max him in Indiana?
I wouldn't.
But I'm sure Siakam will.
Siakam's agency made it known to the Pacers,
Pascal would be willing to take a max contract from you guys if you were to offer the fifth year.
The Pacers made it clear to Pascal Siakam's agent,
we would be willing to offer Pascal Siakam the fifth year if he were to accept the trade here.
So nobody really negotiated, but both sides' thoughts on the situation were no.
And so Pascal Siakam, I believe, is going to resign Indiana for a full five years.
However, if negotiations go sideways, do I think Pascal could move?
Yeah.
I think he'd fit in Miami.
He's a dude.
Long wing defender, scrappy, don't really need the ball to score, great in transition, I think he'd fit in Miami.
But that's definitely something to look at as well.
But up next, we're going to shift to the WNBA and talk about the explosion of the W.
Welcome back into the show, into our WNBA segment.
The WNBA, the W, as I'm going to call it, 95% of the time, the W is in full force.
The W is in full effect.
They're all over social media.
You're getting all of the TV coverage.
I mean, weird time slots feel.
For instance, I had a, I admit I had a late morning this morning, I admit.
Oh, and I woke up into sky fever.
Right?
Like I knew it was today, today being Saturday.
I knew it was today, but I kind of rolled into it.
Kind of thing.
I woke up into it like I saw the sky.
I was tweeting about the game.
I was like, oh yeah, that is today.
You know, so me and my wife turned it on.
She's a huge fever fan.
She loves Leah Boston.
I'm a sky.
We both love the Aces who doesn't love Asia Wilson.
I'm leaning towards sky fandom because of injuries.
I'm an LSU alum and super fan.
So I'm kind of leaning into sky fandom because of injuries.
So that was always interested.
And it was always, you know, the thing to do.
It was an interesting game.
Kind of on both sides of the same thing, but not really too serious.
But indeed the W has exploded all over.
We're going to talk about kind of the different areas of where we're getting in that point.
But today, like I mentioned, was Angel and Cadoza v. Katelyn 1.
And the reason why I included Camila Cadoza is because although she isn't getting the hype train that Angel and Katelyn Clark are,
she is just as deserving as them because she went to war in college.
She's a two time national champion.
She's a most outstanding player of the tournament herself.
And so she deserves all the recognition and honor that the other two are getting all the notoriety.
But she's been hurt to start her career.
That's in her debut today.
She's done with a shoulder injury, but she made it on the court for this game.
Looked really, really good.
Very efficient.
Not surprising.
She's smart.
She's six foot seven.
She's got some size.
She's got some touch.
She looks really, really good.
Katelyn Clark and Angel Reese struggled.
Katelyn shot horribly in this game.
I think she might have had more air balls and made shots.
I'm not kidding.
She air balled a few actually shots in this game.
Again, I'm not kidding.
Again, you're going to only see the two she made.
She started off two for two.
And then it was a long time before she made another one.
Again, I'm not slanting Katelyn Clark.
I just like the fact that I'm here as the moderator of news.
Now, she also...
See, and this is what I'm saying.
This is what I'm saying.
The article named Clark and Fever hold on late to pick up first home win of the season.
Katelyn Clark had 11 points, I believe.
Yeah, I'm trying to find the box score now.
I'm on the ESPN, the website, which is not very user friendly.
All right, so I'm on the box score now.
Katelyn Clark had 11 points.
Remember, now the highlights say Clark and the Fever.
She shot four of 11, two for nine from three.
She had five turnovers.
She was minus two, the only starter with a minus plus minus with 11 points.
Meanwhile, Nellisa Smith had 17 and nine, was a plus four.
Aliyah Boston, 10 and eight, was a plus four.
Aliyah Boston shot worse.
She shot full 14.
Kelsey Mitchell was a plus five, 18 points.
Wallace, also with a 10 piece, she was four for eight.
Again, Katelyn Clark was the only starter with a minus plus minus.
And then on the Sky side, they should have played Cordoza more.
She was plus 11.
She was easily the best.
Now, I'm sure she had administration her first game back.
She was easily the best player in terms of effectiveness.
In just 18 minutes, she was plus 11.
She had 11.6 rebounds on five for seven shooting, but she picked up five fouls in those 18 minutes.
Definitely got to get that down.
But it might have been Angel Reese's first couple games too.
She was fouled crazy.
And then she got it down.
Kennedy Carter, eight for 12, 19 points, plus six.
She had the foul that's been talked about all over where she kind of hip checked Katelyn Clark.
Put her on the floor.
That was after Katelyn said something to her.
Kennedy Carter retaliated on the next possession.
Called her a little B from what lip experts are saying.
And put her on the floor.
It's a hip check.
It's a warning.
It's a business in college shot.
You can't talk to me however you want to talk to me.
And then I'm going to take my shot.
And my wife is upset.
Katelyn was upset.
And I was like, Kennedy, that's what Kennedy does.
She's a little unhinged.
But she's not unhinged in terms of I'm just going to pick at you.
She's a hell of a retaliator.
And she retaliated.
Don't start nothing won't be nothing.
Effectively, right?
And so big minutes out of Marina Mabry.
She was a minus two, 15.
Williams was the worst player for Chicago according to plus minus.
She was a minus 12 in 22 minutes.
Angela Reese had one of her most inefficient games, two for nines on the eight points.
But she had 13 boards.
So she was really all over the glass.
She looked out of it a lot.
I don't know.
She looked like she did when she was early.
Like the early last year, she was in LSU.
She just looked out of it.
Right.
But it was a definite close game.
Came down to free throws at the end.
One was missed late.
That cost Chicago.
I forgot who missed it.
I think it's Mabry.
Missed one late that cost Chicago the game.
Also, they couldn't get a foul on Indiana.
Indiana picked their first win.
Of course, the question after the game to Kennedy Carter was about Katelyn Clark.
She didn't answer the first time.
I'm not answering the Katelyn Clark questions.
The reporter kept pestering it.
Kennedy, you can physically feel was getting frustrated.
Camila Cordoza sitting next to her.
Started to smile like she said she wasn't answering.
Gotta keep going.
Coach Teresa Witherspoon jumped in and goes, that's enough.
You know, she says she can't answer the questions.
Move on, basically.
Let me see if I can find the audio clip and I'll play it for you guys.
So you guys can hear exactly what happened.
Let's see if I can get that for you guys.
Oh, here it is.
I'm going to play it for you right now.
You guys are.
Yeah.
Like, Katelyn seemed like she turned to you a little bit.
Yeah.
After the...
I ain't answering no Katelyn Clark questions.
I don't know what she's saying.
I didn't say anything.
That's enough.
We're good.
She's good.
Both players, we're playing another young team like you guys are.
All right.
So you heard, if it might have been a little low.
Sorry if you guys was playing it off my phone.
So you heard a little bit of the reporter's question.
He asked about Katelyn Clark.
You know, if it turned to you,
can you come and answer any Katelyn Clark questions?
Then she said, what did she say to you?
She didn't say anything.
What did you say to her?
And she was about to say, I didn't say anything.
And then that's when you heard Teaspoon jump in.
The last you hear is Kermit the Cadoza.
Because Teaspoon said, that's enough.
Whatever.
Cadoza starts to laugh.
Like, bro, stop.
She's not going to tell you.
Stop asking.
In the headline of the ESPN headline.
Oh, man, I wish I had it.
Let me see if I can grab it.
Let's look at how it was covered.
Basically like Clark won the game kind of thing.
It's like, no, she didn't.
Like, didn't at all.
Was the Fever's worst player actually.
And it's sort of the thing that people talk about in this league.
You're going to make it where people don't like her.
Like, stop forcing it.
You're going to make it where people don't like her.
She played horrible.
And yet the headline was Clark and the Fever win.
She played awful.
She was the worst shooter.
She had the worst plus minus.
She had the most turnovers.
And yet everyone's talking about she's the only starter with a minus plus minus.
She was the only one.
Melissa Smith and the others had great games.
And yet no one's talking about them.
They're talking about Clark.
And it's like, that's going to piss people off.
Her team is going to smile.
And they're going to say, we love her and whatever.
And she may be loved.
But from the outside looking in, when you want people to partner with her in Indiana,
you're going to try to recruit people in free agency.
They're not going to want to go to her.
Because if I have a great game and she does anything, they're going to talk about her.
For instance, Aaliyah Boston had three shots to the rim.
And one of them, she finally gets in.
She catches it off a deflection, off a loose ball.
Catches it, powers through, and gets the layup.
And the announcer goes, Clark deflected it to Aaliyah.
Who got it?
No.
Clark was trying to get the ball herself.
Itches.
She slapped it down.
It bounced off somebody's foot.
Went to Aaliyah and Aaliyah laid it up.
For the other guy, Aaliyah got two offensive rebounds.
Forget the persistence of Aaliyah Boston getting two offensive rebounds
and fighting down there by herself.
And there's no other little ring red tonight.
Red jersey, or today, red jersey in the mix helping her out down there.
She's scrapping and fighting.
And yet, it's about a Caitlin Clark deflection.
Like, that's going to be not like her.
But all in all, it was a good game.
It was a good battle.
It was a great game.
I watched it in my truck a little bit.
I watched it at home.
I watched it in the restaurant.
But it was a good battle, all in all.
But she's doing her job.
And by she, I mean Caitlin Clark.
The Indiana Fever in 10 games basically are going to smash the attendance record
that they had all last season.
In about a third of the season, they're going to blow out the generation they had last season.
They're averaging the biggest crowd in the WNBA, 19,000 fans.
They're playing all their games exclusively in the Pacers arena.
They're averaging 19,000 fans.
When Caitlin came to the Sparks, they moved them to the Crypto.com arena.
That crowd was bigger than any Lakers game.
Like, you know, the Caitlin Clark effect is real.
People want to watch her play.
Kudos to her.
It's happening in the Fremes and the Roos in the skies.
Well, they're moving their games.
LA is going to have a couple games moving.
LA moves into the Crypto.com arena for the second half of the year anyway.
Currently, they're playing at UC Irvine.
They're a high school gym.
Like, they have shadows on the court.
Like, the lighting is horrible.
But they usually move into the Crypto for the second half of the season, et cetera.
But the aces of the aces, you know, they deal with attendance.
But congratulations to the Fever, the smashing attendance records.
They're doing what they drafted her for.
They're being a bad team who sells out tickets.
She's being a horribly inefficient player who sells out tickets.
They're being a horrible player.
They drafted her for it.
But what I do enjoy is the social media equality.
We're getting a lot more WNBA talk on social media, good and bad.
We're getting, oh my god, they're beating up Caitlin Clark.
She's your cash cow.
She's making all you guys all your money.
She's the reason you're on private jets.
That corner of Twitter, you have the corner of Twitter that's all up in the mess
and the drama of the relationships and the personal dynamics.
You have the corner of social media that's all up in the basketball
and the drama of the person and you're killing my parlay and all the other stuff.
You got the section of Twitter that's into the fashion.
You got the diehard WNBA fans going, none of this matters.
What happens on the court?
So it's cool that you got kind of the same thing in the NBA.
You're getting that NBA equality.
Like people don't put cat in parlays and the interpersonal drama of this person,
baby mama with that person.
The fit, the fashion, the street wear.
You have the, oh my god, don't hit this person.
They're the next blah, blah, blah.
You have all these different discourses, all these different discourses rather,
in the NBA and their social media.
So it's cool to see it in the W, what's happening there.
And it's an opportunity for you to build on that.
You get stuff like the Skims ad.
You get stuff like the Gatorade.
Like Asia Wilson's in the Gatorade commercial.
She really turns into her own statue that's still on the campus of South Carolina.
You have the A1 coming out next year.
Asia Wilson signature shoe.
You have Kailyn Clark's shoe that's going to drop.
You have a Coach Sabrina Unescu has one of,
if not the best basketball shoes in the world right now,
as far as current people.
I'm currently making shoes like NBA players are rocking her shoes in the playoffs.
Talk about this, the most comfortable shoe I own.
That's the kind of momentum you need to capitalize on.
Brianna Stewart's shoe is pretty dope too.
That's what you got to capitalize on.
That's the kind of momentum you need to move into.
Angel Reese's got her line with Reebok.
That she's debuting a new player exclusive shoe almost every game.
That's the kind of stuff you need to capitalize on the WNBA.
And that's bigger marketing.
That's bigger contracts.
That's bigger expansion fees.
You need to do everything you can to capitalize on this.
And for the W Player Association, you need to get your money.
That split is horrible.
Like, people bought all that Kailyn Clark Indiana stuff.
Kailyn Clark don't see one dime of that.
They don't get Jersey sale revenue.
Like they get half of the league's excess.
It's some weird thing.
Like the league sets a number.
I've talked about it before, but the league sets a number plus 20%.
Whatever is left after that is what the players get.
Or some weird thing like it's in the chain.
They don't get every single dollar related to revenue in the NBA.
The players get 50 cents.
So if the league makes $8 billion, the player gets four automatically.
Like the salary cap is set for $4 billion in salary and benefits.
Period.
The NBA can make $200 million and the players end up splitting 50 with the team.
So the owners get 175 and the players get 25 split among 12 ways.
How you get a one point something million dollar salary cap.
Like it's ridiculous.
Instead they should be splitting $100 million.
In which case each team has $8 million spent on salaries.
Retrofit the contract.
You've got multiple million dollar NBA players walking around.
Rookies making multiple hundreds of grand.
Yes, it's not NBA money, but Jackie Young, Asia Wilson will be making $1.2 million a year instead of $200 grand.
Katelyn Glock will be making times 6, $420 grand.
Her rookie deal as opposed to $70.
You know what I'm saying?
That's this kind of money.
$70 grand, I make that as a high school football coach.
Several multiple high school football coaches in Texas make more than that.
Like high school teachers in some districts, long team ones make more than that.
22 year olds on a lot of fields can make more than $70 grand.
Now they can't do it in three months, but they can do it annually.
As opposed to if you do the contracts right and you do the CBA right and you fight like hell to do it.
You can make $420 grand in three months.
That's the money you ain't making nowhere else.
So that's probably the next step is to really capitalize on this momentum.
Do a lot more social media promotion.
Do a lot more stuff on social where the cost is a lot less.
As opposed to mainstream media, you hit this running and you fix that CBA.
But up next, Jack's hot take, the UFL is a success.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to discuss the United Football League.
It's a success.
I watched both basically mulligan.
I want basically the first one on the playoffs today because, you know,
the UFL is the combination of the USFL and the XFL.
They came together, made the UFL.
They took the top four teams from each conference and made the schedule.
Top four teams in the conference made the league.
So it's the 18th league, spring football, the XFL conference, the UFL conference.
I think it's top, it might be top 16 from each league.
I think it's top 16 from each 12th team conference, whatever.
But you, that's what happened.
So the UFL came together, no it's 18.
Top four teams from each, I thought so.
Top four teams from the XFL, top four teams from the USFL came together,
they made the UFL.
The reason why these teams were selected, not because of talent,
but because of, what ended up being this way, attendance.
So like they didn't want, like Seattle to me should be in the league.
Seattle supported the Dragons really, really, really well.
I thought Seattle probably should have been in the league, that's just me.
I didn't think San Antonio was going to be in the league, but they're in.
So that's what I think.
But, and maybe they expanded to 10 or 12 later, but right now it's 18th league.
And the conferences are split in the USFL teams and the XFL teams.
They'll come together, there'll be a XFL champion and a USFL champion.
They'll play to see who's the best spring team in the world.
It's success.
It's great.
This is the business model that works.
Both leagues had TV deals.
When they went to TV companies to say, hey, we're going to come together
under Dwayne Johnson's leadership and his ex-life business partner,
Danny Garcia's leadership, we're going to come together.
Both of these leagues have TV deals.
Keep the TV deals while the games are on Fox and ESPN.
Keep the TV deals in place.
Same amount of money.
We're going to give you the same amount of games.
Just less teams are going to spit the pot.
The operation costs are lower because they were only putting two games a week on TV anyway.
ESPN and our Fox.
So now we're going to give you those games anyway.
Everyone's on TV all the time.
The operation costs are lower.
We're only in our four, we're only in our eight biggest markets per,
we're in our four biggest markets per league.
We really get the streamlined cost.
We don't have all these.
We don't have two sets of executives to pay.
We don't have two sets of officials to pay.
None of that stuff.
The best of everything comes to one league.
And then success.
The talent's crazy.
Starting quarterback gets hurt and the backup's just as good.
Starting receiver goes down, the backup's just as good.
Why?
Because maybe he was the best tight end on the Seattle Dragons.
Or yeah, they were the Dragons I believe.
Well, he goes into the UFL free agency pool.
Now he's the second straight tight end for the Brahmas.
I'm not saying this just happened,
but he's the second tight end for the Brahmas.
So now when the starter goes down, he's playing,
he's a starting level tight end in spring football.
Right?
So it's a smash success.
The football is high quality.
The quarterback play could be a little better,
but that's going to happen because a practice squad quarterback
makes more than the UFL quarterback.
Plus in the UFL I can get hit.
In the practice squad I'm not going to get hit.
And I'm on money and I'm in the building.
So that's where the kind of drop off phase,
you got guys like A.J. McCarran who said like I could be,
he's made enough money though,
he's like I could be a practice squad quarterback.
I may even be a friend's backup.
But he said my kids never got to see me actually play.
So he plays spring football.
He was like it's four months, I make 70, 80 grand,
whatever the salary is, maybe 100 grand for quarterbacks.
And then I go home to my kids.
He's made millions and millions of dollars in the NFL already.
He's financially set for life.
He plays A to stay in shape,
B the off chance that like he gets a pretty solid offer.
But he's like his kids have never seen him play.
So that's why he chose spring football over,
that's why he chose spring football over just being like
a practice squad quarterback in the NFL.
So that's a rare case.
But like all these guys are trying to get to the NFL.
Now you have guys who were in the NFL flamed out
and instead of the practice squad route,
they went to get more tape in the UFL.
I recognize a few names today in the games that were on.
Both games came down to field goals.
Both field goals were missed.
The kicker who missed for the Burman for the Michigan Panthers
though he's like in the Hall of Fame or at least his football is
because he made a 63 yard field goal in the UFL.
He also made a 62 yard field goal.
He's 17 to 21 field goals.
He's probably going to get signed after the season is over.
He shanked his field.
He didn't shake it.
He pushed a little bit to the right.
He missed.
And then in the battle,
Hawks versus the Brahmans that field goal kind of came a little.
I came off the foot weird.
He missed his like down and left.
It was like a 51 yarder.
So great action.
I don't know the financials.
Birmingham didn't have a lot of fans in the crowd.
Seattle did though.
And I noticed DC keeps a good crowd as well.
Most of the crowds are really great.
The battle Hawks have been very highly supported since that team came into existence.
Like they were so good.
Remember when this offshoot when the XFL first came back,
Seattle ended up having to open their upper deck,
open their upper deck.
St. Louis had to open their upper deck.
DC had to open their heads because these were,
I know for instance Seattle loves football.
There's not much to do in the spring.
There's not much to do in Seattle.
They love football.
St. Louis were treating it like their football here because they lost the Rams.
So they were treating it like, no, this is our team.
This is our team.
So they were their crazy support.
And that's when Jordan Teyama was the quarterback.
So that was fun.
Right.
And so this has been pretty cool.
The U.F.L. has been great.
Birmingham is kind of the host site for the league.
Remember the first year of the XFL, all the games were played in Birmingham.
And then like the next year they were like, we're going to go into our different markets.
When they went into the markets, that's when like St. Louis started going crazy and everything.
People had to open their upper decks to sell tickets.
I mean, it was great.
Right. It was crazy.
And so that's kind of what's going on there.
I'm loving the U.F.L.
It's a hit.
Like I said, I don't know all the business financials.
I'm at the crowd today.
St. Louis had a great one.
Birmingham needed work.
Last week, I believe, was it Houston?
Didn't have a good crowd at all at their game.
So I don't know what it's looking like financially.
I'm hoping they can bring it back.
I would love for them to be good enough to add two teams.
But they'd have to add two teams on each side to kind of keep everybody playing because five and five.
We know ten teams, five matchups.
You'd have a cross match every week.
So, yeah, you can add a team on each side.
So that'd be pretty cool.
Like, again, bring Seattle's back and then bring.
Now I'm trying to think of somebody else.
Shanty Tony. No, Shanty Tony has the Brahmas.
I can't think of an answer.
Bring back West Side of Seattle.
Remember, they're sick of eight.
But it's a success.
I love it.
I'm hoping they can keep going.
It kind of gives us football fans something to do while the NFL is in their offseason.
That is all I have for you guys today.
I hope you guys enjoyed the show.
Thank you guys for rocking with me during my break.
I planned on recording last week, ended up going on vacation until the time it didn't work out.
But I do plan on maintaining consistency, of course, you guys know, until my summer break.
I used to get in there late June between the finals and Fourth of July.
And then after Fourth of July, we're balls to the wall as far as recording all the way through the Super Bowl.
So I hope you guys enjoy.
I will be talking with you guys, of course, during the NBA finals.
Expect another show next week.
And I would definitely be with you guys during the NBA finals.
Keep your eye out on the YouTube show.
We should be getting back to the YouTube show sooner rather than later.
Talking to my production team.
We're behind the scenes.
Talk about production team and my company, IMS Productions.
About getting the YouTube show back going full-fledged.
But that's all I have for you guys today.
This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.
We'll see you guys next time.