1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,840 Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,320 I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,160 And this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA as we're coming out of All-Star Break. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,300 We will also talk about the NFL as they are raring up for their offseason. 5 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:17,320 And of course, we will have our best for last. 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,880 Now as always, don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe to the Justin Time Sports Podcast 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,640 on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,400 And as always, don't forget to follow the social media handle at JTimeSports. 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,840 I repeat, at JTime Sports for all of your breaking news, coverage, and updates. 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:01:03,760 And as always, sit back and get ready to learn something. 11 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:35,760 you can meet us in the spaces. 12 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,680 High like clips of sports news, yeah, you gotta embrace it. 13 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,480 We never had it easy, we just came from the pavement. 14 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,880 I might be controversial, but I like to make my statements. 15 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,760 This is just a time sports, come and get your weekly takes. 16 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,320 His opinion from the heart, he can never show you fake. 17 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:01,160 Look, if you winning or you losing, he gon' tell it to you straight. 18 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,320 This is just a time sports, come and get your weekly takes. 19 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:11,120 He gon' tell it to you straight. 20 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,880 Welcome into the show. 21 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,120 Welcome into the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. 22 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,760 I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. 23 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,520 I am so excited to be with you on this Wednesday morning again and enter the release show. 24 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,720 We don't get too many of these in a year, but I feel like this year we get a lot of 25 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,720 them. 26 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:32,720 I don't know, I don't know. 27 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,160 I feel like things are working out in our favor. 28 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,200 We're getting another Insta release show, recording this on Wednesday morning right 29 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,600 after 9 o'clock Central Time. 30 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,400 And I'm excited to be with you guys. 31 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:48,080 A little bit of personal news from me, I'm gonna be a little slow on the news, maybe 32 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,960 just a little bit, as I'm going to the Glacier Clinic in Las Vegas, one of the bigger coaching 33 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,560 clinics in the country. 34 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,320 The Glacier Clinics do a tour. 35 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:58,320 They go around the country. 36 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,840 It just happened that it worked out well for me with timing-wise. 37 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,320 So I'll be at the clinic, the Glacier Clinic, because you guys have been watching, listening 38 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,320 to the show and listening for years now. 39 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,320 I'm a defensive coordinator. 40 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,000 I'm a coach, football coach. 41 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,440 So it is huge to be able to go to this clinic. 42 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:15,440 They're partnering with the Raiders. 43 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,600 I'm gonna be in sessions wall to wall while I'm there. 44 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,960 So the news could be a little slow, but I'll definitely give you guys an update on the 45 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:27,260 clinic whenever I get back and record the next show after the clinic. 46 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:28,640 So that'll be dope. 47 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,000 But happy Wednesday to you all. 48 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Happy hump day. 49 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,480 You've officially made it half way through the week. 50 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,440 So for those of you on the job right now, hey man, you are halfway through. 51 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,600 By the time you hear this, you'll be over halfway through. 52 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,200 So kudos to you guys for working it out. 53 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,880 But I always, I like to do this show. 54 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,040 I try to do it every year. 55 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,480 I call it my welcome to the NBA show. 56 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:52,480 Football season's over. 57 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,960 We're gonna do the instant reaction with the Super Bowl. 58 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,080 And then we have All-Star Break. 59 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Now usually All-Star Break is not, it feels like All-Star Break was really close to the 60 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,680 Super Bowl this year. 61 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,960 Normally it feels like All-Star is like right around Mardi Gras. 62 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:13,120 It kind of gives like two, maybe two and a half-ish weeks between Super Bowl and All-Star 63 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,120 Break. 64 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,720 Kind of gives fans a chance if you're a dual fan, but like myself, if you like football 65 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,840 more, it kind of gives you an opportunity to say, okay, basketball season, I'm gonna 66 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,160 watch a couple of games, kind of get familiar with what's going on. 67 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,040 And then you go into All-Star. 68 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:34,440 And then kind of that's, you know, to me there's like Daytona 500 is like the Super Bowl for 69 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:35,440 NASCAR. 70 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,440 It's like their biggest race at the beginning. 71 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:38,880 But then there's the Indy 500. 72 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,240 It's kind of like the official game. 73 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,080 Now we're roaring towards what matters. 74 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,960 So what All-Star Break is to me, Christmas Day to me is the unofficially started basketball 75 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:47,960 season. 76 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Yes, I get it. 77 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,960 It starts around Halloween or whatever. 78 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,200 To me, Christmas Day is your unofficially started basketball season. 79 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,400 And then All-Star Break is the, okay, now let's wake up. 80 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,400 Let's regroup. 81 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,760 Let's reevaluate. 82 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,520 And then roar towards the playoffs. 83 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,560 But we have just came out of All-Star weekend. 84 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:10,020 Again, even though it felt really soon, we came out of All-Star weekend and it was a lot 85 00:05:10,020 --> 00:05:11,020 of discourse. 86 00:05:11,020 --> 00:05:12,020 That's what I want to talk about first. 87 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:15,160 And we're going to get into the standings and kind of outlook on the rest of the season. 88 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,240 But I want to get into All-Star weekend first. 89 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,960 There was a lot of discourse and a lot of discontentment about the All-Star game. 90 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,160 I'm one of the people who criticized it too. 91 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,440 Friday night was cool. 92 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:31,440 The Rising Stars game, I don't mean to sound harsh, but it doesn't matter. 93 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,760 So like Skip Bayless was tweeting about the celebrity game. 94 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:34,760 Who cares? 95 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:35,760 Right? 96 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,280 Like it's not the year of like, you know, Kevin Hart playing so a lot of eyes are on 97 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:47,680 it or when Monet Davis played fresh off the Lillie World Series, a lot of eyes were on 98 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,360 it. 99 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:56,640 You know, a lot of eyes were on the Monet Davis one. 100 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,040 Again, Kevin Hart was in that one too. 101 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,040 Justin Bieber was in it. 102 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,880 Terrell Owens was flying around. 103 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,040 Usain Bolt was in it. 104 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,040 A lot of WNBA stars were in it. 105 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:14,120 We had like a US congressman in it one time. 106 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:19,280 That was pretty dope. 107 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:28,960 So again, we've had pretty amazing celebrity games, but it's a celebrity game, right? 108 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,880 And then Friday night is these, so Thursday night is a celebrity game. 109 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,960 Friday night you have the Rising Stars game, Rookie versus Sophomores, USA versus the World, 110 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:39,960 whatever. 111 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,040 But it's the first two to three years of NBA service. 112 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,240 You can be in the Rising Stars game, right? 113 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,920 And they've done all kinds of stuff, they did, you know, it's working for Sophomores, 114 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,040 was it forever? 115 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,640 And then it went USA versus the World. 116 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,440 And then it went to like this like the weird tournament style thing. 117 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,360 Like they've been trying stuff for years to make the Rising Stars game exciting. 118 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,280 There's not a lot of rookies to get me excited. 119 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:09,720 For instance, the Rising Stars game one year had Ja, Luka, Zion, Trey, I think was in it. 120 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,080 Like that was a fun one. 121 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:16,360 But like the rookies this year, let's be honest, I mean, they're not good. 122 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,160 Like y'all connect's probably the best one, right? 123 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,560 They're not very good. 124 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,760 And no disrespect to Zachary, he's a share. 125 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:30,160 Alex, I hadn't heard anything about Alex Arall all season. 126 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:31,480 And you know, but next year should be fun. 127 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,320 You have Cooper Flagg in the game. 128 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,120 You'll have Ace Bailey. 129 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,300 You'll have some of those stars. 130 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:41,480 So you'll have some guys in the game. 131 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,880 I know the guy was probably fun too, but you have some guys in the game that'll make kind 132 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,240 of fun, right? 133 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,040 But ultimately no one cares. 134 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,560 Saturday night is what Saturday night is. 135 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,960 It's three point contest, which is always dope. 136 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,000 And then the slam dunk, which we'll talk about Macklemore in a minute. 137 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,080 Sunday night is supposed to be the showcase of the Immorals. 138 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:07,040 A la WrestleMania, a la like I said, Daytona 500 or Indy 500 really. 139 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,480 Indy 500 was like the, it's the Brickyard 500. 140 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:10,480 Like it is what it is. 141 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,000 You go over literally roll the bricks to the finish line. 142 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,040 Like it's the Brickyard 500. 143 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,760 You have, you know what I'm saying? 144 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,080 The rest of you got WrestleMania. 145 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,920 You have what all these things, but whatever it is, it ends. 146 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,800 It is the showcase game in a way for the, for the NBA. 147 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:33,080 And what happened in this, in August, it was weird. 148 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,440 A couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, I was in Wingstop getting some 149 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,720 food and I happened to look up and they were showing like a 1970 something all star game. 150 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,320 Like Bill Walton was on the floor. 151 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,440 Like I just, I just happened to look up and see it. 152 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,720 And it was on NBA, the TV happened to be NBA class or whatever. 153 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,840 And I was watching it and I was in Wingstop for a few minutes. 154 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:57,280 I was watching it and it looked like a basketball game. 155 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:58,840 Obviously they weren't hacking. 156 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,560 They weren't hard filing. 157 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:04,560 If somebody drove past somebody, they weren't really coming over for help side defense crazily. 158 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,720 They were trying to block it, but they weren't, you know, bring them to the floor and you 159 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,680 know, if a fast break happened, they might try to stop the power, tip the past. 160 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,880 But once it got to the ground, they let it go. 161 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,960 So it was clearly a relaxed basketball game, but it was basketball. 162 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:19,160 It was mid range jump shots. 163 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:24,000 I mean, it was seventies and eighties too, but it was mid range jump shots, post ups. 164 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,000 It was real at the room defense. 165 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,920 People were driving and people were going to try to block it. 166 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:27,920 Like it was real. 167 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,320 These things look like a basketball game. 168 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:34,120 And I noted to myself, man, that looks like a basketball game. 169 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,360 You know, and just, you know, cause last year it was like two 11 to 186. 170 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,760 Somebody that in the All-Star game, right? 171 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:45,120 A team scored 186 points and lost by more than 20, 25 points. 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:46,120 Like that's insane. 173 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:47,120 Right? 174 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,720 But watching that over, I was like, man, that looks like a basketball game. 175 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,240 And so I remember they talk about the All-Star game, the nineties, people were going at 176 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,240 each other. 177 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,720 A lot of personal beasts were being settled, but people going at each other. 178 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:01,720 I mean, think about the eighties. 179 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,480 I mean, it was, you may have three or four Lakers and three or four Selgers on the All-Star 180 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,800 team and then Jordan and then, you know, bad boy Pistons were involved. 181 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,640 And remember they famously iced Jordan out of the All-Star game, wouldn't pass on the 182 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,200 ball early in his career. 183 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,800 And all people said, set up for what Jordan did later. 184 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:19,720 We kind of kept that chip on his shoulder forever. 185 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:20,720 They iced me out. 186 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:21,720 They asked me out. 187 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,960 You get into the nineties. 188 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:25,720 They were usually Jordan Dunk Fest. 189 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,640 However, you had people trying to show, Hey, this is our chance. 190 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:35,960 Early two thousands, there's the famous Allen Iverson, the famous ending where they were 191 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,480 going at each other down the stretch. 192 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,400 2010, 2011, you get Kobe versus LeBron. 193 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:46,400 I mean, remember at one point they were playing the All-Star game in football stadiums. 194 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,440 Remember like Kevin Durant's first All-Star game was in Jerry World because Dallas was 195 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,640 just Jerry was showing off the stadium anyway he could. 196 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:59,400 So they played the All-Star game in Jerry Ward and had like 60,000 people in the building 197 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,400 to watch an All-Star game. 198 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,120 And they were pretty much going at it that night. 199 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,840 Terrible shooting because in the basketball arena, but it was some big time moments. 200 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,280 And then you had just the last six or seven years with the All-Star game was a three point 201 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,600 contest and a dunk show. 202 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,600 Right? 203 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,920 Like, I mean, and then it coupled with Saturday night was bad. 204 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:25,440 So you had bad Saturday night coupled with, you know, people were making jokes. 205 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,080 There's better dunks in the game than they're on the same dunk contest. 206 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,800 And the dunks in the game were wide open walking dunks. 207 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,120 I mean, it was, I remember it might have been last year before that. 208 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,720 Steph and Dame start going half court shot for half court shot. 209 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,000 And one or two were fine. 210 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,400 Like Steph and Dame, right? 211 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:42,640 Like at a certain point, can't help myself. 212 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,640 I'ma shoot it. 213 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,120 Like Steph did last night or a couple, few nights ago. 214 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,720 You know, they were up eight or whatever and he just said, screw it and shot a bomb and 215 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 it went in. 216 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,600 And places in San Francisco. 217 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:55,600 He was in the Bay. 218 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:01,760 So you get, you got to a point where it was early, like for like three or four minutes, 219 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,440 three players on either side kind of walked up and down the court and it was, it was just 220 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,440 horrible, horrible basketball. 221 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,080 Right? 222 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,120 And so the NBA tried this new thing this year where they basically made it. 223 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,960 Horizon stars had a tournament, the pros had a tournament. 224 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,720 So they drafted 12 players on each side as an honor to TNT. 225 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,680 Shaq, Kenny and Chuck picked their squads. 226 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:28,000 Shaq did win with the OGs. 227 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,720 Kenny ended up with the international players. 228 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,240 And then Chuck ended up with the young stars, the rising stars, basically. 229 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,320 Not the rising stars, like the new generation. 230 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,120 And then the rising stars team had a tournament. 231 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,000 The rising stars teams had a tournament. 232 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,720 The four team, the four team six player tournament, whatever, to go into who they were, whoever 233 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,240 wins that tournament, we'll play on Sunday night against the OGs. 234 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:59,120 I think in the drawing them, but the rising stars game, Draymond and many others were 235 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,280 pissed, especially players. 236 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:03,400 The rising stars are not all stars. 237 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,720 They have no business playing on Sunday night. 238 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:06,720 And I agree with them. 239 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,200 Draymond had one of the better analogies I've ever heard in my life. 240 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:14,200 Draymond was like, they don't deserve to be on the all star floor. 241 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:18,640 And yes, from the time the rising stars game wasn't even played in the all star arena, 242 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,880 but from the time it is all stars Saturday night, or Friday night with the rising stars 243 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,080 game, all star Friday night, you're on the all star floor. 244 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:27,560 It says all star all over the floor. 245 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:28,560 You're in the all star arena. 246 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:30,360 The crowd's there or whatever. 247 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,680 They was somewhat similar to Air Force One. 248 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,920 He said, there's more than one of those planes, but it's not Air Force One. 249 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,800 Let's present it on it. 250 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:43,520 That floor is an all star floor until the all stars are on it, until the best players 251 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,520 in the world are on it. 252 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,240 So he was he was frustrated because he was like, man, you're basically he was saying 253 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,920 like, okay, first of all, the format's stupid, which I agree for you basically. 254 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,400 So you're playing games to 40 in an attempt to make the players play harder because the 255 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,760 game is shorter. 256 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,400 To me, the issue is not length of game. 257 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:10,160 I think style of game and reward style of game and benefit is what could really change 258 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,700 this game. 259 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:18,440 For instance, so I think the style of game, I think three time quarter, I think feeble 260 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:23,320 style three time quarters, 10 minutes a quarter. 261 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:24,320 It's all a game. 262 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,680 You don't need 12. 263 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,740 Those who want to play will play. 264 00:14:30,740 --> 00:14:34,280 Those who are just going to do a lot with LeBron did last year when he played like three 265 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:39,600 minutes got like four points and sat down are going to do that. 266 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,360 Right. 267 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,520 And then the score, I think, plus 24 forever because of Kobe. 268 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,040 He got Kobe Bryant MVP award for the All-Star game. 269 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:50,840 Give Kobe Bryant the you know what I'm saying? 270 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,920 Making 24 points for the All-Star. 271 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:59,640 I like the year where they did the quarter system where you played for each quarter. 272 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,280 You win a quarter for your charity. 273 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,000 And then they added the score up at the end. 274 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,640 And then you play the regular fourth quarter. 275 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,400 You play the score for a ending or target score fourth quarter. 276 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,440 I like that system, too. 277 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:17,040 But regardless, three regular quarters, maybe add it to each quarter for charity. 278 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:22,480 And then you play a target score fourth quarter and a commercial free target score fourth 279 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:23,480 quarter. 280 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,520 I hated all the gimmicks. 281 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,800 The All-Star game lasted three hours, two three hours, only 33 minutes of actual basketball. 282 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,400 The rest was Mr. Beast and trying to get a half course shot from a fan. 283 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:43,480 And you had Kevin Hart giving retirement gifts to TNT. 284 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,920 And yeah, I mean, the All-Star show is the All-Star show. 285 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,120 But you had all this different stuff. 286 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,800 And it's like, bro, it was a whole lot of gimmicks. 287 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,800 And there was hardly any basketball. 288 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,080 That was the All-Star game. 289 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,120 That was like a old to TNT. 290 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,480 Basically it was not. 291 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,280 It was a miss, a major miss from the NBA. 292 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,240 And I ended up tweeting out. 293 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:03,440 I said, wow, that was fun. 294 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,800 I never want to see that on my TV again. 295 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,480 Like it was just a joke. 296 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:08,480 It was ridiculous. 297 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,400 It was like everything wrong with the NBA came out at one time. 298 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,400 Now the games were pretty solid. 299 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,640 The games are fairly competitive, but the OGs wanted to end the game the same way they 300 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:18,640 went to the three. 301 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,480 They had like multiple layups when they were down, when they were only three points away 302 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,480 from the target score. 303 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:23,760 They just passed up for threes. 304 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,600 They were trying to end it with a three. 305 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,080 They could end it anytime they wanted to. 306 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,880 They could have blown the rising stars out 40 to 10 if they felt like it. 307 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,640 Now, you know what I'm saying, like they just didn't want to. 308 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,360 Any kind of watered down scene in the rising stars on Sunday night. 309 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,360 I didn't, I didn't enjoy that at all. 310 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,480 You never rising star to earn an All-Star bid? 311 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,480 Great, be an All-Star. 312 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,440 But just because you're on the rising star scene, you happen to win a tournament against 313 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,920 other rising stars you play. 314 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,960 Truly the best players in the world on Sunday night. 315 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,640 Yeah, I ain't like that. 316 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:57,640 Right. 317 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,280 And so I think that that was a miss. 318 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,360 I think traditional, I'm not a fan of the traditional East. 319 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,920 I mean, if you're going to do the East-West format, that's fine. 320 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,440 I don't like the USA versus the world idea because there's not enough good world players 321 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,440 yet. 322 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,720 There's not enough good All-Star level players from the world yet. 323 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,080 Four years, five years running. 324 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,080 You know what I'm saying? 325 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:23,240 But I think about it, there's a lot of bigs on the world team. 326 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,240 Victor and Jokic and Kat, Embiid, you know what I'm saying? 327 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,240 They're going to have every big, but they have little to no guards. 328 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,440 It'll be a lot of Dylan Brooks real fast. 329 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,280 And Bo Young and Bajdanovic, and then a couple of American players who may have deserved 330 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,520 All-Star nods don't get it because of that. 331 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,840 So I don't like that idea. 332 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:43,840 So I'm cool with 24 teams. 333 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:49,000 Now I want, now I am a fan of 24 teams, 24 players regardless of conference. 334 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,320 To me, you don't have to do 12 East, 12 West, and then play. 335 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,720 I'm a fan of 24 regardless of conference. 336 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,360 Or, if you're going to do East, West, put the finals on the line. 337 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:02,560 If you don't want to give any money, because the East didn't do it to motivate the players, 338 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,400 winning a team gets $2 million apiece, losing a team gets nothing. 339 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,120 That's an easy way to motivate a player, right? 340 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,120 $2 million? 341 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,320 Man, I can make $2 million a night? 342 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,320 I'm about to play. 343 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,640 Or, you put the finals on the line. 344 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:17,640 These are All-Stars. 345 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,240 Usually all these guys, these teams are East, at least in the playoffs, put the finals on 346 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:21,240 the line. 347 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,280 The conference gets home court advantage in the NBA finals. 348 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:31,040 But you got to do something to motivate these guys to get them to play. 349 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,000 Because that crap was not it. 350 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,040 I assure you that wasn't fun. 351 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,040 If that's the format next year, I will not be watching. 352 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,040 I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. 353 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,800 And a lot of my friends didn't watch this year because of the stupid format. 354 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,360 They thought it was stupid and then you went and made it worse by junking it up with a 355 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,160 whole bunch of presentations and stupid contests. 356 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:55,560 Yeah, let's never do that again. 357 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,200 But shout out Mack McClung. 358 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:05,120 Man, I would be remiss if I mentioned Mack, the G League dunker extraordinaire. 359 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:10,320 The first time, the first three-peat winner ever of the NBA slam dunk contest, he has 360 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,440 yet to miss a dunk in the dunk contest in three years. 361 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:14,440 He has never missed. 362 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,840 And that's what made it so impressive. 363 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:16,840 He has never missed. 364 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,880 I think all his dunks have been won in the 50s. 365 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:27,240 I mean, what he did Saturday night, jumping over the car with the reverse, jumping over, 366 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:32,000 was it in, it wasn't in B, it was a Evan Mobley taking the ball off the top of his head, kissing 367 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:39,320 the ball, kissing the rim with the ball, dunk, having a guy spin on a hovercraft and another 368 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:45,060 guy hold the ball, a different ball above the rim, dunking both basketballs. 369 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:46,760 And then the 360 wasn't the same. 370 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,800 He jumps over the guy and then straight and then spins his body last second and dunks 371 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 it. 372 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:53,800 It's freaking ridiculous. 373 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:54,960 Like I said, he's never missed. 374 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,560 Steven Castle, to me, Steven Castle and Trey Murphy over the last 15 years, probably won 375 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,240 every dunk contest but four. 376 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,360 Any other Aaron Gordon was not winning, even though Aaron Gordon's ever done, ever done 377 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,000 title his house. 378 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,800 Like to me, he beats Zach Levine. 379 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,360 I definitely thought he'd be Derek Jones. 380 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:20,960 To me, Trey Murphy beat Mac McClung the first time. 381 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:22,120 Right? 382 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:26,320 So, but it's insane, man. 383 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,080 Mac McClung, he's a little six foot one white guy. 384 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:36,000 Like, it's not like he's one of these six foot seven, six foot eight power dunkers that 385 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,560 just dunk the absolute crap out of the ball on a regular basis. 386 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:47,920 He's a superstar. 387 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:52,720 He's a, like I said, six foot one white guy that plays in the G League. 388 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:59,400 I saw a stat where he's made $310,000 for dunk contest winning and he's made like $290 389 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,680 in the NBA or something like that. 390 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,980 Now they asked him after the dunk contest, yo, you coming back? 391 00:21:04,980 --> 00:21:05,980 He said, yeah. 392 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:09,680 He said, if they want me back bad enough, I'll do it. 393 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,680 Translation? 394 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:12,680 Pay me. 395 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:17,120 Now, whenever a dunk contest is crazy and the crowd's going insane or whatever, the 396 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:20,720 guy starts tweeting, oh man, if this happens, I'll do it. 397 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,720 John Morant does it. 398 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:26,640 If Mac McClung comes, if Mac comes back, I'll do the dunk contest. 399 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,360 Giannis goes, well, if you come back, I'll do it. 400 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:32,520 That lasted like 24 to 48 hours. 401 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,920 And then Giannis is walking, back whacking it. 402 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,440 Yeah, my kids hacked my phone. 403 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,440 They tweeted that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 404 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,200 Cause none of them are going to do it. 405 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,160 But think about the dunk contest and it's past. 406 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:51,000 Michael Jordan was a birth air Jordan in the dunk contest. 407 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,920 Dominique wasn't a, he was a high level player, but he wasn't no crazy level player. 408 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,080 Spud Webb was a five foot six basketball player. 409 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:02,080 You know what I'm saying? 410 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,080 He wasn't no dunk. 411 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,320 He wasn't no superstar. 412 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,240 So you get these guys that you don't get. 413 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,720 Kobe wasn't Kobe yet. 414 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,960 So when these guys who did these dunk contests, they usually weren't the best players in the 415 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,880 world at the time. 416 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,480 They grew into it, but they, looking back on it, man, something says, the dunk contest. 417 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,880 They were never, like Michael Jordan wasn't doing the dunk contest in 92. 418 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,320 That was 85, 86 kind of thing. 419 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,660 He wasn't doing it in 92. 420 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:38,760 So it'd be interesting to see if anybody does effectively challenge Max Throne. 421 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,520 I think the NBA needs to pay him a million dollars next year or two million dollars next 422 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,840 year and say, you're going to do the dunk contest son. 423 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:45,840 Here's $2 million. 424 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,200 Whether we got to give it to you under the table, whether they're going to give it to 425 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,520 you in an endorsement, whether they got to give it to you just some random team gives 426 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,680 you two years, $8 million as a thank you for the dunk contest kind of thing. 427 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,240 Like I don't know what we got to do, but that's what I would do. 428 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:06,960 If I'm the NBA, Max dunking next year and in Los Angeles, Mac is dunking next year. 429 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,400 All right, but moving away from all star weekend, we're going to talk about the rest of the 430 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,260 outlook of the NBA season really quickly. 431 00:23:15,260 --> 00:23:19,720 So we have, I'm going to do the standings run down really quickly. 432 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:28,520 So in the East we have calves, Celtics, Knicks, Pacers, Bucks, Pistons, round out the top 433 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:29,520 six. 434 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:35,360 So the season would end, those six teams would have playoff bids automatically. 435 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:42,960 In the play in for the East, Magic, Hawks, Heat, Bulls, and right outside the play in, 436 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,280 we have Sixers, Nets, and Raptors. 437 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:55,080 To the West, we have Thunder, Grizzlies, Nuggets, Rockets, Lakers, Clippers. 438 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:59,640 So those six teams again, the season ended today, would have automatic bids into the 439 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:00,640 playoffs. 440 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,840 Then you have Timberwolves, Mavs, Kings, Warriors. 441 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,880 Those teams would be in the play in tournament. 442 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:13,640 And then Suns, Spurs, and Blazers round out those teams that are not quite in the play 443 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:14,640 in tournament. 444 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:15,960 A lot of storylines left. 445 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,160 Luca LeBron, what do the Mavericks do? 446 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,160 Do the Knicks get the two seed? 447 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,480 Do the Cavs and the Thunder hold their impressive lead? 448 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,440 Can the Lakers get to the two seed? 449 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,640 Can Detroit climb up a little bit higher? 450 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,720 Maybe even get to that four and host have home quarter advantage in the first round. 451 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:33,720 What happened with the Suns? 452 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,800 They're only a game and a half out of the play in tournament. 453 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,200 Who wants to see Kevin Durant one game only? 454 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,400 Philadelphia 76ers, can they get it turned around? 455 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,160 Paul George, Tyrese Maxx, Joe Ellen Beach. 456 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,920 So there's a lot of storylines happening in the second half of the NBA. 457 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,360 But up next, we're going to transition to the NFL really quickly. 458 00:24:52,360 --> 00:25:15,640 Talk about what's going down there. 459 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,280 Welcome back into the show. 460 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:26,280 And now we're going to talk about again really quickly, NFL free agency, what's going down 461 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,280 there. 462 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:35,640 So in NFL free agency, it is typically, it's getting done a lot better as of late. 463 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,960 They're not necessarily stealing the NBA's model. 464 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:44,440 Free agency is everything, but it has gotten a lot better as of late. 465 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:50,160 And then we're going to go through some headlines really quickly in the NBA. 466 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,000 So Andy Dalton goes back to Carolina two years, $10 million. 467 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,040 All but looks like he'll finish his career as a backup there in Carolina, backing up 468 00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,920 Bryce Young. 469 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,960 And then the Bengals, they look to keep their core. 470 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,120 Or Jamar Chase, Trey Henry, Sanantihiggins. 471 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:10,480 That is going to take some extensive cap maneuvering in order for the Bengals to get 472 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:11,480 this done. 473 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:12,560 However, I don't think they can do it. 474 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,640 Joe Burrow has a very movable contract. 475 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,920 What I mean by movable, I mean rearrangeable. 476 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,200 You can easily create space in Joe Burrow's contract. 477 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,520 That's not a huge problem, not a huge deterrent. 478 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,400 Jamar Chase is going to have to be friendly and not friendly in terms of his dollar value, 479 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:33,120 friendly in terms of his structure and the ownership who I've criticized for being cheap. 480 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,480 He's going to have to pony up some guaranteed dollars. 481 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,960 The reason why is you're going to want to pull as much as Jamar Chase money away from 482 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,800 the cap as much as possible. 483 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,880 His cap pay has to be really, really low. 484 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,720 The reason why is you've got to bring in T. Higgins at a good number and they want to 485 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,760 keep Trey Hendrickson on the defense side of the ball while also attempting to maintain 486 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,920 some flexibility in the free agency. 487 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:01,200 Because if I'm them, if I'm the Bengals, I have a Ronnie Staley clause in all of my 488 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,760 players' contracts this offseason. 489 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:11,440 Yeah, yeah, we're able to convert this crap to whatever we can do it to get Ronnie Staley. 490 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:17,080 The Cincinnati Bengals are a left tackle away from being the best team in the AFC North. 491 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,960 I'm not saying that from conjecture. 492 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,560 I'm not saying that from opinion. 493 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,520 It's a fact. 494 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,920 They have the second best quarterback in the AFC North, I give you. 495 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,780 They usually got the best weapons. 496 00:27:28,780 --> 00:27:33,120 They have probably the worst coach. 497 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:38,920 But they have such elite talent on the offense side of the ball, if they can just get marginally 498 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,960 better on the O-line and competent on defense, they're looking at the best team in the AFC 499 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,280 East, in the AFC North. 500 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,280 I'm sorry. 501 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,120 I believe that much in Burrow and Chasen. 502 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:52,480 I believe that much in that offense that they can do it. 503 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,800 So if I'm the NFL, I'm keeping the O-line away from the Cincinnati. 504 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,800 Without an O-line, they made it to the Super Bowl. 505 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,320 The only reason they don't have a ring is because, well, Aaron Dowell and their O-line. 506 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,880 But they are absolutely dangerous. 507 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,560 And the Bengals are trying to find a way to keep their core together, but they have to 508 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,600 do it, in my opinion, without sacrificing flexibility in free agency. 509 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,240 Because again, if a Ronnie Staley or Kareem Robinson or someone of that nature pops up 510 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,680 in free agency, you have to have the ability to go get those guys. 511 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,640 That's not a, that's not, I mean, you just have to be able to do that. 512 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,840 I would sacrifice Trey Henderson for that. 513 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,620 Kellen Moore is the new head coach of the New Orleans Saints, officially. 514 00:28:31,620 --> 00:28:33,120 He's working on building out his staff. 515 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:37,000 He's got Brandon Staley, as all, but he's the defensive coordinator, the former head 516 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,920 coach of the Chargers, who's the only NFL head coach I've seen in my life worse than 517 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,600 Zach Taylor, and he's got Doug Nussmeyer pretty much tabbed as his OC. 518 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,880 Now, Doug Nussmeyer is the head coach, or is the father of LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeyer. 519 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,600 He's been a quarterback coach in the league for years, multiple stops. 520 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,960 And he's looking like he's going to be the OC for the New Orleans Saints, who are in 521 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:04,720 need of a quarterback, and his son comes out next year's draft in the same state. 522 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:13,160 I'm not saying things were done in advance, but I'm not saying it either. 523 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,000 Aaron Rodgers, as we all know, will not be a jet, so where does Aaron Rodgers go? 524 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,360 The world may never know. 525 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,280 If he wants to continue to Brett Farmer, he's in Minnesota next year. 526 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,280 However, I don't see that happening. 527 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:29,160 Either the Vikings quarterback will either be J.J. McCarthy or Sam Darnold, so it's going 528 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,280 to be a situation where I don't know where Aaron Rodgers lands. 529 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,440 I don't know where Aaron Rodgers fits personality-wise, talent, clearly on a few teams. 530 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,240 I don't know where he fits personality-wise. 531 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:44,800 He's a general, you know, general menace. 532 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,600 And the franchise tag expected to be light this year. 533 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,680 Like I said, Ronnie Staley and T. Higgins are the two names that jumps out in the franchise 534 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:52,680 tag market. 535 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,360 I don't see anybody else doing it, but I'm going to run really quickly through the franchise 536 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,360 tag numbers. 537 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,760 Offensive tackle, 24.745 million. 538 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,760 Linebacker, 25.069 million. 539 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,480 Cornerback, 19.833 million. 540 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,880 Safety, 18.321 million. 541 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,440 Tight end, 13.618 million. 542 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,040 Wide receiver, 23.598 million. 543 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,560 Offensive lineman, 23.051 million. 544 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,440 Running back, 13.437 million. 545 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,560 Kicker-up-hunter, 6.218 million. 546 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,200 Back 39.636 million. 547 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,400 Defensive end, 21.713 million. 548 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,400 And again, that is for the first tag number. 549 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,600 The number that jumps out to me, running back. 550 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,280 They're the second lowest paid people. 551 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:40,920 It's kickers-up-hunters, none of them. 552 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,000 Just below tight ends, barely. 553 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,880 I mean, if I'm going to say corn, I know he's not on the franchise tag, if I'm going to 554 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,760 say corn, I'm causing hell to get my money. 555 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,760 That's just me, personally. 556 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,760 I'm just causing hell. 557 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,680 I ain't going to lie to you. 558 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:20,360 But up next, we're going to shift to our best flash, which is going to be talk about Unrivaled. 559 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,960 Welcome into the show. 560 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,440 And now we're going to quickly talk about the Unrivaled League, the three on three, 561 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,760 full court women's basketball league, featuring a lot of your favorite WNBA players. 562 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,360 They did a heck of a job with their one on one tournament. 563 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,360 That was fun. 564 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,880 Shout out to Nafisa Korya for winning it. 565 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:39,880 And the league's been fun. 566 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:40,880 It's been a fun league. 567 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,840 But what I've enjoyed about it is, this league has allowed them flexibility to go tour. 568 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,760 Like Asia Wilson just had a two on two thing, and like Arike Gumbale, who's in Unrivaled, 569 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,080 like played in the thing. 570 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,320 And so did Dejan A. Carrington, and Chelsea Gray was also winning. 571 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,000 And it's allowed these players to make a little extra money in a time where they normally 572 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,000 would go overseas. 573 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,720 They're making overseas contracts in America. 574 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,200 They're not having to go overseas. 575 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,200 They're playing in Miami. 576 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,080 They're playing in front of a decent crowd. 577 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,400 They're playing in a beautiful facility. 578 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,400 And it's pretty dope. 579 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,360 And it's having moments like Lisa Leslie is training Angel Reese. 580 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:20,000 And you're having all these great spectacular moments of the past connected with the present. 581 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,200 And it's just been amazing. 582 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,800 And I think the W is going to have to step it up. 583 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,560 Playing in some point, you cannot allow Unrivaled to have all this stuff better than you, especially 584 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,240 when the players put it together on their own. 585 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,960 And you have backing of the NBA. 586 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,400 You have backing of legit owners. 587 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,800 You have backing of legit money. 588 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:46,080 And the players put together TV contracts and facilities deals and sponsorships and 589 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,640 money and a weekend and a location. 590 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:55,200 And they just did all this stuff in travel and housing and childcare and all this stuff 591 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,440 that they complained about in the WNBA. 592 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,680 They went and did it themselves, which means it's possible. 593 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:06,840 So therefore, you have to get this done if you're the WNBA or Unrivaled may expand to 594 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:11,360 5v5 and you could be in trouble kind of thing. 595 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:12,720 If you catch my drift WNBA. 596 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,640 If Unrivaled decides, hey, we don't need the WNBA at all. 597 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:22,800 We're going to up our salary to 200, 250, 300 a player to go 5v5. 598 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,560 Could be interesting to say the least. 599 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,200 But that is all I have for the day. 600 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,280 I hope you guys have a great rest of your week. 601 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:33,960 I hope you guys enjoyed this show. 602 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:39,120 Again, some of our shorter shows, the NBA doesn't have as many storylines as the NFL, 603 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:44,480 but the NFL is only dead for a couple more weeks and then it's back to the NFL off season. 604 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,520 But I hope you have a great rest of your day. 605 00:33:47,520 --> 00:34:14,560 This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.