WEBVTT 00:00:08.490 --> 00:00:22.649 JTS. Yeah. Just in time sports. Look, this is 00:00:22.649 --> 00:00:24.629 just a town sports. Come and get your weekly 00:00:24.629 --> 00:00:27.070 takes. His opinion from the heart. He can never 00:00:27.070 --> 00:00:29.309 show you fake. If you winning or you losing, 00:00:29.370 --> 00:00:31.309 he gonna tell it to you straight. How we talking 00:00:31.309 --> 00:00:33.789 basketball without a Jordan Brown to base? If 00:00:33.789 --> 00:00:35.649 you got the hottest dicks, you better come and 00:00:35.649 --> 00:00:37.890 make your case. If you win a couple games, he 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:40.670 might even show you grace. JCS on every platform, 00:00:40.850 --> 00:00:43.009 we grow the adaptation. Numbers going up the 00:00:43.009 --> 00:00:45.960 charts, we create the separation. 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Welcome into the NBA Championship 00:01:37.609 --> 00:01:42.980 edition of the Just In Time Sports Podcast. I 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:46.400 am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. I want 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.439 to start off a lot of different ways I can start 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:50.379 this off with. So obviously, we're going to get 00:01:50.379 --> 00:01:54.140 into Game 7. We're going to get into the Kevin 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:57.579 Durant trade that on any other day in the NBA 00:01:57.579 --> 00:02:00.239 calendar is probably the biggest news of the 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.219 day. And it's still major news. We'll talk about 00:02:04.219 --> 00:02:08.900 that probably first. Well, second. Because first, 00:02:08.979 --> 00:02:11.840 I want to thank Tyrus Halliburton. I'm not an 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.800 Indiana fan, as you guys know who've been podcasting 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.139 with this show. I am not an Indiana fan, right? 00:02:19.219 --> 00:02:23.919 I am a New Orleans Pelicans fan, and I'm a root 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.419 for LeBron where LeBron goes, right? So those 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:30.000 of you who follow this pod know that. And I've 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.840 said that openly, especially during basketball 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:35.840 season. When those teams come up, I'm not unbiased. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:38.479 I'm not going to be the person, oh, like Stephen 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.610 A. Smith. You know, I don't like LeBron. LeBron 00:02:40.610 --> 00:02:42.629 don't like me, but I cover him fairly. No, you 00:02:42.629 --> 00:02:46.430 don't. You're a Jordan fan. You're a Jordan fanboy. 00:02:46.750 --> 00:02:49.310 You don't like LeBron. Your coverage reflects 00:02:49.310 --> 00:02:53.270 that. It's okay. It's, you know, the same as 00:02:53.270 --> 00:02:55.930 Nick Wright. Nick Wright is a LeBron fan. So 00:02:55.930 --> 00:02:58.650 Nick Wright covers LeBron in a rose -colored 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:03.490 lens. It's okay. But Nick writes openly about 00:03:03.490 --> 00:03:05.930 how he's a LeBron fan. Skip Bayless is openly 00:03:05.930 --> 00:03:08.409 a Michael Jordan fan. He's openly anti -LeBron. 00:03:08.909 --> 00:03:12.770 So he covers. Now, he will sit behind conjecture 00:03:12.770 --> 00:03:15.150 as well. But, you know, if you've watched Skip 00:03:15.150 --> 00:03:17.889 long enough, you know that Skip Bayless is not 00:03:17.889 --> 00:03:19.810 fair when it comes to Michael Jordan or LeBron. 00:03:21.229 --> 00:03:23.689 Some people are big enough to admit it. Only 00:03:23.689 --> 00:03:26.050 one side of the Jordan -LeBron thing seems to 00:03:26.050 --> 00:03:29.490 not be big enough to admit their bias. But, hey, 00:03:29.530 --> 00:03:31.509 people on the LeBron side of their argument or, 00:03:31.550 --> 00:03:34.710 you know, in LeBron's camp, Kobe's fans, Kobe's 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:37.389 GOAT fans will say the same thing. It's Kobe. 00:03:37.490 --> 00:03:39.229 I'm biased. I don't care. What you say to me, 00:03:39.270 --> 00:03:43.370 it's Kobe. And that, to me, showcases a level 00:03:43.370 --> 00:03:45.789 of maturity that some people don't have. But 00:03:45.789 --> 00:03:47.710 I tell you guys openly, when it comes to the 00:03:47.710 --> 00:03:49.389 Pelicans and LeBron, when it comes to the Patriots, 00:03:49.389 --> 00:03:51.469 when it comes to LSU, when it comes to the Yankees, 00:03:51.469 --> 00:03:55.409 I am not unbiased. I'm going to do my best. I'm 00:03:55.409 --> 00:03:57.189 going to try to accomplish everything I can. 00:03:57.569 --> 00:04:00.530 As far as being unbiased, I am not unbiased. 00:04:01.389 --> 00:04:03.870 However, in this series, I've been highly unbiased. 00:04:05.189 --> 00:04:07.710 I want to give massive credit to Tyrese Halliburton. 00:04:09.449 --> 00:04:12.509 He went down. It's posted on my socials, of course, 00:04:12.650 --> 00:04:15.169 at J -Time Sports for all your breaking news 00:04:15.169 --> 00:04:17.290 and social media. I don't even think I gave you 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:19.889 guys the intro. You guys know my voice. It's 00:04:19.889 --> 00:04:22.129 Justin Jackson. Follow at J -Time Sports on all 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:24.670 your favorite social medias for breaking news, 00:04:24.709 --> 00:04:29.029 updates, coverages, etc. But it's posted all 00:04:29.029 --> 00:04:31.290 over our socials, of course, the JTS socials. 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:33.939 Halliburton's injury right and I didn't do the 00:04:33.939 --> 00:04:36.040 close -up I did the play I could have gotten 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.040 the close -up I had you know I have the close 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:42.959 -up I just and I've done it before right like 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.139 I've done it on the Kevin Durant one I think 00:04:45.139 --> 00:04:46.819 I did it on Tatum's I don't remember but I know 00:04:46.819 --> 00:04:50.220 I did it on KD's um as far as show the close 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:52.779 -up and the close of the exact moment the foot 00:04:52.779 --> 00:04:55.720 steps back and where it's supposed to stop just 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.819 above the ground and you launch off your balls 00:04:57.819 --> 00:05:01.209 of your feet that heel hits the floor the calf 00:05:01.209 --> 00:05:05.009 shutters the fall forward to either look back 00:05:05.009 --> 00:05:08.370 like someone kicked you a la Kevin Durant or 00:05:08.370 --> 00:05:11.449 the crumble to the floor a la Tyrese Halliburton 00:05:11.449 --> 00:05:16.910 um because KD didn't his heel didn't hit the 00:05:16.910 --> 00:05:19.870 floor so KD was trying to really stop on those 00:05:19.870 --> 00:05:21.870 balls of those feet the foot came down a little 00:05:21.870 --> 00:05:24.589 bit too far he was able to take another step 00:05:25.269 --> 00:05:27.069 Because he pushed off of it already, took another 00:05:27.069 --> 00:05:28.889 step, and then when that other foot tried to 00:05:28.889 --> 00:05:31.269 come, the foot drags and he falls, like someone 00:05:31.269 --> 00:05:37.050 kicks him in the back of the leg. Halliburton's 00:05:37.050 --> 00:05:40.230 heel hit the floor. I mean, the Achilles is totally 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:42.389 separate from his heel. I mean, it hit the floor, 00:05:42.529 --> 00:05:48.629 right? So one of the worst, as far as full -blown 00:05:48.629 --> 00:05:50.370 Achilles tears I've ever seen, because again, 00:05:51.219 --> 00:05:53.000 Usually, even think about the Kobe's. Kobe's 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.480 heel never hit the floor. You think about Tatum's. 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.279 Tatum's heel. I don't recall Tatum's heel hitting 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.379 the floor. I'm trying to think of another one 00:05:59.379 --> 00:06:03.579 who had a tourniquet. But I know KD, Dame. I 00:06:03.579 --> 00:06:06.100 don't recall Dame's heel hitting the floor. And 00:06:06.100 --> 00:06:07.540 they were still kind of able to take that next 00:06:07.540 --> 00:06:09.819 step and go down. I mean, Halliburton's heel 00:06:09.819 --> 00:06:12.160 touched the floor. His whole foot was on the 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:17.329 floor. And he fell forward and that was it. You 00:06:17.329 --> 00:06:19.129 know, paying for ESPN might have showed it 40 00:06:19.129 --> 00:06:21.910 ,000 times. Halliburton hitting the ground screaming 00:06:21.910 --> 00:06:29.189 no. And it was brutal to see. I mean, he had 00:06:29.189 --> 00:06:32.209 a magical run. And it's going to be one of those 00:06:32.209 --> 00:06:37.509 runs where I say, you know, people talk about 00:06:37.509 --> 00:06:40.329 Kobe. And I always say when it comes to Kobe 00:06:40.329 --> 00:06:42.970 Bryant, analytics will not do Kobe Bryant any 00:06:42.970 --> 00:06:45.720 favors. The more we get into numbers and the 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:49.680 more we crunch it, he's going to be the Wilt 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.800 Chamberlain of our generation. Not because people 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:54.779 say, Wilt, you had to be there. You had to see 00:06:54.779 --> 00:06:56.560 it. You had to know how dominant he was. And 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.240 you had to hear from his constituents. Oh, no, 00:06:58.300 --> 00:06:59.939 Wilt was the one you couldn't guard. Wilt was 00:06:59.939 --> 00:07:01.480 the one you couldn't see. He was built different. 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:03.800 He ran faster. He jumped higher. Look at his 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.300 numbers, right? Even you hear the stories like 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:10.839 Colonel DeJuara, man, no. Wilt was an old man 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.569 and was whooping us. Just because of how physically 00:07:14.569 --> 00:07:16.410 strong he was. And even though he couldn't run 00:07:16.410 --> 00:07:18.970 as much as he used to and jump as high as he 00:07:18.970 --> 00:07:22.410 used to, he was whooping us. Wilt is a myth. 00:07:23.050 --> 00:07:25.290 As far as people go, you had to be there, right? 00:07:26.670 --> 00:07:28.589 And I say that with Kobe. Kobe's going to be 00:07:28.589 --> 00:07:30.449 that. Because the more you look at it, Kobe was 00:07:30.449 --> 00:07:32.509 really inefficient. Kobe shot the ball badly. 00:07:32.689 --> 00:07:35.870 We remember Kobe's a great player. But in clutch 00:07:35.870 --> 00:07:37.670 time, these are the numbers. You know what I'm 00:07:37.670 --> 00:07:40.389 saying? We remember these shots from Kobe. But 00:07:40.389 --> 00:07:41.790 then when it mattered, these are the numbers. 00:07:41.910 --> 00:07:43.949 And it's, you know, we paint this image of LeBron 00:07:43.949 --> 00:07:46.750 as a clutch, but LeBron is by percentage the 00:07:46.750 --> 00:07:48.509 better shooter in the clutch time, so on and 00:07:48.509 --> 00:07:51.110 so forth. So I think Kobe's going to be that 00:07:51.110 --> 00:07:53.329 player. And I think Halliburton's playoff run 00:07:53.329 --> 00:07:56.730 is going to be put in that light. You had to 00:07:56.730 --> 00:08:00.670 be there. I mean, the Indiana Pacers in general, 00:08:00.730 --> 00:08:04.829 you had to be there. The epic comebacks over 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:06.350 and over and over again. Tyrus Halliburton hitting 00:08:06.350 --> 00:08:08.550 five game winners in the last three seconds. 00:08:08.930 --> 00:08:12.509 Or the last five seconds or less. In the same 00:08:12.509 --> 00:08:15.410 playoff run. Insane. I mean, what he did, he 00:08:15.410 --> 00:08:17.990 hit shot after shot. I mean, in every series, 00:08:18.029 --> 00:08:20.509 he hit a shot. It wasn't like, oh, he put three 00:08:20.509 --> 00:08:21.769 in the finals. He put three in the conference. 00:08:21.870 --> 00:08:25.810 He hit two against Cleveland. He hit one or two 00:08:25.810 --> 00:08:27.629 against New York. He hit the one in game one 00:08:27.629 --> 00:08:31.009 against Oklahoma City. Halliburton kept hitting 00:08:31.009 --> 00:08:37.029 the shot. Repeatedly. And he had the calf strain. 00:08:38.190 --> 00:08:41.250 And, you know, people were wondering. He admitted 00:08:41.250 --> 00:08:43.389 it. The doctors told me a multi -week injury. 00:08:44.850 --> 00:08:47.830 The doctors said a multi -week injury. Doctors 00:08:47.830 --> 00:08:49.190 said a multi -week injury. But it's the finals 00:08:49.190 --> 00:08:51.950 I'm going to play. People were asking me, what 00:08:51.950 --> 00:08:54.409 do you think Halliburton should do? I was honest. 00:08:54.610 --> 00:08:58.669 It's the finals. You don't know if you're ever 00:08:58.669 --> 00:09:03.820 going to see this again. Ask Kevin Durant. Kevin 00:09:03.820 --> 00:09:05.659 Durant has never made it back to the finals. 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.919 Ask Giannis. Giannis has never made it. And Giannis 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.600 was injured, but Giannis has not been to the 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.840 finals ever again. Trying to think of some other 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.500 young guys or people in general who, you know, 00:09:19.539 --> 00:09:21.779 maybe got that final with the parents kind of 00:09:21.779 --> 00:09:23.700 early. And you're thinking like, man, they're 00:09:23.700 --> 00:09:25.539 going to have another 10 years. They're surely 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:31.070 going to get back. I think even guys in history 00:09:31.070 --> 00:09:37.049 who got their early loss and never made it back. 00:09:37.669 --> 00:09:40.429 I want to say Reggie Miller got there as an old 00:09:40.429 --> 00:09:43.909 man. But Reggie Miller told and told and told 00:09:43.909 --> 00:09:47.269 and told and never got back. So you have some 00:09:47.269 --> 00:09:50.029 of these. Charles Barkley got there once and 00:09:50.029 --> 00:09:51.929 never made it back. Clyde Drexler got there once 00:09:51.929 --> 00:09:54.190 and never made it back. So you get some of these 00:09:54.190 --> 00:09:57.850 guys that told. In their careers, right? And 00:09:57.850 --> 00:09:59.629 you don't know if you're ever going to get back 00:09:59.629 --> 00:10:03.309 to the finals. The NBA is such a dynastic league. 00:10:03.909 --> 00:10:05.909 This is the most different champions they've 00:10:05.909 --> 00:10:07.669 had in the history of the NBA. Seven different 00:10:07.669 --> 00:10:09.750 champions in seven different years. And I'll 00:10:09.750 --> 00:10:13.029 say it was weirder than the 70s. And it is because 00:10:13.029 --> 00:10:14.590 so many different champions. But the 70s are 00:10:14.590 --> 00:10:17.090 like the dark ages in the NBA. Like the Knicks 00:10:17.090 --> 00:10:19.230 won two. I think the Sonics got one in there. 00:10:19.850 --> 00:10:21.970 and it's like you know they just kept switching 00:10:21.970 --> 00:10:24.149 on champions or no dominant players the bucks 00:10:24.149 --> 00:10:26.710 got one luau cindor kareem's first championship 00:10:26.710 --> 00:10:30.710 is in there as well but you just get you know 00:10:30.710 --> 00:10:34.009 that was kind of considered the dark ages in 00:10:34.009 --> 00:10:41.169 the nba it was just um a space where it was like 00:10:41.169 --> 00:10:46.889 i said it was the dark ages you honestly um it 00:10:46.889 --> 00:10:51.320 was It's so weird in the 70s and the NBA was 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.299 down or ratings, whatever. But in this year, 00:10:53.379 --> 00:10:55.080 I said the ratings are down and it feels like 00:10:55.080 --> 00:11:02.179 the 70s all over again. But, you know, so just 00:11:02.179 --> 00:11:05.860 such a dynastic moment. You don't know if you're 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:07.220 ever going to get back to Tyrese Halliburton. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.039 You got to go. And he went down in game, what, 00:11:10.100 --> 00:11:12.440 five? He played the rest of game five. He was 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.500 fine. He had a good night in game six. He was 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:19.470 hotter than fish grease. in game seven he banged 00:11:19.470 --> 00:11:23.190 three bombs um to really stress out a little 00:11:23.190 --> 00:11:25.570 commercial defense and he was he did the pump 00:11:25.570 --> 00:11:27.590 fake on shay i'm about to blow right by him and 00:11:27.590 --> 00:11:34.470 get to the rim and the achilles went and um yeah 00:11:34.470 --> 00:11:39.830 one of the harder situations ever with kd it 00:11:39.830 --> 00:11:43.009 was shock like you know there's there's the viral 00:11:43.009 --> 00:11:47.820 famous video of drake you know on the side and 00:11:47.820 --> 00:11:50.320 kind of rubbing Katie's shoulders he walked by 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:55.919 and with Kobe the air left the room right I remember 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.379 the Kobe Bryant one right the air didn't matter 00:11:58.379 --> 00:11:59.860 where you were it didn't matter who you was with 00:11:59.860 --> 00:12:04.100 the air kind of left the room when he reached 00:12:04.100 --> 00:12:08.919 the back of that heel you just knew right Tatum 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:17.110 goes down and it's sad But it's, again, more 00:12:17.110 --> 00:12:20.230 of a shock value than a sadness. Because it wasn't 00:12:20.230 --> 00:12:23.429 like Kobe had no prior injury. Tatum had no prior 00:12:23.429 --> 00:12:26.789 injury. With KD, once he came back, that was 00:12:26.789 --> 00:12:29.049 the first one we really started watching the 00:12:29.049 --> 00:12:31.830 calf pull or calf strain to Achilles' track. 00:12:32.230 --> 00:12:38.870 That was the first one, right? And so, he goes 00:12:38.870 --> 00:12:43.820 down, right? And he... Again, that was more of 00:12:43.820 --> 00:12:47.639 a shock thing because KD had never been injured. 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.539 So there was no point where you're looking like, 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:53.519 man, KD, you know, whatever. With this one with 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:57.620 Halliburton, it was just sad. I don't think Tatum's 00:12:57.620 --> 00:13:01.200 going to play next year at all. He went down 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.399 and went May. 12 months puts you at May, and 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.419 Achilles to me is a 12 -month injury. It's a 00:13:07.419 --> 00:13:10.830 24 -month injury. 12 for healing, another 12 00:13:10.830 --> 00:13:13.870 to kind of not think about it no more. Because 00:13:13.870 --> 00:13:15.990 now KD is different. KD the first year back was, 00:13:16.110 --> 00:13:18.169 you know, an all -star, an NBA -level player. 00:13:18.490 --> 00:13:21.730 But most of the time it's a 24 -month, 12 to 00:13:21.730 --> 00:13:23.850 18 -month situation. 12 months to heal and rehab 00:13:23.850 --> 00:13:27.690 it, 6 to 12 months to really trust it and not 00:13:27.690 --> 00:13:30.669 think about it no more. We're thinking about 00:13:30.669 --> 00:13:33.049 Halliburton. If Halliburton does 12 months, that's 00:13:33.049 --> 00:13:35.549 middle of June. You see what I'm saying? Like, 00:13:35.590 --> 00:13:37.990 the Pacers would have to make it to the finals 00:13:37.990 --> 00:13:39.549 without him, and then he had to play in, like, 00:13:39.669 --> 00:13:44.629 right? And then, so he'd have another three months 00:13:44.629 --> 00:13:49.129 for the next, for the 26 -27 season starts. Are 00:13:49.129 --> 00:13:52.330 they with 25 -26? No. 26 -27 season would start, 00:13:52.529 --> 00:13:57.950 in which case, he probably misses until around 00:13:57.950 --> 00:14:02.149 Christmas. Or he's not really himself until around 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:06.070 Christmas. For Tatum, Again, he popped it in 00:14:06.070 --> 00:14:08.610 May. Same with Dame. Dame pops in late April, 00:14:08.710 --> 00:14:11.230 early May. So, the 12 -month cycle comes back 00:14:11.230 --> 00:14:13.509 in the playoffs. If I'm the team, I don't bring 00:14:13.509 --> 00:14:15.429 you back in the playoffs. You wait until the 00:14:15.429 --> 00:14:21.730 next season. So, crushing, crushing for the Pacers. 00:14:23.250 --> 00:14:26.389 Crushing for Halliburton. He was having one of 00:14:26.389 --> 00:14:28.269 the crazier playoff runs as far as game winners 00:14:28.269 --> 00:14:30.850 in NBA history. He was having a game to start 00:14:30.850 --> 00:14:34.240 off with. He had nailed three bomb threes. Having 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:39.340 a moment. And the Achilles goes. But congratulations. 00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:42.940 Two are in order. The Oklahoma City Thunder. 00:14:43.259 --> 00:14:45.940 Have won the NBA title. And we spoke about how 00:14:45.940 --> 00:14:50.360 Oklahoma City. In hindsight. Looking back through 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.500 the course of history. I have my personal rule. 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.019 And I want to speak on Phil Jackson's. Personal 00:14:55.019 --> 00:15:01.100 rule as well. So. Phil Jackson stated. The 40 00:15:01.100 --> 00:15:04.659 -20 rule was his rule in the NBA. In order to 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:07.820 be a title contender, you need to win 40 games 00:15:07.820 --> 00:15:13.019 before you lose 20. Since the merger, there's 00:15:13.019 --> 00:15:16.200 only been like seven exceptions. I think Indiana 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:17.799 would have been the eighth. Indiana would have 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:19.139 been the eighth exception. But there's only been 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:21.559 like seven exceptions to the rule. You got to 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:24.720 win 40 before you lose 20. And Oklahoma City 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:26.259 checks out that box. Oklahoma City didn't lose 00:15:26.259 --> 00:15:29.799 20 all season. They were 68 -14 in the regular 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.100 season. They didn't lose one in the first round. 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.940 They lose three in the second round. Oh, okay, 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:39.580 they barely lost 21. They lost 21 games all season. 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:43.480 And won 84. So they played 105 games and they 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:47.679 were 84 -21. Right, one of the more ridiculous 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:49.419 regular seasons. One of the most ridiculous win 00:15:49.419 --> 00:15:53.899 seasons of all time. That is up there with, of 00:15:53.899 --> 00:15:58.139 course, 72 and 10 Bulls and they were 88. So 00:15:58.139 --> 00:16:01.019 the 72 and 10 Bulls end with 88. The Thunder 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:04.460 end with 84. But actually, I don't know if the 00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:07.120 Bulls got 88 because I think that was still first 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.679 round best of five. So they might end it with 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:15.840 86 or 87. And then the 73 and 9 Warriors were 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:20.399 one win away. So they also end with 87, 88. 88 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:26.120 wins. Oklahoma City ends with 84 wins. So they're 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:27.379 right up there with some of the greatest teams 00:16:27.379 --> 00:16:28.659 of all time. And you think about it, in order 00:16:28.659 --> 00:16:30.360 to beat Oklahoma City's win total, you have to 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:36.460 go 68. 69 wins plus the title, like in modern 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:40.179 history, with the 4 -4 -4 -4, with the 7 -7 -7 00:16:40.179 --> 00:16:44.399 -7 at the best of seven. 72 -10 Bulls is probably 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.679 the only team, because again, the Warriors lost 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.840 their, so the Warriors have more wins, but they 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:54.120 lost their title. So 72 -10 Bulls, the 73 -9 00:16:54.120 --> 00:17:00.970 Warriors. Maybe a Spurs team in there has 60 00:17:00.970 --> 00:17:03.509 -something. Because even, like, those great Cavs 00:17:03.509 --> 00:17:05.829 teams, I say great. The LeBron was carrying. 00:17:05.950 --> 00:17:08.269 They were winning, like, 66. Those Heat teams 00:17:08.269 --> 00:17:10.349 were winning, like, 58. So, it was like, you 00:17:10.349 --> 00:17:13.329 know, like, you know, those teams weren't getting 00:17:13.329 --> 00:17:15.430 it. So, the Thunder, I'm going to say right now, 00:17:15.450 --> 00:17:17.210 have the third most wins in NBA history in the 00:17:17.210 --> 00:17:23.549 season. 84 wins. I mean, 84, you know, what is 00:17:23.549 --> 00:17:27.589 it, 21? Insane, absolutely ridiculous record. 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.779 um congratulations but anyway back to what i 00:17:31.779 --> 00:17:33.960 was saying originally got sidetracked in my own 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.039 brain um phil jackson had the 40 20 rule where 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:38.680 you in order to be a great team in order to win 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.839 a title you have to you typically have to win 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:44.359 40 games before you lose 20. that's how i got 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:45.519 sidetracked that's how to count them in again 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.819 thunder one okay see check that box off indiana 00:17:49.819 --> 00:17:51.619 didn't indiana started so slow and i spoke about 00:17:51.619 --> 00:17:53.900 that probably a month ago when i say indiana 00:17:54.539 --> 00:17:56.819 It was a weird situation because they kicked 00:17:56.819 --> 00:17:59.940 it in the second half. And a lot of people forgot 00:17:59.940 --> 00:18:01.579 about Indiana. Indiana went to the conference 00:18:01.579 --> 00:18:05.119 finals last season. We made it to the NBA finals 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:08.039 this season. People ruled them out of the East 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.940 because they started off so bad. Them, Milwaukee, 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.480 and Philly started off so bad that they kind 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:17.359 of all got ruled out of the East. Of course, 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.700 Philly kept tanking. Milwaukee ends up, you know, 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:21.220 yards up, carry them to the finals. But Dame 00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:24.339 goes down. carries to the playoffs, but then 00:18:24.339 --> 00:18:27.000 Dame goes down and they're out. And then Indiana 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.660 kept their hot streak going. Indiana makes it 00:18:29.660 --> 00:18:37.079 into the NBA Finals, right? So that was actually 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.519 a good team, but Indiana didn't check the box. 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:43.119 Now, and there's only been like seven exceptions 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:47.720 since the merger. So the merger was in 70 -something? 00:18:48.660 --> 00:18:51.660 76, I want to say, was the merger. between the 00:18:51.660 --> 00:18:53.799 ABA and NBA. So basically over 50 years of history, 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:59.440 there's been 43 out of 50. There's a what? 86 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.759 % success rate on Phil Jackson's 40 -20 rule. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:06.740 So when the loss column gets full, somebody hits 00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:09.400 20 losses, they got to have 40 wins to win the 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:16.079 title at an 86 % clip. My personal rule is the 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.200 player rule. You either have the best player 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:22.049 in the world, you have two of the top, I said 00:19:22.049 --> 00:19:25.849 10, but really 12 -ish. Or three of the top 25. 00:19:27.289 --> 00:19:30.430 That has been the case every year of NBA history. 00:19:31.930 --> 00:19:34.589 And I always do since Magic. Because I don't 00:19:34.589 --> 00:19:36.430 know a lot about the dynamics of the NBA prior 00:19:36.430 --> 00:19:38.829 to Magic. I know who won. I can go through and 00:19:38.829 --> 00:19:40.910 tell you who won the title. But I can't really 00:19:40.910 --> 00:19:43.690 tell you prior. Since Magic Johnson, this rule 00:19:43.690 --> 00:19:51.520 has hit every single year. Except for... Probably 00:19:51.520 --> 00:19:56.039 except for the 0 -4 Pistons. And that's probably 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:00.339 it. You know, Dirk had the crazy run. Like, you 00:20:00.339 --> 00:20:01.740 could have made the case for Dirk being the best 00:20:01.740 --> 00:20:03.579 player in the world after that run. You beat 00:20:03.579 --> 00:20:06.940 Kobe Bryant in five. You beat the big three Heatles 00:20:06.940 --> 00:20:09.420 in six. And you beat the baby Thunder in five. 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.000 Like, I got to give you credit. You're probably 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.579 the best player in the world after that. Even 00:20:14.579 --> 00:20:16.779 if it's just right at that moment, I give you 00:20:16.779 --> 00:20:19.220 credit. But the Mavs might be the only team. 00:20:19.690 --> 00:20:22.089 That doesn't have that. You could have made an 00:20:22.089 --> 00:20:25.210 argument for Kawhi with the Raptors. That was 00:20:25.210 --> 00:20:26.690 a weird one because of the injuries. But you 00:20:26.690 --> 00:20:28.029 could have made an argument for Kawhi with the 00:20:28.029 --> 00:20:30.029 Raptors being the best player in the world at 00:20:30.029 --> 00:20:35.769 that moment. Steph's fourth ring. There's a case. 00:20:36.670 --> 00:20:39.329 There's a case, in my opinion, for Steph to have 00:20:39.329 --> 00:20:41.210 best player in the world credit. I disagree. 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:45.089 But you can make the case. But let's say at most, 00:20:45.269 --> 00:20:48.089 since 79, there's three, maybe four exceptions. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.059 For Phil Jackson's rule, from 69 -70, there's 00:20:53.059 --> 00:21:00.400 76 -ish, there's seven exceptions. So all in 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.099 all, these two rules are very, very valid. Well, 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.359 two things that these rules, and they meet in 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:07.700 the middle, they meet on Oklahoma City. I said 00:21:07.700 --> 00:21:09.140 if Indiana would have been a weird, it would 00:21:09.140 --> 00:21:11.940 have been a weird playoffs. Like, Indiana doesn't 00:21:11.940 --> 00:21:15.019 win. I'm sorry, you don't have the talent. Like, 00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:19.940 that team, that player doesn't win. However, 00:21:19.940 --> 00:21:22.640 in a situation like Oklahoma City, you can make 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:25.119 an argument that Shea Gildas Alexander is the 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.380 best player on planet Earth. Plain and simple. 00:21:30.500 --> 00:21:34.900 You can say right now, and I won't argue with 00:21:34.900 --> 00:21:41.380 you. Again, very similar to Dirk. Where if you 00:21:41.380 --> 00:21:44.240 make the argument for Dirk after 2011, Dirk is 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:49.720 the best player currently walking. The Planet 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:52.339 Earth? Who am I to say? Everybody else would 00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:54.940 have claimed he lost, he beat. KD had a claim, 00:21:55.059 --> 00:21:57.799 he beat him. Kobe had a claim, he beat him. LeBron 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:01.640 had a claim, he beat him. Shea beat Jokic. Jokic 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:06.440 is my number one. Shea beat Jokic. Shea Gilles 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:08.960 Alexander completed one of the most impressive 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:12.720 finals, one of the most impressive seasons for 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.039 any player in NBA history. At first I said, you 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.160 know, one of the most impressive seasons for 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:18.730 a guard, but no, it's anybody. He wins the NBA 00:22:18.730 --> 00:22:21.630 MVP. So let's start off with the individual. 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:24.289 He's first team on the NBA. He's an all -star. 00:22:24.470 --> 00:22:26.970 He's scoring champion. Then he goes into the 00:22:26.970 --> 00:22:29.950 playoffs, and he wins MVP of the regular season, 00:22:30.210 --> 00:22:35.089 conference MVP, NBA finals MVP, and he wins the 00:22:35.089 --> 00:22:41.450 ring. He also wins 68 games. He is an all -star 00:22:41.450 --> 00:22:44.150 starter. He had the most 50, 40, and 30 -point 00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:46.230 games. He was first in the league in plus -minus. 00:22:46.589 --> 00:22:49.529 And he was second in steals. He also joins Kareem 00:22:49.529 --> 00:22:51.809 Abdul -Jabbar, one of the top three players of 00:22:51.809 --> 00:22:53.869 all time. Michael Jordan, one of the top three 00:22:53.869 --> 00:22:56.569 players of all time. And Shaquille O 'Neal, one 00:22:56.569 --> 00:23:00.210 of the top ten players of all time. And he becomes 00:23:00.210 --> 00:23:02.269 the fourth player ever to win the scoring champion, 00:23:02.470 --> 00:23:05.529 the regular season MVP, and the final MVP in 00:23:05.529 --> 00:23:07.789 the same season. I mean, this was simply one 00:23:07.789 --> 00:23:13.289 of the greatest runs, seasons by a player ever. 00:23:13.820 --> 00:23:15.759 If you want to make the SGA's the best player 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.359 in the world conversation, I'm not going to fight 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:20.000 you. A lot of old head NBA players are ready 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.339 to put it on SGA, such as Shaq. Shaq has mentioned 00:23:22.339 --> 00:23:26.299 if SGA wins his league, he's the best player, 00:23:26.460 --> 00:23:29.359 he's the face of it, whatever. I'm not going 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.559 to fight you on that. To me, J -Dub is top 12. 00:23:33.259 --> 00:23:35.440 I gave that argument a couple weeks ago in regards 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:38.829 to... The All -NBA, the All -Defense, and then 00:23:38.829 --> 00:23:40.450 he's had a 40 -point exposure in the finals. 00:23:40.549 --> 00:23:43.009 I think J -Dub is top 12 -ish. So to me, that 00:23:43.009 --> 00:23:44.829 would check out the box even better if he gets 00:23:44.829 --> 00:23:48.230 hard up for Jokic. Jokic is the guy. I would 00:23:48.230 --> 00:23:49.809 still say Jokic is the best player in the world. 00:23:49.990 --> 00:23:53.710 But if you want to make the SGA argument, I'm 00:23:53.710 --> 00:23:56.650 not going to fight you. Which means that Oklahoma 00:23:56.650 --> 00:23:59.109 City would check the box and join the litany 00:23:59.109 --> 00:24:01.049 of other people, besides three to four exceptions, 00:24:01.329 --> 00:24:04.750 that check the box of... how I think you got 00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:06.930 to win the title, either the best player, two 00:24:06.930 --> 00:24:09.990 of the top 12, or three of the top 25. I think 00:24:09.990 --> 00:24:13.089 that is major as far as how you win the title. 00:24:15.230 --> 00:24:18.430 I do want to make one more point. Oh, we didn't 00:24:18.430 --> 00:24:23.069 go through the game stats. I know you guys love 00:24:23.069 --> 00:24:24.410 when I go through the stats. We didn't go through 00:24:24.410 --> 00:24:26.269 the game stats. Then I'll make my last point 00:24:26.269 --> 00:24:29.710 on the game before I shift to Kevin Durant and 00:24:29.710 --> 00:24:33.299 what happened with him. So, box score, Pascal 00:24:33.299 --> 00:24:37.980 Siakam, 16 points on 5 of 13. Andrew Nemhard, 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:42.759 15 points on 4 of 10. Miles Turner, only 4 shots. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:45.380 Halliburton, like I said, 9 points on 3 of 4 00:24:45.380 --> 00:24:49.599 in just 7 minutes. Obi Toppin, 21 minutes, nothing. 00:24:49.819 --> 00:24:54.140 No points. 0 for 4. T .J. McConnell played 28 00:24:54.140 --> 00:24:55.599 minutes, filled in a lot of that backup point 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:58.539 guard. He goes for 16 points, six rebounds, three 00:24:58.539 --> 00:25:01.579 assists on eight for 13. Benedict Matherin goes 00:25:01.579 --> 00:25:07.200 for 24 and 13 on six of 14. That's pretty much 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:10.039 all the bench points. You get two from T .J. 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.940 Bradley, who barely played before that. But you 00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:16.039 get zero out of Ben Shepard for 16 minutes. You 00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:19.460 get zero out of Obi Toppin for 21 minutes. I'm 00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:21.880 not going to count Finley, Bryant, or Jackson 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:27.279 because that was most definitely just subbing, 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:29.740 guys. You know, that was definitely just a clear 00:25:29.740 --> 00:25:32.700 the bench situation. But on the Thunder side, 00:25:32.819 --> 00:25:35.160 you get 18 -8 out of Chet on 6 of 8 shooting. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:41.690 24 -4. On 7 of 20 from J -Dub. Shea gives you 00:25:41.690 --> 00:25:48.750 29, 5, and 12 on 8 for 27. He had a bad night 00:25:48.750 --> 00:25:50.130 from the office. I mean, that's less than 25%. 00:25:50.130 --> 00:25:52.390 That's an awful shooting night. Good God. That's 00:25:52.390 --> 00:25:58.630 like 30%. And speaking of 30%, Lou Dort goes 00:25:58.630 --> 00:26:04.210 9 and 7 on 3 of 10. Alex Caruso gives you 10 00:26:04.210 --> 00:26:08.099 on 4 of 10. Andrew Wiggins gave you nothing in 00:26:08.099 --> 00:26:11.960 12 minutes. Kacen Wallace gave you 10 in 26 minutes. 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:14.460 I do think I'm going to run through the team 00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:19.000 stats really quickly. Both teams shot bad. Indiana 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:23.920 41%, OKC 40%. OKC had 17 more shots at the basket. 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:27.799 They both made 11 threes. OKC made their 11 threes 00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:30.160 on 12 more shot attempts, however. Both teams 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:36.019 made 22 free throws. Rebounds, basically the 00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:40.460 same. Indiana with 45, OKC with 40. The big number 00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:43.099 in this game, finally, was turnovers. So remember 00:26:43.099 --> 00:26:48.019 how in game one, Indiana survived the turnovers. 00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:51.460 It was like 20 -something, eight or something 00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:54.960 like that in turnovers. It was a massive number, 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.019 very small number, but the points off turnovers 00:26:57.019 --> 00:27:00.359 were only like 11 -7. Oklahoma City wins this 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:02.920 game by 12. They win points off turnovers by 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:06.650 22. That's your ball game. Turnovers was 23 -8. 00:27:07.950 --> 00:27:13.349 Oklahoma City scored 32 points off 23 turnovers. 00:27:13.630 --> 00:27:16.869 That is your game. That is your ball game. It 00:27:16.869 --> 00:27:18.950 is. Everything else is virtually. And points 00:27:18.950 --> 00:27:21.450 in the paint, Oklahoma City wins by 14. Everything 00:27:21.450 --> 00:27:24.390 else is basically virtually identical. It may 00:27:24.390 --> 00:27:28.980 even lean to Indiana. But there is a glaring 00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:32.019 difference in this. And it's a 22 -point difference 00:27:32.019 --> 00:27:36.700 in points in the paint. But what I would notice 00:27:36.700 --> 00:27:38.059 is, just looking at some of the stats quickly, 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.160 this was safe enough to be a classic knock -down, 00:27:40.180 --> 00:27:42.480 drag -out Game 7. Neither team was shooting the 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:44.839 ball well. We all thought it gave Indiana a chance. 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.779 And I put that in a group message. I was talking 00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:50.819 to some guys. And I was saying, man, NBA Finals 00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:54.579 Game 7s don't typically break 100. You know, 00:27:54.619 --> 00:27:56.740 they're usually knock -down, drag -out, you know. 00:27:57.130 --> 00:27:58.730 You've been seeing the same team for two weeks. 00:27:58.829 --> 00:28:01.789 You're tired. You're nervous. Like Richard Jefferson 00:28:01.789 --> 00:28:03.450 was saying at the beginning of the game, he said, 00:28:03.549 --> 00:28:05.710 at this point, your heart's just pounding. Your 00:28:05.710 --> 00:28:07.829 heart's just going. He said, and the big thing 00:28:07.829 --> 00:28:11.849 about it is you're trying to get to almost trying 00:28:11.849 --> 00:28:14.150 to get to a point where you get so tired, you've 00:28:14.150 --> 00:28:16.329 got to get a second win, and that second win 00:28:16.329 --> 00:28:19.369 calms you down. Or you're trying to make it to 00:28:19.369 --> 00:28:21.630 that first time out and you sit down and breathe 00:28:21.630 --> 00:28:24.109 and say, okay, it's a basketball game. Because 00:28:24.109 --> 00:28:26.450 Richard Jefferson was in the last finals game, 00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:28.369 7 -20 -16. He's like, your heart's just pounding. 00:28:28.710 --> 00:28:33.329 It's just going. Because every second that ticks 00:28:33.329 --> 00:28:35.849 off, it's closer to somebody being named a champion. 00:28:36.089 --> 00:28:39.349 You know what I'm saying? The whole season has 00:28:39.349 --> 00:28:41.710 come down to this. You know, that was Oklahoma 00:28:41.710 --> 00:28:45.490 City's 105th game. That was Indiana's probably 00:28:45.490 --> 00:28:49.500 similar. They might be at 109, 108, 109. Like, 00:28:49.579 --> 00:28:52.099 you've played over 100 games. You've been playing 00:28:52.099 --> 00:28:59.319 since October. It's mid -June, and you are, you 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:01.079 know, you're in the last game. You're in the 00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:05.319 last possible game of the season. 30 teams play 00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:08.940 82. You know, 16 teams made the playoffs. Like, 00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:14.119 all through this war, and somebody, somebody 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.880 is going to walk out this floor. a champion for 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.119 life like and so it's a different feeling and 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:25.819 you know obviously Halliburton going down to 00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:30.059 me it's the air out of the game um it's signed 00:29:30.059 --> 00:29:32.880 sealed and delivered this game to Oklahoma City 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:39.960 um but I will say that um Indiana had a great 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:42.700 season Oklahoma City was just the best team all 00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:44.839 year They had the number one record. They had 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:46.279 the best playoff record. They had the highest 00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:49.019 playoff percentage. They had the MVP. You know 00:29:49.019 --> 00:29:50.299 what I'm saying? They were just the best player. 00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:53.480 And the crazy part of Oklahoma City is they are 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:58.079 set up for success. They are set up for crazy 00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:03.539 success, like insane success. Sam Presti has 00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:07.529 been with Oklahoma City. He's been the GM of 00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:10.329 the Oklahoma City Thunder the entire time they've 00:30:10.329 --> 00:30:13.009 been in Oklahoma City. They carried him over 00:30:13.009 --> 00:30:14.990 from the Supersonics when they were in Seattle. 00:30:15.190 --> 00:30:17.349 He's been the GM the entire time. He's built 00:30:17.349 --> 00:30:20.930 two teams. He's built two legitimate teams. He 00:30:20.930 --> 00:30:23.529 built the Big Three Thunder, the Baby Thunder, 00:30:23.769 --> 00:30:28.529 KD Harden and Westbrook. That disbands. He does 00:30:28.529 --> 00:30:30.490 the Paul George thing. He does the Carmelo thing. 00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:34.099 But the wild part about those moves is he's always 00:30:34.099 --> 00:30:38.259 acquired picks back or young assets and continued 00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:41.359 to do it. And then this time he moved Paul George 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:43.880 and Russell. He basically tore down to the brass 00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:47.359 tacks. One of those tacks was Shea Goods Alexander, 00:30:47.779 --> 00:30:52.700 courtesy of the Paul George trade. So looking, 00:30:52.900 --> 00:31:04.259 forecasting, forecasting. the uh forecasting 00:31:04.259 --> 00:31:10.380 uh the thunders picks first round picks until 00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:13.240 2030 i mean because i'm gonna go with i'm gonna 00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.259 go to 2027 because it kind of matches the contract 00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:19.720 part so through 2027 they have the rights to 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:23.619 two first in 2025 they have the rights to three 00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:26.640 first in 2026 and they have the right to two 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:32.019 first in 2027 in 20 Then along with that, they 00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:35.099 have a second round in 2025, second in 26, and 00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:40.599 two in 27. Through contract and through 2027, 00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:45.019 so for the next two years, SGA, Hardenstein, 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.099 Lou Doerr, Alex Caruso, Aaron Wiggins, Kenrick 00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:50.319 Williams, Kaysen Wallace, Nicolo Topic, Dylan 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.599 Jones, Isaiah Joe, with Chet Holmgren and J -Dub 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:55.160 being extension eligible. And it's another player 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:58.700 on the team, too, that can get an extension. 00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:03.019 They are set up for a dynastic run we haven't 00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:05.660 seen since the Warriors in terms of this whole 00:32:05.660 --> 00:32:09.099 team comes back. Boston's not a factor next year. 00:32:09.619 --> 00:32:12.880 They're just not. Tatum's probably not going 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.279 to play next year, so Boston's out. Indiana's 00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:19.000 out because, again, Tyrese Halliburton's probably 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.220 not going to play that year. Milwaukee's out. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.200 Dame Lillard's probably not going to play next 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.500 year. So that's three teams that made the playoffs, 00:32:25.579 --> 00:32:27.000 including one that made the finals that are out. 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.839 I wonder what the Lakers are going to do until 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.559 they can get a big. New Orleans is probably one 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.140 or two pieces away. Memphis is tearing it down 00:32:38.140 --> 00:32:40.339 now, so they're probably out. Like, you know, 00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:42.279 so you're just looking at these teams. It looks 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:44.220 like Oklahoma City is going to go right back 00:32:44.220 --> 00:32:46.660 to the finals next season. Like I said, they're 00:32:46.660 --> 00:32:48.420 going to have a chance to be a mini Warriors 00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:51.079 where they can win two out of four, three out 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:53.579 of six. You know, just kind of because the team 00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:57.000 is so young. They average like 24 years of age. 00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:59.369 They're so young. They have final experience 00:32:59.369 --> 00:33:01.910 now. They've made that long journey. It would 00:33:01.910 --> 00:33:04.690 not shock me if they win, not even counting this 00:33:04.690 --> 00:33:06.269 one, two of the next three. This is where they 00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:08.369 win three and four. You know, they go back to 00:33:08.369 --> 00:33:11.869 back, lose one, and then get another one, lose 00:33:11.869 --> 00:33:13.230 and get another one. Like get like three and 00:33:13.230 --> 00:33:16.849 five or something like that. And be a dynasty 00:33:16.849 --> 00:33:19.250 of their own. Oklahoma City has set up very nice. 00:33:19.269 --> 00:33:22.609 Sam Presti is incredibly smart. And he's also 00:33:22.609 --> 00:33:25.029 had the ability of he knows he has to start trading 00:33:25.029 --> 00:33:28.420 these picks at some point. You can't keep drafting 00:33:28.420 --> 00:33:30.059 his players while you have the greatest G League 00:33:30.059 --> 00:33:32.700 team ever. I think he's going to package those 00:33:32.700 --> 00:33:34.960 picks for something. I don't know what that something 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:37.200 is. I don't know if that's a Giannis. I don't 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.920 know if that's a Carl Anthony Towns. I don't 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:44.259 know if that is, you know, whoever. I think he's 00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:46.059 going to end up packaging those picks for something. 00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:48.779 Just not quite sure what it is yet. But shout 00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:52.660 out Sam Presti for building this Oklahoma City 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:54.859 team. Shout out Mark Dagono, head coach of the 00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:58.839 Thunder as well. He got some heat during his 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.819 series for decisions he made. Ultimately, you 00:34:01.819 --> 00:34:03.759 know, they ended up winning. They ended up winning 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:07.420 probably because of some decisions he made. So, 00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:11.539 you know, great job, Mark Dagan. And just congrats 00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:13.079 to the whole city of Oklahoma City, man. Like, 00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:17.179 you weren't a pro sports town. Hell, you weren't 00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:24.599 a sports town until 17, 18 years ago. Like, University 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.519 of Oklahoma is enormous. Oklahoma State's in 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:31.280 Stillwater. Like, even the major colleges wasn't 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.300 in Oklahoma City. And so the fact that in 2008, 00:34:34.500 --> 00:34:37.880 you pick up the Thunder, an NBA franchise. Well, 00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:39.440 you pick up the Sonic, they become the Thunder. 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.780 You get that final run with the baby Thunder 00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:45.760 of KD, Harden, and Westbrook. And then now you 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.239 get an NBA title in a parade. So kudos to the 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:51.300 state of Oklahoma as well, to the Oklahoma City 00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:57.579 as well. But the big news today that dropped, 00:34:57.699 --> 00:34:58.820 and we're not going to spend a ton of time on 00:34:58.820 --> 00:35:01.940 it. I'm sure we'll cover it more during the offseason 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:05.679 acquisition part. But the big news that dropped 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:13.320 today was Kevin Durant traded to the Houston 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:18.460 Rockets in exchange for Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:21.380 the 10th overall pick in this year's NBA draft, 00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:25.000 and... five second round picks we hadn't seen 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:26.679 the five second round picks this offseason where 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:28.920 they were real popular a couple years ago uh 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:30.420 maybe it'd have been last year but people were 00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:32.480 packaging five second round picks with like everything 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.780 i don't know why that became the number but it 00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:38.179 was um anyway kd was traded ultimately to the 00:35:38.179 --> 00:35:39.880 rockets which is one of his teams his preferred 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.219 list it was houston um and a couple other places 00:35:43.219 --> 00:35:46.239 but houston was many people connected him with 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.079 houston now what assets houston got back was 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:52.099 the shocking part um you didn't get back the 00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:54.489 sun's pick The Suns didn't get back their pick. 00:35:54.730 --> 00:35:57.550 They also didn't get back Jabari Smith. Or they 00:35:57.550 --> 00:35:59.869 didn't get back A -Man Thompson. They didn't 00:35:59.869 --> 00:36:02.170 get back any of the young stars. Dylan Brooks 00:36:02.170 --> 00:36:05.150 is a menace. He's annoying, but he's not really 00:36:05.150 --> 00:36:09.090 a young star. Jalen Green. I speak about the 00:36:09.090 --> 00:36:11.269 G League. First of all, it was rumored that Jalen 00:36:11.269 --> 00:36:13.550 Green was going to get redirected. But I speak 00:36:13.550 --> 00:36:14.989 about the G League guys all the time. They're 00:36:14.989 --> 00:36:16.869 kind of the same player. They jump really, really 00:36:16.869 --> 00:36:19.869 high. They have moderately decent handles. They 00:36:19.869 --> 00:36:22.440 do everything on raw athleticism. But then you 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:24.260 can't shoot a basketball. And it's kind of like 00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:26.559 the G, that's how they play in the G League. 00:36:27.099 --> 00:36:31.199 They play open, fly across, everything's in the 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:33.519 air, so on and so forth. And we're not really 00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:36.500 hardlining you. We're kind of letting you make 00:36:36.500 --> 00:36:37.980 mistakes. So that's how they play in the NBA. 00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:41.420 Jalen Green takes awful shots. Jalen Green can't 00:36:41.420 --> 00:36:43.980 really shoot. He jumps really high. He has a 00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:45.639 pretty decent handle. He's a solid defender because 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:48.920 of how athletic he is. I mean, that's just the 00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:54.400 honest truth. And then, of course, the other 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:56.820 part of that trade, the other player in that 00:36:56.820 --> 00:36:59.760 trade is Dylan Brooks, who, you know, I don't 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:02.460 see Dylan Brooks being a son. It doesn't help 00:37:02.460 --> 00:37:05.820 Dylan Brooks how he wants to. The sons don't 00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:08.800 benefit from Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks is a 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:13.139 guy that's going to be a defender, an annoying, 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:15.800 a nuisance. He's going to be a guy that helps 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.340 and protects that star player. He's also going 00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:24.650 to be a guy that, that could be that cog piece 00:37:24.650 --> 00:37:27.230 in that title team. And Phoenix is not there 00:37:27.230 --> 00:37:31.829 on any of those fronts, right? So I don't see 00:37:31.829 --> 00:37:34.210 the Dylan Brooks piece. The number 10 overall 00:37:34.210 --> 00:37:37.550 pick in this draft, who cares? And the five second 00:37:37.550 --> 00:37:41.349 round picks, definitely who cares, right? But 00:37:41.349 --> 00:37:42.730 what does this mean for Phoenix? For Phoenix, 00:37:42.769 --> 00:37:45.889 it means that you are looking at Jalen Green's 00:37:45.889 --> 00:37:48.710 part of your future. And I say that you're looking 00:37:48.710 --> 00:37:50.210 at Jalen Green's part of your future because 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.079 They're not immediately moving him. Plus, he's 00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:56.280 hard to do anyway with that poison pill contract. 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.679 Because on his rookie extension, his contract 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:05.099 is poison pill. So while the physical dollar 00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:10.739 amount says $12 million, he counts for his new 00:38:10.739 --> 00:38:13.840 team like $37 million. But he only counts for 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.460 his old team like $12 million. So you can only 00:38:16.460 --> 00:38:18.780 get back like $12 million to $14 million for 00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:22.880 a $37 million deal. It's a lot of chicanery and 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:26.199 a lot of maneuvering that Jalen Green's contract 00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:28.659 is going to take as long as it still counts as 00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:32.199 a poison pill. Because I can't really aggregate 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:38.659 the contract. But it means that you consider 00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:41.159 Jalen Green part of your future. You want to 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:43.500 give Book some more firepower. You want to kind 00:38:43.500 --> 00:38:46.320 of bring that age down a little bit. You go with 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:48.219 Jalen Green. For Houston, it means you're trying 00:38:48.219 --> 00:38:51.659 to win a title. Plain and simple. Kevin Durant's 00:38:51.659 --> 00:38:53.840 numbers were better than Jalen Green, but not 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:56.940 demonstrably. And if you add his numbers to Dylan 00:38:56.940 --> 00:38:58.719 Brooks' numbers, they weren't better. What you 00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.920 were doing in Houston is you're protecting your 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.840 future. You kept A -Man Thompson. You kept Jabari 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.739 Smith. You kept Tyree Eason. You kept Amparoon 00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:08.579 Sangoon, right? You kept a lot of these young 00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:10.719 talented players. So you protect your future. 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:14.960 But you also get a guy, KD, where when that ball 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:17.400 gets stuck, it's been two minutes and it's been 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.539 four bad shots. that ball goes to KD in the mid 00:39:21.539 --> 00:39:25.280 post and he goes and it's like it's a bucket 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:28.179 to lay up and he kind of breaks that funk or 00:39:28.179 --> 00:39:31.119 tight playoff game four minutes left instead 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:33.000 of that ball being in Jalen Green's hand that 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.320 ball's in Kevin Durant's hands and you live and 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:38.679 die with KD I think this is a great opportunity 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:41.039 for KD. I think it's a chance for him to really 00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:43.019 just go there and hoop. He knows what he wants 00:39:43.019 --> 00:39:45.239 to do. He knows how he wants to operate. I think 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.820 it's a good opportunity for him to do that. Houston's 00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:50.880 a big enough city where he can find himself into 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.239 something, but he ain't the only superstar in 00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:55.320 the town either. Houston has baseball. Houston 00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.190 has C .J. Strada, Texas. Houston has... MLS, 00:40:00.429 --> 00:40:01.730 Houston, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, 00:40:01.829 --> 00:40:04.110 Houston had University of Houston. Like, Houston 00:40:04.110 --> 00:40:06.250 has all these different things that, you know, 00:40:06.250 --> 00:40:08.389 kind of fit Kevin Durant's world, but he's not 00:40:08.389 --> 00:40:11.329 the main, only thing popping in town. He can 00:40:11.329 --> 00:40:16.130 kind of move a little bit better. Kind of a good 00:40:16.130 --> 00:40:18.289 thing for KD, the fact that he's not in a place 00:40:18.289 --> 00:40:20.349 like Minnesota where everything lives and breathes 00:40:20.349 --> 00:40:22.250 and dies off the Timberwolves. He's not in a 00:40:22.250 --> 00:40:23.929 place like San Antonio where everything lives, 00:40:24.489 --> 00:40:26.730 breathes, and dies off the Spurs. He gets to 00:40:26.730 --> 00:40:29.780 Houston where things matter. But their culture, 00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:33.659 led by Ime Adoka, who Kevin Durant absolutely 00:40:33.659 --> 00:40:38.960 loves, driven by him, they're going to be able 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:42.980 to not, because they're not the only thing in 00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:44.820 town, so they're able to move. It's a little 00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:47.179 bit better. KD's 7 feet tall. It's hard for him 00:40:47.179 --> 00:40:51.099 to do it anyway. But it's comforting for him 00:40:51.099 --> 00:40:54.539 knowing that. But congratulations to Houston, 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:56.239 man. That's a huge move. That's a championship. 00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.400 statement kind of move but like we're going for 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.599 it right uh because again for 40 let's say four 00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.559 minutes having Jalen Green over Kevin Durant's 00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:08.219 a coin flip having KVD over Jalen Green coin 00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:11.739 flip them last four minutes or that two and a 00:41:11.739 --> 00:41:14.099 half minutes coin drop that's when Kevin Durant's 00:41:14.099 --> 00:41:16.380 gonna make his money it won't be every single 00:41:16.380 --> 00:41:19.000 play every single you know game and every single 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:21.860 you know defender can't guard me it's going to 00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:28.500 be very strategic um when KD matters over Jalen 00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:31.920 Green. Those heavy moments is when KD's going 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:34.219 to matter over Jalen Green. I was telling some 00:41:34.219 --> 00:41:36.300 guys, kind of last point on this, I was telling 00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:38.579 some guys today when the news broke and they 00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:41.199 were arguing over, man, I'd rather have Jalen 00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:44.320 Green disappoint his career. Man, you gave up 00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:45.619 a lot for Kevin Durant. Like, what's going to 00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:47.440 happen two, three years from now? It doesn't 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.079 matter to Houston. They're trying to win a championship. 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:50.760 If you win a championship and then go in the 00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:55.099 doldrums, no one cares you won a title. right 00:41:55.099 --> 00:41:56.679 like Detroit's been living off the 0 -4 title 00:41:56.679 --> 00:42:00.119 for years Boston was title bean town title town 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:03.179 like off the 0 -8 title like you want a title 00:42:03.179 --> 00:42:07.800 it gives you room to restart it if that makes 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.039 sense right and so I think that because they're 00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:14.480 gonna have that built -in leverage I say if they 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:17.420 if they win the title you're basically changing 00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:20.739 presto change -o um And similar to what Golden 00:42:20.739 --> 00:42:23.019 State did with KD, although KD came in and took 00:42:23.019 --> 00:42:24.719 over the situation and won the final MVP, etc. 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:27.440 But you're basically, in Golden State in 2016, 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:30.699 you were presto change -o -ing Kevin Durant, 00:42:30.739 --> 00:42:34.239 Harrison Barnes into Kevin Durant. Houston, effectively, 00:42:34.539 --> 00:42:37.579 is presto change -o -ing Jalen Green into KD. 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:39.900 So at the end of the game, when, you know, palms 00:42:39.900 --> 00:42:43.070 get sweaty, backsides get tight. Instead of swinging 00:42:43.070 --> 00:42:46.289 that ball to Fred Van Vliet, St. Goon in the 00:42:46.289 --> 00:42:49.230 post, or Jalen Green because he's made four of 00:42:49.230 --> 00:42:51.730 his last six and you're hoping this isn't the 00:42:51.730 --> 00:42:53.690 bad one, you throw it to Kevin Durant and you 00:42:53.690 --> 00:42:55.530 live with the results. So I think that's going 00:42:55.530 --> 00:42:58.070 to be huge for Houston. Eme Adoka is going to 00:42:58.070 --> 00:43:00.610 have that roster playing well. You know him. 00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:06.090 He's going to have those guys rolling. But that 00:43:06.090 --> 00:43:11.400 is all I have for today. Again, humongous congratulations 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:16.800 to the Indiana Pacers for a great season. But 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.179 the top of the, I mean, you're the NBA champion. 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.579 Congratulations to Shea Gills Alexander, J -Dub, 00:43:24.659 --> 00:43:28.980 Mark Dagonault, Sam Presti, and the rest of the 00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:32.980 Oklahoma City's organization. Those guys. i mean 00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:35.179 they're models as far as how to build through 00:43:35.179 --> 00:43:37.519 the draft how to make smart trades patience is 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:39.900 key so on and so forth now they're set up for 00:43:39.900 --> 00:43:42.639 the next five six years of just runway until 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.139 they seem average age hit like 30. they're set 00:43:45.139 --> 00:43:48.739 up for just you know a half a decade run but 00:43:48.739 --> 00:43:51.239 they pick up three to four more titles in six 00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:55.730 seven years um It's just they are set up really, 00:43:55.789 --> 00:43:58.329 really well. Huge credit to Sam Presti for that. 00:43:58.369 --> 00:44:00.849 Mark Dagon with the coach. Shea Gibbs, Alexander, 00:44:01.090 --> 00:44:04.289 J -Dub, main two players. And just congratulations 00:44:04.289 --> 00:44:06.769 to the city of Oklahoma as well. Oklahoma City, 00:44:06.809 --> 00:44:10.570 rather. But that is all I have for you guys today. 00:44:10.929 --> 00:44:12.710 This is your owner and host, Justin Jackson, 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:13.429 signing out.