WEBVTT 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:20.289 JTS. Yeah. Just in time sports. Life is good. 00:00:20.989 --> 00:01:01.399 Look. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:39.159 Welcome into the show. Welcome into the Just 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.000 In Time Sports Podcast Season 7. Episode 3. As 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.519 always, I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson. 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.180 And as always, what you just heard was our amazing 00:01:50.180 --> 00:01:54.719 intro song by B -Roy, a rapper out of the Northeast. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.400 A good friend of mine, actually, who graciously 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.000 provided his talents to our intro song. And you 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.180 will always hear it at the start of every single 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:07.099 episode because it wouldn't be a JTS episode 00:02:07.099 --> 00:02:11.069 without it. Today, we're going to go through 00:02:11.069 --> 00:02:13.509 a variety of topics, mostly basketball. However, 00:02:13.729 --> 00:02:16.729 we are getting very close to the NFL offseason 00:02:16.729 --> 00:02:20.610 coming up in full force. And of course, certain 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:24.629 things happen in the NFL offseason that allows 00:02:24.629 --> 00:02:27.370 big moves to happen. So that's what we're going 00:02:27.370 --> 00:02:29.409 to discuss. We're going to discuss that. We're 00:02:29.409 --> 00:02:31.819 going to talk about. some basketball of course 00:02:31.819 --> 00:02:34.599 we are peak nba season we're getting close to 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:36.659 the playoffs march madness is around the corner 00:02:36.659 --> 00:02:38.639 we'll get into that for more probably next week 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.680 and of course we have the wmba and unrivaled 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.979 but let's get right into the show talking about 00:02:46.979 --> 00:02:51.080 what we are not talking about in the jts quick 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.599 touch or we're not going to go deep into about 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.610 so Past couple of weeks, started a new segment 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:58.810 called the Quick Touch segment. Basically, what 00:02:58.810 --> 00:03:01.889 it means is I'm going to just discuss something 00:03:01.889 --> 00:03:04.289 very quickly. So instead of going deep in depth 00:03:04.289 --> 00:03:06.930 and providing analysis, it's more of alerting 00:03:06.930 --> 00:03:08.969 you how I feel about it or maybe a quick fact 00:03:08.969 --> 00:03:13.689 about it within 10 to 15 seconds. So the JTS 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:17.689 Quick Touch this week. First, we're going to 00:03:17.689 --> 00:03:20.689 start off with Stephen A. Smith versus the Pelicans. 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.599 I think Stephen A. Smith is lame and weird for 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.159 this, and he went on a 12 -minute rant slandering 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.159 the New Orleans Pelicans as an organization, 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.659 talking about Zion Williamson as a food addict, 00:03:32.740 --> 00:03:36.039 even going so far as to say he hid food under 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:41.699 his bed, all because a social media team made 00:03:41.699 --> 00:03:46.319 a joke about him. He's even going so far as to 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:48.539 say he's more famous than everybody on the Pelicans. 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:55.400 A reminder, Stephen A. Smith wanted to be a professional 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:59.500 basketball player. He spent until he got hurt 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:03.719 his life working to be the very player he insults 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.659 every single day. It's lame behavior, suspended 00:04:07.659 --> 00:04:11.379 adolescence, and it's jealousy. Plain and simple. 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:15.780 There's no other way around it. Now, as a Pelicans 00:04:15.780 --> 00:04:19.569 fan, I'm actually kind of enjoying it. The reason 00:04:19.569 --> 00:04:24.189 why is it may cast the light of dispersion on 00:04:24.189 --> 00:04:26.730 the organization we need for there to be wholesale 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:30.029 changes for us to be better. So I'm actually 00:04:30.029 --> 00:04:34.009 not against this a whole lot. It shows Stephen 00:04:34.009 --> 00:04:36.550 A. Smith's true character, and it may embarrass 00:04:36.550 --> 00:04:39.629 our way into getting some wholesale changes organizationally. 00:04:41.050 --> 00:04:44.810 The Chicago Bears have made the decision to release... 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.839 starting linebacker Tremaine Edmonds they were 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.620 attempting to trade him even giving him permission 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:53.899 to seek a trade over the past week or so neither 00:04:53.899 --> 00:04:56.060 of those things materialized their efforts or 00:04:56.060 --> 00:04:59.779 his and so he was released now what's interesting 00:04:59.779 --> 00:05:02.319 about when they give a player permission to seek 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.040 a trade is that especially during the offseason 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.879 the new team would rather not trade for you if 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.540 they can secure a verbal commitment or handshake 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:15.519 deal or a gentleman's agreement or something 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.860 along those lines where they don't have to trade 00:05:18.860 --> 00:05:21.180 an asset for you they could just sign you in 00:05:21.180 --> 00:05:23.379 free agency after your release they'd rather 00:05:23.379 --> 00:05:27.500 do that so i think he'll get picked up very soon 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.819 in free agency. He started every year he's been 00:05:30.819 --> 00:05:33.680 in the league. He's been a high -level linebacker 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:35.959 every year he's been in the league. Never was 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.139 truly elite of the elite, but a guy that if you 00:05:39.139 --> 00:05:41.259 had Tremaine Edmonds, you weren't necessarily 00:05:41.259 --> 00:05:44.899 looking for an upgrade. To me, it was a cost 00:05:44.899 --> 00:05:49.100 move. It saves $15 million against the cap. If 00:05:49.100 --> 00:05:51.500 he counted for $10 million, he's probably a Chicago 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:56.620 Bear. But he will have his suitors most definitely. 00:05:57.579 --> 00:06:03.600 The NCAA saga versus Trinidad James, Trinidad 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.959 Chambliss, sorry, not Trinidad James, Trinidad 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:12.160 Chambliss continues. So now the NCAA has filed 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:16.319 an appeal in the Mississippi Supreme Court. It's 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:21.160 600 and some odd pages long, basically. And it 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:26.519 boils down to simply if this happens. he's taking 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.579 an opportunity correction we are setting a precedent 00:06:29.579 --> 00:06:34.079 to take opportunity from other people because 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.040 that is an argument i know me as a fan and others 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.819 as fans has said man the transfer portal kind 00:06:41.819 --> 00:06:44.680 of sucks because you're taking opportunity from 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.300 players in high school well then if a player 00:06:48.300 --> 00:06:51.740 can play five six seven you're seeing eighth 00:06:51.740 --> 00:06:55.819 year people Well, guess what? Every fifth, sixth, 00:06:56.019 --> 00:06:59.220 seventh, or eighth year player, that's one less 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:01.240 high school player getting an opportunity. That's 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.800 one less normal college age player getting an 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.920 opportunity at one of the major schools, potentially. 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:13.740 So on and so forth. Like, you know, at the school 00:07:13.740 --> 00:07:18.120 I work at currently, the guy just broke, I mean, 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:21.120 obliterated every Louisiana single season rushing 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.519 record. He's going to play college football at 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.480 Columbia. It's Division I. Congratulations. It's 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.600 Ivy League. But with those numbers, he should 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.259 probably be a little closer to home. But he had 00:07:32.259 --> 00:07:35.139 to go all the way to Columbia. Now, again, shout 00:07:35.139 --> 00:07:39.139 out him for going Ivy League. Trevin Simon is 00:07:39.139 --> 00:07:44.079 the kid's name. But Ivy League, D1 scholarship, 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.060 like, hey, the whole shebang. Proud of him. Can't 00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:50.839 wait till the signing day. So he officially signs 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:54.480 his letter of intent, but absolutely spectacular. 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:58.319 Couldn't be happier for him. But he's not the 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:02.399 only story like that, that he's got to go all 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.639 the way to the tip top of the country to go have 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.899 an opportunity when the local schools should 00:08:08.899 --> 00:08:10.319 be providing an opportunity. That's a different 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.120 conversation entirely. But in regards to Trinidad, 00:08:14.300 --> 00:08:18.399 Chambliss, the NCAA basically is leaning on that 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:21.889 crutch. If we continue to allow fifth, sixth, 00:08:22.069 --> 00:08:24.629 seventh, eighth year players, you're going to 00:08:24.629 --> 00:08:27.709 get less and less opportunities at trickle down 00:08:27.709 --> 00:08:30.670 coming in. Because for those players that don't 00:08:30.670 --> 00:08:33.269 get those years, they may never get their shot 00:08:33.269 --> 00:08:35.049 because they're fighting against people who have 00:08:35.049 --> 00:08:39.169 those years. So on and so forth. And then kind 00:08:39.169 --> 00:08:42.409 of a weird story coming out of college basketball 00:08:42.409 --> 00:08:47.009 today. um cal state university at bakersfield 00:08:47.009 --> 00:08:50.649 assistant coach is being accused of being a pimp 00:08:50.649 --> 00:08:58.090 um a multi -state operation level situation um 00:08:58.090 --> 00:09:01.870 apparently an anonymous tip from what i've been 00:09:01.870 --> 00:09:04.970 gathering an anonymous tip was emailed to the 00:09:04.970 --> 00:09:08.769 head coach and said fix it or fire him or something 00:09:08.769 --> 00:09:13.059 like that or the whole staff will go down with 00:09:13.059 --> 00:09:20.220 the alleged charges. The coach forwards it to 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:22.100 HR, and I think the president and somebody else 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:25.559 forwards it to higher -ups. Investigation happens. 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:29.059 Apparently, it's enough truth behind it to where 00:09:29.059 --> 00:09:32.299 the guy was arrested. The head coach currently, 00:09:32.340 --> 00:09:34.559 I think, has been fired from Cal State Bakersfield, 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.779 if I remember correctly. I mean, he did hire 00:09:36.779 --> 00:09:40.039 a pimp as an assistant coach. So, you know, not 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:45.470 the world's best. judgment of a leader of a program 00:09:45.470 --> 00:09:48.110 there he's still I think he's also been fired 00:09:48.110 --> 00:09:51.049 but the guy's been like arrested I guess it's 00:09:51.049 --> 00:09:53.950 actually pretty insane of a story long times 00:09:53.950 --> 00:09:58.850 we've had something that left field appear in 00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:02.529 any level of sport but definitely in college 00:10:02.529 --> 00:10:10.330 athletics but now we are going to shift gears 00:10:11.370 --> 00:10:16.169 to the nfl so as i told you guys on the intro 00:10:16.169 --> 00:10:20.909 the nfl offseason is beginning to ramp up two 00:10:20.909 --> 00:10:23.809 major trades happen today i'm recording this 00:10:23.809 --> 00:10:26.669 thursday night the nba is actually wrapping up 00:10:26.669 --> 00:10:29.470 the west coast games are in full swing now but 00:10:29.470 --> 00:10:34.370 two major trades happen today gonna start off 00:10:34.370 --> 00:10:36.529 with what i consider the smaller one and then 00:10:36.529 --> 00:10:41.379 go to the big one the chicago bears traded wide 00:10:41.379 --> 00:10:45.399 receiver DJ Moore to the Buffalo Bills the full 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.879 trade ended up being DJ Moore and a 2026 fifth 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:54.179 round pick to the Buffalo Bills for a 2026 second 00:10:54.179 --> 00:10:59.240 round pick boil down the value kind of nets a 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.559 third for Chicago because you give up a fifth 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:03.720 you get a second but then you give up a player 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:08.340 kind of nets a third Chicago through their moves 00:11:08.340 --> 00:11:12.259 so they traded DJ Moore they released Tremaine 00:11:12.259 --> 00:11:14.720 Edmonds and they made another move they've created 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.580 about 44 million dollars in cap space now they've 00:11:17.580 --> 00:11:21.360 got to go through a lot of retooling because 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:26.500 their star center ups and retires at 27 and they 00:11:26.500 --> 00:11:28.720 also needed things on the defensive side of the 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.059 ball anyway so you kind of already looking to 00:11:33.059 --> 00:11:35.259 replace a lot of people on defense probably create 00:11:35.259 --> 00:11:37.279 some of these cap moves anyway for the defense 00:11:38.700 --> 00:11:44.120 And then you up and lose your star center with 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.860 a young quarterback, which is a terrible combination. 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.759 I mean, in your head, you had to have thought 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:51.240 we've got this center and Caleb Williams for 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:55.460 the next. He was 26 for the next five to eight 00:11:55.460 --> 00:11:58.399 years. Those two together, sort of like Jeff 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.529 Saturday and Peyton Manning. But. You have this 00:12:04.529 --> 00:12:07.750 trade for Chicago in line with their cap saving 00:12:07.750 --> 00:12:10.970 maneuvers. DJ Moore has been rumored to be on 00:12:10.970 --> 00:12:14.769 the trade block for weeks now. One of those, 00:12:14.950 --> 00:12:24.230 as soon as the offseason really cranked up, it 00:12:24.230 --> 00:12:31.769 became pretty obvious that. DJ Moore was not 00:12:31.769 --> 00:12:33.909 going to return back to Chicago. It kind of had 00:12:33.909 --> 00:12:37.490 the same feeling that AJ Brown has for the Eagles. 00:12:37.590 --> 00:12:40.169 It just doesn't make sense for him to go back 00:12:40.169 --> 00:12:43.190 in the locker room. Ultimately, the Bears agreed. 00:12:43.350 --> 00:12:46.110 They found a trade partner with the Bills. They 00:12:46.110 --> 00:12:48.289 had to add a fifth to it, but they net a second. 00:12:49.190 --> 00:12:52.269 So good job by Chicago. Now, could Chicago be 00:12:52.269 --> 00:12:54.730 parlaying these moves to go get a Max Crosby? 00:12:55.330 --> 00:12:58.389 I would have considered that if they do the move. 00:12:58.889 --> 00:13:01.169 a week ago and they still have their center but 00:13:01.169 --> 00:13:03.570 now you want to have as many bites at the apple 00:13:03.570 --> 00:13:05.830 because you need your center you need an edge 00:13:05.830 --> 00:13:09.230 rusher you need a a linebacker now because jermaine 00:13:09.230 --> 00:13:12.690 edmonds is going like you need several things 00:13:12.690 --> 00:13:15.450 now we're having one first and two seconds you 00:13:15.450 --> 00:13:18.129 may net your starting center you're a starting 00:13:18.129 --> 00:13:21.730 edge rusher and a corner as opposed or a linebacker 00:13:21.730 --> 00:13:24.850 rather juxtaposed to you trading those assets 00:13:24.850 --> 00:13:27.789 to get a max crosby especially with a guy like 00:13:27.789 --> 00:13:32.789 Trey Hendrickson in free agency but flipping 00:13:32.789 --> 00:13:36.730 to the bill side of things another push Josh 00:13:36.730 --> 00:13:39.830 Allen into the middle type of move what I mean 00:13:39.830 --> 00:13:43.230 by that is they are going full blast everything 00:13:43.230 --> 00:13:46.490 they can to support Josh Allen they are doing 00:13:46.490 --> 00:13:49.509 whatever they have to do to support Josh Allen 00:13:49.509 --> 00:13:53.610 and to try and win With him. This is another 00:13:53.610 --> 00:13:55.549 receiver they've traded for. Remember they acquired 00:13:55.549 --> 00:13:58.789 Amari Cooper. Right now they've acquired DJ Moore. 00:13:59.490 --> 00:14:02.690 They've spent assets on a guy like James Cook. 00:14:02.950 --> 00:14:04.830 As far as running the ball. They've built the 00:14:04.830 --> 00:14:08.889 offensive line. They've tried. They had Stephon 00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:11.250 Diggs in at one point. They've tried to provide 00:14:11.250 --> 00:14:14.230 as much for Josh Allen. To be successful as possible. 00:14:14.490 --> 00:14:17.169 So much as they fired the head coach. And promoted 00:14:17.169 --> 00:14:21.320 his offensive coordinator. They are doing. Whatever 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.220 they can to provide Josh Allen what they feel 00:14:25.220 --> 00:14:28.600 is the best opportunity to win. Is it the best 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:32.080 opportunity to win? I'm not sure on that. I don't 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.019 think there's enough. There's no number one on 00:14:35.019 --> 00:14:41.799 the team. I think DJ Moore, Khalil Shakir, those 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:44.419 are number twos. I like Dalton Kincaid a lot. 00:14:44.539 --> 00:14:46.899 But to me, there's no true number one receiver, 00:14:47.059 --> 00:14:49.559 which also considering they kept their first 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:51.970 round pick. could be something that they look 00:14:51.970 --> 00:14:55.850 to draft this receiver draft is kind of all over 00:14:55.850 --> 00:14:58.769 the place maybe they trade up you know they pick 00:14:58.769 --> 00:15:00.690 in the 20s because they made the playoffs so 00:15:00.690 --> 00:15:04.429 maybe they trade up into the mid -teens or low 00:15:04.429 --> 00:15:09.070 teens um to try and get the receiver option they 00:15:09.070 --> 00:15:13.429 want also they're not the world's best team at 00:15:13.429 --> 00:15:16.409 developing receivers insert keon coleman here 00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:20.149 So I don't know if Brandon Bean would have the 00:15:20.149 --> 00:15:23.590 stomach to trade up for a receiver. I think he's 00:15:23.590 --> 00:15:27.210 comfortable with what he did in DJ Moore. And 00:15:27.210 --> 00:15:30.049 this is pretty much going to be the receiving 00:15:30.049 --> 00:15:36.009 core that matters in Buffalo. So Bills fans, 00:15:36.190 --> 00:15:38.730 this is pretty much your receiving core. There's 00:15:38.730 --> 00:15:40.870 not really a lot. I don't think Brandon Bean, 00:15:41.049 --> 00:15:42.690 like I said, is going to have the stomach to 00:15:42.690 --> 00:15:46.059 trade up for a receiver. Two years removed. from 00:15:46.059 --> 00:15:48.299 Keon Coleman, especially considering that the 00:15:48.299 --> 00:15:50.620 owner basically blamed the Keon Coleman move 00:15:50.620 --> 00:15:53.639 on the coach who's been fired. So the move up 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.080 for another receiver may not feel like the best 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:02.960 option for a Brandon Bean in this scenario. And 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:08.620 our second big trade that went down was the Chiefs 00:16:08.620 --> 00:16:11.940 do it again and the Rams do it again. Two teams 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:15.860 that have a pretty consistent off -season diet 00:16:15.860 --> 00:16:20.580 of operation. Pretty much did standard operating 00:16:20.580 --> 00:16:23.580 procedure for them. The Chiefs, over the past 00:16:23.580 --> 00:16:27.179 six to eight years, during the Mahomes era, have 00:16:27.179 --> 00:16:29.460 gotten good players. They've developed good players. 00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:31.580 Before they really had to pay good players, they 00:16:31.580 --> 00:16:34.980 traded them. Very Patriot -like. I remember the 00:16:34.980 --> 00:16:38.740 Patriots were famous for trading a player a year 00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:42.490 early. as opposed to trading a player a year 00:16:42.490 --> 00:16:45.610 late so before that young player in a tight cap 00:16:45.610 --> 00:16:48.370 situation really had to get a big paycheck they'll 00:16:48.370 --> 00:16:51.190 trade him Richard Seymour is the name that comes 00:16:51.190 --> 00:16:55.610 to mind for a lot of people I look at it and 00:16:55.610 --> 00:16:58.090 the Chiefs trying to do what the Patriots did 00:16:58.090 --> 00:17:00.789 which was be a consistent championship level 00:17:00.789 --> 00:17:06.430 organization for 15 years plus they're doing 00:17:06.430 --> 00:17:11.000 similar they've traded talented people when they 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.319 become financially basically financially impossible 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.400 they traded Tyreek Hill they traded now Trent 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:23.119 McDuffie they traded Marcus Peters like they're 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.660 they tend to trade guys who get to a financial 00:17:27.660 --> 00:17:31.859 level that they feel is too much especially considering 00:17:31.859 --> 00:17:34.380 that you have the highest paid defensive lineman 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:37.029 or defensive tackle and Chris Jones. You have 00:17:37.029 --> 00:17:41.410 the highest paid, one of the highest paid quarterbacks 00:17:41.410 --> 00:17:43.569 in Patrick Mahomes. You have the highest paid 00:17:43.569 --> 00:17:47.549 center. You have a top five paid guard. They're 00:17:47.549 --> 00:17:50.049 really, really highly paid at tight end as well. 00:17:50.109 --> 00:17:52.250 Even though Travis Kelsey is taking a sweetheart 00:17:52.250 --> 00:17:55.690 deal at this point in his career, they are still 00:17:55.690 --> 00:18:00.150 very highly compensated there. And we're not 00:18:00.150 --> 00:18:02.150 even mentioning the rest of that defense. So 00:18:02.150 --> 00:18:06.089 Trent McDuffie. Is the next of the Chiefs. To 00:18:06.089 --> 00:18:09.710 get moved. Right before he gets paid a big payday. 00:18:09.769 --> 00:18:12.250 After being developed. Who does he get moved 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:17.769 to? The owners of. Bleak those picks. The Los 00:18:17.769 --> 00:18:23.289 Angeles Rams. Full trade. The Kansas City Chiefs 00:18:23.289 --> 00:18:27.009 trade. Trent McDuffie. To the Los Angeles Rams. 00:18:27.210 --> 00:18:32.500 For a first round. fifth round and sixth round 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:36.480 pick in 2026 along with a third round pick in 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:41.619 2027 absolute haul for a corner now he's one 00:18:41.619 --> 00:18:43.799 of the best corners in the league i think he's 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.559 you can make an argument at three i think one 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.240 and two are an argument for one that's pat certain 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.140 the second and christian gondalez i think those 00:18:53.140 --> 00:18:55.460 two are the best corners in football bar none 00:18:56.430 --> 00:18:58.910 I think the argument for a Trent McDuffie starts 00:18:58.910 --> 00:19:02.950 at about three. Now, this is a repeat trade in 00:19:02.950 --> 00:19:07.029 a way because the Los Angeles Rams traded for 00:19:07.029 --> 00:19:11.130 Marcus Peters from the Chiefs. And now you kind 00:19:11.130 --> 00:19:18.450 of get a new era version of it by having Trent 00:19:18.450 --> 00:19:25.829 McDuffie get traded by having Trent McDuffie. 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:31.680 get traded to the los angeles rams now of course 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:33.980 when this trade happened the comparisons jumped 00:19:33.980 --> 00:19:37.759 out twice the comparisons jumped out one to marcus 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.400 peters who was a high level corner on the chiefs 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.160 gets traded to the rams not as not as good as 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:50.779 mcduffie uh because the acquisition for the rams 00:19:50.779 --> 00:19:54.059 when they did it was a 2018 fourth round pick 00:19:54.059 --> 00:19:59.039 and a 2019 second round pick to the chiefs mainly 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:04.160 a lot of it due to what was reported as a contractual 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:09.019 disagreement a slight dip in performance and 00:20:09.019 --> 00:20:16.519 um there were some issues behaviorally that the 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:21.440 um Kansas City Chiefs, excuse me, were not in 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:24.160 position to want to deal with. So they moved 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:27.140 him to the Los Angeles Rams who, hey, bring them 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:31.559 on. And of course, Tyreek Hill. So the Tyreek 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:39.200 Hill trade hall was a good bit above this one. 00:20:39.299 --> 00:20:44.400 So remember, this trade was three picks in the 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:47.349 current draft, first, fifth, and sixth. plus 00:20:47.349 --> 00:20:51.789 a third in the next draft. Tyreek Hill was traded 00:20:51.789 --> 00:20:54.369 for a first, second, and fourth in the current 00:20:54.369 --> 00:20:58.730 draft, and then a fourth and a sixth in the future 00:20:58.730 --> 00:21:03.750 draft. So the first cancel, sorry I got kind 00:21:03.750 --> 00:21:06.890 of doing this live, a second and a fourth beats 00:21:06.890 --> 00:21:09.329 a fifth and a sixth, and then the following year, 00:21:09.549 --> 00:21:12.329 fourth and a sixth probably nets you a third 00:21:12.329 --> 00:21:15.650 round value. So truly the kicker is... first, 00:21:15.730 --> 00:21:19.849 second, and fourth in the previous year or in 00:21:19.849 --> 00:21:22.849 the current year's draft for Tyreek Hill. But 00:21:22.849 --> 00:21:26.190 again, that mindset immediately popped in because 00:21:26.190 --> 00:21:29.329 Tyreek Hill goes to Miami and gets a major contract. 00:21:30.329 --> 00:21:34.509 Trent McDuffie is going to probably be the highest 00:21:34.509 --> 00:21:37.470 paid corner in football, which will set the stage 00:21:37.470 --> 00:21:40.170 for Christian Gonzalez and Pat Sertain or Christian 00:21:40.170 --> 00:21:44.759 Gonzalez specifically to you know, align his 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:49.940 contract to it. But it's a great deal to me for 00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:53.019 everybody involved. First of all, for Trent McDuffie, 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.420 you go from one winning organization to another. 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:57.720 You go from living in Kansas City, Missouri, 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.700 to living in Los Angeles, California. So that 00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:04.819 is an upgrade. Number two, for the Chiefs, you 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:07.599 acquire four draft picks, including three in 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.079 his current draft. So you went into this season 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:13.299 trying to win a Super Bowl, of course. You get 00:22:13.299 --> 00:22:18.759 the season from down under. You end up with the 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.599 ninth pick in the draft of your own pick. And 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.940 you end up with the Rams pick, which is going 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:27.660 to be in the late 20s. So where you would normally 00:22:27.660 --> 00:22:30.480 have picked plus the ninth pick, and you acquire 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.400 a fifth, and you acquire a sixth. So you're really 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.740 building those draft coffers to attempt to build 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:43.619 cost effectively around Patrick Mahomes. Also, 00:22:43.619 --> 00:22:47.380 for the Rams, I love the move. If you're Los 00:22:47.380 --> 00:22:51.240 Angeles, you keep the Falcons pick. Not the Falcons 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:55.720 pick. Yeah, keep the Falcons pick. The Chiefs 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:58.359 have their own pick at nine and then your pick 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:02.880 now in the late 20s. But LA keeps the Falcons 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:06.680 pick, turns their pick into what they feel like 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:09.950 Trent McDuffie. is an all pro level corner they're 00:23:09.950 --> 00:23:12.369 gonna pay him the rams are in the mindset of 00:23:12.369 --> 00:23:15.069 why draft because they've traded every single 00:23:15.069 --> 00:23:19.769 first round pick away since 2016 besides one 00:23:19.769 --> 00:23:25.730 and that one became jerry burst why draft and 00:23:25.730 --> 00:23:29.410 hope he's an all pro and hope he's a pro bowler 00:23:29.410 --> 00:23:32.869 every year and hope he's a top five to ten player 00:23:32.869 --> 00:23:36.920 his position or I can simply just trade the pick 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.420 away. I can trade the hope away for the player 00:23:40.420 --> 00:23:43.220 that's already an all -pro, already a pro bowler 00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:46.140 every year, already one of the best in his position. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:52.900 It encapsulates all three sides of this trade. 00:23:54.299 --> 00:23:58.400 Their personalities are there. tendencies have 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:00.619 shown up don't know a lot about mcduffie personally 00:24:00.619 --> 00:24:03.619 but shut down corners like living in warm area 00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:06.920 and getting paid the chiefs need to acquire cheap 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.779 assets to keep building around my homes and the 00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:14.660 captains of the f them picks um trade a first 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:17.279 round pick and get an all -pro corner which is 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:21.559 right up less needs alley and then a couple of 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:24.759 quick hitters on the nfl before we move on Cam 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:27.059 Jordan will enter unrestricted free agency for 00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:30.019 the first time in his career following 15 years 00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.759 with the New Orleans Saints. Now, that's not 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:33.859 saying he won't resign with the New Orleans Saints. 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:36.559 It's just for the first time in 15 years, he's 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.960 going into the offseason contractless. Him and 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:41.299 the organization couldn't reach an agreement. 00:24:42.180 --> 00:24:45.259 Therefore, Jordan's entering free agency. He's 00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:48.400 excited to play for his 16th season. He has consistent 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.740 production. So I'm interested to see if teams 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:54.460 will one year big bag him. because of his high 00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:57.599 level production and with the edge russia market 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:01.799 going to reset itself daniel hunter reset it 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:05.559 earlier with a one year fully guaranteed 40 million 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:09.099 dollar extension max crosby's gonna put a dent 00:25:09.099 --> 00:25:12.740 in it trey henderson's gonna test a lot of values 00:25:12.740 --> 00:25:15.900 because he's a high level rusher that is in getting 00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:20.359 unrestricted for agent so a lot of things could 00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:24.579 be at play financially for Cam Jordan and I think 00:25:24.579 --> 00:25:28.460 he just wants to finally see his value to me 00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:30.599 he's given the Saints kind of sweetheart deals 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:34.259 over the years to kind of keep the ship together 00:25:34.259 --> 00:25:37.119 and so on and so forth but now he gets to go 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:40.579 truly see what he is worth on the open market 00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:46.119 and lastly But certainly not least, Kyler Murray's 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:49.960 reign in Arizona is over. After seven seasons, 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:52.839 they are releasing the former number one overall 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:58.380 pick to the free agency. And so Kyler Murray 00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:00.259 will be an unrestricted free agent. He'll have 00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:05.000 a lot of guaranteed money left. So for one year, 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:07.039 he's going to be incredibly cheap for somebody 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.619 because he has a lot of guaranteed funds left. 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:13.579 And so he can go to some new team and sign for 00:26:13.579 --> 00:26:16.420 the minimum and force the Arizona Cardinals to 00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:19.359 pay as much as possible because due to his offset 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.039 language, that's the only way they would be relieved 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:24.920 from some of those cap hits and some of that 00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:30.220 cap hit rather. But that is all I have for the 00:26:30.220 --> 00:26:33.920 NFL. And now we're going to shift to the NBA. 00:26:50.679 --> 00:26:55.700 Welcome back into the show. And now we're going 00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:59.960 to get into the NBA. Again, we're recording this 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:03.640 in the middle of the West Coast games. So I won't 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:06.319 talk about results. I typically won't unless 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:08.400 I'm recording like an instant release, as I call 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.259 it. We're recording early in the day. Like I 00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:13.279 don't want to talk about results of games that 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:15.019 have happened and I get to other ones and I feel 00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:17.299 like I believe in games out, so on and so forth. 00:27:17.380 --> 00:27:20.829 So we're not even going to do that. Simply, we're 00:27:20.829 --> 00:27:22.369 going to talk about some big headlines happening 00:27:22.369 --> 00:27:26.890 in the NBA. Number one is Jason Tatum's return. 00:27:27.910 --> 00:27:30.910 Less than 10 months after tearing his Achilles 00:27:30.910 --> 00:27:34.809 in the NBA playoffs, Jason Tatum is set to return 00:27:34.809 --> 00:27:37.849 by the time you guys hear this today against 00:27:37.849 --> 00:27:41.769 the Dallas Mavericks, or tonight rather, against 00:27:41.769 --> 00:27:44.650 the Dallas Mavericks, which conveniently also 00:27:44.650 --> 00:27:49.900 should be Cooper Flagg's return as well. So big, 00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:53.720 big returns in both games. And now the new look 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:58.140 Celtics are whole. So very strangely with the 00:27:58.140 --> 00:28:00.960 Celtics this offseason, they kind of move like 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.880 they were punting. They cut hundreds of millions 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.700 in salary. They moved Porzingis and they got 00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:11.609 rid of... They did like little flips to just 00:28:11.609 --> 00:28:14.410 anything they could to cut salary. They cut over 00:28:14.410 --> 00:28:16.710 a hundred and some million dollars in luxury 00:28:16.710 --> 00:28:19.430 tax. They got under the cap, away from the tax. 00:28:20.130 --> 00:28:23.869 And pretty much, I think, had the mindset of 00:28:23.869 --> 00:28:28.109 a punt. Like, hey, Tatum's, if he comes back, 00:28:28.150 --> 00:28:31.250 he won't be himself this year. Probably not going 00:28:31.250 --> 00:28:35.769 to win the championship. Let's not spend an exorbitant 00:28:35.769 --> 00:28:39.480 amount of money not to win. You know, like, we're 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:41.480 going to need that luxury tax grace. We're going 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:45.660 to need that second apron or whatever to maneuver 00:28:45.660 --> 00:28:49.380 once we get fully healthy. It's not this year. 00:28:49.980 --> 00:28:51.519 Okay, well, let's not spend a whole bunch of 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.740 money doing it. Let's reset the books. Well, 00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:57.359 they've done that. Jalen Brown has become one 00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:59.400 of the top five players in the NBA playing this 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:04.220 season. He's a top five MVP candidate. And Peyton 00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:06.500 Pritchard is a revelation off the bench. I mean, 00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:08.440 we knew what he did off the bench, but seeing 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.299 it's such a high volume every single night now, 00:29:11.539 --> 00:29:15.799 he is outstanding off the bench. And then, of 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.519 course, you have Joe Mazzulla, the quote master 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:23.319 and the Zen master part two. So you've got a 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:27.319 lot of great things happening. Brad Stevens with 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:31.349 his smooth maneuvers like a Nikola Vucevic. joining 00:29:31.349 --> 00:29:35.250 the squad. You got a lot of things working for 00:29:35.250 --> 00:29:40.829 Boston, but we all felt that as they're currently 00:29:40.829 --> 00:29:44.369 constructed, they had a 0 % chance of winning 00:29:44.369 --> 00:29:47.430 the NBA Finals. Just being honest with you. And 00:29:47.430 --> 00:29:50.710 it's not anything to do with Tatum not being 00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:53.869 there. I think Jalen Brown can be the number 00:29:53.869 --> 00:29:56.569 one on the championship team. The problem is 00:29:56.569 --> 00:29:59.069 this team is not built for Jalen Brown to do 00:29:59.069 --> 00:30:02.589 that. It is missing a very large Jason Tatum 00:30:02.589 --> 00:30:06.789 -like piece. Now, if you took Tatum and made 00:30:06.789 --> 00:30:09.950 him two players and put him on Boston, then yes, 00:30:10.170 --> 00:30:12.809 Jalen Brown, I would give them a decent chance 00:30:12.809 --> 00:30:17.170 of winning the East and advancing to the finals 00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:20.930 without, obviously, the ability to divide Tatum 00:30:20.930 --> 00:30:24.210 in the two. Without him, they can't win. And 00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:29.470 so now his return at least gives them a chance 00:30:29.470 --> 00:30:32.410 of winning the title. Now I think how big of 00:30:32.410 --> 00:30:36.029 a chance depends on how back Tatum is. Obviously 00:30:36.029 --> 00:30:39.950 he won't be 100 % himself this season. May not 00:30:39.950 --> 00:30:43.869 even be early next season. But if he could be 00:30:43.869 --> 00:30:48.970 75 % of him as far as the athletic ability and 00:30:48.970 --> 00:30:52.690 defense, etc. If he could be 75%. If he could... 00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:57.660 knock down the open three, play at about 75 % 00:30:57.660 --> 00:31:00.819 on defense, and he can give you 15 to 20 minutes 00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:04.160 a night. They might actually win the title because 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.299 the threat of having him out there, especially 00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:10.019 with backups, they're going to panic. I don't 00:31:10.019 --> 00:31:13.180 think he starts tomorrow. Like if I'm in Boston, 00:31:13.380 --> 00:31:17.660 he plays 15 to 18 minutes. He does not start. 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:19.980 That way he gets his applause in and he gets 00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:23.259 his applause out. Because he's, I mean, 10 months 00:31:23.259 --> 00:31:27.480 is ridiculous. But he has found a way back in 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:36.220 a shorter time. Oklahoma City Thunder. Everybody's 00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:41.500 favorite villainous team. Two years ago, I think, 00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:43.759 Shea started the foul baiting. And everybody 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:45.440 said, man, they're not playing real basketball. 00:31:45.819 --> 00:31:47.740 Like, Shea's just, they call him a free throw 00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:50.480 merchant. He's just running around. flopping 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:55.680 to the ground trying to get fouls and then they 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.059 all of a sudden started playing football on the 00:31:58.059 --> 00:32:01.039 hardwood they became very physical especially 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.519 on the perimeter and pretty much what their bet 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.359 was you're not gonna call it every time you're 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.240 not gonna call most of the time the reason why 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.440 you don't want the game bogged down and slowed 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:19.660 down and referees are human So if you are known 00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:23.539 by a referee crew as being a very physical defensive 00:32:23.539 --> 00:32:26.880 team, you're going to be allowed to get away 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.480 with some physicality because that's your reputation. 00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:40.059 That is what you are supposed to be. That is 00:32:40.059 --> 00:32:43.460 what you are. Designed to be. You are a physical 00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:45.740 team. So you're going to get away with some things. 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:48.640 And Oklahoma City has been doing that for the 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:51.700 past two to three years. And I feel like they 00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:54.660 just get more and more guys to play that way. 00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:58.859 Lou Dort, Cason Wallace, Alex Caruso, and et 00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:02.839 cetera. They play an incredibly physical style 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:07.880 of perimeter defense. Hey, if you get away with 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.339 it, by all means do it. What I don't like. is 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:17.339 Lou Dort. And I hate his action here. And everybody's 00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:20.380 probably seen it now. You know, May Bucket jogging 00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:25.079 down the court and he reverse hip thrusts. I 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.460 don't know. He throws his hip, throws his body. 00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:32.519 I don't know. Into Jokic's leg. Jokic tumbles 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:38.400 like an old great oak tree and gets up wanting 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:41.359 to go. And there's an all -time shot of Yoko 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:48.420 just fury at J -Dub or J -Will, who was just 00:33:48.420 --> 00:33:52.059 coming in to help Dort. But that was beyond dirty. 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.559 And I think that I'm going to have to start calling 00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:58.359 a spade a spade. When it comes to Lou Dort, I've 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.079 never liked how he played. I didn't like how 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:03.539 physical he was as far as the dirty physicality. 00:34:03.579 --> 00:34:05.420 Now, under the goal, you're boxing out. Do what 00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:07.599 you got to do. But stuff like what he did against 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.199 Jokic, there's other incidents where he has been 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:13.039 like, there's no way you didn't do that on purpose. 00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:23.460 He's getting to a level of consistency in bad 00:34:23.460 --> 00:34:27.519 behavior to make the incidents or the accidents 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:31.860 look like on purpose moments. So either he truly 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:34.510 is dirty and he should just embrace it. Or he 00:34:34.510 --> 00:34:36.829 should stop these reckless acts on the court 00:34:36.829 --> 00:34:40.710 that make it look like he's dirty. But speaking 00:34:40.710 --> 00:34:44.110 of Jokic, what's been going on with Jokic? His 00:34:44.110 --> 00:34:47.670 numbers have dipped. In February was the first 00:34:47.670 --> 00:34:51.949 time that he shot under 50 % in a quarter in 00:34:51.949 --> 00:34:56.289 a month for like a decade. I mean, he is not 00:34:56.289 --> 00:35:00.230 himself. And I say this, right? He may be the 00:35:00.230 --> 00:35:02.840 only person in the world that... You know, oh, 00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:06.780 he's nearly a triple -double on 48 % shooting. 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:10.059 He's off. You know, and currently he's 16 -8 00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:12.880 -9 on 6 -4 -9 against the Lakers. But, you know, 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:18.019 that's the level that Jokic has shown us is that, 00:35:18.099 --> 00:35:22.619 hey, I'm supposed to be, you know, 35 -13 -10 00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:25.639 on 57 -58 % shooting. Like, that's just who it 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:27.619 is. And then, of course, you see it in the free 00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:29.699 -throw line, too. He's down several percentage 00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:33.429 points at the free -throw line. Obviously, he 00:35:33.429 --> 00:35:36.550 was out for a long time with a knee. Reportedly, 00:35:36.630 --> 00:35:40.409 there's a wrist injury going on with Jokic as 00:35:40.409 --> 00:35:42.769 well. That's not coming up on the injury report. 00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:45.869 It is that way on purpose. He doesn't want it 00:35:45.869 --> 00:35:49.150 on the injury report. But it is bothering him 00:35:49.150 --> 00:35:53.849 when he plays. And he attempts to play through 00:35:53.849 --> 00:35:56.510 it. And most of the time, he's successful, right? 00:35:57.130 --> 00:36:02.110 It's just the... upper levels of efficiency we're 00:36:02.110 --> 00:36:05.429 used to seeing from him we aren't and i think 00:36:05.429 --> 00:36:09.150 primarily that is due to battling the wrist injury 00:36:09.150 --> 00:36:13.550 but again he's the only player on the planet 00:36:13.550 --> 00:36:16.690 that a near triple double on almost 50 shooting 00:36:16.690 --> 00:36:19.329 we're questioning if he has some sort of injury 00:36:19.329 --> 00:36:22.030 that is preventing his talents i mean that's 00:36:22.030 --> 00:36:28.699 completely a um completely a compliment to Jokic 00:36:28.699 --> 00:36:33.820 a honor for Jokic that you know triple nearly 00:36:33.820 --> 00:36:37.519 a 30 point triple double on almost 50 % shooting 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:44.880 is a down month um insane insane from Jokic but 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.760 speaking of one foreign unicorn let's talk about 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.800 the alien Victor Winn -Miniama and his San Antonio 00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:56.389 Spurs they have a flaw Now, I'm saying this knowing 00:36:56.389 --> 00:36:58.789 full well the Spurs have won 12 of their last 00:36:58.789 --> 00:37:02.010 13. They didn't lose the entire month of February. 00:37:02.469 --> 00:37:05.289 It took a pretty decent elegance to Knicks, but 00:37:05.289 --> 00:37:10.469 there are several flaws with the San Antonio 00:37:10.469 --> 00:37:14.590 Spurs that Knicks picked at. Number one, Victor 00:37:14.590 --> 00:37:16.889 was not having a very physical night. Now, he 00:37:16.889 --> 00:37:18.989 had a couple of moments, but for the most part, 00:37:19.050 --> 00:37:22.480 he was not having a very physical day. number 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.539 two the guards can't shoot and this is the bright 00:37:26.539 --> 00:37:29.219 glowing red light the Spurs are not good shooters 00:37:29.219 --> 00:37:33.340 the guards cannot shoot it's the fine castle 00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:35.460 and I cannot think of the other one right now 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:38.840 excuse me not the air fox it's another one they 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:44.820 can't shoot so the Knicks started purposely leaving 00:37:44.820 --> 00:37:48.639 them at like 30 feet it was like dude shoot it 00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:51.730 and they shot a horrible percentage I mean, they 00:37:51.730 --> 00:37:56.250 literally cannot shoot. And so that's going to 00:37:56.250 --> 00:37:57.829 come up in the playoffs when people pack the 00:37:57.829 --> 00:38:01.010 lane for Victor and send doubles at Victor. They're 00:38:01.010 --> 00:38:03.349 going to double off the guys who can't shoot, 00:38:03.489 --> 00:38:06.710 which apparently is both of his backcourt members. 00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:12.829 So, you know, that's one of the reasons why I 00:38:12.829 --> 00:38:18.889 picked against San Antonio Spurs. It's just there's 00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:22.199 not enough there. It is almost impossible to 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.440 go from zero to hero as far as playoff, as a 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.980 group. You don't go from never doing it to going 00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:31.159 to the NBA Finals. It just doesn't work, which 00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:33.820 is always my pushback against San Antonio Spurs. 00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:35.440 Now, again, they're winning the 12 out of 13. 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.800 I could be a complete and total doofus and complete 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.900 and totally wrong. I doubt it, but it is possible. 00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:48.980 Very unlikely, but possible. And the fact that 00:38:48.980 --> 00:38:52.099 the Spurs go from zero meaningless playoff minutes 00:38:52.099 --> 00:38:55.880 and wins for their core all the way to the NBA 00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:02.280 Finals. But up next, we're going to talk about 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:27.550 the WNBA slash unrivaled. Up next, we're going 00:39:27.550 --> 00:39:35.210 to talk about the WNBA and Unrivaled. I want 00:39:35.210 --> 00:39:39.090 to give a shout out, number one, to The Mist. 00:39:40.130 --> 00:39:44.429 I mean, they got it done. They got it done. Led 00:39:44.429 --> 00:39:48.610 by Breanna Stewart, of course, who seems to always, 00:39:48.750 --> 00:39:56.369 always win. The Mist got it done. They won 80 00:39:56.369 --> 00:40:00.050 -74 with Brianna Stewart leading the way with 00:40:00.050 --> 00:40:03.849 32 points. Now Kelsey Plum had 40 on the other 00:40:03.849 --> 00:40:09.469 side. This comes after last year Rose won, led 00:40:09.469 --> 00:40:15.789 by Chelsea Gray, Kalia Copper, Angel Reese, and 00:40:15.789 --> 00:40:18.750 I believe Sabrina Inescu was the fourth main 00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:23.750 player. But definitely this year, shout out to 00:40:23.750 --> 00:40:27.599 Myst. led by Enrique Gamboale, but namely Brianna 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.840 Stewart. Stewart's a freaking winner. Like, she 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.360 just is. She's won four. She won four straight 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.199 in the NCAA. She's got unrivaled now. She has 00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:43.159 three, I believe, in the W. She's won in Europe. 00:40:43.179 --> 00:40:46.139 She has high school championships. Like, when 00:40:46.139 --> 00:40:48.460 it comes to basketball, Brianna Stewart rolls 00:40:48.460 --> 00:40:56.440 out of bed and gets it done. And I mean, you 00:40:56.440 --> 00:41:02.739 know, absolutely spectacular of her to get it 00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:07.539 done. She wins at every level. She wins in every 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:10.019 country. She's the winner. She's won gold with 00:41:10.019 --> 00:41:12.619 the Olympic team. She's won FIBA cups. She just 00:41:12.619 --> 00:41:19.179 wins. So shout out to her. But what I want to 00:41:19.179 --> 00:41:23.000 get into with this topic, the CBA. has been updated 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:28.300 uh so the wmba league office is beginning to 00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:32.679 make some more concessions in terms of what they're 00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.519 gonna give now they're still battling with the 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:42.019 revenue you know as of three days ago some of 00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:45.820 this stuff is starting to come out um but the 00:41:45.820 --> 00:41:49.760 big thing is the revenue share proposal um is 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.019 the biggest hold up along with what players get 00:41:52.019 --> 00:41:56.119 besides the revenue share um so last proposal 00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:58.519 with the league's revenue share proposal remains 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:02.219 a lot of the same um but the year one salary 00:42:02.219 --> 00:42:05.059 capital the deal would go up to 5 .75 million 00:42:05.059 --> 00:42:07.239 it was right around five million even four and 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:16.960 a half at one point uh the rookie contract Accelerator 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.420 is in the deal now, too. So remember how I spoke 00:42:20.420 --> 00:42:22.039 about it? I spoke about it last week, maybe the 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:26.219 week before, that the WNBA has a problem. A lot 00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:28.659 of their best players are on, or a lot of their 00:42:28.659 --> 00:42:31.380 star players, are on rookie deals. So if you 00:42:31.380 --> 00:42:35.119 sign this CBA, and then Angel Reese is making 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:39.019 $70 ,000, and then Flage Johnson shows up making 00:42:39.019 --> 00:42:42.139 $130 ,000, $140 ,000, it's going to be a problem. 00:42:43.130 --> 00:42:47.429 To attempt to combat this, the WNBA added escalators 00:42:47.429 --> 00:42:52.449 and accelerators, similar to the Rose Rule. All 00:42:52.449 --> 00:42:55.889 WNBA first and second team players who are still 00:42:55.889 --> 00:42:58.710 on their rookie deals will become eligible to 00:42:58.710 --> 00:43:01.829 sign a max contract in their fourth year and 00:43:01.829 --> 00:43:05.530 would not be eligible for the core following 00:43:05.530 --> 00:43:17.150 that extension. core so the core is when you 00:43:17.150 --> 00:43:19.130 pretty much get stuck on a team for lack of a 00:43:19.130 --> 00:43:24.190 better term there is no way that happens to you 00:43:24.190 --> 00:43:30.110 now but some big updates in the CBA as well remember 00:43:30.110 --> 00:43:31.750 they didn't change the revenue sharing model 00:43:31.750 --> 00:43:36.349 at all the salary cap would go from 1 .5 million 00:43:36.349 --> 00:43:41.869 to 5 .75 million the max salary will increase 00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:46.380 by more than one million dollars with the average 00:43:46.380 --> 00:43:52.800 salary increasing 420k and again those kickers 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:58.400 um regarding contract acceleration if you succeed 00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:04.280 really early as a rookie on your rookie contract 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.599 and then also i want to touch on some important 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.019 dates so march 10th which is, by the time you 00:44:12.019 --> 00:44:14.739 guys hear this, four days away, has been the 00:44:14.739 --> 00:44:18.460 underlying problem. The reason why is in order 00:44:18.460 --> 00:44:21.039 to not mess the schedule up, March 10th is the 00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:26.719 date drawn in the sand. Because between March 00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:30.239 10th and the start of the season, the Portland 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:34.739 Temple and the Fire have their expansion draft 00:44:34.739 --> 00:44:39.239 between April 1st and April 6th. The free agency 00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:42.300 negotiation period begins the April 7th through 00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:45.559 the 11th. And you can officially begin to sign 00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:47.960 deals as a free agent on April 12th. I remember 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:54.280 they said, barring some sort of miracle, you 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:57.440 pretty much could count on the WNBA season not 00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.119 happening on time because there was a certain 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:08.030 date that you had to. There's a certain date 00:45:08.030 --> 00:45:16.690 that you had to sign the CBA in order for the 00:45:16.690 --> 00:45:20.929 CBA to take effect in time for the season dates 00:45:20.929 --> 00:45:28.469 to be unaffected. We're dangerously getting to 00:45:28.469 --> 00:45:31.250 that point now. Brandon Stewart has been open 00:45:31.250 --> 00:45:33.289 about the strike. They already got clearance 00:45:33.289 --> 00:45:35.570 on a strike. Kelsey Plummer said it as well. 00:45:35.610 --> 00:45:38.170 They had their strike vote early and the players 00:45:38.170 --> 00:45:44.230 agreed that the WNBPA can strike. What do I think 00:45:44.230 --> 00:45:46.929 will happen? I think the season will be slightly 00:45:46.929 --> 00:45:49.469 compressed. I don't think it'll be a strike. 00:45:49.690 --> 00:45:54.989 There's too much money involved. There is a major 00:45:54.989 --> 00:45:57.969 push right now for women athletics, specifically 00:45:57.969 --> 00:46:01.889 basketball. There's so much opportunity and finances 00:46:01.889 --> 00:46:05.570 available for both sides. It would be idiotic 00:46:05.570 --> 00:46:08.510 for a strike to happen or a labor stoppage or 00:46:08.510 --> 00:46:12.909 whatever to occur with the amount of financial 00:46:12.909 --> 00:46:16.409 ability that is out there. The amount of finances 00:46:16.409 --> 00:46:18.989 that are out there. I mean, even if you're a 00:46:18.989 --> 00:46:21.349 max player, 80 % of the league is free agents. 00:46:21.530 --> 00:46:24.210 So if you are a max player made 200 grand, you 00:46:24.210 --> 00:46:28.340 can make a million dollars. You know, like. the 00:46:28.340 --> 00:46:32.059 amount of money that exists did not exist two 00:46:32.059 --> 00:46:35.300 years ago it was unimaginable two years ago and 00:46:35.300 --> 00:46:38.000 now with the influx of the new fans of the new 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:41.920 talent the wmba specifically specifically and 00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:45.099 women's sports in general are a cash machine 00:46:45.099 --> 00:46:49.420 right now so i think it'll be a compressed schedule 00:46:49.420 --> 00:46:51.980 i don't see a deal getting done by march 10th 00:46:51.980 --> 00:46:54.920 unless there are some major concessions On both 00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:57.340 sides, I can see a deal getting done around April 00:46:57.340 --> 00:47:00.780 1st, compressing either the offseason or the 00:47:00.780 --> 00:47:03.760 regular season, and then it smooths itself out 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:09.280 by the playoffs. But that is all I have for you 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:12.679 today. I hope you guys are rocking with me. One 00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.280 of my shortest shows in a while, but not a whole 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:18.139 lot happening in the world right now. NFL kind 00:47:18.139 --> 00:47:20.599 of dropping some bombs. We will have our mock 00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:25.099 draft show next week. I kind of want to let some 00:47:25.099 --> 00:47:28.639 of the trades and releases and contracts get 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:30.840 signed, but we will have our mock draft show 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.219 next week, our 1 .0 show that will be next week. 00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:40.869 So look out for that. But if you are not subscribed 00:47:40.869 --> 00:47:42.989 to the show, make sure you hit that subscribe 00:47:42.989 --> 00:47:44.829 button. Make sure you hit that follow button. 00:47:45.190 --> 00:47:47.730 Follow at J -Time Sports on all your favorite 00:47:47.730 --> 00:47:50.409 social medias. 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