Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your host, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA finals and we will have our best for
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Welcome in to the show.
Normally, we have a pretty diversified show.
Normally, we talk about the NFL.
We talk about the NBA.
We may even mention the WNBA, which has some great action on right now because the Aces
are playing the Sun.
The Aces are undefeated.
They're going to win the championship.
So if you want to make a little money in a couple of months, put all your money on the
Aces to win the championship.
You know, normally we discuss, we will discuss, you know, normally we discuss Jacob DeGrom
having Tommy John surgery for a torn UCL.
You know, we may even mention the two Cleveland Browns players that got robbed at gunpoint
at 330 in the morning.
Just got those guys into being safe.
He stole some jewelry and drove off in Greg Newsome's car.
We may even discuss Diane Williamson becoming a father.
If you notice the NBA, we would discuss that.
We may, normally we would talk about all those things, but none of that's important right
now because if what my prediction is correct, this is the last podcast you will get from
me before the NBA finals is decided.
Let me double check that before I say that.
Game six is Thursday, June 15th.
So you'll get one more podcast from me because it ends in six.
Now let's start off with the NBA finals.
Programma is going to be the main concept of this show.
It's going to be one of our shorter shows.
I know you guys used to be going anywhere from 50 minutes to an hour and 15 minutes,
usually hitting about that hour mark.
It's going to be one of our shorter shows because again, we won't discuss pretty much
anything else.
We're going to discuss one or whatever else is important in my opinion at the moment.
Even the NHL finals, the Stanley Cup finals are going on right now.
Shout out to Vegas Knights.
Again, that's important right now because we're going to discuss the NBA finals.
That's going to be the primary topic of this show.
Of course we'll have our best for last, but the primary content of this show, of course,
we'll be discussing the NBA finals.
Game three, by the time you guys hear this, will be that night because I'm recording this
Wednesday about seven-ish local time.
By the time you guys hear this, it'll be Thursday morning.
Game three will be tonight.
If I mess up and say tonight or tomorrow night, just know whenever I record it, it's Wednesday
night.
Moving on.
Game three tomorrow.
Screw it.
Game three tomorrow night.
I ain't got time to do the tonight thing.
The series is going how I predicted it would go.
I figured Miami would split and I figured they're going to split in Miami.
I feel like by the time we record this again, Denver will be up three-two looking to close
it out in Miami.
I say that because of this.
Michael Malone is a good coach.
He's not Eric Spoelstra.
He's supposed to be the best coach in the NBA right now.
He's not Eric Spoelstra.
Michael Malone is also not Joe Mazzula and Joe Mazzula, and to me, less talented Boston
team, pushed Miami to seven.
If Tatum doesn't get hurt, who knows what happens in that game seven.
Michael Malone came out and outworked as a coach the heat, the first game.
Yokeage did whatever he wanted to do.
He was a passer.
He was a scorer.
He had a triple-double.
His math wanted to play off run.
Jamal Murray made some shots.
Michael Porter Jr. made some shots.
Containers color-opposed made some shots.
Aaron Gordon played like a beast, etc.
Because Yokeage was allowed to spread the ball out.
Game two, Eric Spoelstra stole a play out of Steve Kerr's book.
Steve Kerr was on the Draymond Green Show, and he spoke about how when the Warriors beat
the Nuggets, that's what they did.
They just said, okay, Yokeage, you get whatever you want.
We can't guard you anyway.
You get whatever you want.
We're going to make sure that others don't eat.
Because the Nuggets have a tendency to Yokeage watch, which when you have an all-time great
player, especially an all-time great passer, it's easy to watch that person.
We see or watch whatever action there is.
So if you're not in the pick and roll with the one-two game with Murray or Yokeage has
the ball in the middle of the floor, you're Yokeage watching.
And you see it in history.
Magic Johnson's one of the few players ever to not really get a watcher situation.
Just go back through those NBA Finals tapes on the NBA app.
There's a lot of Larry Bird watching.
And the basketball wasn't sticking the way it does now.
Now there's nearly as much isolation ball, unless it got down to the post like it is
now for perimeter players.
But there's a lot of Jordan watching.
There's a lot of Yokeage watching.
There's a lot of Duncan watching.
There's a lot of LeBron watching.
There's a darn sure a lot of Kobe watching.
There's a lot of AI watching.
There's a lot of Shaq watching.
There's a lot of Yokeage watching.
There's a lot of LeBron watching.
Still the Bucks are falling to Yonah's watching.
I've seen the Warriors, they move the ball.
And Steph hits a couple threes.
Now they're watching Steph.
You know, and it's hard when you have these generational players, especially like I said,
gifted passers to not just watch these guys do their thing and then get ready for the
shot.
So in game one, that strategy worked because there were two manning.
The players were moving.
The Heat couldn't really lock in or anything.
Shots are running in from everywhere.
It was hard to defend.
Nuggets walked through them.
In game two, they said, okay, Yokeage, we don't have anybody to guard you.
To be honest, there's nobody else in the league to guard you.
Not to guard you in terms of keep you 20 points.
You know, like it's just not possible.
You shoot, you dribble, you floater, you post hook.
Like it's not possible.
Right?
So get whatever you want.
Go get 40.
Great.
You're going to get 10 and 12 rebounds because you're a seven foot wall.
Great.
We're going to keep that assist number low.
We're going to make sure Michael Porter Jr. is in the corner stuck pressed.
We're going to make sure Kiteva Carter-Pope is stuck in the corner pressed.
Whenever Jamal Marius is the screener, we're going to ice the screener.
You know, we're going to just do things to make sure we're going to X cover behind it.
We're going to do things to make sure that that pass isn't an option for you.
So if you shoot it, go for it.
So we're going to make sure that pass isn't an option for you because you come off the
floor and Kiteva Carter-Pope hadn't shot in four minutes and Michael Porter Jr. hadn't
shot a real good, a good shot in three or four minutes.
He's going to shoot him, but it's a good shot in three or four minutes.
Jamal Murray hadn't shot in four or five minutes and you're off the floor and now they have
to all shoot it with a cold out of rhythm.
And Steve Krackensack, Steve Krackensack walked by that on the Dreadmauw and Green show.
That's the Warriors did.
Like do you, bro.
We're going to make sure the rest of the building don't get off.
Now it was easier when the Warriors did it because Jamal Murray was hurt.
So that wasn't really a second ball handler because Michael Porter Jr. or play initiator
because Michael Porter Jr. is going to initiate no one's plays but his own.
And I love Michael Porter Jr. because he's very unapologetic about the fact that he's
initiating nobody else's plays but his own.
I love it.
He's averaging one assistant game.
I think he has like 80 some odd because this is his career.
I think he has 80 assists this season.
There's a photo going around.
He's like pulling up over three Miami Heat players and Yoke and Jamal Murray both under
the goal with their hands out.
And he pulled up.
It's just who he is.
He's a scorer.
He's been a scorer since he was in high school.
I love his high school film.
One of the greatest high school films I've ever seen in my life.
I thought he was a no doubt.
I called him baby KD.
It's like it was, it was no doubt what in my mind he was 25 to 30 points a game.
One of the better players in the NBA because he was 6'10 in all the tools.
Back surgeries have kind of robbed that being with Yoke and Jamal Murray has kind of taken
that away.
But I'm like, if he ever went to his own, I should say that.
Let's say like Detroit calls and offers a 20-27 first from Michael Porter Jr. and they
take Michael Porter Jr.
He's going to average 25-26 points a game on Detroit because he's going to be one of
those who else is going to shoot.
He's going to get 20-20, he's going to get 25-26 points a game.
But he's still that level of scorer, right?
And so when you get to that level that he's at, but he's not a passer, he's a scorer,
right?
And so with Jamal Murray out last year, it was easy for Steve Kerr and Jermon Green to
really hone in on Yoke and say, hey, KCP is not going to get that jumper.
Michael Porter Jr. is not getting that jumper.
We're going to body and bully up Aaron Gordon.
Kompazo is not going to get that open straight ahead jumper.
We're going to make sure that these Austin Rivers on that team, Austin Rivers is not
going to get that wing three he loves.
We're just not going to let those guys get that catch and shoot opportunity.
We're going to make Yoke beat us, right?
It's kind of similar to what the Lakers did in the bubble.
They Iso him and Anthony Davis or him and Dwight Howard.
Dwight Howard really bullied Joke in that series.
He was just stronger and more physical.
And then of course, again, they iced the shooters.
And so Miami took that strategy.
Yoke has 41-11, but he had four assists.
And you can look at the end of that game.
I don't think Aaron Gordon wanted the ball.
I don't.
Jamal Murray, Jamal Murray.
I think if he shoots three or four more shots in that game, makes two more, he makes that
step back three over to Mbela.
Cash is it.
When you let it go, I thought it was cash.
You know, I don't know how much Michael Porter Jr. really wanted the ball in that spot.
Bruce Brown and that other Braun guy, like I don't think they really like.
So you get guys out of rhythm and then get to Yoke is watching.
Well, now Yoke needs you to make a play.
Now Murray got a beautiful step back.
It's posted on Justin Thomas.
It's a wonderful step back.
Step back three created the space, fired it.
He left it three inches short.
He put three inches more power on it.
It swishes.
And we may be talking about Denver being up 2-0 going to Miami with a commanding 2-0 lead
and Miami having to win a 4-5 to win the title.
Instead we're talking about a best of five series, Miami having home court advantage,
having three of the five games in their building.
Games three and four and game six.
So I think that the Nuggets have to work on not Yoke is watching and then flip it to Miami.
Man, great game.
But my question is sustainability.
They may again, Yoke had four assists.
I believe that was the smallest amount of assists he's had all playoffs.
I mean, I don't know when the last time Yoke had four assists in the game.
He only had four.
He made 17 threes.
They had little to no turnovers from my memory.
Yoke has four assists.
Jamal Murray only has 15 shots.
Michael Forte's Ringo does basically nothing.
I don't remember Aaron Gordon making a bucket.
And you win by three with Jamal Murray having a chance to step back to win the game.
Contabas Caldwell-Pope files two missed three point shots.
Again, you won by three and KCP filed two three point shooters that missed both the
actual threes.
They made the free throws, but they missed both actual threes.
Take those six points away, Nuggets win by three.
Instead of going 17 of 35, you go much more realistic 13 of 35, the Nuggets win by nine.
Duncan Robinson doesn't have the 10 point flurry he has, which is the NBA finals thing
that happened, I remember Mike Miller without the shoe.
I remember Mike Williams without the shoe.
Mike Miller's right without the shoe for LeBron.
I remember Mario Thomas got high.
I remember the Norris Cole game.
I remember James Jones running in threes.
I remember Jamal Green scoring 30 something points in game seven.
Since the finals, things happened.
Duncan Robinson was signing a $90 million contract.
He won't reach most of his incentives, so it'll probably be a $60 million contract,
$65 million contract, but he's still signing a big contract.
I think he's signing the biggest contract for an unjacked player ever.
He had a 10 point flurry in there.
Let's say it's a much more realistic three and a layup for Duncan Robinson, instead of
like two threes, a layup or two free throws, somebody like that.
He gets five instead of 10.
The Nuggets win by two.
If you're the Miami Heat, you stole the game.
All kudos and congratulations and you did what you wanted to do, which you went in there
and you stole the game.
But it took 17 threes, a seasoned low, probably an assist from Jokic, a flurry from Duncan
Robinson, KCP fouling two three point shooters, Aaron Gordon basically doing nothing, and
Jamal Murray being passive or limited for a quarter and a half shot attempt to win by
three.
Again, Murray leaves a step back three about three inches too short, or he swishes it and
we're going overtime.
Like I said, potentially I'm talking about can the Miami Heat avoid a sweep?
But again, you got the win.
So if you're the Miami Heat, retrain your brain because now it's a five game series.
You went in there and did what you wanted to do.
It's a five game series and you as the eighth seed, as the lowest seed in the playoffs,
because I think the west eighth seed was better than the, no, the Heat were better than the
Timberwolves record wise.
But anyway, like the second to lowest seed in the playoffs, now have home quarter vans
in the NBA finals.
You have a opportunity here to never have to win another game in Denver and to win this
series in six because you already got one game.
So now you just got to win three, four, go to Denver.
You can lose that game five, come back home and win game six and you're in the driver's
seat and you win the NBA title on your home floor in six games.
I don't think they can do without Jimmy Butler being the best player.
That's just me being honest.
I get the NBA, if the Miami Heat wins the NBA finals, Jimmy Butler has to be the final
MVP.
If it's Caleb Martin as the best player, the Miami Heat won't win.
If it's Bam Adebayo as the best player, the Miami Heat won't win.
The best player on the Miami Heat has to be Jimmy Butler.
Otherwise they will not win the NBA title.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, life.
Um, it's just a fact, right?
And so if you're the Heat, you're thinking in your head, we split and Jimmy hasn't even
had a game yet.
The only thing I can say to that is, I kind of told you you were going to win two games.
One of them is going to be for air exposure and one of them is going to be because of
Jimmy Butler.
That was your air exposure game.
He outcodes Mike Malone.
He got Yokas in a scoring battle and even though Yokas trying to set up his teammates, again
they forced Yokas to score.
They kind of left him one on one with like Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent and like in
the zone making Yokas shoot it.
Um, cause everything in him is like dude I'm a seven foot wall and they got Gabe Vincent
on me trying to guard me.
It's not going to work, right?
And so he was getting his little push shots and his little layups but nobody else on the
court was shooting the ball.
And it was the perfect strategy because now you're forcing those other guys to go cold
and you're forcing Yokas to kind of ignore his own teammates and get rid of his natural
instinct.
Cause there was a three Yokas made that he caught the ball wide, not wide open but it's
NBA open.
You know where the guy would have had to bam, would have had to make two or three steps
to close out on Yokas and Yokas pump fake and stopped.
And then the whole court froze for like a second, second and a half and then Yokas launches
it and nails it.
Um, but his instinct was to pump fake and probably kick somewhere once the defense rotated.
They moved, they shot it himself and nailed it.
But just being that aggressive scorer is not Yokas' DNA.
It's sort of like when LeBron has those games, it's not in his DNA.
Magic Johnson, you know, went for 42 in the finals as a rookie.
Like it's not in his DNA.
It's not, it's not Jordan.
It's not Kobe.
It's not Wilk.
These guys just say, okay, Allen Iverson, like I'm just Reggie Miller.
I'm going to just shoot it.
You know, I ain't got to worry about setting nobody up.
I ain't ever been a great teammate.
I'm going to just let them fire and I'm going to let them rip.
And so not dealing with that kind of personality or that kind of player and dealing with the
more passive is a bad word, but player that wants to set up a team player that wants to
set up his teammates and his natural instinct is set up my teammates.
It's hard for him to then flip it back and be like, Oh, I'm going to just shoot all game.
I'm going to go get 50, 60 because they're not going to pass it.
My teammates fine.
I'm going to shoot it all game.
Like Yokoz was still trying to make those amazing passes, but the problem is that person's
glued to him.
And so that angle and that window that Yokoz was able to get the ball through in the last
series, he can't get it through now.
Right.
And so in game one, he can't get the ball through that gap.
So Kudos from the Miami Heat.
Like I said, I gave him two games, I say a four or two, Nuggets sticking in my prediction.
After game one, well, I consider saying sweep, but I say I got too much respect.
Like I said on the podcast, I have too much respect for Eric's poster, too much respect
for Jimmy Butler and those guys to just say they're going to get swept out.
You know, I have too much respect for the guys that do that on that man.
I have too much respect for Heat culture.
I say Eric's supposed to get him a game.
That was game two.
Jimmy's going to get him a game.
I don't know if that's going to be game three or game four.
I don't see how they push it past five if they lose both games in Miami.
But I think Jimmy's going to get him a game.
Maybe that game four.
I think the Nuggets go in tomorrow night and they win game three.
Put the pressure on the Heat to win game four.
The Heat respond.
Jimmy has a 40.
One of those playoff Jimmy games.
He hasn't had one in a while.
He's been weird Jimmy.
Off Jimmy.
Where he's kind of just been passive.
Kind of not jogging around the court, but like there's no energy there.
There's no fight there.
There's no Jimmy Butler.
There's no playoff Jimmy there, right?
And so I think that he's going to get them a game four and force it back to Denver.
All the pressure and the wood on Denver.
The shooters respond.
They make 18 threes or so.
And then I'm recording next Wednesday.
Or Thursday whenever.
Next Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
One of those three days telling you guys about how the Nuggets are going to win in six.
And I may end up recording after game six.
Kind of what I did with Boston, Miami.
Where I had that late night recording session after the game in anticipation for the series
being over.
I kind of think I'm going to do that this time for Nuggets Heat.
Where I'll record after game six.
I anticipated being over in game six.
I do want to kind of give an instant reaction.
Boston Miami kind of robbed me of my instant reaction move.
I ended up going to New York right after I recorded on vacation.
So I didn't get to give my instant reaction to game seven leading into the finals.
And so I do want to give an instant reaction to game six.
And then of course if there is a game seven, I'll just record after game seven.
And do the same thing.
An instant reaction.
Congratulations to the champions or whatever.
But I anticipated being over in six.
Denver celebrating at home court.
And then going to whatever that club is.
L.I.V. club or the I.V. club.
L.V. whatever that popular night club is.
The Lil Wayne they talked about.
Mark Cuban and the Heat went after.
They won with the Heatos and stuff like that.
I anticipate that going up all night after the Heat ran it out and they flew to Vegas.
Ran that thing out.
Was it the Cavs?
The Cavs ended up going to Vegas.
The Heat ran Miami.
Whatever that club is.
And then like I said having a ball and flying to Denver and running out whatever big night
clubs in Denver and running that thing out.
So I expect those guys to have fun in Miami of course.
But like I said I expect game three tomorrow night to be a Nuggets bounce back game.
Like I said the Heat made 17 threes.
You kept your turnovers low.
You kept Yogas from passing the ball to your teammates.
You forced him to being a scorer.
You pretty much took Michael Porter and Aaron Gordon out of the game.
Bruce Brown didn't do a whole lot of anything.
You kept KCP and those guys.
Those guys who hit all of them like.
You know Murray with the step back over LeBron.
And Lil LeBron gave him the thumbs up.
The Nuggets just had to have been the Nuggets I guess.
But Porter Jr.
Hayden.
I mean he catches the ball and also he was on his toes.
He pulls up anyway and nails it in the corner in that Lakers series.
And if you hear people talk about it and I've spoken about it too as well.
That series could have easily been a sweep for the Lakers.
Because the Lakers were never blown out in that series.
They had an opportunity pretty much in every game to win the game.
It was a tie game or two three point game with four minutes left.
Where the Lakers were charged back.
Or you know maybe they had been blown out early and they charged away back.
But they would get it to where it's anybody's game late.
And the Nuggets would just win it on some crazy shot.
Or a couple of bad plays by the Lakers.
Or you know D-Lo missing.
And so the Nuggets ended up sweeping.
It could have very well been a sweep for the Lakers.
Or after game four heading back to Denver.
Lakers are 3-1.
It could have been the Lakers and Heat ran out in the finals.
And we're discussing LeBron going for ring number five.
And where they put him on the go-kate etc.
But we're not.
So I think that the Nuggets are going to bounce back a little bit.
Because they took a lot of history.
And I went through before 17-3s.
Yoke is staying down.
The Nuggets, Yoke's assist ain't down.
The Nuggets are hitting all these crazy shots.
Turnovers low for the Heat.
Bam at a bio putting on his best.
Yoke's impression in the Heat uniform.
In terms of the passing.
Duncan Robinson's flurry.
It felt like the Heat couldn't miss in the first half from three.
And you win by three.
With Jamal Murray three inches away from tying the game to overtime.
They still want to halftime a hero.
He was ruled out with his broken hand.
Or his broken hand recovery I should say.
He's in the process.
He should be ready to go.
Hopefully by game four, game five you're a Heat fan.
But if I'm a Heat fan, I kind of don't want him back.
Like I'm okay.
You know, like, what if?
Gabe Vincent.
Hero has said he doesn't want to come back if he disrupts the rhythm.
And I think that's the only thing that'll happen if he comes back.
Like I don't see a path back for him where he doesn't throw off the rhythm.
Because right now it's been Duncan.
It's been a lot of Duncan Robinson.
It's been a lot of Gabe Vincent.
It's been a lot of Kaleo Martin.
If Tyler Hero comes back 20, 25, he's not going to rush back and get 35 minutes a game
30 minutes a game because he hasn't played in four or five weeks.
But if he comes back and gets 20, 25 minutes a game, that's 20, 25 minutes that Martin
Vincent and Robinson won't get.
And so could that throw off their rhythm?
Could that throw off their timing?
What if Hero is going one for six, one for seven on his way back?
You know, Hero won't be the best defender because he hasn't been on for four or five
weeks.
So he won't be the world's best defender.
What if he gets picked on and pick and roll?
You know, it's just stuff that can happen when a new guy gets dropped into the mix.
So we'll definitely see what happens when Tyler Hero comes back.
But like I said, I expect the next time you guys hear from me, we'll have the Denver Nuggets
being the NBA champion, with Jokas being the finalist MVP.
And I'm discussing how he's the greatest international center ever, second greatest international
player ever behind Akeem Olajuwon, how he's the greatest European player ever, and how
he's the greatest passing big man ever.
Eat your heart out, whoever else wants to be in the discussion.
But that is all we have content wise for today.
We're going to jump into best for last, which is going to be a quick discussion on the Live
of golf and PGA Tour merger.
Alrighty, welcome back into the show.
I realized I forgot a piece of news in the NBA segment.
So we're going to jump back into the NBA for a quick second, maybe like a minute, minute
and a half because it's not really much to it because a lot of the story was BS.
And I was talking about the story that popped out, Shams, me, Shams and Chris Haynes, to
be honest with you, kind of all jumped on it within a couple of minutes of each other.
And that was LeBron being recruited to Dallas by Kyrie.
I say we won't spend much time on this because from all two of the reasons.
One, Kyrie Irvin is not a MAF.
His contract expires June 30th.
He's not under contract with him.
He's a free agent.
He's not a maverick.
Now, technically he hasn't entered the legal moratorium period, the legal tampering period
to negotiate other teams, but I'm sure he's doing it.
He's not a maverick.
Okay?
Number one.
Number two, Les Luca dons his team.
So how were you recruiting to somebody else's team?
That'd be like the assistant GM signing a player without the GM's approval.
It's like, huh?
Well, like at your office, the junior lawyer hiring somebody when the senior lawyer has
no idea or the partner has no idea they got hired or didn't even know everything.
It's like, huh?
How are you recruiting somebody to join my firm when it's my firm?
Number three, Chris Haynes reported that, oh, Dallas was looking to make an offer on
LeBron James before the Lakers put together their trade situation and brought in, you
know, Beasley and Vanderbilt and Russell and Hachimora and turned their season around.
Okay?
Cool.
Great.
So, except the fact that LeBron James was ineligible to be traded before the trade deadline.
He couldn't be traded last season before the trade deadline due to NBA, CBA rules, whatever.
He was ineligible to be traded before the trade deadline.
So there's no way that the Mavericks could have been putting together a package to get
him before the trade deadline if LeBron wasn't eligible to be traded before the trade deadline.
So like I said, we're not going to spend a lot of time on this.
From a basketball's perspective, it doesn't really work.
We've got an aging LeBron who doesn't really want to play defense right now.
Kyra Everett never been interested in playing defense.
Luca Doncias isn't interested in playing defense.
So you'd have to get a 3-and-D guy and a running dunk shooter and a running dunk center around
them.
A rim protector and a 3-and-D guy around them.
People with the Lakers take back.
Nothing that the Mavs can offer because they're trying to trade it.
You're trading assets for Kyrie.
You didn't have 3 Mavs guys and no bench.
You have 3 Mavs guys, none of them want to play defense and none of them are particularly
good off ball.
Luca is terrible off the ball because he's not really a catch-and-shoot three-point shooter.
Kyrie, why would you want him to catch and shooting?
And you've seen LeBron in the playoffs, you don't really want him catching and shooting
either.
It doesn't work.
We're just going to move on with this.
It doesn't work.
It's not going to happen.
LeBron is never going to go to Dallas.
He had that opportunity in 2011.
He passed.
In 2010, he passed.
He had it again in 2014.
He passed.
And when he requested a trade, ultimately he ended it.
When he did it for agency the last time, he had a Dallas skin.
Dallas is on the table.
And he passed and went to LA.
So he's never going to go to Dallas.
Let's just all accept that.
All move on in our life.
Keep pushing.
I spent more time with this than I wanted to.
Again, we're just going to move on in our life.
Cool?
Cool.
Everybody's in agreement.
We're good with that.
We're not going to discuss this any further.
It's not going to happen.
Great.
Spectacular.
Let's move on.
All right.
Back to what I originally want to talk about in Best for Last.
Sorry, Siri.
My bad.
I tripped my watch there.
Back to what I originally want to talk about in Best for Last, which is going to be the
Liv Tour and the PGA Tour combining.
I'm not going to get into the political side.
I don't care about the Saudi Arabian Money Being Liv Tour.
I don't care about how PGA looks, quote unquote, capitulating to Liv.
I don't care how Liv looks.
That business model really didn't work.
I don't care.
I really don't.
Don't care at all.
Who cares less?
What this is about, simply, it's money.
And the PGA Tour looked up and realized they got a lot of our stars.
Like, I can't tell you who won the last four PGA tournaments.
I have no idea.
I think actually Brooke Koepka, who's a Liv golfer, won one of them because the PGA Tour
was like, yeah, you can't play in our Tour events, but our opens, we technically can't
stop you.
So like Brooke Koepka, who's a Liv golfer, won a PGA Tour, won a PGA Major recently.
Like, the stars of the Tour went to Liv because the stars of the Tour kind of realized, like,
look, we can either play to you.
We can either win to eat or the place to get any real money.
Or we can simply go over here, sign this $200 million contract, still play for prize money,
play in all these great golf tournaments, and then we can play on the PGA opens anyway.
But it went there.
This isn't a, we're not going to make a political thing out of this.
We're not going to make a morose thing out of this.
We're not going to do any of that.
We're going to say this side had dollars and this side had cents.
And they went where it made sense, which is with the dollars.
We're not going to go any further than that.
We're not going to go deeper than that.
We're not going to dive into the mental minutia or the mental games people want to play with
this.
We're not going to do that.
One side had hundreds of millions of dollars guaranteed for a lot of the players that went.
Phil Mickelson, Brooke Koepka, I believe Rory McIlroy went as well.
They put out, remember, what's his name?
The guy Greg Norman said that they add a 700 to $800 million offer for Tiger Woods.
A few big time PGA golfers turned down hundreds of millions of dollars from the live tour
to stay with the PGA, which, hey, everybody has their thing.
No, you know, everybody has their thing.
No actually found the tweet.
I was a Rory McIlroy stating PGA.
I'm sorry.
Tiger Woods offered $800 million.
Rory McIlroy was offered $500 million.
Hideki Masayuma was offered $300 million.
And Will Zalatorre was offered $130 million.
Tiger pretty much accepted that he didn't, pretty much said that he didn't take the money
because he couldn't fulfill the, he couldn't fulfill the requirements.
He couldn't fulfill the tour requirements.
He didn't want to take the money.
Rory kind of stood on principle and didn't take it.
I don't know what Hideki and the other guy turned the money down for.
No idea.
Don't care.
But these guys were offered hundreds of millions of dollars.
Kapka took it.
Phil Mickelson took it.
And I'm pretty sure they're going to get their money and be back in the PGA Tour.
Like it was a win-win for the guys who went, for the guys who stood on principle.
You stood under your principles and I hope you're happy with that.
I'm not going to judge you on that.
PGA Tour said, look, we need our stars back.
Do whatever you got to do with live financially.
I don't care.
We need our stars back.
So we're going to put this together.
They actually brought in another tour as well and his big umbrella for golf and they're
all going to play each other's tours in my head.
And I haven't really dove into it.
And I'm sure there's golf shows specifically that'll dive into this further.
But when I hear the words umbrella for the golf world, I hear we're all going to play
each other's tours.
We're all going to split each other's prize money.
Whatever umbrella you're representing, you deal with that umbrella.
So if you're going to represent the PGA Tour, you're going to represent the PGA, you're
going to have the little PGA logo on your shirt.
That's great.
Deal with other PGA.
If you're going to be a live guy and you're going to sign that live contract and you're
going to play these tours, that's great.
You're going to be whatever that other third group is and I can't think of them, but they
didn't really matter to this anyway.
No offense.
And you're going to have that logo on your shirt.
Go be it.
You know, whatever.
But we're all going to be one situation.
We're all going to try and get it as homogenous as possible.
We're all going to get it as symbiotic as possible.
No one's going to try to screw anybody else.
Let's just be one big beautiful golf family and please make our PGA Tour as we have our
ratings go up.
Cool?
Great.
Like it's just that simple to me.
Like it's like an acting.
Like no, everybody didn't get me to a TV screen.
Like I'm going to go support pretty much whatever the rocks in.
Just being honest, I'm going to go watch it.
I'm going to go watch like Tom Cruise gave me to a theater.
Like, you know, whether it's Mission Impossible, whether it's Top Gun, like Tom Cruise is going
to give me to a theater.
These days I've seen Little Mermaid.
Great movie.
I can admit it.
It was a great movie.
Halle Bailey is probably going to get me to a theater the next two or three films she's
in because I want to see her, see how she develops different roles.
I'm trying to think of another female actor is going to give me to a theater.
Can't think of anything right now.
I'm John Blaine.
Not really being in the movies, but that's the kind of the sentiment.
Like these guys are going to give me to wherever Shannon Sharp goes next for his media career.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to watch.
I'm going to tune in.
I'm going to watch on the speedy to see what happens to get bailed.
I'm going to watch first take for Steven A. I'm going to watch or listen to first things
first or watch whatever persons first because of Nick Wright.
Like certain people get me to certain things.
I wasn't really moved by anybody on the golf tour and the casual golf fan wasn't moved
because all the stars and names I knew besides Rory wasn't live.
So now this big giant golf beautiful family is going to just spectacularly exist and love
each other because they're all in the one big beautiful family.
The stars are back and therefore we're going to just love each other and be one big symbiotic
family cool great spectacular love it move on peace as far as the golf thing is concerned
because that's all it to me.
It is is not a capitulation.
This is common sense.
The dollar and cents thing.
PJ needs their stars lives needs their credibility.
If I'm live, I say we are our guys who signed our contract.
Keep our logo on their chest until they finish.
If I'm PGA, I say that's cool.
But when it comes to our tournament, our logo is on the other side.
Great cool.
We all share players beautiful great.
I PJ guys go play live guys play live tournaments.
Your live guys can play our tournaments spectacular.
Let's move on our life.
It's just that simple one big happy golf family.
Let's get our stars back on the PGA Tour television.
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