2023-24 Postseason Awards Recap & More News

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Greetings, my Pete's and welcome to the All Things Basketball Podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode, I'll be doing the NBA postseason awards recap.

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I'll go through all the awards that were won.

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I'll give you my opinions.

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You know how I do it.

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So we'll do that.

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Also some other news, coaching news, Frank Vogel out.

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And as Mike Bouton-Holzer, we'll talk about that.

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Steve Clippert, he goes upstairs for the Hornets and they hire Charles Lee.

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We'll talk about that as well.

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Pat Bev gets suspended.

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Drey Mon.

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Oh, I got some heat for Drey Mon.

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And also Shaquille O'Neal.

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I got to take him to task too.

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So a lot more.

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So we'll get into it.

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Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay, guys.

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It's your boy GD.

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Once again, back with the All Things Basketball with GD Podcast.

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And we got a packed show today, guys.

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I'm going to do the postseason awards.

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I'm going to recap all the awards that were won.

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We'll talk about that.

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Also some coaching news in the NBA.

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We'll touch on that.

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Pat Bev, he gets suspended for his antics.

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We'll talk about that.

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Drey Mon.

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Oh, Drey Mon.

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Oh, you came for my nicks.

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I'm coming for you.

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So we'll deal with that.

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Shaquille O'Neal kind of puts his foot in his mouth.

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We'll talk about that as well.

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And other news also.

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And of course, I got a little heat for Stephen A. as well.

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So we'll talk about all of that right about now.

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So we're going to start with the NBA postseason awards.

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All the hardware that's been given out.

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So I will go around and we'll talk about each one.

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Let's start with the first award given, the most improved player.

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This one I thought was a fader complete.

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Tyrese Maxi for the Philadelphia 76ers.

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He had a fantastic year, guys.

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Career highs and points, assists, rebounds, and even steals.

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And he didn't mind you playing only over two more minutes than he normally plays.

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So I mean, he really stepped this game up and he had a fantastic year.

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So definitely kudos to the young man.

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It looks like he's part of that foundation over there with the sixers.

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They need to do the wise thing, lock him in because this kid's got star written all over

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him.

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And he won it over the likes of Kobe White for the Chicago Bulls and Alperin Zingun.

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I gave you my spiel about Zingun.

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I thought you could have considered Dante Divenchenzo, then they had some backdoor

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rule than whatever the case was.

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But nonetheless, none of them were getting it over Maxi.

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So I'm just talking to kind of big up my guys.

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That Maxi well deserved props to him.

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Six man of the year.

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This one I was kind of shocked, but I like, OK, fine.

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Nas Reed for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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He had career highs and points and rebounds.

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He played at 81 games, guys.

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He came off the bench and 67 of them.

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So you know, he qualifies.

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So I have no issue with that.

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It's just my thing is, I think Bobby Portas gets overlooked.

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It happened last year and then it happens this year again.

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He's one of the most valuable six man coming off the bench, especially given like that

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a guy like Giannis Tocumpo, you know, you have to kind of manage his injuries.

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So you bring in a guy like Portas and he's able to kind of fill the role.

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I wouldn't say totally fill it, but he's able to do a definitely a good job filling

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in for Giannis.

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So I just think he gets robbed in that regard because also to Malik Monk, he came in second.

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So and Malik Monk, he had a fine year coming off the bench.

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I'll grant you that, but I just think Portas kind of gets overlooked.

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That's, that's all I'll say to that.

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But congratulations to Nasri.

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He gets it and he's balling right now for his Minnesota Timberwolves.

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So props to him.

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Clutch play of the year.

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I didn't really go into that because the numbers kind of bears itself out when everything

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is set and done.

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And it goes to Steph Curry.

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Why?

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Because he was first in clutch points, first in clutch field goals made and first in clutch

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three pointers.

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So when it's like that, who can argue the numbers are the numbers.

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So Steph Curry of the gold state warriors, he walks away with that award and he gets

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it over the likes of a DeMar DeRosin and also a shy Gilchis Alexander as well.

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So Steph Curry, one more trophy to add on the mantle for him.

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Culture the year.

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Again, this was one I saw a mile away.

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Mark Dagenote in the terrific job he's doing with Oklahoma City Thunder, one of the youngest

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teams to ever finish first in their conference.

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So that just tells you the kind of job he's done.

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So he wins the award and rightfully so over the likes of a DeMar Mosley.

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I think any other year, DeMar Mosley might have got it.

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And also Chris Finch too has done a fine job as well, given what he's had to deal with

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in Minnesota.

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Member Carl Anthony Towns.

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He missed some time down the stretch.

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So I thought that could have hindered their chances, but he kept the ship going in the

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right direction, guys.

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So they were only a game off from first place.

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I mean, when it's like that, you got to give the coach's credit there.

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So Chris Finch finishes third in that regard.

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So Mike Dagenote wins the award again, rightfully so the bang up job he's done this year.

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Most of the year, I didn't really talk about that one guys, but it goes to Brad Stevens

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of the Boston Celtics.

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And you know, the reason why, of course, he made the trade for Chris Dapporzenges and

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also drew holiday.

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And then also too, he had the mind to lock in a guy like Jaylen Brown, lock him in full

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time.

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So with all of that, he gets the award and this one is more of his peers that votes for

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this.

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So, you know, you can say what you want, but I guess this award has more credence to it

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if you want to think of it that way.

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And he gets it over the likes of Sam Presti for the Oklahoma City Thunder, who I think

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is more of a cumulative job that he's done over there as opposed to what he's done this

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year because he already had home grin in the fold already.

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He has all these guys.

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Only trade he really made was for Gorton Hayward.

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So I think it's more cumulative than anything, but Sam Presti and over the likes of a 10

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tonnally for the Minnesota Timberwolves and even with him, that's to me, that's more

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cumulative than anything else.

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But in fourth, Leon Rose for the New York Knicks, I think he should have been higher.

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I can tell you that because look at what he's had to deal with as far as Knicks go, all

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the injuries, all the trades that he made, shuffling the guys in and out.

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So I think Rose could have been higher should he've gotten it over Brad Stevens.

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That probably not, but I thought he should have been closer in the race.

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Let me just say that.

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So Brad Stevens gets the executive of the year and kudos to him.

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Hustle award, I even know about this one.

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The hustle war goes to Alex Caruso of the Chicago Bulls.

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And they even have stats to back it up guys.

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He's number one in deflection and loose balls receive.

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And he's also seventh and charges drawn.

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So you know, he's analytic guys, they got numbers for everything.

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What can you do?

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So he ends up getting the award.

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This award has been around eight years guys, eight years.

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I don't know why I'm just talking about it now, but and then of that, those eight years

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Marcus smart of the boss when well, when he was with the Boston Celtics won it three times.

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So I'm like, wow.

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And then he's also the second bull to win this award, the other being daddy is young.

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So Alex Caruso gets it over the likes of Scotty Barnes and the rookie for Colton State Warriors,

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Brandon Pazimski.

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So Alex Caruso gets the hustle award kudos to him.

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The other year, this one, I told you guys, you know, I was speaking out of term when

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I say Victor Wimbayama is the rightful person to get this award for the San Antonio Spurs.

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And guys, he's the first unanimous winner since Carl Anthony towns in the 2015 16 season.

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So Victor Wimbayama definitely in the rarefied air sort of good category for him.

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And also to he's the second rookie to lead the league in blocks, the other being minute

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bowl minute bowl.

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Remember that name guys, seven foot six out of Africa.

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Yes, minute bowl.

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And also he's the first French player to win this award.

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First French player.

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Wow.

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And he is the 18th.

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First overall pick to win this award.

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So when you're the overall guy, your chances are pretty good of you winning this award.

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If you, you know, play to your expectations.

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And he gets it over the likes of Chet Holmgren.

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I actually went back and forth with somebody on social media saying that Chet Holmgren got

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robbed.

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I don't know what planning you're on to think that, but and then also he got it over the

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likes of Brandon Miller for the Charlotte Hornets and Holmgren for the Oklahoma City

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Thunder.

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So there you go.

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Progressive Wimby for getting the award defensive player of the year.

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This one I called as well guys, Rudy Goldbear of the youth.

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Not that you talked to us.

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He's with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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And he's the anchor of the top defense in the league.

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He is again, I gave you the numbers.

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He's the top player in defensive rating and defensive wind shares and he turns the blocks.

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He finished six in the league and also to the fact that he, he's a four time winner

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guys.

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So you're talking about only two other people wanted that many times.

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The Ken, the Ken Bay Mutombo and Ben Wallace.

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So you're talking about and those two guys are in the Hall of Fame.

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So you know, a lot of people like to take shots at Rudy Goldbear.

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Oh, by the way, they had that players poll and he's one of the least liked players.

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I don't understand why the guy just comes.

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He comes to play.

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You still want to get on them for when COVID hit and he was touching the mics.

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Okay, that happened like four years ago.

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We're still holding that over his head.

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I mean, come on.

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And then also in that players poll, Tom Tibbado was the least.

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The players, the players that they least wanted to play for Tom Tibbado.

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And I love big perk Kendrick Perkins.

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Just, he said the league is soft because nobody wants to be coached hard.

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And I agree with him there.

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So, so much for the players poll.

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It was other stuff on there, but those two things stuck out for me.

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But in any event, Rudy Goldbear gets it and it's well deserved.

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It's over Victor Wimbayama, who he finished second.

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It was kind of a, yeah, it was, I would say it was a close second, but he got substantial

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votes and then bam out of Bayou and third.

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So kudos to Ruby, Rudy Goldbear.

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I actually, I'll touch on him in a minute.

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I have news items on him.

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I'll talk about that.

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The MVP award, the one that always seems to draw the most controversy, the most talked

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about award and rightfully so.

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So this year it goes to the Joker, Nikolai Yokic of the Denver Nuggets.

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He is the ninth player guys to win three or more MVPs in the league.

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And I'll give you those names.

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Kareem with the most with six.

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Michael Jordan and Bill Russell has five a piece.

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Will Chamberlain and LeBron James each have four.

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And then you have three players that have three of these awards.

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Now it'll be four with the Joker, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Moses Malone.

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So you're talking about Hall of Famers that has won this prestigious award many times.

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So that's the company that Nikolai Yokic is in.

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And he gets it over the likes of Aluka Donkage, who came in third and shy, Gilgis Alexander,

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who came in second.

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Person who I thought should have won it but did not.

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So but I was listening to TNT and Charles Barkley said you could give it to five guys

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and not got too much of an argument.

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The other two he mentioned was Jalen Brunson and the fourth player he mentioned.

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Was Jason Tatum that he mentioned?

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I think so.

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Anyway, so he said you could give it to a number of guys and you wouldn't have had too

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much of argument.

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Shaquille O'Neal.

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He voiced his disapproval right there on the show.

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He thought Shaq Yokic is Alexander should have got it.

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He said that he empathized with him because he's been a guy who's been robbed of the

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award and so on and so forth.

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And then he didn't just leave it there guys.

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the award.

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So in comes Nikolai Yokic who they talked to after the ward and then Shaquille O'Neal,

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you know, he starts with I love you, but I thought it should have went to Jalen Gilgis

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Alexander.

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So that to me, you didn't have to go there.

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You didn't have to go there.

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To me, it was stepping on the young man's moment when you do it that way Shaq.

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So I got to charge you for that Shaq.

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And there's so much so that the guys on Nightcap, well, I should say the guys, but on Nightcap

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Wednesday night, it was of course, on Shannon Sharp, Chad O'Joseko and Gil Gilbert Arenas

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joint joins on Wednesday nights to talk about NBA sort of stuff and all that.

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And on there, they talked about Nikolai Yokic getting the award and the subject of Shaquille

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O'Neal came up and Shannon Sharp pretty much said he could have had multiple MVPs if he

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had worked harder, if he, you know, applied himself to the craft, which is a mission that

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Shaquille O'Neal has made on many occasions, including in that sit down he had with Kobe

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Bryant, you know, that special where they kind of cleared the air, their differences.

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So this is not something that Shannon Sharp got out of the clear blue sky.

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Shaq has admitted it himself.

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And the next night on Nightcap, he, I guess Shaquille O'Neal goes on social media or wherever

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he goes, and he makes his statement saying basically to kind of ridicule Shannon Sharp

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for making that statement.

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Shannon Sharp only said that because you admitted it.

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So he's just reiterating a point that you made Shaq.

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So I thought it was kind of wrong for you to go there.

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But I think, I think underneath that was they were actually talking about his ex-wife that

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she wrote this book, I guess, and in it she talked about their relationship, how she loved

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them, wasn't in love with him.

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And they, you know, so, Ankh and Otjo Senkel was talking about that subject on the show.

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So I think it was more because of that and not because of what he said the night before

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about Shaquille O'Neal and his abilities.

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So, you know, Shaq went after him, said he's not considered the top and it's a nine and

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so forth.

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Here's the problem, Shaq.

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You were the first pick overall in your sport.

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Shannon Sharp was the seventh round pick in his draft.

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So he was somebody, everybody counted out.

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But because of his work ethic and the way he applied himself, he worked to become a

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whole-of-the-fame player.

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Shaq, you're wrong for that.

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You're wrong to go at demand for that for something you've admitted to time and time

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again.

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So I think it was a byproduct of them talking about his ex-wife more than what he said on

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the Wednesday show with Otjo and Marina's there.

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That's my opinion.

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I could be wrong on that.

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We'll see.

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So I just had to call out Shaq for that bit of business there.

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So with that said, let us move on.

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A couple of more here and then we'll move on to other news.

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Criminal justice champion, this one they named after Karim Abdul-Jabbar.

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And this one goes to Carl Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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And this is for his work that he does off the court, his advocacy for voting rights,

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for the incarcerated and also prison criminal justice reform.

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Sorry.

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And actually he had a hand in a bill going forth in the state of Minnesota where the

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incarcerated got their voting rights restored.

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So big ups to him for that.

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He also provided funding for director Ava D. Vernay.

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She did a docufilm on reading banned books for young people.

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So he funded that as well.

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So he's done a number of things.

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He has his foundation and so forth.

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So he's doing a lot of work guys in the community and in the state of Minnesota.

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So big ups to Carl Anthony Towns for getting the social justice champion award.

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And then also, and he won it over the likes of CJ McCollum, Bam Outta Bayou, Russell Westbrook,

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and then a guy, Lindy Waters III.

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He's with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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And then the last one, teammate of the year.

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They named this one after Jack Twyman and Maurice Stokes.

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And this goes to Mike Connolly of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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So Minnesota here getting a lot of hardware in the postseason.

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So Mike Connolly is one of these guys that if you're a teammate of his, you love him.

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He's a guy that will go to bat for you.

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He's a guy that's welcoming in the locker room.

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He's one of those type of guys.

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He's such a great guy on the court.

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The man doesn't even have a technical foul in his career.

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That's even referees talk about how great a guy he is.

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So you know, referees don't really talk about players much.

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They talk about him.

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So Mike Connolly, teammate of the year, no surprise.

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And kudos to him.

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All right, guys.

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So that is the postseason awards.

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Let me get to these, this other bit of news that I have here.

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We'll start with coaching.

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The Phoenix Suns.

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So the owner over there, Matt Ishby, he's one of those guys.

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He seemed like he's a guy who's got his hands and everything.

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So I guess he wasn't happy with Frank Vogel and what he did in his first season.

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So he's out after one season.

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Frank Vogel out as coach of the Phoenix Suns.

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Mind you, bear this in mind, they finished 49 and 33, 6 in the West.

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They did get swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the playoffs.

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But you got to take it to mind this.

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The big three that they have, Bradley Beale, Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, they missed

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a combined 50 gains.

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50 gains combined, they missed.

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So I mean, you got to give Frank Vogel some grace here and not let him go after one season.

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I don't get that.

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I don't get that.

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But it is what it is.

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So Frank Vogel is out as the coach and comes Mike Bouton-Hoser, a Arizona native, by the

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way.

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Mike Bouton-Hoser, a two-time coach of the year.

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He's won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks.

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He's been 17 years as an assistant coach for under the great Greg Popovich with San Antonio.

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His overall record, 484 wins, 317 losses.

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That gives him a win percentage over 60%.

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He spent five years with Atlanta, five years with Milwaukee.

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And he's getting guys a contract five years over $50 million.

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So talking about some big money here for Mike Bouton-Hoser.

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So we'll see what happens there.

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I guess you're going to have to figure out this big three that you have.

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Do you split that up?

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Do you?

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I don't know.

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I guess they're going to stay packed with the big three that they have and build around

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them.

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So we'll see what happens.

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But Mike Bouton-Hoser is a guy who demands his team to play defense, to play smart.

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So it'll be an interesting fit here, that's for sure.

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So Mike Bouton-Hoser in as the Phoenix Suns coach.

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Then we head to Charlotte.

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The Charlotte Hornets, Steve Clifford, he resigns and moves to the front office.

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So he goes upstairs, guys.

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His total seven seasons with Charlotte, whether it be with the Bobcats or the Hornets, he

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has a 244 and 330 record.

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He's only had two seasons where he was over 500 guys.

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And then last year, they finished 21 and 61, not good at all, towards the bottom in that

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division, in that conference, rather.

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So in comes Charles Lee, a long-time assistant.

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He's been an assistant 10 years with the likes of the Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, and

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just last year with the Boston Celtics.

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They're giving him a four-year deal, guys.

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So he's got some longevity in that regard.

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And he's going to have to figure it out with the likes of Lamello Ball, who, guys, I've

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mentioned, you know, his injury history hasn't been good.

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A young player in Brandon Miller, a young big man in Mark Williams, and then you have

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to figure out, too, what you're going to do with the Miles Bridges, who's an unrestricted

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free agent.

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So a lot to figure out over there with the Hornets.

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And we'll see if Charles Lee is up to the task, and he's got major work ahead of him.

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So we'll see what happens there.

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All right.

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Let us move on.

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Next to coaching news that I had to mention, Patrick Beverly, Patrick Beverly suspended

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four games, guys, for throwing a ball at a fan.

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He did that towards the end of the series there that they had with the Indiana Pacers

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and playing for the Milwaukee Bucks.

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And then also an appropriate interaction with a reporter, a reporter for CNN, blank

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and on the name.

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But yeah, his interaction with her, not good.

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He pretty much blew her off and stopped answering questions that she had posed to him.

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And then also along with that, he is banned from making personal appearances on ESPN.

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Because if you guys remember, he used to show up on shows like First Take and then Get Up.

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He'll show up there as well.

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That's not happening, guys.

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So Patrick Beverly, again, I say, I'm not even sure if he's in a Milwaukee Bucks uniform

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for next year.

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That's what I'm thinking there is in that regard.

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I don't know if they'll bring him back.

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Does he come back in some capacity?

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Who knows?

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But if he does, he's got to sit the first four games because of that suspension.

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So that's your Patrick Beverly news.

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Dreymon Green.

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Oh, I've been itching to talk about this one, guys.

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On his podcast, remember, guys, he has a lot of free time on his hands due to his Golden

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State Warriors not making the playoffs.

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They got knocked out in the play-in.

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So he's got a lot of time on his hands.

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So of course, he gets behind a mic like I'm doing, and he just talks about the playoffs,

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something that he's not a part of.

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Let me make that clear.

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So he's taken the time, these past couple of episodes, to talk about the next.

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First he says he questions if Jalen Brunson can take them to the promised land, take them

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all the way to a NBA finals and so forth.

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All right.

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So he questions that.

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But he's balling.

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The man is balling right now.

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And he's mentioned that.

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So I'll cut that loose.

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But this is what I can't cut loose.

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The fact that he picked the 76ers over the Knicks and agreeing with Paul Reed when he

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said the Knicks are the easier route to go through as opposed to Paul said, then the

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numbers bear that out fine.

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But it wasn't easy for them because they're now packing up and going to Cancun.

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So it's so much for being easy.

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But in any events, so he picked the 76ers.

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So you already know he has no regard for the New York Knicks whatsoever.

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And he's been like that in the past.

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He's made those sly remarks about the Knicks in the past.

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So now he brings on this Nick fan.

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I'm not sure who it is.

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I wish I'd delve into it further.

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But he nonetheless, he brings on this diehard Nick fan on this show.

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And he tells that fan that the Knicks run right now is a fluke.

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He says it's reminiscent of the 2021-22 Atlanta Hawks, where they had the great show and then

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the next few latest they haven't done much.

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And he also equated it to the 2018-19 Blazers that made a run to the conference finals with

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the likes of a Dame Lillard, C.J. McCollum, and not much else.

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And he said it'll be like that.

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And then Stephen A. Smith, he goes and says he wasn't happy with what Dreymon said, but

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he has a right to say it because of his championship pedigree and winning the four championships

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and so forth.

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Let me start with Dreymon first.

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Dreymon, and I mentioned this when I was talking about the wrap-up of the Warriors season.

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Dreymon, you know why you have a lot of time on your hands?

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And he basically said on this podcast, I have nothing else to do.

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You want to know why you have nothing else to do, Dreymon?

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You want to know why?

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Because you let your team down this year when you laid hands on Rudy Gobert putting him

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in the headlock, when you swung around and hit Joseph Nerkick, thus getting suspended

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indefinitely.

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So Dreymon, those 25 games, and not to mention the one game where you went at it with a referee,

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over a call, and you couldn't let it go.

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You had to keep going, keep going, and you got yourself ejected from that game.

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Thankfully, they won the game, but Dreymon, you should be the last one talking right now.

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You should be easy with your thing.

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But no, you got to go up there.

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And I actually agree with the guy he had on the Nick fan who said, Nick's for clicks.

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And that's what it is.

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The talk ill about the Knicks is involved these days.

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You hear it on TNT, Shaquille O'Neal who has an axe to grind with the Knicks.

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It seemed like more than Shaquille on this show, but he has an axe to grind with the

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Knicks and he can't let it go.

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So he'll pick against them.

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Barkley, he was reckless with his mouth lately.

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Talk about the only thing good about New York is the street meat.

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He still has, he still saw because Nick kicked his butt in the playoffs many times.

470
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,760
So we could go there with that.

471
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,160
But my ire is steered towards Dreymon.

472
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,320
Dreymon, you let your team down.

473
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,960
That's why you have nothing else better to do.

474
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,040
Now you have your podcast.

475
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,480
You can sit up there and talk ill of the Knicks.

476
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:04,320
You could have been on the court if you behaved yourself and put your anger in check, but

477
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:10,880
no, you got your free time now to go after my Knicks and I got beef with you.

478
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:17,560
And oh, by the way, everyone wants to talk about the Knicks run being a fluke and even

479
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:25,240
the odd couple joined in on the nonsense saying that all it's a fugazi run because of all

480
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,000
the injuries that's taken place.

481
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,320
Take you honest for the Milwaukee box until lesser extent.

482
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,320
Dame Lillard.

483
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:39,920
Then he talked about also and be not being completely healthy.

484
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,240
Then he also talked about Jimmy Butler, him not being healthy.

485
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:51,040
And he had the nerve to say if he was healthy, he would not go off Boston and the Knicks,

486
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:59,280
his general manager and part owner Pat Riley had to take him to task saying, if you're

487
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:06,520
not on the court, shut your mouth and kudos to Riley for setting them straight like that.

488
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:17,520
But I say all that to say, nobody, nobody's talking about the Knicks injuries.

489
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:24,520
No one's talking about you're missing the all star guys, Julius Randall, who hasn't

490
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,360
who's missed half of the season.

491
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,120
Just about a little more than half of the season.

492
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,840
You're missing the all star and they're still doing these things.

493
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:41,320
You missed Mitchell, Mitchell Robinson, who missed three quarters of the season.

494
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,480
And then now he's out in the playoffs.

495
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:51,640
So they had to overcome two starters going down.

496
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:57,960
And then also remember to you started out with quitting Grimes, but you end up switching

497
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,360
over to defense and so so you had to deal with that and even Chinsle's been playing

498
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:03,360
great.

499
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:10,560
So, so all this the Knicks had to deal with, then they had two trades on the top of it that

500
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,760
you had to work into the mix.

501
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:19,040
OG Ananobi along with Preston Sature, you had to work those guys in and then both gone

502
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,040
by Donovitch.

503
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,200
Oh, by the way, he's out now.

504
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,400
So you're missing another guy and Alex Burks.

505
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,400
You had to work those guys in.

506
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:34,040
So I don't want to hear anybody talk about the injury bug helping the Knicks.

507
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,120
The Knicks are helping themselves because they're dealing with injuries.

508
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,840
So talk to me about that.

509
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,680
You can miss me with this nonsense, guys.

510
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,440
I have enough of it.

511
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,960
You want to try the Knicks for overachieving.

512
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:50,960
That's what they're doing.

513
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,880
They're overachieving with the roster that they have.

514
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,480
They should be getting credit instead of just nonsense about it's a fluke.

515
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,160
Wake up and smell the coffee.

516
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,840
That's all I'm going to say with that.

517
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:09,280
But everybody's quick to talk about everybody else's injuries, but the Nick injuries, we

518
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,000
don't talk about that nonsense, utter nonsense and a disgrace.

519
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,160
Anyway, so I'm going to leave it alone.

520
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:22,200
And Stephen A. Smith, let me before I end Stephen A. Smith.

521
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,440
I am so sick of you treating Draymond with kid gloves.

522
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,840
I am so sick of it.

523
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,480
Oh, I'm so disappointed in what he said, but he has a right.

524
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,480
Come on, man.

525
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,200
Get some kahunas, man.

526
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,720
Come on.

527
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:42,200
He's wrong for that and you should have mentioned the injuries that I'm talking about, the injuries

528
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,920
that the Knicks had to overcome.

529
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,560
But no, you want to cuddle up to Draymond.

530
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,080
Oh, and you've even seen it with the suspension.

531
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,360
Again he says, I don't want to say he has an anger issue because it pains.

532
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,840
No, he has an anger issue.

533
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,160
Let's be straight about that.

534
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:02,160
Come on.

535
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,160
That's the problem.

536
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,360
That's the problem with everybody giving Draymond a pass.

537
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,080
You're one of them.

538
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:14,640
And only let me talk about your Nick fandom.

539
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,600
We can go there, but we not.

540
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:22,760
But shout out to again to shows like Nick Fan TV, CP, The Franchise and those guys over

541
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,000
there for kicking the reel.

542
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,760
They had Kendrick Perkins on there and Kendrick Perkins was trying to apologize for Stephen

543
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,200
A. Oh, he's a real fan.

544
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:37,080
But you know, get cut up some slack and CP wasn't feeling that.

545
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,760
Let's just put it that way.

546
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,320
So any event.

547
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,040
So I'll save that.

548
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,960
Stephen A. Nick Fan talk for another day.

549
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,360
But you're wrong, Stephen A. You should have called out Draymond instead of soft shoeing

550
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:51,680
it.

551
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,240
If it was somebody else, if it was Russell Westbrook, you'd go hard at him.

552
00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:58,680
If it was Kyrie Irving, you'd go hard at him.

553
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,080
Draymond gets a pass.

554
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,560
Miss me with that.

555
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,280
All right, so I'm going to leave that alone, guys.

556
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:08,000
All right, let's move on to the next thing.

557
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:16,360
Rudy Gobert misses game two guys in the Denver, Minnesota series that's going on right now.

558
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,840
Of course, I'll give you a recap later.

559
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:25,280
And he missed it because his wife was giving birth to their first child.

560
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,760
And Gilbert Arena.

561
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,000
So of course, I got to mention him.

562
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,560
He takes him to task for missing that game.

563
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,720
He said, oh, the baby's going to be there.

564
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,280
The wife is going to be there.

565
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,720
You go out there and play.

566
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:41,840
Here's my thing with that.

567
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:49,320
If Rudy Gobert gets the OK from his teammates and from the front office to do so, go be

568
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,560
with your wife.

569
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,520
Go be with your family.

570
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,200
That's the way I see it.

571
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,520
Oh, what if it was the Finals?

572
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,040
Or it was the Super Bowl?

573
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:07,040
That's a decision he has to make between his team and his teammates.

574
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,640
If they're OK with it, I'm OK with it.

575
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,640
That's the way I see it.

576
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,840
For you Gilbert Arenas, who doesn't even know what the second round of the playoffs look

577
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:22,000
like, but that's a story for another day, you can miss me with that too.

578
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:27,000
So if the team is OK with it, his teammates are OK with it.

579
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,000
I'm good.

580
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,960
So we'll just leave it there.

581
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,320
But congratulations to the Go Bears for their first child.

582
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,400
It was a son.

583
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,880
So congrats to you guys.

584
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:43,360
Maybe a healthy, bouncing baby boy and all the best to you.

585
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:52,120
Giannis Ato Tecunpo, he turns down a shoe deal with Adidas because they didn't allow

586
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:57,880
him to bring his brother on for his own deal.

587
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:07,640
So his brother, Giannis, he said, you know what, Adidas, I'm good.

588
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,800
You can't put my brother on, I'll pass.

589
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:18,640
Then a lot of people want to criticize him for the way he has his brother on the team

590
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:24,920
and so forth, where he has the power to have him on there.

591
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,880
You know what?

592
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:33,920
And then, Barkley, he says, his brother's job is more secure than a Supreme Court justice,

593
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,680
which I think that's going a bit too far.

594
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:41,560
But here's what I will say.

595
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:49,440
My brother and I, if my brother was a star player because he was very good in his day

596
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,880
and I was marginal.

597
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,000
I think my brother would do the same thing that Giannis has done.

598
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,080
I think he would do similar because that's the kind of bond we have and he knows I would

599
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,000
look out for him in other ways and so forth.

600
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:12,360
So it's kind of Giannis paying it forward for his brother and I'm okay with that.

601
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,240
I'm okay with it.

602
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:18,000
You know, people want to say this and say that.

603
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:24,160
It's nepotism in the corporate field.

604
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,880
It's nepotism in other places.

605
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,520
So it's not okay for nepotism in basketball.

606
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,640
What are we doing here?

607
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:38,840
So if he's going hard for his brother like that, have at it.

608
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,560
I'm not going to charge you for that.

609
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,360
So I'll just leave it there.

610
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,360
That's my opinion.

611
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:52,880
And then the last thing, Glenn Big Baby Davis to face 40 months in jail guys.

612
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,880
Forget this.

613
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,280
Filing false claims to the NBA Health and Welfare Plan.

614
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,640
That's for foreign players.

615
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:10,920
And he's been convicted of healthcare fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements

616
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:17,560
and conspiracy to commit healthcare and wire fraud.

617
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,680
And he's part of 20 players who were caught up in the scheme.

618
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:23,960
Wow.

619
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,720
This is a bomb.

620
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:28,640
This is a bombshell guys.

621
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,680
And add to his 40 months in jail.

622
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,000
Three years of supervised release.

623
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:43,240
So after he gets out of prison, he's three years, he's got to be supervised while he's

624
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:50,840
out and he has to pay $80,000 in restitution.

625
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,280
Boy they came down hard on him for this one.

626
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,560
And he goes on, I think it was Instagram Live.

627
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,080
He kind of made light of it.

628
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,360
Oh, I could go to jail.

629
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,480
I could get swole now.

630
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:06,120
And somebody say you got to laugh to keep from crying.

631
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,360
But yeah, this is a big one guys.

632
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:20,680
And then the former players among them is Terrence Williams, Keon Dooling and Will Bynum.

633
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,680
That's amongst the 20.

634
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,120
So this is not good guys.

635
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:36,240
This is not good and this makes it look bad for other guys who's actually using the system

636
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:38,200
for good.

637
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:45,720
So he's made claims about procedures that he didn't get done, dental work that he didn't

638
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:47,160
get done.

639
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,280
So all of that.

640
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:59,280
And it was hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars that he defrauded from this benefit

641
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,960
plan here.

642
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,240
That's not good guys.

643
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:09,760
And shame on you big baby for having to go this route.

644
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,040
This is just bad.

645
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:18,800
So hopefully with his time there in jail, he can think about what he's done and pay a

646
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:26,920
step to society and come out with a different frame of mind than the one where he's just

647
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:33,240
joking about his situation and being serious about it.

648
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,520
So we hope the best for big baby.

649
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,520
Hope he learns from this.

650
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,000
This is not good at all.

651
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,520
So we'll see what happens.

652
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:45,680
All right guys, so that is it for this show.

653
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:50,800
And next time you hear from me guys, WNBA, the season's about to begin.

654
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:56,440
I'm going to give you my season preview and I got some other WNBA news to go along with

655
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:57,440
that.

656
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,840
So that'll be the next episode guys.

657
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:00,840
All right.

658
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,400
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659
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,080
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669
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671
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672
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673
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,920
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674
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675
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:04,200
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676
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You want the real.

677
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678
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All right.

679
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,600
On that note, I thank you for listening as always.

680
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