2023-24 Season: Week 20 and 21 Recap, Part 2

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy G D in this episode

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I'll be doing my part two of my week 20 week 21 recap and in it we'll talk about

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entry news guys plenty of that Jamahl Mosley gets an extension Troy Weaver curses fan out also done

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with the 90s I'll talk about that and also Rob Parker I got some heat for you as well so just

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sit back relax and enjoy the show okay guys it's your boy GD back with the all things basketball

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with GD podcast and guys I gave you part one of my week 20 week 21 recap so now we are going to do

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part two a lot of news here to get to guys but before I even get to the news let me just rant

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for a little bit if you don't mind in part one I talked about women's college basketball how

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everything is coming up roses for women's basketball of course you got the Caitlyn

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Clark phenomenon then you got the freshman as well that's going off juju Watkins of course

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leading the way in that regard also Hannah Hidalgo then in Texas you got Madison Booker and then

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for the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks you have Malaysia for Wally and then for LSU you

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have Michaela Williams and the list goes on so you have some buzz and then you still have players

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like Paige Beckers still alive in the tournament as well as Cameron Brink who's due to leave and go

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to the WNBA so you have that there as well but you have a certain segment of I'll just say a

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certain segment of guys that wants to pour cold water on women's college basketball namely Rob

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Parker I was just listening to a clip where he basically said the phenomenon that is women's

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college basketball is just a mirage it's all about Caitlyn Clark and nothing else and if she

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gets knocked out of the tournament no one would care about women's college basketball I vehemently

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disagree with that premise as I said you still have an undefeated South Carolina team very deep

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team of course coach by the great Doran Staley so you have that you still have blue blood coaches

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like Tara Vanderveer as well as Gino Ariyama for UConn Vanderveer of course for Stanford still

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alive in this tournament I mentioned the freshmen that are still live in the tournament as well

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and you just have some storylines there that will still carry even if Caitlyn Clark gets

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knocked out of the tournament so this whole notion that one person is carrying the load and then

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you had another guy say the same thing it must be something in the Fox Sports water there because

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this guy was Doug Gottlieb a person who used to be a college basketball player so you would think

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he has some kind of I don't want to say empathy but some kind of understanding of what's the buzz

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is about but no he wants to join the Rob Parker parade and cast doubt and just being a Debbie

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Downer on women's college basketball when it is thriving right now I don't get it let me take that

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back I do get it it's just a segment that doesn't want to give credit to these ladies and what they

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have accomplished and what they're accomplishing the ticket prices are going through the roof so

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there is buzz there in that regard Rob Parker tells this little tired joke about leaving the

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two tickets on the window shield and then he comes back in his four tickets I'm like that is weak

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but again I say the buzz is there for women's college basketball and good for them good for

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them I applaud them they should get their due and it seems like that's happening so this whole

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notion that and I get it you know you don't want to overshadow the men's game by saying the women's

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game is flourishing so much so even more so than the men's why can't two things be true at the same

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time you enjoy the men's tournament and you enjoy the women's tournament it's still basketball at

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the end of the day but what do I know so that's my little rant in that regard concerning these

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talking heads who just got their head in the sand to be honest and want to be contrarian and so forth

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and I got a child my boy Chris Bruce odd because he let him spew that nonsense some kind of push

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back on Rob Parker's notion of Caitlyn Clark carrying the mail basically for women's college

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basketball and once she gets knocked out the buzz is gone I disagree alright so that's my

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little rant in that regard with that being said let us turn our attention to the rest of the news

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a lot of NBA news to be honest with you so let's get into it guys Ben Simmons of the Brooklyn

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Nets he underwent a second back surgery to alter that pinched nerve that pretty much is keeping

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him out for the rest of the season so he had successful surgery on his back to kind of alleviate

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that all signs point to him being ready for training camp for the 2024-2025 season Ben Simmons

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who I've chronicled on this podcast before he is going into his last year on his deal paying him

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about I think 42 to 43 million so pretty much next year is show and prove for Ben Simmons well

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I have to see if his back is ready and then even more importantly is he ready from the neck up I

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think that's the bigger issue more so than the other injuries he sustained let's move on Sadiq

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Bay he toys ACL guys March 10th versus the New Orleans Pelicans and guys he's gonna be out for the

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rest of the season that means he joins Trey Young who's on the sideline with that hand injury Jaylin

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Johnson who just recently injured his ankle he's gonna be gone seven to ten days and then also

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AJ Griffin he's out I believe it's a knee injury if I'm not mistaken so Atlanta barely hanging on

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guys right now they're in the 10th spot in that play in spot I don't believe the Brooklyn Nets will

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catch them so I think Atlanta will be penciled into that last spot in the play in and hey if

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they get Trey young and some of these guys back who knows what noise they can make in the play in

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but as it stands now you got a lot of guys sideline so we'll see what happens you still have

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John T. Murray there Bojan by Donovitch you still have there and few other guys as well

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Clint Capella so we'll see what happens with Atlanta let us move on Steph Curry he makes his

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return back to the lineup on March 16th guys after missing three games with an ankle injury he had

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hurt his ankle but now he's back and he arrived just in time for a win at the Lakers in a game

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where he scored 31 points six rebounds five assists two steals so Steph Curry they need them guys

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they need them down the stretch they're in the 10th spot in the West in terms of the play in but

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look out because the Houston Rockets I mentioned them in the last episode they're a hot team right

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now led by Jalen Green so they're right there nipping at your heels so Golden State's gonna

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have to get themselves together to make this run here so we'll see what happens with Steph and

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his Golden State Warriors moving on OG Annobe guys he made his return back to the lineup after a

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18 game absence with the elbow injury and he made his debut well not his debut but his return

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versus the Philadelphia 76ers on March 12th he played in three games guys and then he tweaked

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that elbow at Sacramento and that was on March 16th and now he has missed four games and counting

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as of this recording here I believe it's up to five now so OG who has been a major major piece

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for the Knicks now sideline yet again good news guys you have Mitchell Robinson who's working his

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way back into the lineup so he should be back soon Julius Randall's that's still a question mark

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guys still don't know what's going on in that regard so we will see with him Knicks right now

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teetering around fourth place third place right in that area there it's like a bunch of teams like

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I said in the previous episode it's the Knicks right there along with Cleveland along with Orlando

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Magic and just above them is the Milwaukee Bucks who hasn't been playing well as of late so the

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Knicks they have to maintain guys and keep winning the games they're supposed to win and let the

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chips forward they may you can't control what other teams do you can control what you do so

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Knicks keep winning and we'll see if those around them stumble or rise to occasion as well so let

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us move on Joel and be guys for the Sixes he is according to Nick Nurse he's progressing well in

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his recovery from his knee injury guys he's been out since January 30th right now we're in about the

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eighth week so it was supposed to be a six to eight week injury but he's getting close to a return

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guys possibly as the calendar turns to April you'll see and be back out there and guys they need him

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they really need him because right now they're in the eighth spot they're about a half game from the

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Miami Heat and then a game and a half from the Indiana Pacers so right now they could climb but it

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all depends on those around them like the heat in the Pacers so you want to get him be back in

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time for playoffs that's for sure and you want to make sure he's a hundred percent because you

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don't want him going out there less than that and be we'll see when he returns to the court if I had

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to guess I would say April sometime early April just before the season ends I would think he would

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make his return let's move on Donovan Mitchell he's been in and out of the lineup guys he's out

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now with a nasal fracture he's missed five games prior to that he missed seven games with a knee

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injury so guys not sure what's going on with Donovan Mitchell but Cleveland is scratching and

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clawing trying to survive without him they just recently got back Evan Mobley who returned to the

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lineup after missing nine games with an ankle injury and he returned on a road loss to Miami so

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Evan Mobley is back for the Cavaliers but guys you need a full deck especially going into the

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playoffs so hopefully Donovan's injuries aren't too serious where he missed a great chunk of time

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hopefully he'll be back soon Christian Wood he's had arthroscopic surgery guys and he had it on

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March 19th so he's out for the season for the Los Angeles Lakers the Lakers already down a few

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guys Jared Vanderbilt he has the foot injury that's kept him out since February 1st gave Vincent

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who's only played five games for them guys remember they got him in free agency from the Miami

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Heat he's only played five games guys and he's had a knee injury and then Kam Reddish he has an

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ankle injury and he's been out since March 8th so you're really playing with a thin deck I know

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they recently picked up Spencer Denwitte recently signed him so you're gonna need bodies guys so

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they're looking to perhaps climb up but we'll see what happens there a couple of piston injuries

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guys oh sir Thompson has been declared out for the season and that's for blood clot treatment

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your rookie the team declared out for the rest of the season so you want to err on the side of

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caution especially when we're talking blood clots we can recall Chris Bosch when he started to deal

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with those you definitely want to make sure the kid is okay and that that blood clot is treated

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guys those blood clots are nothing to play with guys I've known people who lost family members

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because of blood clots so you want to be careful with these sort of things and the Detroit Pistons

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seems to be doing the right thing in that regard so we wish oh sir well and that we get to see him

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next season and then Isaiah Stewart he's also gonna be out for the season with a hamstring injury

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guys and he suffered that on March 18th at the Boston Celtics so Isaiah Stewart we've heard his

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name a lot and not for the best of reasons but now out for the season so we wish him well also

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in that he'll be on the road to recovery and back for the pistons next year let us move on Kevin

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Herter for the Sacramento Kings guys he's out for the season and the playoffs with a disc located

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shoulder that he suffered on March 18 versus the Memphis Grizzlies so here you have another guy with

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a shoulder injury and he's being declared out for the season which makes you wonder I got a circle

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back to my Knicks Julius Randall in his shoulder situation you really don't know what's happening

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you know he's trying to ramp up but the shoulder that's a tricky situation guys so we'll see what

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happens there right now the Sacramento Kings are six in the Western Conference they're actually

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tied with Dallas as of this recording and then they're a half game above Phoenix so Sacramento

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Kings guys with Kevin Herter out you need a guy like Malik Monk to step up and replace his

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production which Monk has had a good season by the way guys so let us move on Brandon Ingram

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he's out for two weeks guys for the New Orleans Pelicans with a bone contusion in his knee right

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now they're in fourth place tied with the LA Clippers so quietly the New Orleans Pelicans

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has had a pretty good year you've had production from Zion Williamson he's been healthy pretty

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much the whole season long you have guys like CJ McCollum there you're probably gonna need a Herb

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Jones to kind of step up also a Trey Murphy as well in Brandon Ingram's absence but you got to

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give a lot of credit to the coach over there a lot of credit to Willie Green guys in that regard

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so New Orleans Pelicans doing a bang-up job guys they're in fourth in that tough Western

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Conference let us move on Miami Heat Tyler Hero guys he's missed the last 15 games first it was

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a knee injury then it's now foot injury so he's missed 15 games Kevin Love he's been out with a

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heel injury he's missed 13 games and now you got Duncan Robinson with a back issues he's been out

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for games and then of course you got guys like Jimmy Butler who's in and out of the lineup as well so

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Miami kind of teetering guys they're in that bottom rung right around 7-8 right in that area there

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just within the plan as of this recording but that's a lot of guys missing for that Heat team so

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Eric Spolstra he's a guy he's a mad scientist over there he'll figure out some pieces to fill in in

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the interim and then the last injury I'll talk about well actually is someone coming back from

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injury and that's Russell Westbrook for the LA Clippers he returns after being out 12 games with

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their hand fracture guys and he comes back to a loss to the Indiana Pacers on March 25th so this

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is kind of spilling into this week so in Westbrook's absence the team went six and six so 500

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record not what you like to see but thankfully you get a steadying force like Westbrook back in

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there that's helping them because they've been kind of meandering as of late so hopefully the

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presence of Russ will kind of galvanize this team all right so that is it for your injury news let

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us continue with other news Detroit GM Troy Weaver gets heckled by a fan in a home loss to the Dallas

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Mavericks 142 to 124 and in that game he delivers a expletitive filled reaction to the guy I guess

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the guy was telling him oh you suck at your job the team sucks blah blah blah and then he just

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let him have it with some choice words and then subsequently he had the fan removed mind you the

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fan was there with a Detroit Red Wings jersey and I never understand that you're at a pistons game

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but you're wearing a Detroit Red Wings jersey it's not like it's a hockey game going on but I digress

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but Troy Weaver the embattled GM over there his record out of 300 games he's only won 70 under his

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watch he's been there three and a half years guys so he's definitely feeling the proverbial heat if

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you will but we'll see what happens when season's in I imagine Monty Williams will probably survive

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the head coach Troy Weaver not so much that's kind of my prediction we'll see what happens

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moving on Orlando coach Jamal Mosley gets a contract extension guys he is now signed through

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2027 2028 season this is his third season as head coach over there guys he's been a assistant coach

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for 15 years prior to that he had stents with Denver also in Cleveland and then the Dallas

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Mavericks where he spent seven years right now he has those Orlando magic poise for the playoffs

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for the first time since 2020 and they could have their best record in 13 seasons guys all

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under Mosley's tenure this year he has core pieces like Paulo Boncaro and Franz Wagner I say guys

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they're probably a veteran floor general and a solid dependable center away from really being a

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major issue in that eastern conference guys but hats off to Jamal Mosley for doing a great job

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and guys this is just one of those examples of you can't always throw out the coach after a

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couple of bad seasons you have to wait it out you have to see if there's progress and Orlando

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did the patient thing they gave him some good pieces to work with and now he has this team

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pretty much overachieving to be honest with you for that hard work he gets rewarded good for him

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we salute you Jamal Mosley for getting that contract extension and hopefully this will be a

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harbinger of good things to come for that Orlando magic franchise let us move on oh this one I've

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been waiting to talk about on March 12th guys senior NBA writer Vince Goodwill he sat down with

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Shaq via video and they discuss these most recent memes floating around that kind of discredits the

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ball players from the 1990s and 2000s guys like magic guys like Jordan I think the hashtag was

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done with the 90s so it was these series of memes and all kind of stuff you know how social media is

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and Shaq kind of empathize with these new school guys who's kind of poo-pooing the old school guys

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he said he understands because I guess when he was coming up you know they talked about

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Wilke Chamberlain and he said how he would cook Wilke Chamberlain and that the footage of him

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he saw was black and white and all kind of stuff but he seemed to took the side of these

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youngsters there if you will and here's what I will say in this regard I think the talking heads

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the guys you see on TV the skip bailises of the world even my boy Shannon Shaq got caught up in it

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the Stephen A's of the world the Chris Broussards of the world the Rob Parker's of the world

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you don't hear so much on inside the NBA thankfully they don't really indulge in that

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NBA today on ESPN they kind of talk about who's the goat who's the goat and all that sort of stuff

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and all that sort of stuff so when you do it that way and I think I've talked about this before

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to me I don't discuss goat on this show I just don't do it because I understand the fact that

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the 60s is the 60s the 70s is the 70s the 80s is the 80s 90s and so forth so if you want to ask me

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who was the best during a certain era then we can have that conversation but if you want to go

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into this goat stuff as an overall all-time I can't have that discussion because different

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circumstances different situations like Wilchamelin he was in a league with about when he first started

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about 18 so I have to judge it on that and then you have pretty much when the merger took place

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so it's around the 70s or so so probably the full 70s then I would have to think about a player

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for that era then you go into the 80s maybe spilling into the early 90s then you're probably talking

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magic bird in that regard then later Jordan does his thing in the late 80s of course into the 90s

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and then after Jordan leaves you have a guy like Kobe who comes into his own you have the Tim Duncan's

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of the world so forth and then of course after that you have LeBron James so I'm all for having

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a discussion about eras so when you have these guys say who's the goat who's the goat and the

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thing is you lose the younger crowd because of course the older heads are gonna say Jordan

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the younger guys are gonna say LeBron and then you go out of your way to discredit why LeBron

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is not it and Jordan is and then vice versa there's no appreciation for the past players

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there's not that kind of looking admirably to the older players there's none of that

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it's like oh man go to bed which was why I'm coming back to women's college basketball again

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I watched a video with juju Watkins who I've been talked about and she had a sit down with

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Cheryl Miller Cheryl Miller one of the greatest women's basketball players actually I did a

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profile on her on this very podcast here it was a wonderful conversation I suggest for anybody

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listening to go listen to that conversation it was such reverence both ways by the way and I think

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we need more of that in the game of basketball instead of this demeaning the old school and this

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discrediting the new school you need kind of a shaking hands between the old and the new

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and I really don't see that being done in the NBA I think the last kind of sit down I saw like

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that was Shaq and Kareem because there was a misunderstanding between those two and they had

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a kind of a sit down and kind of clear the air sort of thing but you need more of that guys you

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need more instances like that like the respect that Russell Westbrook has for Oscar Robinson

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that's a wonderful thing that's a great thing so this whole notion that the old school y'all go to

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bed be quiet and the new school it doesn't serve the sport well is what I'm saying so I'm just

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gonna leave it there but I definitely blame the talking heads for this issue even coming up and

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of course nobody's willing to talk about this issue but I'm going to talk about it here so

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that's my rant in that regard all right so let us move on would like to send condolences to

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RJ Barrett and his family on the passing of his younger brother Nathan and that happened on March

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12th guys cause of death is unknown hey I've been there definitely understand the sentiment of the

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family in that regard they want to keep things private and so forth and that's their right

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the young man was studying to be a pilot definitely sending condolences love and light to RJ Barrett

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and his family during this difficult time with that said let us gently move on Kevin Durant

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remember guys a few episodes ago I told you he had passed believe it was Carmelo he passed

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now he's passed Shaquille O'Neal I told you Shaquille was next on the horizon and Durant he

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passed him so now Kevin Durant is in eighth place among the all-time scoring lists next up for him

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Wilke Chamberlain but guys he is as of this recording over 2700 points behind Wilke Chamberlain

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that's a lot of points guys it's going to take him at least two seasons to get to that number

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does he have it in him well he's been relatively healthy for this season for the most part so

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it could be within his reach I say it's going to take a couple of seasons to get there he probably

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won't get there until 2025-26 season if he goes at the current rate that he's going so just leave

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it at that a few more items then we're done guys finds and suspensions Evan Fornie remember him

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former Nick now a Detroit Pistone he gets fined $25,000 guys for get this for kicking the ball

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a basketball that is into the stands following a March 17th loss at home to the Miami Heat

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Evan Fornie we haven't heard a lot about him so this whole incident kind of puts him on the spotlight

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a bit he's only played in 20 games for the Detroit Pistons he's averaging over seven points a game

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two rebounds not even to assist shooting it bad guys 37.5% from the field and not even 30% from three

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Evan Fornie his house of horrors continues I say probably once the season is done he'll look for a

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fresh start maybe with a contender but not sure what he has left guys he's a three-point shooter

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in a league that's thirsty for three-point shooting so I don't think he stays unemployed I think

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somebody will pick him up where he goes have no idea his kind of shooting his kind of services

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are definitely needed you just got to bear in mind you might suffer on the defensive end but that's

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the risk you take with him and then guys we have suspensions Chris Dunn of the Utah Jazz suspended

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two games and Jabari Smith Jr of the Houston Rockets suspended one game for a skirmish I'm using

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air quotes during a 147-18 team home win for the Houston Rockets and this incident happened

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early in the second quarter between those two you know when these kind of things happen what can

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you do so you got suspensions for Chris Dunn and for Jabari Smith Jr and then the last thing I'll

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talk about guys G League Ignite wraps up its last season on actually this week they'll wrap it up

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and they're closing up shop due to changes in college basketball you know with the NIL with the

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transfer portal so it doesn't seem that having the G League Ignite is profitable anymore so

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they're disbanding it I just feel bad for those that are employed of course the different cities

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that these teams were playing in the coaching staffs medical people so forth that were depending on

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the revenue for the G League Ignite so you kind of feel bad in that regard but they're closing up

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shop guys so the focus now is really on college basketball and hopefully developing these guys

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because now the onus is on players coming into the league whether they're ready for prime time or

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not I mean you still have the G League itself but the G League Ignite is no more so all right guys

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so that is it for this episode guys I am one more episode which will probably be a final four

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preview and some other NBA news to go with that and then guys mark your calendars April 13th

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April 13th I'll be doing my 200th episode it's gonna be a live show so I'll let you know as the

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days approach I'll begin advertising for it as well but it's gonna be a special show already

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got a few people that's gonna be in studio so I look forward to it so April 13th guys a Saturday

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afternoon mark your calendars all right so with that said I thank you for listening as always

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