All Things Basketball with GD - Jaylen Breaks the Bank and Other News

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I'll be talking about Jaylen Brown breaking the bank.

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Also I'll be talking about Ronnie James health scare as well as a warning issue to Dame

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Lillard and his people, wedding bells are ringing and a new broadcast team for NBA

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basketball on ESPN and other little tidbits as well so just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys so we're back with the all things basketball with GD podcast with your boy GD of

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course and the previous episode we talked about podcasts and all these guys with the

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different podcasts and so forth so I had mentioned other news that I wanted to talk about so this

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episode will be about that news about Jaylen Brown breaking the bank as well as other

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happenings in the NBA wedding bells everything I'll talk about it so let's get into it guys so

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first news item Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics signing a record breaking contract five years

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three hundred and four million dollars. This the Supermax extension and he was able to sign for

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this amount because it got triggered by him making the all NBA team so that's why it's such an

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exorbitant amount of money so this was something that was in his contract so he was able to get

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this kind of Supermax making him the highest paid player in the NBA it breaks down as such the first

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year 52 million then the second year 56 then 60 then 64 then up to about 70 million his last year

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of his deal when he signed this deal he signed it amongst his juice foundation as well as his

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bridge foundation as well with the campers there and in attendance was Dr. John Carlos we know him

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Silver Rights activists and we know him from 1968 Olympics we won the bronze medal in the 200 meters

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and then on the podium him and Tommy Smith gets the black power sign so he was in attendance there

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and during the press conference Jaylen Brown very humble young man he says he wants to continue

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his work in the community of Boston also he wants to bring Black Wall Street to Boston so it's not

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just him taking in the money he wants to do things to better his city so kudos to him in that regard

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definitely kudos to him and there were whispers on whether they would resign Jaylen there was a lot

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of trade rumors swirling around particularly around Damian Lillert so you had that going on

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but in the end Boston resigns their player and you know a lot of people are saying is he really

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deserved to be the highest paid player and so forth I mean if the contract kicks it forth that

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it's this type of money Boston has one of two choices either resign him or let him walk he's a player

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that is you want to say at least top 15 player in the league so you don't let those kind of guys

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just walk out the door without some kind of equal compensation which I don't know if you

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were a guy anyway but Jaylen Brown is a guy who has helped us Boston franchise in past years

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his showing in last year's playoff not so good but you can attribute that he had a injury littered

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season last season you know he was wearing the mask and so on and so forth so I expect him to be

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motivated with this contract he's not a guy who's going to rest on his laurels he's going to show up

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and hopefully for Boston show out so Boston does the right thing by him the only thing with signing

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such a deal and this is in two regards you sign Jaylen to this type of deal what do you sign

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Jaylen Tatum to who's really your franchise player so there's that question right now he has three

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more years two years in a player option at 32.6 million after that 34.8 million and then in his

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player option year he has 37 million so you know that's a discussion for down the road but it's

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worth noting guys so file that away for a later date but then there's pressure on them now to

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deliver on the title you can't skirt that issue so the pressure's on Boston right now to stand

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and deliver during those five years that you have Jaylen they got to deliver it I mean at least

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the next three years now that you brought Kristoff Porzingis into the mix you still have a Derek White

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you still have Malcolm Brogdon provided he's healthy you always got to add that to him Al

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Horford who's not getting any younger he's 37 now Robert Williams III who has had his myriad of

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injuries that he's dealing with so pressure's on Boston so again I congratulate Jaylen Brown for

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getting such a lofty deal but now the real work begins that's the first bit of news

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Ronnie James son of LeBron James goes into cardiac arrest at University of Southern California USC

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practice on July 25th so he goes into cardiac arrest he goes to Cedar Sinai Medical Center and

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you know the doctors work on him and so forth and thankfully he's discharged two days later so

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it was that episode with his heart and so forth but thankfully he was able to get out the hospital

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so definitely prayers were definitely sent up on behalf of the little Bron James family and

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seemed like those prayers were answered so and then LeBron posted a video on Instagram of

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Ronnie at home playing the piano so he thanked everyone for their prayers and their kind thoughts

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towards his son and their family so he did the classy thing of course with LeBron when you hear

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news like that of course the immediate thought people of a certain age they think of Hank

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Avers who was with the University of Loyola Marymount when he collapsed on the court and would

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subsequently pass away and you think about Reggie Lewis as well another person who had

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sort of that sort of episode and also bears in mind also person who just helped his team win a

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championship Jeff Green he had his share of heart issues so you're thankful Ronnie came out of this

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but definitely a bears watching of course to see what happens there in regard to his help but of

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course we send love, light and prayers towards Ronnie James and James family there so so that's

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so that's that bit of news speaking of LeBron James Lakers owner Jeannie Busch announced that LeBron's

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jersey will be hoisted into the Raptors in another note LeBron is actually switching back to the

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number 23 jersey in honor of the late Bill Russell because it was announced by the league that they

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were retiring that number from the league the number six so LeBron doing the honorable thing

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is switching back to 23 so this is just another reason for people to run to the shelves and buy

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them a LeBron jersey now that he switched back to 23 so but I want to double back to G-Busch saying

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that she's gonna retire LeBron's jersey actually that's not really news that's something I figured

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that would happen anyway to be honest with you in fact I believe he'll probably have his jersey

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retired by three franchises the Los Angeles Lakers of course the Cleveland Cavaliers I think with

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the Miami Heat so he'll have his jersey retired in all three of those spots I believe it makes

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sense for Jeannie Busch to do that you know there's some people that'll say oh but he's not a Laker

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quote unquote but you just retired Paul Gasol's jersey and he wasn't a lifelong Laker but he was

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instrumental in bringing those couple of championships there along with Kobe Bryant of course so I mean

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what are we doing here this is LeBron James who oh by the way in a Laker jersey he went and

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became the all-time leading scorer in history so why not retire his jersey there so you know

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some of these Laker fans you know these purists Laker fans you're kind of talking out both sides

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of your mouth with that it wasn't of no big surprise I figured they would do this so kudos to Jeannie

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Busch for letting it be known but to me it was a fate of complete to be honest but like I said the

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Laker purists are getting their panties in a bunch over it but they need to get over it hey how so

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that's that bit of news there the NBA issues a warning to Dame Lillert and his agent Aaron Goodwin

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that they will honor dames contract no matter where he gets traded to this is big news guys

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the NBA obviously grew tired of the talk I mean they weren't tired of Dame axing out I guess privately

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they probably are but the fact that he says I only want to go here here being the Miami Heat I only

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want to play for this franchise when and you know I've been saying it for the longest time Dame you

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don't have a no trade clause in your contract so they can send you to the Detroit Pistons they can

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send you to the Utah Jazz and if they have the assets they'll deal you there and you just have to

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go and play it may not be ideal but you have to honor your contract simple as that I guess the NBA

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grew tired of I guess it was more so the agent than Dame himself saying these things so in this

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statement they pretty much said Dame but they were zeroing in on the agent so NBA issued their

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warning and we'll see what happens with that I tell you who's relieved by this warning and that's

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the GM for Portland Joe Cronin Joe Cronin now can operate in the best interests of the team

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he wants a package that again in these kind of deals it's hard to get equal value but at least

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get some assets for the future so this kind of puts him in a better place as far as bargaining

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and so forth to bring back a reasonable haul back for Damian Lillard we'll see what happens with that

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but the NBA hasn't made it known to Damian as people wherever you go honor that contract so I mean

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kudos to the league for doing that I know some people say you know it's kind of heavy handed so

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forth but the problem is not him requesting the trade although I'm sure that's a problem too but

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it's the fact that I have to go to this place that's where the trouble lies so kudos to the league

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for making that warning that's that bit of news let me move on wedding bells are ringing few

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NBA players got married in the offseason here Joel and B treyong jaylen brunson isaac heartin

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stein so these are a few of the guys that got married over the summer here and kudos to these

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guys and of course with Joel and B everybody was looking for James hearton being at the wedding

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or it has a he was over there with little baby one of those babies I can't even keep up with all

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the babies that's in the hip hop field these days needless to say he was not present at Joel and

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B's wedding take with that what you will and then at jail and brunson's whether they were like oh

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where's Julius Randall then you see a picture of Julius Randall and he's in sneakers cuz remember

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his ankle is still on the man and people got something to say about that the man just had

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surgery on his ankle and he probably can't wear any tight shoes or anything like that he got

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aware something comfortable so there it is you know some of these nick fans just got a

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complaint about everything but the man was there at the wedding and that's all that matters so

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we'll leave that where it is also Frank Kamitsky he got married he married Ashley Brewer formerly of

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ESPN she was amongst those who got laid off as of recently I'll talk about that in a few seconds

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then you got engagements Luca Donkage he's engaged now so he's scheduled to be married we'll see

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what happens there and then in the WNBA during the All-Star weekend Alyssa Thomas she proposes to

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teammate DeWon and Bonner while they're in Vegas for the All-Star weekend so they're engaged so

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that makes an interesting dynamic in the locker room so now they're engaged so so with all this we

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send congratulations to everybody so that's that bit of news then speaking of ESPN ESPN now has a

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new number one broadcast team for the NBA that's Mike Breen Doris Burke and now Doc Rivers out is

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Jeff Van Gundy and then we find out a few days ago Mark Jackson also he is out as well and in terms of

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former players that were let go as of recently my guy Jaylen Rose and then also Lafonzo Ellis he

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does college basketball for them and actually Mark Jackson he issued a statement and these are his

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words this morning unexpectedly I was informed that my services were no longer needed at ESPN

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although shocked and dismayed with the suddenness of all of it I would like to thank ESPN and the

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staff of the NBA ESPN crew for allowing me to be a part of the organization for the past 15 plus years

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I would also like to thank the NBA fans watching at home and in arenas throughout the league for

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your support to the NBA a heartfelt thank you for allowing a kid to continue to accomplish his dream

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Mark Jackson doing the classy thing and issuing such a statement there and like I said Jeff Van

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Gundy he's out as well so two-thirds of your number one team is out and a lot of people are trying to

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figure out what ESPN is doing you hear all this Pat McAfee talk you hear about Shannon Sharp

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supposedly they're saying oh they're clearing the deck so they can sign these guys

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that's rumor-anguendo we'll see but let's really zone in on this new broadcast team now

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Darsburg who's paid her dues guys she's paid her dues she started broadcasting in 1990

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she started with her alma mater University of Providence oh by the way she played four years

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at Providence as a point guard for them so this is somebody who's not just walking into the booth

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what behind the ears she actually played the game so and as a point guard as well and she began

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working at ESPN in 1991 she became a regular analyst in 1997 and she was part of the B team

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with Mark Jones for many years and now she gets to be in the number one chair as an analyst

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let me say this to the Neanderthals to the knuckle draggers this woman has earned her spot

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she's paid her dues she's very knowledgeable of the game you know I see these comments oh she

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sucks this and that you know there's just such a misogynistic sort of feeling the air these days

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and you gotta hate on women thriving in these sort of situations there she's earned a right to that

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seat guys now if this was a man with the same credentials and they got the number one spot

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you wouldn't hear a peep so y'all can miss me with that Darsburg congratulations to you for

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getting this shot I know you'll do well you know what you're talking about you know the game well

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so we'll see how it goes dock rivers this is not his first rodeo before he got back into coaching

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he was doing this same sort of work as an analyst so he's not new to this my only caveat is what happens

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when somebody comes along and offer him a job because you know somebody's going to offer him a

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job again then what do you do at ESPN so you have that and then there's Mike Breen who you know he's

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had a rapport with Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy for 15 years even beyond that because

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as him being the voice of the New York Knicks he knows these guys very well put him kind of in a

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precarious situation but Mike Breen is a pro he's a Hall of Famer so he'll be able to he doesn't have

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a huge ego he'll allow these new voices to thrive so I don't expect too much of a rough patch with

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a Mike Breen on the scene but again Mike's a pro he'll take it on the chin but he'll keep moving

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forward so those are your changes there with the number one broadcast team for ESPN so that's

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that bit of news then we come to Shaquille O'Neal the last episode I talked about Julia serving

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in his list and how his list you know catered to the people that he watched as well as the people

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he played against so Shaquille O'Neal issued his list I'll give you his list his second team so he

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has a first team and a second team second team Steph Curry Allen Iverson Tim Duncan Carl Malone

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and Isaiah Thomas that's his second team with an honorable mention of Kareem Al-Dujabbar

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his first team not really a surprise here Magic Johnson Kobe Bryant Michael Jordan

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LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal so you have 11 players basically so it's not really his top 10

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as a top 11 now what do all these players outside of Steph Curry have in common these are players

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that Shaquille either played with or played against played against Magic all the way up to LeBron James

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so here's my problem with his list I know I said in the last broadcast it's his opinion and

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this is Shaq's opinion but you can't put yourself on the list Shaq I understand I get it that's just

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Shaq being Shaq but you can't put yourself on the list you can't do it that's my only caveat with

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the list otherwise it's a good list you know he had Kareem to be an honorable mention although he

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should just put him as the first team center but I digress and the only thing with this list as

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opposed to Julius Liss there's no Bill Russell who he very much admires no Wilch Amelin no Oscar

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Robinson no Jerry West no Julius Irving who he always said is a idol of his he didn't make the

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list so you know with these lists again it's it's subjective let's let's just say that but Kudos to

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Shaquille for putting out a list you just didn't need to put yourself on it but that that's the

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subject for another day so that is Shaq's top 11 because you can't can't even call it a top 10

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because he added an extra person so there's that one other thing I wanted to mention I was listening

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to my guys Rick Kamla and Antonio Daniels they do the giving goal show and a pretty nice segment on

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there today where they talked about the best nicknames the best NBA nicknames and then the worst

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NBA nicknames and then they even had a list for today it's summertime you got to fill your show

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with content I thought that this was pretty good so they had their lists I thought it'd be pretty

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neat to have my own list so here it is guys my best nicknames first I'll give you my honorable

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mentions AK-47 and that's Andrei Kirilenka of course of the Utah Jazz and then later he joins

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the Brooklyn Nets pistol Pete Maravich of course from his days with LSU and then of course come

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into the league with Atlanta then he goes to New Orleans and then eventually gets to the

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Boston Celtics and he missed the championship by one year he retired in 80 they went in in 81

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the diesel the diesel of course is Shaquille O'Neal although he has a plethora of nicknames but

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the diesel is the one I prefer to go with the black bomba of course that's Kobe Bryant and

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then my last one Clyde the glide Drexler so so with that said that's honorable mentions right there

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my top five best nicknames number five the Admiral David Robinson of course of the San Antonio Spurs

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Spurs always thought that was such a fitting nickname for him being that of course coming out of

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Navy of course number four one of my favorites George Gervin the Iceman of course of San Antonio

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Spurs fame number three Michael Jordan Air Jordan of course got a whole sneaker line behind that

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and so forth number two magic Irvin Magic Johnson just fitting all the things he could do with the

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basketball of course lake or legend and then number one Dr. J Julia Serving who else can it be

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a name he got his earliest high school then to just stuck with him ever since so Julia Serving

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he's my number one nickname worst nickname my top five number five the whopper the whopper was Billy

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Pauls Billy Pauls he started out in the ABA then he later comes to the NBA in fact he was on a couple

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of those ABA championship teams with the New York Nets number four Melvin Turpin otherwise known as

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dinner bell Mel because they basically say ate his way out of the league so not too thrilled with

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that nickname number three Dennis Robman also known as Worm coulda came up with a better nickname than

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that I can think of a million other nicknames but worm associated with Dennis Robman not the greatest

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of nicknames number two baby Jordan for Harold Minor and that puts such a strain on him as far as

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his NBA career goes to have that label really hindered him I thought and then number one Mr. Bill

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for Bill Cartwright they mentioned medical bill Rick Kamler did but those in New York know him as

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Mr. Bill which around the same time Saturday Night Live had a character called Mr. Bill who

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would always seem to get himself in he was like a clay character and he always gets squashed and so

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forth so for Bill Cartwright to be associated with that kind of character that name just didn't go

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so so that's my worst ones in terms of today's nicknames number five for me Steph Curry chef

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Curry always thought that was a clever nickname for him number four Kawaii Leonard known as the claw

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of course for his defensive prowess number three LeBron James known as King James of course pretty

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clever of course number two the Joker for Nikolai Yolkik and then number one Giannis Antutokounpo

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the Greek freak those are my nicknames for today's players so so I thought again I thought it was a

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pretty nice content for today for that show so I figured I'd steal a little bit and use that for

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this show today so so with that said that pretty much is it there was the announcement about the

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end season tournament that will take place in December I'll talk about that further as we get

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further down the line especially probably when the schedule comes out because I'm sure a lot of the

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schedule will reflect that so maybe I'll talk about it then and then USA basketball we got

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international play guys the FIBA World Cup will be taking place towards the end of the month so

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we'll get to see USA basketball the USA team has a few of my nicks on it Jalen Brunson and Josh Harden

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so I'm there for the US team the Canadian team has RJ Barrett there and then your US select team

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that'll scrimmage against the USA team will have Quentin Grimes there so a few nicks will be playing

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in some capacity in the tournament so I'll be definitely watching the tournament with a curious

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eye of course so that's it guys that's all the news that's fit the print for this broadcast so

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