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the story today is also about a

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bunch of babies. Oh

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my god, the defense was too

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hard. Let me throw things.

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Let me have a literal temper tantrum

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from the coach to the star

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guard. Oh my

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goodness gracious. Like

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sometimes things just work

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out serendipitously and we

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have a diaper endorsement

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celebrating babies when it

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turns out the defending champs

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face a touch of adversity

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and all of a sudden

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they're out here calling the manager. I

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mean, I've... Somebody's

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gonna have to answer for this. Jaden

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McDaniel's playing full court

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defense. Nikhil Alexander Walker.

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Who do you think you are? Oh

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my goodness. Tough

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week to be a sensitive

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Canadian. Oh my goodness. Here's

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what missed the cut. Pat

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Riley. Chirps at

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Jimmy Butler. That's a story to

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watch. Michael Parsons goes what I

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want to, gets a sumo wrestler

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and Ben Simmons. I. Mean

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just in all times amp at

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the bank and an all time

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sample blocking self awareness. Does attend

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the Met gala but the mods

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a Here's the deal will resume.

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Seventeen years old. Mother. Would

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have a right and was like

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not a top three hundred he

2:23

was training to be a sumo

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wrestler like the real sumo wrestlers

2:28

evidently would really give Micah that

2:30

work. Ah totally that are so

2:32

wild skillset arm or right. So.

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We. Have to do it is

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mandatory. We do a tight showed

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that. Because. I

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have. A Very I. I

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have a lot of things I need to do

2:46

between now. And. When I'm on

2:48

with pollen in the two and a

2:51

half hours. And. Eyes so there's

2:53

a lot of things like they're all

2:55

content related. It is all refers you

2:57

the audience to try to brighten up

2:59

your day because I don't know as

3:02

you guys. You. Know I've It's

3:04

been four days. Since. Kendrick

3:06

released a song and I'm like what

3:08

the hell's Go! What am I will

3:10

do with my time? No, I don't

3:12

even know. I go. I go ahead.

3:14

We got spoiled like I'm just like

3:16

were from where I must have missed

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it. Obviously something came out and it

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hasn't sold. I will provide the content

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for you America today but that doesn't

3:24

mean we have to have a fast

3:26

show. Our. Demands a start

3:29

us off lease. Is

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so the these of the defending champs have no

3:33

been embarrassed to times in a row and home.

3:35

I'm slow down olds who. Are

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you ready to write them off or is impossible

3:40

account all the best player in the and be

3:42

a i'm in a. Couple. Other.

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Or. D Or yeah, you would open a

3:47

debate as well. over there debate and well, Alter.

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I am not of. I'm not writing

3:53

off the nuggets. I. Don't

3:55

think they're dead. But.

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There. on as shaky

4:01

a ground as possible. We'll get to

4:03

the Nuggets in a moment. The Nuggets

4:05

will be the focus of this because

4:08

it looks like we're gonna have a lot

4:10

more time to talk about the Timberwolves. But

4:12

let's start with the Timberwolves. As I said

4:15

yesterday on television, but I now

4:17

also want to remind the audience to see

4:19

the show, shout out Tim Conley. Tim

4:22

Conley built the Denver Nuggets and

4:25

then left a year ago and

4:28

went to Minnesota. Did

4:31

the Rudy Gobert trade, built the Timberwolves,

4:33

so he built a team that won

4:35

a championship and then appears to have

4:37

built a team best equipped to win

4:39

a championship and I

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might, now I might have

4:44

to, take an L on

4:47

a lot of my Rudy Gobert trade

4:49

and playoff defense takes. With that

4:51

said, last night might have

4:53

been the best defensive game a team's played

4:55

in 15 years and Gobert wasn't there. So

4:57

maybe he was holding him back all along.

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Who knows? Who's to say? Speaking of Rudy

5:02

Gobert, I don't put this, this part, don't

5:04

clip this individually on social. If it goes

5:06

on its own, that's fine. But

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you got, you know that meme where

5:12

they show Wilt's stat line that I

5:14

don't even know if it's real, but

5:16

it's like 56 points, 31 rebounds, 11 assists, and

5:18

10 blocks, nine

5:21

steals that you see a lot.

5:24

That is Gobert

5:26

Arenas on basically any

5:29

topic if you're going for

5:31

the worst opinion. It's like

5:33

every time he's like, guys, don't

5:35

worry, I've got you covered. Gil,

5:40

take on, he

5:42

didn't see it. Gil's take on Rudy missing the

5:44

game. That baby's gonna be there when

5:46

you get back. Come on, man. Like,

5:49

I mean, by the way, I noticed, like, as a, as a, I

5:51

mean, that's

5:54

what I'm saying. He is just,

5:56

he just puts up these, it's just

5:58

him. Rashad McCants

6:00

just like having a clown

6:03

off with utter

6:05

regularity. It's unbelievable. But

6:08

so shout out to the Timberwolves for

6:10

doing that without the defensive player of

6:12

the year. And

6:16

I oddly think, you

6:19

know, sports are so funny. Karl Anthony Towns

6:21

got a foul early in

6:24

this game. And this was a

6:27

huge, it has always struggled with foul trouble. There was a great

6:29

moment at the press conference a week ago when Ant was like,

6:31

you just got to saw effing Fallon man. He's like, I know,

6:33

I know, I tried. I think Karl got that foul. And then

6:35

because there's no Rudy, the Nuggets then adjusted their

6:37

game plan slightly to try to instead of run their offense hunt a certain amount of foul.

6:53

And then the second foul on Kat, they

6:55

then, it had a

6:57

two fold negative impact. One is they

7:00

weren't running the regular stuff. The other

7:02

is that they

7:04

got frustrated because they weren't getting the foul

7:06

calls and then it just absolutely snowballed on

7:09

them. But

7:11

shout out to Anthony Edwards. I

7:13

mean, the Jordan similarities, I know he said,

7:15

don't compare me to him, but then he

7:17

did the Jordan shrug after hitting a three.

7:20

Also, Anthony Edwards

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last night won

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as many playoff games as Jordan did

7:26

in his entire career without Scotty Pippin.

7:30

So another similarity, really unbelievable thing to see. And

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there is, he is

7:37

now, Demond, they looked like you were going to say

7:39

something about Ant. I feel

7:41

like he has reached this

7:44

place where it

7:46

can feel like, oh, Ant's

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not having that good of a game. And then

7:51

you see he had 27 and seven

7:53

on 17 shots. Like at

7:55

no point did it feel like Ant was

7:58

dominating the game and yet he had to. 27.07

8:00

game channels. Yeah,

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he did string together some stuff

8:05

late. But I

8:07

was gonna mention to you, and then I

8:09

saw a tweet right before the show started,

8:12

your analysis in the beginning, you said the

8:15

Lakers best chance to go to the finals was

8:17

to get Denver early, and you said, you know,

8:20

they would, they take care of them. If the

8:23

Lakers would have taken care of Denver, which they

8:25

probably, they were close, each of each of those

8:27

games are close, they would have gotten

8:29

destroyed by the Timberwolves in the next round. Oh,

8:31

I now, right? Somebody just wanted you to speak

8:34

on that. Listen,

8:36

I and we'll talk we can

8:38

talk I understand that LeBron James

8:41

is, you know, the biggest star in the league, even when he's

8:43

not playing. So people want us to talk about it. That's fine.

8:47

Yeah, I now am not that confident the

8:49

Lakers would have had, would have done well

8:51

against this Timberwolves team. This Timberwolves team is

8:55

the ferocity, no pun intended with

8:57

which they are playing and the

9:00

way they defend and the confidence

9:02

that they have, it's and

9:06

they're undefeated in the postseason. They,

9:08

I mean they are, and by the

9:10

way, they have not exactly had it.

9:12

Very level-headed teams. Good, sorry. Totally

9:15

agree. And they, it's not like they've

9:17

had, I understand the Thunder right now

9:19

undefeated in the postseason. Well, the Thunder's

9:21

postseason path has been four games against

9:23

the Pelicans without Zion. The,

9:26

the Temerals postseason path has

9:28

been four games against a

9:30

healthy Suns team and two

9:32

games in Denver. Yeah.

9:35

And so that Chris

9:37

Finch and this team also

9:40

for being undefeated has dealt with a lot of

9:42

adversity. Their coach suffered

9:44

a debilitating injury, had surgery,

9:47

can't even stand. Their,

9:49

their defensive player of the year, missed

9:53

a game because he was with the

9:55

birth of his child and they just

9:57

keep rolling. Yeah. Go

9:59

ahead. What were you? No, no, when

10:01

we're when it came out the Ruy go bear

10:03

was having the kid I kind

10:05

of got sad I was thinking that when I had

10:07

all man like Denver's about to get to get this

10:09

point cuz really not there and

10:12

Yeah, a hundred percent. I

10:14

thought that I thought that this was

10:16

going to be an Incredibly

10:19

difficult game for Minnesota at

10:21

full strength. You have a

10:23

desperate Denver team at home

10:26

in Essentially a must

10:28

win there had been prior to

10:30

last night 29 instances

10:32

in NBA history of the home team

10:35

losing the first two games 24

10:38

of those 29 they end up losing the

10:40

series like this isn't a Down

10:43

going down 3-0 but going down to 0

10:45

at home is a

10:47

brutal spot and

10:49

so There is there

10:52

are real Implications

10:54

there and so I thought Denver

10:56

was going to play desperate and then when I

10:58

saw there was no Rudy I Was

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like, okay, unless ant somehow scores

11:04

50. I don't see

11:06

what chance the nut

11:09

the Tembrals have

11:11

here and so shout

11:13

out to Minnesota it was

11:15

a 04

11:17

Pistons ask Defensive

11:20

performance and they deserve all

11:22

the credit in the world now We

11:25

must get to the Denver

11:27

side of things Which

11:31

I'll get to Jamal Murray in a second But

11:35

I just have this question Are

11:39

we going to hold the

11:42

soon to be three-time MVP

11:47

Basically unanimously considered best

11:49

player alive To

11:52

a lower standard than

11:54

we are currently holding the

11:56

oldest player in the league in year 21

11:58

LeBron James Or

12:01

are we going

12:03

to hold Jokic to

12:05

the same standard that

12:07

guys who have either worn the crown

12:09

or tried to wear the crown have

12:12

been held to? Which

12:14

is if your team

12:17

is at home as

12:19

a big favorite in a

12:22

must win round 2 game,

12:24

and you come out with

12:26

that type of effort, with

12:29

that type of performance, it

12:32

makes us pause and question some things. What

12:36

are we going to do here? Because

12:39

if we are being honest, Nikole

12:43

Jokic has gotten

12:46

absolutely torched on

12:49

the defensive end every

12:52

game this postseason. Again,

12:54

if we are being honest here, people

12:58

will be like, oh man, Anthony

13:00

Davis was unbelievable in that

13:02

Lakers series. And

13:05

in this series thus far, he

13:07

doesn't even seem engaged

13:10

defensively, and

13:12

a lot of what the

13:14

Timberwolves are trying to do is

13:16

go right at him. Let

13:19

me add something else to it. Again, who

13:23

much is given, much is expected, and

13:25

I just want to know, are we

13:28

going to do the same

13:30

standard we've done for all

13:33

the all time greats, which Jokic

13:35

is, when they have

13:38

this type of potential collapse. I

13:42

know that to this day, Jason

13:45

Tatum has thrown

13:47

at him, man, that

13:50

when y'all went to the finals, you

13:52

had 100 turnovers that playoff run. You

13:57

were 4.2 turnovers against him. game.

14:02

Nikoly Okich has

14:04

4 turnovers a

14:06

game thus far this postseason.

14:10

He has 18 in the last 3 games. And

14:16

then there is this piece

14:18

of it. A

14:21

lot of the Yokich

14:25

legendary where

14:28

he ranks all time discussion

14:31

that we were all having was

14:35

predicated on the

14:37

Nuggets making the finals and

14:40

the Nuggets probably winning the

14:42

championship. If

14:44

they don't, things

14:47

all of a sudden, if

14:49

they get bounced in round

14:52

2, things take on a different

14:55

cue. Because

14:57

Yokich is already swimming in

14:59

the waters with Giannis, Garon,

15:03

the original Isaiah Thomas, those

15:06

guys right? But

15:09

the question was, is

15:11

he ascending past all of those

15:14

guys into

15:16

the waters with Steph and

15:19

Shaq and

15:21

Dream and Bird and

15:23

those guys? Those

15:25

were the discussions. So it

15:28

is not holding him to an unfair

15:30

standard to hold him to the standard

15:32

we held those guys to. But

15:35

those guys became those guys

15:38

by having repeated

15:41

year after year after

15:44

year deep postseason

15:47

runs. The reason

15:49

Giannis won 2 MVPs, then

15:52

won a title, then looked like oh

15:54

man he is about to rip off

15:56

a run here. Hasn't

15:59

been out of round 2. sense. It

16:01

seems incomprehensible that could happen

16:03

to Jokic, but

16:05

it seemed incomprehensible that that could happen to

16:08

Janus. Jason Tatum

16:10

has the game of his life in a game

16:12

six, Chris Middleton's out, they lose a game seven,

16:14

the next year Janus gets hurt, the next year

16:16

he's hurt again, boom that's three years. And

16:20

so when we are talking

16:22

about the legends of

16:24

the game, okay, we've

16:27

got to be fair about

16:29

how often we saw them on

16:32

deep late postseason

16:35

runs. And I

16:37

can go through the list guys. LeBron

16:41

James, 10 finals,

16:43

4 rings, Kareem,

16:46

10 finals, 6

16:49

rings, Michael, 6 finals,

16:53

6 rings. Hold

16:57

on with respect to Monte, let

16:59

me cook here for a moment. I'll start

17:01

it again. If

17:05

we're going to, we

17:08

were talking about Nikoli Jokic is

17:10

one of the 12, 10

17:12

greatest players of all time. So I'll go

17:14

through it. And

17:17

you guys tell me whether or not if

17:20

they get bounced by a

17:22

22 year old coming into their

17:25

building, dominating

17:27

the series, what

17:29

it does to the trajectory. Because

17:32

the all time greats show

17:35

up in late

17:37

May and early June, year after

17:39

year after year. That

17:43

is not an unfair standard.

17:45

That is the standard. As

17:48

a wise man once said, the standard

17:50

is the standard. LeBron

17:54

James, 10 finals, 4 rings, Kareem,

17:56

10 finals, 6 rings. finals

18:00

six rooms Michael

18:03

six finals six rooms

18:06

ruffle 12 finals 11

18:09

rings wilt six

18:11

finals two rings magic

18:14

nine finals five

18:18

rings bird five

18:20

finals three rings

18:22

now I'm gonna have to do some of this off

18:24

top my head I don't

18:27

want to leave anyone out Duncan

18:29

how many rings Duncan got Duncan

18:32

six finals five rings

18:35

Kobe seven

18:38

finals five rings dream

18:41

three finals two rings

18:44

shack six

18:47

finals four rooms six

18:51

five is it six or yeah

18:55

six finals four rings

18:59

that's the waters that

19:02

we were trying to put yokichin

19:06

don't tell me we weren't we

19:09

all know we were that was

19:11

the discussion where can

19:13

he be and if we

19:15

want to talk go further than

19:17

that dr. J

19:22

four finals one ring in the

19:24

NBA two finals

19:26

two rings in the ABA that's

19:28

the company we were

19:31

talking about him keeping now

19:36

he's already in the Moses

19:38

Malone company right

19:41

Moses two finals one

19:43

championship three MVPs getting

19:49

bounced here recalibrates

19:52

the trajectory significantly

19:55

there is no way around it And

20:01

I know

20:03

everybody understandably killed me

20:07

for the Lakers pick. Fair. Deserve

20:09

it. In a weird

20:11

way, when

20:14

we're talking Jokic and

20:16

history, if

20:18

they weren't going to make the conference finals either

20:20

way, it wouldn't

20:24

have quite stung the

20:26

trajectory or legacy if

20:29

it had just been. Go

20:31

ahead. Minnesota goes on to win the

20:33

championship. Doesn't that kind

20:35

of like. Well

20:37

no, because then it's just like, oh why is Anthony

20:40

Edwards not the best player in the world? If

20:43

Minnesota goes on wins the championship, Ant might

20:45

have just ripped the crown from Jokic. Might

20:48

have. Beats him in a series. What I was going to say

20:50

is, if they were going

20:52

to be bounced by the end of round

20:54

two either way, historically,

20:58

if they had lost to the Lakers, it

21:00

wouldn't have been remembered as like some bad

21:02

Jokic moment. It would have just been holy

21:04

shit, look what LeBron did. That's

21:06

how it would have been remembered. Instead,

21:09

it's a contemporary of his

21:12

that he is supposed to

21:14

be considerably better than right

21:16

now, going into his

21:19

house, pointing at his teammates

21:21

who he's making fall, flexing

21:23

on and ones, shrugging at the

21:25

crowd, up 30 the

21:27

whole game. So

21:30

again, what

21:32

waters is he swimming

21:34

in? Because

21:39

there is nobody is

21:42

to this day as much

21:46

as I have massive

21:48

respect for this player and then

21:50

he's historically underrated. Nobody's

21:53

out here talking

21:56

about Dirk Nowitzki

21:58

and his place in the world.

22:00

the NBA Pantheon. And

22:03

Jokic obviously has more MVPs than Dirk.

22:06

Dirk has the one. He

22:08

has three other top three finishes. Dirk's

22:11

got two finals. One ring. And

22:14

that one ring was probably the hardest

22:16

gauntlet ever gone through to win a

22:18

ring. Not exactly what

22:20

the Nuggets did last year. All

22:23

I'm saying is this. I was here.

22:25

I am. And Nuggets fans

22:27

can get mad. They can

22:29

react however they want. I

22:33

was here for all of

22:36

the Jokic all time

22:38

great conversation. I was

22:40

talking about him as if he were one and

22:42

he still is. But

22:48

a lot of that how high

22:50

can he climb in the Pantheon

22:52

discussion was assuming at

22:56

a minimum. They're

22:58

back in the finals this year. You

23:02

get clocked by these kids from

23:04

Minnesota and

23:07

it's not a LeBron

23:10

against the Magic in the conference finals in

23:12

09 when he was 39, 8, and 8.

23:16

Hit a game winner. Was dominant.

23:19

It's, oh you haven't been good in

23:21

either game. You've

23:24

been a sieve

23:26

defensively and giving the ball

23:28

away more than

23:31

twice a quarter offensively. Gotta

23:35

recalibrate a bit. Now

23:39

we get to the Jalen Brunson, I'm sorry we'll get

23:41

to the Jalen Brunson part in a moment.

23:45

The Jamal Murray piece of it. This

23:50

dude threw two things at a ref because he was mad.

23:53

He threw a towel, missed,

23:55

threw a heating pad that landed on

23:57

the court during live play. If

24:03

that were to happen in the

24:05

regular season, it

24:08

is probably

24:10

a two or three game suspension.

24:14

I don't know what the NBA is going to

24:16

do. I

24:19

understand folks feeling

24:21

like it's

24:23

the semi-finals,

24:25

the teams on the brink don't,

24:29

you know, don't suspend him and tarnish

24:32

it. I get that.

24:35

But this isn't Amari

24:39

Stademire stepping

24:41

off the bench, letter

24:44

of the law, we must

24:46

suspend when you don't really have to. This

24:49

is an active choice

24:53

made two times

24:57

by a key player because

24:59

he lost his sh**. This

25:03

guy was complaining

25:05

to Reggie Miller, his dad, his

25:07

coach, his teammates, and then threw

25:10

a temper tantrum. The guy at

25:12

the table as well. Yeah, that's

25:14

what I meant. Was it Reggie

25:16

Miller? Maybe I'm wrong on who

25:18

he was. Yeah, that's what

25:20

I meant. Anyone who would

25:22

listen. And also, I'm going

25:24

to say something else about it. As

25:27

great of a coach as he is, Michael

25:31

Malone's got to wear some of it. When

25:36

your leader calls a time

25:38

out seemingly to go

25:40

fight the ref, it's

25:43

just out of his mind with rage.

25:46

It sets the tone of, okay,

25:49

yeah, it's their fault. It's the

25:51

ref's fault. It's not our

25:54

fault. And so I don't know what the

25:56

league's going to do. Here's what I do know. The

26:00

fact that he did three things in

26:02

this order He

26:04

pointed at a ref did a

26:06

money sign gesture that in

26:08

and of itself Got go

26:11

bear a hundred thousand dollar fine earlier

26:13

this year then

26:17

Time to cool down on the bench throws

26:19

a towel at the ref. He's

26:21

also purposely fouling I

26:23

think it was Alexander at one point. Yeah

26:26

to make a point a hundred percent a

26:29

hundred percent But throws

26:31

the towel has a moment there

26:33

where he got away with it didn't

26:36

hit anyone no one noticed it

26:38

and Then decided nope

26:40

screw that give me something

26:42

with a little more heft so I can

26:44

aim it better and threw a heating pad

26:47

On the court that slid a

26:50

foot now that when people say

26:52

it's dangerous I want to make this clear

26:54

no one thinks it's dangerous because

26:57

Getting hit by a heating pad is

27:00

gonna hurt that bad That's not what

27:02

they mean what they mean is it's

27:04

an object on the floor during

27:06

live play That

27:09

if Karl Anthony towns who was right there

27:11

steps on it. He can

27:13

slip and hurt himself That's what they mean

27:15

by dangerous The money

27:17

sign the towel throw in the heating pad

27:23

This is a totally reasonable suspension if

27:25

he gets it and The

27:29

only people anyone should feel

27:31

badly for are

27:33

Nuggets fans and NBA fans

27:35

not Jamal Murray He

27:39

would have done this to himself and

27:41

also Guys, and

27:44

I'm not trying to just pick on

27:46

Canadians today because Dylan but Dylan Brooks

27:48

did do the same thing but

27:50

Dylan Brooks got pilloried

27:54

When he walked out on the media

27:56

repeatedly after the I poked bears comments

27:59

and then got Caught. Jamal.

28:02

Murray. not talk in any body after the

28:04

last two games is bad. Look it just

28:07

is. So. I

28:11

don't know the league's gonna do. What?

28:13

You say? Oh. A

28:15

little different. Us citizens. Doornbos.

28:17

Pile of him or embarrassing about

28:19

target so not talking to the

28:21

pressure pressure that it. Ever happened.

28:24

Here's the thing. You're at it.

28:26

might be more embarrassing. But.

28:28

It also. Jamal.

28:31

Murray had something he needs his

28:33

say something here he needed to

28:35

do I believe is the idea

28:38

for a like life it's Jamal

28:40

needed to start building his alibi

28:42

if you will. Read. Your

28:45

mom needed. To. Somehow concoct

28:47

a story about how he

28:50

was not throwing that the

28:52

rest. I don't

28:54

know what story there is that's

28:57

believable. As if I. I

29:00

I saw. you gotta? you gotta

29:02

come up with something. Hurry

29:04

and instead at ease of left it

29:06

out there. Ah, I'm. All.

29:08

right? The let's go on to the next if

29:11

we can. Demands a. Yes, Or

29:13

jail and Bronson is on and on real.

29:15

Oh wait, hold on. I'm sorry. Hold on

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relatively. Throw order yeah, I saw. The.

29:31

He's an order did. Is

29:33

out of them. And by the way, He.

29:36

Is it sometimes ice for out this one piece of

29:38

it? Man. One of

29:41

the best thing that happened to the

29:43

Generals was Aaron Gordon hidden those couple

29:45

shots early on. To. Their Aaron

29:47

Gordon. The rest the night was like

29:49

it's Aaron. I was right. There

29:52

is one point: work early it

29:54

up early enough possess in. He

29:57

took a turn around fade away

29:59

and I'm. I think Minnesota's okay

30:01

with that buddy I

30:05

think Aaron Gordon was the only person to touch the ball Absolutely,

30:09

and that did not happen All

30:12

right, let's go to the next All

30:14

right, so Jalen Brunson's on a crazy run

30:16

right now you mentioned in a tweet what

30:18

elite company he's in Do

30:20

you think this is something that the Knicks can sustain?

30:23

I mean Jalen Brunson have to score 40 points every

30:25

game just for them to stay in it Do you

30:27

think they'll be able to do that? Can this carry

30:29

over to the finals? Okay,

30:32

so the tweet was Jalen

30:34

Brunson's the 10th player in NBA

30:36

history To

30:38

have 200 or more points over a five-game

30:40

playoff run Joining

30:43

these people LeBron Jordan, Wilt

30:45

West West Elgin Rick Berry

30:47

Kevin Durant, Allen Iverson Bernard

30:49

King so The

30:52

one name there that

30:55

doesn't really fit with the others is

30:58

Bernard King who by the way Was

31:01

50th all my 50 best players the last 50 years

31:03

list underrated guy career

31:07

absolutely submarine by injury

31:11

so the question is like did

31:13

so let's look at what Bernard did Bernard

31:15

did it and the

31:18

first round of the 84

31:20

playoffs against the Pistons a

31:23

Series the Knicks to be honest had

31:26

no business winning and Bernard

31:28

willed them there the

31:30

next round they

31:32

then faced Boston a Boston

31:35

team that was the defending world

31:37

champions and That

31:40

series went seven games

31:44

and in that series You

31:46

could argue Bernard was the best player

31:49

He averaged 29 a game bird average

31:51

30 bird was probably I mean bird what you

31:53

can't really I guess argue Bernard was the best

31:55

player bird was the best player, but that

31:58

series Honest, we didn't have

32:01

real business going seven. Not at all.

32:03

And Bernard was great. Mans

32:06

Series. Do.

32:11

I think jail and. Can. Keep

32:13

this up! For. The rest of

32:15

the playoffs Forty a game know. Do.

32:19

I think that if Tyree

32:21

Halliburton. Is gonna give

32:23

you a six points six.

32:26

That the Knicks. Could. Win

32:29

this series with Out Bronson keeping

32:31

it up. And then

32:33

could he throw a scare in

32:36

Boston? I do. And

32:39

series my you. Would

32:44

be my only concern for Boston

32:46

demands A. Going

32:48

from the Heat without Jimmy

32:51

Butler. To. This Cavs seen

32:53

that we don't even know of would. Jared Allen

32:55

Health is gonna be. To.

32:57

The next. Who. Are just

32:59

gonna be there Holiday? you. For.

33:03

Forty. Eight minutes. Could

33:05

be a bit of a shock to the

33:07

system. But. Boston.

33:10

Has so many wing defenders and

33:12

so much length. Xiv.

33:14

Gotta think that jail and not going

33:16

to be able to keep this up

33:18

and that bargain assured overwhelm the next.

33:21

It. Say it again. Now. To to

33:23

grow decency and year they they do have

33:25

like the easiest path to the finals so

33:27

I mean that will be or and they

33:29

are it when they do get past rights

33:31

of but now I'm or and about the

33:34

next. Of what

33:36

I, I really I really

33:38

liked. watching the

33:40

next man. You know

33:42

every game's going to come down the last

33:44

three minutes and more often than not they're

33:47

going out execute you. Just

33:49

heart. Is one of

33:51

my favorite players. One of my

33:53

favorite role players. Of

33:56

the last decade to watch. Like.

33:58

See is just. The

34:00

definition. Of winning

34:03

basketball. Ai and.

34:05

The. They his rebounding numbers

34:08

are in absurdity. The.

34:10

Due to six four. In

34:12

the play offs demands a. Few

34:14

years rebounds each game. Thirteen.

34:17

Fifteen Six, Seventy

34:20

Nine, Fourteen. Jars

34:24

heart is averaging twelve and a

34:26

half rebounds a game. At.

34:28

Six for. Last

34:30

night he also filled it up on The Orphans

34:32

of and Woods. It's kind of just a bonus.

34:36

Also. Here are just hard

34:38

to minutes played. Okay,

34:40

In the post season. Forty.

34:43

Two Forty Eight Forty Three

34:46

Forty Six Fifty Three Forty

34:48

Six Forty Eight. He.

34:51

Is averaging forty seven minutes

34:54

per game. The. Are

34:57

is available that for the other things you worry

34:59

about with the next. There. Were in

35:02

a six game more with Billie. I don't

35:04

think the Pacers series gonna be fast. And

35:06

Celtics probably gonna have played. What?

35:09

What do we think? Ten games by the

35:11

conference finals. Baggy. I was

35:13

in woman sweeps probably so but

35:15

sat out desires heart man. And

35:19

allow maze plane for each other room. Yet.

35:22

Moved on hundred percent and this magazine is

35:24

gonna look. Dangerous. With

35:26

Kevin Durant on and let me tell

35:29

you, aren't next The surface. Also Mass

35:31

Thunder Day want is they are. The

35:33

teams are at nearly even odds and

35:35

they have obviously of the Mvp candidate

35:38

school and head to head? So do

35:40

you think the siding factual be more

35:42

about the Mvp Mvp candidate Sunshine Lugar,

35:44

more about the surrounding Cass. Ah,

35:48

I'm. So. I

35:50

think this is a Lucas. Here's. My

35:53

thing. that's always the defining sad.

35:56

right but it wasn't in round one and

35:58

they want anymore So

36:01

that's the Luca is

36:04

thus far this postseason shooting

36:08

24% from three on

36:12

eleven a game. Okay

36:15

despite that he's still giving you

36:17

thirty nine and nine a night.

36:20

But similarly to how

36:22

the Thunder have no answer

36:24

for LeBron I

36:26

do not think they're gonna I know it's like

36:28

all Lou Dort man Luca is gonna cook up

36:30

Lou Dort. I do not

36:33

think the Thunder are gonna have an answer for

36:35

Luca and I think that

36:37

this is going to be uh I

36:42

think that there is a very

36:44

real possibility to Monza that

36:48

what happens on the other side of

36:50

the bracket I

36:53

think the Lakers did take something out of the

36:55

Nuggets and as far as the

36:57

energy expended to have to come

36:59

back every game those things

37:02

and the terminals taking advantage of it.

37:05

I think that this

37:07

if the Timberwolves if

37:10

the Nuggets claw back right

37:12

they are going to be spent by

37:14

the conference finals if they show any

37:16

fight they're gonna make the Timberwolves have

37:19

to work before the conference finals and

37:21

if the Timberwolves just win then I

37:24

think there might be a bit of an emotional

37:26

letdown before the conference finals. Meanwhile

37:30

the Mavs are just chugging along and

37:33

I think there is I think

37:35

that there is going to be a

37:37

real anointing fairly of Anthony

37:40

Edwards over these next ten days

37:43

and then there is a very

37:45

real possibility Luca snatches that right from

37:48

it because

37:50

for the Mavs right now to be

37:52

rolling the way they are now the

37:54

loss of Maxi Kleba is brutal

37:56

for them and he's probably out for the playoffs

37:58

that is a massive loss but

38:01

I think things

38:03

are breaking really well for Dallas I

38:05

like Dallas tonight to go into OKC

38:08

and steal that game. Alright quick break

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Damaze, I said we're gonna be done in 45

42:44

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42:46

I'm not gonna quite hit that but I'm we're

42:49

gonna go really fast here because I do have

42:51

to get to the television responsibilities. Let's play a

42:53

quick game of this or that. First

42:56

off, Victor Romaniamo won Rookie

42:58

of the Year unanimously. Let's

43:01

not forget CJ Stroud was in the MVP conversation

43:03

late into the season and led his team to

43:05

the second round of playoffs. The

43:07

better rookie season was Wim B or

43:09

Stroud? Stroud

43:12

had the better rookie season. Wim B has

43:14

the higher ceiling. Like

43:16

the Stroud, I think Stroud

43:18

had the more impressive

43:22

and impactful rookie season but Wim

43:24

B showed you so much his

43:26

rookie season that it

43:29

seemed like a ton of the hype was

43:31

absolutely warned. Will Caleb's rookie season be better

43:33

than Stroud's? That's

43:38

a great question. Second

43:41

round of the playoffs win the division. Good

43:45

really good numbers. I think it'll be equivalent.

43:47

I think yeah, I think it'll be I

43:50

think it'll be equivalent. Alright next. Alright,

43:52

so Rigo Bears the runaway favorite to win defensive

43:55

player of the year tonight. Two

43:57

years back everybody roasted Minnesota for

43:59

trading awards. chess for him. But

44:01

it's hard to deny that things are going pretty

44:03

great right now in Minnesota. The

44:05

Hall for Rudy Gobert was worth it

44:07

or overpay? I mean

44:10

listen this is gonna be a this is

44:12

trending to a classic category 3 by me

44:14

totally wrong. I thought it was

44:16

one of the worst most ridiculous trades I'd

44:18

seen but now I

44:22

they win the damn title it's obviously worth it

44:25

and how it's readjusted and recalibrated

44:27

their team. So I mean

44:29

shout out to Tim Connelly for seeing something I

44:31

didn't. I mean

44:34

and shout out by the way go ahead DeManse.

44:36

Good did the Wolves getting better on defense last

44:38

night prove that Wim B should have gotten it

44:40

anyway? No because that

44:42

was a I don't think that's long-term

44:44

sustainable and yeah I'm not down with

44:47

the defensive player the year ago I'm down

44:49

with rookie of the year and other things

44:51

having nothing to do with winning but

44:54

Wim B was a part of 19 wins this year

44:56

and that I just don't think he was I don't he's

44:59

gonna win plenty of defensive player of the year

45:01

awards. Alright next. Alright the

45:03

Clippers are once again embarrassing playoffs and

45:05

now Paul George and James Harden are

45:07

both both free agents. LA

45:09

reportedly wants to run it back but will they

45:11

even be able to? The player

45:14

most likely to return to the Clippers Paul

45:16

George or James Harden? I

45:18

think James Harden I think Paul George out of there.

45:21

I think Paul George is gonna get

45:23

the full max either from Orlando or

45:25

Philly and so I just don't

45:27

I think James Harden is not gonna have a

45:29

lot of other options. Alright next. Alright

45:32

and one can only be described as early

45:34

May football news JJ Watt said he'd be

45:36

ready to make a comeback for the Texans

45:38

if they needed him and the

45:41

Rams GM doubled down saying Aaron Donald could

45:43

make a playoff comeback. The

45:45

more likely comeback is JJ

45:47

Watt or Aaron Donald? Aaron

45:49

Donald because he's less far removed from

45:51

the league and so and I

45:54

the JJ Watt quote seemed like it was

45:57

taking a little out of context that he

45:59

told D'Amico last year if you

46:02

need me I'm here like I

46:04

just eat the I think

46:06

Aaron Donald is I don't think either is

46:08

likely but I think it's more on the

46:10

board that it's Aaron Donald all right next

46:14

Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been going back and

46:16

forth with diss tracks with no end in sight

46:19

will you rather talk about rat beef or

46:22

anything else oh

46:24

I'd much rather talk about the rat beef

46:26

but I'm not gonna do it in public

46:29

there are a lot of reasons for it I

46:31

am I guess there's a lot

46:33

of reasons for it I also think there

46:36

is a great clip everyone

46:38

should go everyone

46:40

should go look at it or go watch

46:42

it of Dave Chappelle

46:45

talking about right after

46:48

9-11 MTV

46:51

was like and we go now live

46:53

to Ja Rule to get his

46:55

thoughts on the day and Chappelle's like I

46:57

want to hear from Ja Rule right now

47:00

I don't think Ja's got the answers I

47:02

need and

47:04

I say that to say this I

47:07

of course have opinions on the Kendrick Drake

47:10

battle I don't

47:12

think people right now are like you know

47:15

who I really need to parse this beef

47:18

Nick right I just don't I

47:21

know my place in the media

47:23

hierarchy and I'm fine publicly sitting

47:25

this one out privately

47:27

if I know you well

47:29

enough that you have my phone number I

47:32

have a lot of thoughts on it publicly

47:34

I'm not gonna discuss it and

47:38

Damanjie if you really want to say something on

47:40

it you feel free I the

47:45

one I'm not

47:47

all for I am kind of all

47:49

for the dismantlement of Drake's career but that's the only

47:51

thing that I'll say I think

47:53

he's think he's a little little

47:56

corn okay we're gonna we're gonna that so

47:58

I thought you might say that I

48:00

may or may not Again,

48:03

I'm not gonna include my thoughts on

48:05

this. I am going to remind the

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audience and maybe also my

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co-host While

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honesty is always appreciated We've only ever

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had one guest ever on this show

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and it was of course Lil Wayne

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and so we try to be respectful

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to Everyone in the

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days my guy into the day like I don't

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you know, he's a cool dude Just

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like I know I know that

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and that's his artist And so

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we're just in a rough spot

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here on the what's right universe

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on discussing this also I

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think I'm in a really my right now No,

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that's fine. That's you know, I I didn't want

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to censor you but I also he's like, you

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know What let's just we'll go ahead and just

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keep it moving. All right quick listener questions then

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take quick But then we're gonna wrap the show

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what's right? Oh

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Alright welcome back in what's right with Nick right? The

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mods is get to a listener question Tony

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said fast show. Oh He's

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making it because my opening rant was 30 minutes. You

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know, that's a good point I have to

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go where I said 11 15. It's 11

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20. I have to go apologies to anyone

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whose questions I didn't get to see you

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guys on Colin in about 90 minutes on

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my show in about three and a half

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hours What I assume will be an inconsolable

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Kevin Wilds Talk to you guys later.

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