Zion Williamson listed with a "fishy" injury... Zion to the Miami Heat?

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Zion Williamson is listed with a "fishy" injury... Tobin believes it's all a part of the "plan." Drama with the Warriors, Steph Curry left with a pelvic contusion.

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00:00I have a correction to make. Do you? All right, so I went to ESPN, right? I looked at tonight's

00:05injury report. Yes. And it said on the status, you can see here, Frog Boy, look, I'm in Thompson out.

00:12Yes. Right. All right. But I didn't look at the fine print that says he's out. But then it says

00:16under it listed as probable for tonight's game. He hasn't played since March, March 8th with an

00:24ankle sprain. But I just saw this is from probable. This is from Vanessa Richardson,

00:31who is the Houston Rockets sideline reporter. Yes, I just posted. She just posted a video

00:38from Rockets shoot around. And it looks like I'm at Thompson's going to be good to go tonight.

00:44Come on, you go to Miami, you know, the weather, whatever injury you have,

00:48Miami, you know, builds it back up, get you ready.

00:51Is he just wants to fight again? I think that might. Well, he just wants to fight again.

00:59Man, that was a hell of a that was a hell of a scrap.

01:03Not one dollar here right on his head. I'm glad we won the game because had we had we lost the

01:08game and then potentially lost the scrap to it'd be very disheartening. Yep. But

01:13it you know what that that not only signifies one of the last memorable wins for the team,

01:18it signifies the last time that I was proud of Terry Rozier.

01:24Interesting, because he punched somebody right because he stepped in immediately without

01:29question and got it was a dangerous it was a dangerous melee. That was just because he

01:35threw him very like that. He did. I could have been that he did the old hip toss to him.

01:40Get your weight up, Tyler. He's not very he's not very heavy. He's very he's a very skinny man.

01:45I know he should have got his weight. You like you can't let a grown man ragdoll you like that.

01:49Like, he's just he's young, too. He's a bull. He's very good. He's a very good player. He's

01:56a very good player. But maybe this will get I don't know, maybe we'll get the heat going.

01:59And I had a little extra juice. Maybe they you know, maybe maybe maybe Eric Spolstra throws

02:05the the old fight on in the in the locker room, gets the juices flowing. You know,

02:09they didn't have Jimmy for that game. Oh, yeah. Why not? If you're exposed to their motivation,

02:18he said this after the last game where he was like, well, you know, kind of tried everything.

02:23Yeah. You know, like I think he was asked by Will Manson. He's like,

02:25have you guys switched up at all or anything like that? And he goes, switch it up.

02:31What? Not everything. And it's it's so maybe he's thinking to himself. All right,

02:36maybe this will get it done. It's the mental discipline. It doesn't have to weigh on you.

02:41You know, shown and the losses mount. Is there a temptation to try to change things,

02:47whether it be shoot around, practice, motivation, rotation, whatever it may be

02:51to shake things up? Or does that not cross your mind? I would say we've probably tried virtually

02:57everything, you know, at this point, you know, within, you know, our personality for sure. And

03:03we've we've, you know, shown the right kind of perseverance. You know, I always say that a team,

03:10you know, you have a feeling when you're worthy to win. And I would say 10 days ago,

03:15I really felt like we were worthy to win. Now, the last three out of four have not we have not

03:20had that feeling. And I think that's human nature where all of this, you know, can kind of weigh on

03:26you. And that's the mental discipline that doesn't have to weigh on you. You know, we've we've built

03:31up enough kind of habits, enough kind of resilience to win one game. And that's what we

03:37have to focus on and just quiet all the other noise, you know, down. Well, they lost their

03:44ninth straight after that. But the point is, he's tried everything. It's like a madman.

03:50Maybe they do. Maybe they do. Maybe something, you know, I don't know, maybe an iguana needs to

03:55be sacrificed or something. Whatever. We have a lot. I don't know. We have too many of them down

04:01here. At least it wasn't a frog. You know, they actually are chickens just like roaming around,

04:05roaming around by their side. Like, I'll just be like, I don't want to hit you little chicken.

04:10There's please, please move. Three animals that roam the streets of Miami as if like,

04:15it's their streets, iguanas, peacocks. Oh, yeah. I know. But the peacocks are only in certain

04:21neighborhoods, right? Like I have this guy, you know, even up on my house, and he's like,

04:26they had the audacity. And then may I say the audacity? He's got a peacock crossing sign up on

04:33his little side of the neighborhood. And I'm like, first of all, what are these things reproduce

04:38like rabbits? Like, how horny are peacocks? And second of all, you could just have peacocks

04:45roaming around. And here's the thing is everyone's going to be like, oh, it's great. You know,

04:49peacocks, they're beautiful. Why? You don't like my peacocks? Yeah. And I'm going to be sitting

04:53here being like, yeah, but in the morning, I'm sorry. I know that's a triggering thing.

04:59Oh, man, you just triggered.

05:00Peacocks are really beautiful, though.

05:01They are really beautiful.

05:02They are.

05:03I used to see them all the time when I would drive to school.

05:05It's great, though.

05:06But you know, they jump on roofs.

05:08Yes. Yeah. They get very high.

05:10Now they're pooping on roofs.

05:13You know, we got those ugly ducks. Those things can just poop while they walk.

05:17Tobin.

05:18Yep.

05:19I have some news.

05:20Okay.

05:21Oh, wow.

05:22Zion Williamson is out tonight versus the Timberwolves back injury.

05:28Oh, those are fake, though. Those are fake.

05:30What do you mean? That's with fake back injury.

05:32Anytime you want to take a game off to get some rest, you hit them with the old back.

05:36So here's what I would say if I'm Zion Williamson.

05:38And what are the Pelicans have like, you know, like 20 wins?

05:41Something like that.

05:42I don't even think that. No, no, I think they might be like 17.

05:46And Pelicans record this season is 19 wins.

05:51You know what I would do if I was Zion Williamson?

05:52Yeah.

05:54Yeah, I got I got 12 games left.

05:56I'm like, yeah, I just had this killer game against the Timberwolves.

06:00You know, we're probably not beating the Timberwolves again.

06:02What I would do be like, oh, it's the wolves again today.

06:05I made my point.

06:09I got to give the doc credit.

06:13Point for Twitter.

06:17That's true, though.

06:18I mean, a full stomach does hurt your back.

06:20That's true.

06:21That's true.

06:22But I think Zion Williamson is probably thinking to himself.

06:25Yeah, I kind of made my point.

06:26You know, we're not going to beat the wolves again.

06:28Yeah.

06:29Might as well just have that in everybody's mind.

06:31Me about what I just did to the Timberwolves.

06:35That's going out on top.

06:37Exactly.

06:38It's like you with the bet today.

06:39See, if I was on and I want to get to a team, right, I know that my team, you know, maybe

06:44maybe they have some illusions that my trade value has gone way up.

06:48If I was Pat Riley and I was trying to get Zion Williams here and say, hey, big fellow,

06:53we know what you can do.

06:54He's up, though.

06:55Let's have another fake injury.

06:56Huh?

06:57And he's like, and Zion's like, oh, my bad.

07:02Because you can't check back.

07:03You can check that.

07:05Well, I'm just saying very fishy, fishy injury.

07:09Like if he returns from this, the next game, we know this was right.

07:14We've been hoodwinked.

07:15If this lasts for a while, then typical Zion, he's injured again.

07:19We get it.

07:20But it'll be interesting to watch.

07:22It'll be interesting to watch.

07:23You guys really want him here, don't you?

07:25I do.

07:25You guys is a lot of people.

07:27You don't want Zion here, Jfig?

07:29Leroy's not here to shout us down.

07:32You're nervous about it?

07:33Well, here's what would make me nervous about it, right?

07:35Injuries, man.

07:36If we're at a situation.

07:37What if that back is not actually a fake injury?

07:41Zion loves hearing my neck and my back.

07:46Here's where it would make you nervous.

07:51If the Miami Heat do get their two picks this year and then you're lingering with two unprotected

07:58picks in the next two years and you have Zion Williamson on your roster, that's a scary spot

08:03to be.

08:04It's a scary spot to me because that means Oklahoma City could end up theoretically with

08:08the number one pick of Zion Williamson just had like another one of his seasons where he was out.

08:12Yeah, for sure.

08:13So that's the scary element of it.

08:15Counterpoint.

08:16What if he's awesome, dude?

08:19But but let me ask you this.

08:20Here's the counterpoint to your counterpoint.

08:22Yeah, counterpoint.

08:23Yep.

08:24When has he?

08:27We played like 70 games the year before.

08:28You always go to that 70 game season.

08:31Like the two were full regular season.

08:33Everybody wants to go do that.

08:35And then what happened the following year?

08:38He got hurt.

08:39Okay, say it louder.

08:40But two years before that 60 games.

08:46Two years before.

08:47So two years before he played 60.

08:49Then the following year, he played 70.

08:51Average 20.

08:52No, no, no, no, no.

08:53Oh, it's like a crazy.

08:54Okay.

08:54He played 24 games his rookie year.

08:57Dad.

08:5960 games the next year.

09:00I believe he was an all star.

09:01Okay.

09:02There's 22 games he missed.

09:04Average.

09:04It is 22 games, but he averaged 27 in that season.

09:09He shot 61% from the field.

09:11He's always going to shoot when he plays.

09:13He's going to always be efficient.

09:15Very efficient.

09:16The next year.

09:1829 games.

09:19Oh, so.

09:20Okay.

09:21The next year.

09:2370 games.

09:24Oh, okay.

09:26Got hurt.

09:27Oh, okay.

09:27So when you needed him the most.

09:29Yes.

09:30Okay.

09:30And then what happened a year after that?

09:32Well, he's in the midst of a 30 game performance.

09:36So there's more likely of him next year, right?

09:41But then the other year, the next two years after that is

09:43going to be 20 and 30.

09:46Right.

09:46And that's the scary thing, because you have the unprotected

09:49next year to.

09:50Okay.

09:50See.

09:51So by your theory, by those numbers and information, you've.

09:58You've told us.

09:59Yes.

09:59There's more likely of him having back to back bad seasons of

10:03missing games due to injuries than there is a back to back

10:06seasons of him playing 70 plus and being available in the most

10:10important time.

10:11You know, Vlad, Steph Curry had bad ankles.

10:14You know, what if people were rats off a ship off his ankles

10:17early on?

10:18Steph Curry can shoot.

10:20So, you know, as long as you send him a pick, he can shoot.

10:24Unfortunately, Zion needs his back in his legs to jump.

10:28Let's see.

10:33And that was like, what, 15, 17 years ago, a long time ago.

10:38You're talking about a four time champ.

10:40He's not going to make it.

10:41Who he played.

10:43Steph Curry only had one season where he didn't play in his

10:46first seasons.

10:47Yeah.

10:48He only had that one season where he played 23.

10:50Oh, wow.

10:5380, 74, 26.

10:55The ankle season, 78, 78, 80, 79, 79.

10:59Very durable.

11:01Very durable.

11:02Man, he really gave him an out with that cheap contract.

11:05Yeah, he made up for it.

11:07Yeah.

11:08Yeah.

11:09Well, by the way, I don't know if you guys saw this last night.

11:12Speaking of drama last night, Steph Curry, he went down with

11:16a pretty.

11:17It looked like a pretty gnarly back injury.

11:19He got he landed on his tailbone.

11:22They're calling it a pelvic.

11:24He bust a pelvic contusion, which is basically he busted

11:28his ass.

11:29That's what it's called.

11:32That was it.

11:32I remember Jimmy got that injury one time against Denver.

11:35Yes, that was that took him a while to get back.

11:38Which means which means Tuesday could just be Jimmy and

11:44Draymond.

11:45I mean, Jimmy goes for 50.

11:47Maybe.

11:48Maybe he's going for 50.

11:50Maybe 50, dude.

11:52But but that was good.

11:53Is a twist with the Miami Heat will be going for their final

11:57signature win of the season.

11:58Wow.

12:00This is their Super Bowl.

12:00This is the NBA final.

12:02This is all we got.

12:02It is just like this is all we got.

12:04It's just like LeBron on Christmas.

12:06This is everybody.

12:07Everybody.

12:08Listen, Godfather.

12:09You know that he's got some some stacks of cash ready to go in

12:13some of those locker room drawers because, like, the bonuses

12:16are waiting for sure.

12:17The bonus is Danny Granger.

12:19Danny Granger got that bonus that year.

12:20Oh, yeah.

12:21You know, he got that bonus that year when he beat LeBron on

12:23Christmas.

12:23There you go.

12:25Yeah.

12:25You never saw him after that.

12:26That was it.

12:26That was like, thank you.

12:28That would thank you.

12:28Thank you for your thank you for your service, Danny.

12:30Thanks.

12:30Sir.

12:31Pittman still lives like a king.

12:32Wonder why.

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