00:00Maybe it's not trending so well for ex-Patriots.
00:02Maybe I should be a little concerned here.
00:04I don't know what to say other than sometimes I wonder
00:06if my guys are betting on games.
00:07I've built players, so I know what the f*** I'm doing.
00:11What the f***?
00:12What the f***?
00:14One thing about Father Time, it waits for no man,
00:18no woman, or no sports career.
00:19And after 23 NBA seasons, both Father Time and LeBron James
00:23are starting to let us know that we're getting closer
00:26to the end of an era and the end of LeBron's Hall of Fame career.
00:30And we all see the signs.
00:32Brr, I'm St. Vincent, St. Mary High School in Aquino, Ohio.
00:37Number 23, LeBron James!
00:48Very emotional, LeBron James.
00:51There's one thing I'm sure of.
00:53This is last year with the Lakers.
00:54He's not going to play with the Lakers next year.
00:56On the way here, during the game, at any point do you think
00:59that this could be the last game I play here,
01:02so I better soak it in?
01:03I mean, yes.
01:06Because it could be.
01:07Obviously, I haven't made a decision on the future,
01:09but it very well could be.
01:11You know what sucks about this?
01:12We're never going to be able to enjoy LeBron's career
01:16and what he did in and for the game of basketball.
01:19The whole Jordan vs. LeBron debate
01:21is the worst barbershop debate in sports history
01:25because you can't give one his flowers
01:27without disrespecting the other's resume.
01:29I mean, just look at Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith.
01:32They earn a living off of telling people
01:34why LeBron wasn't as good as the GOAT.
01:37Now, I can celebrate the man's career,
01:40NBA's all-time leading scorer,
01:42a pretty decent Space Jam movie,
01:44if you're into that kind of thing,
01:45and then no real controversies or scandals.
01:48I think it's safe to say that he's going to be a lot
01:51to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
01:53Or is he?
01:54He's a family guy, first-ballot Hall of Famer,
01:57and we're just going to enjoy him.
01:59I mean, he might get Belichick.
02:01That's a new word we made up today.
02:03Might get Belichick.
02:04The NFL Hall of Fame voters' committee
02:06showed that they are worse than
02:08and more out of touch than the Grammys' committee
02:11when they denied six-time Super Bowl winning coach
02:14Bill Belichick a spot in Kent
02:16in his first year of eligibility.
02:19And for some reason,
02:20everybody had a take on this
02:23but all those sports journalists.
02:25Coach Belichick 100% deserved to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
02:29He's clearly going to get into the pro-football Hall of Fame,
02:31but he was definitely snubbed over the last couple days.
02:34I mean, I was with him every day.
02:35If he's not a first-ballot Hall of Famer,
02:37there's really no coach
02:38that should ever be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
02:41We are not involved in it.
02:44Listen, Bill Belichick's record goes without saying.
02:48Same with the Patriots and Robert Kraft,
02:50who's also a candidate.
02:53They're spectacular.
02:54They've contributed so much to this game,
02:56and I believe they'll be Hall of Famers.
02:58There is only one explanation
03:02for Bill Belichick not getting in on the first ballot,
03:07and that is cheating.
03:08That's it.
03:09First Bill Belichick,
03:11then we have Robert Kraft getting snubbed.
03:13Makes you think that there's some real Patriot hate out there.
03:17Patriot Drain Syndrome, you can call it.
03:19It makes you think,
03:20is Tom Brady going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer?
03:23It's not a matter, just like Bill,
03:26of if they're going to get in,
03:27it's just when they're going to get in.
03:29They're tremendous at what they've done in the league,
03:32and maybe it's not trending so well for ex-Patriots.
03:35Maybe I should be a little concerned here.
03:37If Tom Brady doesn't go in, first ticket,
03:41Patriots fans are going to be storming the Hall of Fame
03:43like the J6 insurrectionists.
03:50Now, I never made the Pro Bowl during my brief NFL career.
03:54My best season, I had, what, seven total catches?
03:58It was clean, though.
04:02To put that into perspective, though,
04:04that same season, Andre Johnson led the AFC with a buck 15,
04:08and Brandon Marshall had a buck 0-4.
04:11Sadly, it's not all about production these days
04:14when it comes to the Pro Bowl,
04:16and I say that to say this.
04:17No disrespect to Shador Sanders,
04:20but there were a lot of takes out there
04:22that said he doesn't belong in the Pro Bowl,
04:25and a lot of people agreed.
04:26I was surprised.
04:27It wasn't like I was just sitting there expecting it,
04:31like, yeah, I'm going to definitely be in there.
04:33Bro, you got to be joking.
04:34Oh, my goodness.
04:35You got to be joking.
04:36That's what I don't like, bro.
04:38Like, we cannot reward mediocrity.
04:43Like, we cannot reward it.
04:44His numbers are not Pro Bowl worthy.
04:45You didn't play a full season.
04:46Pro Bowl games are a TV show.
04:49100%.
04:49This is great for a TV show.
04:50Why would you want to see him there smiling and being himself?
04:53Yeah, you have to fill out the roster.
04:54That's all this is.
04:55And it used to mean something, and I know back in my day it meant something.
04:59Shador Sanders, 15 years from now, we can look back at his resume and go,
05:03man, he made a Pro Bowl.
05:05And I think that's what bothers people.
05:07My son did something that I didn't do.
05:11He made the Pro Bowl in his first year.
05:13I made it in my third year.
05:15Look, Pro Bowl just ain't what it used to be, and it's not going back to what it was.
05:20So we all got to come to terms with that.
05:22No more of the OK Boomers back in my Pro Bowl days moments.
05:26It's just more entertainment than it is an actual game.
05:30It's Topgolf meets Dave and Busters meets football.
05:33And I feel like next year's Pro Bowl games, they're going to be sponsored by TikTok.
05:39Can't run.
05:40Get rid of it.
05:41Oh!
05:44Neighbors.
05:45There we go.
05:46He's going into the foul lip.
05:47Oh!
05:49This week's quick takes of basketball coaches saying and doing a little too much.
05:55Let's go north to Milwaukee where Bucks head coach Doc Rivers indirectly threw shade at
06:00my man Giannis.
06:02Then he tried a little damage control.
06:04I was telling a very, very, very Hall of Fame player that I coached that he's the most talented
06:10player that I ever coached.
06:12And he was like, what?
06:15Giannis has said everything that we need to hear.
06:17That he wants to be a Buc.
06:18He loves the city.
06:19And that's all I can go by as a coach right now.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Sure, Doc.
06:24Giannis wants to be in Milwaukee just as much as Marshawn Lynch wants to be at a press
06:29conference.
06:29Hey, I'm just here so I don't get fined.
06:32On Thursday at the NBA trade deadline, my man is out of there.
06:36When people don't believe in me, I don't tend to be with them.
06:38I tend to be against them.
06:40When are reporters going to learn not to question Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd?
06:46The man knows what he's doing.
06:49I don't care about the criticism.
06:51The criticism, that's your opinion.
06:52You guys write that bull****.
06:54I've done this.
06:56I've played this game.
06:57I've played it at a very high level.
06:59And I know what the **** I'm doing.
07:01But I don't give a **** what you guys write.
07:03Because you guys have never played the game.
07:06And so I've built players.
07:07So I know what the **** I'm doing.
07:08Why do some of the beat writers out there in all sports think they know more than everybody?
07:14Jason Kidd is a Hall of Fame basketball player, an Olympian, and a guy, a savant of the game
07:21of basketball.
07:22This man is not kidding around when he talks about the sport and what he's doing for the
07:28development of Cooper Flagg.
07:30You know what?
07:31If former GM Nico Harrison would have listened to him and not traded Luka Doncic, he still have
07:37his job to this day.
07:38When you have 20,000 people in this stadium chanting fire, Nico, you really feel it.
07:44With all the gambling scandals in sports right now, I bet you, no pun intended, Tennessee
07:51men's basketball coach Rick Barnes wants to walk back his take on why his players weren't
07:56playing hard enough.
07:57I mean, at the end of the game, some of the passes that we throw, I mean, just, I don't
08:02know what to say other than sometimes I wonder if my guys are betting on games.
08:06I'm going to go back and check the player prop bets.
08:08I feel like for a head coach to come out and say something like that, oh, it's only a matter
08:13of time until we found out that that game is flagged for illegal betting activity.
08:18It's race hand.
08:19I don't, I don't want to say that.
08:20All right.
08:21That's a wrap on this week's What's the Take.
08:23What did we learn?
08:24We learned that the LeBron hate and his career will soon come to an end.
08:29Patriot derangement syndrome is a real thing.
08:32Shador's followers got him into the Pro Bowl and Jason Kidd knows what he's doing.
08:38We'll see you guys next week.
08:40Same time, different takes.
08:49We'll see you guys next week.
09:06Here we go.
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