00:0083 points for Bam Adebayo.
00:03The first thing you think is how, you know, because of the way he plays, you know,
00:06and I saw only made six threes, but 40 free throws or something like that.
00:10Tells the story right there and the Washington Wizards.
00:17RIP to the legend Kobe Bryant.
00:20Man, do we miss you and everything you and Mamba Mentality brought to the game of basketball.
00:2518 for 20 from the line and an 81 point game.
00:31I'm talking the grit, the character, just that overall dog, all of it.
00:35That's why me and true basketball fans out there want to apologize to both you and your legacy
00:42because the bum ass Washington Wizards let your 81 points get outdone by Bam Adebayo.
00:5883 points for Bam Adebayo.
01:00He will come out of the game and hear it from the crowd.
01:05My teammates was feeding me. I was making shots.
01:08And, you know, once you get too close to certain people records like E-Wade, Braun,
01:15I was like, I can go for it. And then once I got to 70, I was like, might as
01:24well see how far you can get at this point.
01:26No disrespect to Bam. Congrats, homie, on the historic night.
01:31But nobody can tell me that when you woke up this morning and heard that someone in the NBA dropped
01:3783 points,
01:38that Bam Adebayo was on the top 50 names that popped up in your mind.
01:44We're shocked because it's Bam who averages 19.
01:47He is not a natural score to even get close to putting nothing up like that.
01:52If you did, you're out of your mind because no one in basketball believed it, y'all.
01:58It ain't his fault that the Washington Wizards are trash.
02:01That's where I get it. But I'm not blaming Bam Adebayo for that. Congrats to him. It's his moment.
02:07I taught Bam everything he knows, man. Everything.
02:09I had to call Asia, like, you been training this boy?
02:14Asia been working with him.
02:16Because he ain't ever scored like this in his life.
02:18I know Bam. He works his butt off every single day.
02:22He never cheats the game. And seeing a guy like him doing something like this is incredible.
02:29I couldn't believe it when I was hearing it in real time.
02:31He got 30 in the first quarter. He got 70.
02:35Congratulations to Bam. I know how much work he puts in.
02:39Surpassed Kobe as the second highest scoring player in the history of the game. I mean, damn.
02:43I'm kind of salty that he bested Kobe. He's one of my favorite players for sure.
02:48I was laughing. People were so upset about him breaking Kobe's record.
02:52Why, though?
02:52Because they're weird, bro.
02:54They're like Kobe fans.
02:55They're f***ing weird. That's why. I don't care.
02:57He scored 83 points in a game. Why are y'all not happy about that?
03:00It was unethical. They was fouling. Shut the f*** up. Y'all ruined everything, man.
03:04Yeah. I don't give a f***.
03:05You got love over here, man. You got nothing but love.
03:08For sure, bro.
03:09NBA commissioner Adam Silver in the league shut down Magic City Night down in Atlanta
03:15because it would have gave the association a bad reputation and a bad image.
03:20Meanwhile, you have Heat players intentionally missing free throws to extend the game.
03:26So many, but he missed it on purpose.
03:29So a big, not a guard, could get his buckets and his record.
03:34My question is, I wonder how many Wizards players took the over on the Bam Adebayo point spread ahead of
03:42that game.
03:42In the Bam! Yes! And a foul!
03:46You will remember this game for the rest of your lives.
03:50Legal tampering period kicked off on the NFL on Monday,
03:53and we thought the Ravens made a franchise-changing trade when they gambled on Max Crosby's bad knee
04:00and made a trade with the Raiders to get him out of Vegas.
04:04The Baltimore Ravens are sending their 2026 and 2027 first-round picks to the Las Vegas Raiders
04:11in exchange for five-time Pro Bowl defensive end Max Crosby.
04:16Whoa, whoa, whoa. Pump your brakes. Not so fast, folks.
04:20Baltimore got cold feet, and then they backed out of the trade last minute
04:24like a dude who sobered up before saying I do at one of those Las Vegas chapels
04:30to a woman he met and drunkenly fell in love with at a club.
04:34The Raiders announced that the Ravens backed out of the trade agreement
04:38that would have sent all-pro defensive end-to-end game record Max Crosby
04:43to the Ravens in exchange for two first-round picks.
04:46League sources told ESPN the Ravens backed out because of medical concerns which arose during the physical.
04:52This is about how different sides interpret the condition of Max Crosby's knee,
04:58which underwent surgery eight weeks ago.
05:02The Ravens did not feel comfortable to pass him on that physical, which nullified the trade.
05:08For the Baltimore Ravens, the term buyer's remorse is something that does come up a lot.
05:13They just were not comfortable with the medical.
05:16They were not comfortable that the player they believed they were acquiring
05:20was going to be at a point where he could play to the level that they all thought.
05:25This has been completely documented from the get-go, and for them to not have done their due diligence
05:32and to get cold feet, it's honestly embarrassing.
05:36Hey, we're back! We're back!
05:38Stephen A. Smith, the man's made a fortune by having something to say about just about everybody and everything.
05:45His very first move as the executive was to sign Lamar Odom, who was on crack!
05:52But Sass got a little too sassy about Pelican's forward Zion Williamson
05:56and got into the social media beef of a lifetime.
06:01You got people that are alcoholics, you got people that are drug addicts and stuff like that.
06:06What was Zion's problem?
06:07Food. Food addict. The joke was everybody in New Orleans that cooked.
06:14It could be everybody from a restaurant, a chef, to your grandmama, alright?
06:18Anybody that cooked knew about Zion Williamson, and he knew them.
06:22They were on a first-name basis, because that brother ate a lot, okay?
06:26You even had rumors, and literally, I'm here thinking it was a joke,
06:30and somebody told me to go on the air and point out how he got busted hiding food under his
06:37bed.
06:37So the Pelican social media team caught wind of the call-out and the disrespect, and they had time that
06:43day.
06:44They responded with their very own clap back.
06:46This man was a bona fide scrub. He can't play. No disrespect whatsoever, but I'm sorry to tell everybody the
06:54truth.
06:54The man cannot play the game of basketball. He has small hands. He can't catch the ball.
06:59He's got bad feet. He can't really move even though he's mobile.
07:01Doesn't really know what he's doing. Doesn't have a post move that he puts to memory that he can do
07:07two times in a row.
07:08He has no game whatsoever. Plays no defense. Doesn't have the heart, the passion, or anything that comes with it.
07:14And then, of course, Stephen A, clap back at the clap back on first take because stuff like that just
07:21gets you good ratings.
07:22You left something out. And you know what you left out? You left out the fact that I was in
07:27the fourth grade and I got left back because I had a first grade reader level.
07:31And here I am on national television after graduating from an HBCU, going up against Hall of Famers all the
07:37time who play professional sports, elite journalists in this business, and me coming from an HBCU is still doing what
07:44I'm doing.
07:45I don't know if you notice this or not, but come April, first take will have been number one for
07:4914 straight years.
07:50When I hear the likes of even like a Stephen A or like a Skip Bayless and all them cats,
07:54like, who literally didn't play at all.
07:58You were never in an NBA huddle. So you actually don't know the pressures nor the stressors that Zion is
08:03facing.
08:03But like, I think Stephen A, I think Stephen A went too far.
08:06Him hiding food under the bed.
08:11That sounds sick as, man, stop, bro.
08:14Who is he hiding it from?
08:16It's his house. Who does he, it hides right in the refrigerator like the rest of the food. Who is
08:23he hiding it from?
08:25Yeah, you never know. You might have to.
08:26His damn food. He ain't in prison. He don't live with his parents.
08:31And now we're here, y'all.
08:32Well, Stephen A Smith is going to get the money and the views from that back and forth.
08:37But I feel like he's starting to ruin his brand within sports with all these constant back and forth.
08:43If it's not LeBron, it's the Cowboys or Dak Prescott.
08:46And now it's the Pelican social media team.
08:49He's becoming the 50 cent of sports media trolling.
08:54But the difference between 50 and sass, 50 lived what he rapped about.
08:58The man got shot nine times then went on a generational run with GUNA in the music biz.
09:04Stephen A's problem?
09:06One and a half career points at Winston-Salem State sounds like he shot nine times total.
09:12Ain't no pro athlete out there that's going to respect his take on pro athlete business.
09:17Zion Williamson, he looks fat.
09:20He looks fat.
09:21All right, let's get into this week's quick takes.
09:24We had some drama at the finish line at the 2026 LA Marathon.
09:29Imagine pretty much dominating the competition for an entire race.
09:34And then you lose like this, bro.
09:36Michael Kamau from Kenya.
09:38Just over two hours and 11 minutes on the clock.
09:51That's the marathon version of coming up short like Pete Carroll and the Seahawks
09:58because he decided to throw the football on the one yard line instead of handing the ball off to Marshawn
10:04Lynch.
10:04I still can't get over it this day.
10:07Play clock at five.
10:09Pass is intercepted at the goal line.
10:12Now I love UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley's energy, but my guy can let his emotions run a little
10:19too wild from time to time.
10:21Now this time he got teed up for making inappropriate contact with the ref.
10:26I didn't think I bumped the ref.
10:27I thought I got close to like yelling at John.
10:29I mean, John thinks like, yeah, I bumped him.
10:31Then he'll say I bumped him, but I don't think that I bumped the official.
10:35Nah, nah, no need for the he say, he say coach.
10:39John doesn't have to say a word.
10:41We can see you bump the man in the video.
10:44I think the NCAA's next order of business.
10:47We got to get these refs body cams.
10:49The officiating for us, you know, it, it, it, it is what it is.
10:53All right.
10:54So what did we learn today?
10:55We learned that Stephen A. Smith is not 50 cent.
10:58We learned that a deal ain't deal until it's done.
11:01Just ask Max Crosby.
11:03And we also learned that bam out of Bayou for some reason scoring 84 points.
11:08It's just bad for basketball.
11:10That's it for what to take.
11:12Check us out again next week.
11:13Same time, different takes.
11:23It could bećal here.
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