00:00Is this Can We Say That NBA edition?
00:03Who were the bums broadcasting that game last night?
00:06I know your boy Robbie Hummel's one of them.
00:08He's terrible.
00:09The play-by-play announcer on that Pistons game.
00:11Holy hell, it was like a welfare version of Eric Collins.
00:15That's why you need a Robbie Hummel.
00:16What's his name, Pete Gravey?
00:17He's the T-Wolves announcer.
00:19He's terrible.
00:20You know what?
00:22We can make this a Can We Say That NBA edition.
00:24No, just do you.
00:25I just needed to say that.
00:26Well, one is, Mike, how far can the Lakers go when they get a full team back?
00:35They're about to win their series, minus Reeves, minus Doncic.
00:40How dangerous could this Lakers team be?
00:43The problem for them is there's just going to be two non-negotiables.
00:47You play the Spurs or you play the Thunder.
00:49You're not beating them.
00:50This is a very credible display by them.
00:53Once again, I mean, LeBron's greatness is ridiculous.
00:55But you do, I do want to flip the script a little bit for fraudulence alert.
01:00Can we please talk about the Houston Rockets?
01:03Really?
01:04And by the way, Kevin Durant again, again.
01:07Oh, now KD's hurt.
01:09Doesn't even want to be there for the finish of it.
01:11Good God.
01:13Well, it's funny you mentioned that, Mike.
01:14I'm going to skip ahead.
01:16Should Kevin Durant just retire?
01:18Yes.
01:19Let it go?
01:19Yes.
01:20Because right now, he's treating the season as if it's like one of those games where I'm just going to
01:28opt out low management.
01:29He's low managing seasons.
01:31I feel like he's just a player of convenience at this point.
01:34If things are convenient for him, he'll do them.
01:36And if they're not, he'll find a way out of it.
01:38I have no respect for him, not that he cares what I have to say.
01:41The point I'm making is his entire career, he has derailed this thing.
01:48There's a softness about him, and now he's turned into just a complete carpetbagger.
01:52He got a chance to have it all.
01:54He went to San Francisco and had it all.
01:58He bailed because he got hurt feelings.
02:00He wanted to build his own big three.
02:02That was a debacle.
02:03Then he goes out and he goes, okay, well, now I'm going to go to Phoenix.
02:07I'm going to build another big three.
02:08Absolute debacle.
02:10Now you go to Houston.
02:11You're supposed to be the last piece.
02:13Debacle.
02:14There's a common thread here.
02:15Might be you.
02:17It's funny because when you really think about it, his entire career just went downhill after him and Draymond went
02:25after each other at half court.
02:26And everything else just kind of fell off.
02:29All because Draymond called him a bitch.
02:32Unbelievable.
02:33He did.
02:34That's what Draymond called him.
02:35I know.
02:35I know.
02:36Facts are mean.
02:40Mike, was Con Canupel robbed of the rookie of the year by his old teammate, Cooper Flagg?
02:46Bobby Nipples?
02:46Yeah.
02:47But wasn't Cooper Flagg the first player since Jordan to lead his team in points, boards, assists, and steals as
02:53a rookie?
02:54Yeah.
02:54That's hard to argue.
02:55Now listen, Bobby Nipples had a hell of a year.
02:58But when you look at it, Cooper on a bad team.
03:01Somebody's got to be the leader.
03:02I wouldn't put up a fight if you wanted to reverse it.
03:06I'm also not going to yell that it went this way.
03:08Two really incredible rookies.
03:11They are.
03:11Yeah.
03:12I'm still stunned anything productive came out of the state of Maine besides maple syrup.
03:17But you could have Knipple.
03:19I'm okay with Cooper Flagg.
03:21Because when the rookie of the year came out, I was shocked.
03:24Like, you said Con Canipple's name wrong.
03:26It's not Cooper Flagg.
03:28I thought it was him.
03:30I thought it was him.
03:32Mike, what do the Warriors do with Steve?
03:35I mean, yeah, Steve Curry and Steph Curry.
03:37Space cannon for both of them.
03:39Curry should walk away.
03:41And if I'm Curry, do I want to incur a rebuild?
03:43Or do I walk away and go live my life?
03:46He's a businessman.
03:46He's a family man.
03:47He's had a Hall of Fame career.
03:49He's done it all.
03:50Multiple championships.
03:51I'm in my mid-30s.
03:53I'd walk away.
03:55Because that's what I do.
03:56But I'm built different.
03:57I mean, I just see Curry as the Fresh Prince at the end of the show.
04:00Where he's just standing in the middle of the living room.
04:03And everybody's gone.
04:04Clay's gone.
04:05Curry's gone.
04:06Draymond's gone.
04:07And if I'm Steph, here's the other thing.
04:09And again, I know I'm different.
04:11I'm a boomer and all that crap.
04:12I think there's value in only playing for one team your whole career.
04:15I don't want to see Steph Curry in a Blazers uniform next year.
04:19I don't want that.
04:21I want Steph to just walk away with grace as maybe the greatest shooter in the history of the sport.
04:26And a pro's pro.
04:28You don't want to see the Ewing magic jersey or the Akeem.
04:31Patrick Ewing as a supersonic.
04:33No, I don't want to see that.
04:34Akeem as a Raptor.
04:35No, good poll by you.
04:37No, I don't want that.
04:39Carl Malone is a Laker.
04:41No.
04:42So, yeah, that just hurt my feelings.
04:44What's next for Devin Booker?
04:46Brother, he's headed into year two of a $150 million extension.
04:51His three-point shooting's gotten worse the last four years.
04:55I don't know because the cost of acquisition, what are you really giving up for a guy who's $74 million,
05:02$75 million, and he's not a good three-point shooter anymore?
05:07He shot 31% this year, 33% last year.
05:10That's not good enough.
05:12Rico, I don't know, man.
05:13I view him now, at this stage, about to turn 30, that extension is so egregious, and then you have
05:21to extend him again?
05:23I view him almost as a negative asset at this point.
05:26Plus, there's injury concerns.
05:28I'm going to treat Devin...
05:29Can the Suns even move away from him?
05:31You could, but I don't think you're going to get what you think.
05:34And second of all, what team is going to sign up for that?
05:37$70-plus million, while not half your salary cap is over 40%, and then you've got to pay him again.
05:45It was only a two-year extension.
05:48I'm going to term Devin Booker a YP, not an MP.
05:52That's a you problem, not a me problem.
05:54Gotcha.
05:54Are we making too much of the Portland Trailblazers owner, Tom Dundon's, cheapness?
06:01No.
06:02Or is this an NBA problem that maybe you've got to get a new owner?
06:06No, I think it's just the fact most billionaires are scumbags.
06:09Because his latest thing is, he made sure that...
06:12You normally see the t-shirts on every seat.
06:15Yeah, we're not doing that.
06:15No t-shirts.
06:16We're not going to have certain members of the staff travel when the team's on the road.
06:21He's cheap as the day is long.
06:22It's embarrassing.
06:23I don't know another way to say it.
06:26Guys like that have no place in sports.
06:28You want to be cheap?
06:29Go ahead.
06:29Do private equity.
06:30Go strip companies down.
06:32Flip them.
06:32Sell them.
06:32Do what you want.
06:33When you buy a team, you're making a civic promise to that community.
06:37And you could say that's wishy-washy.
06:39I don't think it is.
06:40Because scumbags like this will be the same guys begging for public dollars to build their playpens.
06:45The least you can do is try to win for people.
06:48Ten seconds.
06:49Who wins that series, Knicks or Hawks?
06:52I'm rooting with my heart.
06:53Hawks.
06:54I hate Spike Lee.
06:55Sad Spike Lee is great.
06:56Go Hawks.
06:58It's your NBA round ball blitz.
07:0097 wings.
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