2023-24 Season, Week 15 Recap

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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD and this

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episode week 15 my recap of that all that went on including all star reserves I'll talk about

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who was chosen also your all star coaches we'll talk about that we'll talk about also

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top-selling jerseys we'll talk trade of course there was one trade we'll talk about

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Marcus all retiring his jersey being retired and injury news as well and a whole lot more so just

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sit back relax and enjoy the show okay guys it's your boy GD back with the all things basketball

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with GD podcast and guys we are now up to week 15 guys week 15 we'll do the recap for that so

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without any further delay let's get right into it because there's a lot of things that went on so

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let's jump into it of course we start with players of the week as we always do guys and your player

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for the week for the West Kawhi Leonard for the Los Angeles Clippers his team went three and one

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for the week actually they were on the road the entire week guys they went to Washington and beat

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them beat Detroit and Detroit and a game that I watched guys they went to South Beach and beat the

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Miami Heat as well the only loss for the week was at Cleveland Cleveland's a hot team right now

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Kawhi for the week 29.8 points per game so you might as well say 30 eight rebounds three and a

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half assists for him two steals per game in a block as well he shot it from the field 56.6%

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guys from three pretty prolific from there as well 48% and then he was perfect from the free throw

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line guys Kawhi Leonard balling right now his team playing well also so Kawhi getting it done

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looking healthy two guys healthy Kawhi means problems for the league Kawhi getting it in

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and then for the East this is a guy who's playing good at the right nick of time guys

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Trey Young for the Atlanta Hawks his team went three and 0 for the week and they beat the likes

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of the Lakers they beat the Phoenix Suns and the Gold State Warriors Trey for the week 31 points he

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average 11.3 assists and 1.7 steals as well shot it from the field 56.8% guys from the field that's

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outstanding for him and then from 3. range even better 64.5% guys wow and then from

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the free throw line he took nine attempts made seven so you take that but Trey Young balling

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at the right time guys maybe he can pull his Atlanta team out the doldrums into the playoff

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conversation who knows so that's your players for the week guys we just finished with January so

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we now have the players of the month the rookies of the month and the coaches of the month and

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i'll give it to you right now let's start with the players guys Devin Booker who had a pretty

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prolific January his team went 11 and 5 he averaged 30 points 6.3 assists and 4.4 rebounds guys

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and in that month he had four games where he scored 40 points or more including that 62

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point explosion that he had albeit in a loss but he had the 62 that night and then in the east

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Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers his team went 11 and 2 which was the second best record

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in that conference i'll tell you who the best was in the minute 28.6 points per game for him

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7.6 assists and over 5 rebounds so Donovan Mitchell holding down the fort he got some of his guys back

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healthy now you got a Darius Garlin back now you got an Evan Mobley so this team might be poised to

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make some noise there in the east so we'll definitely be keeping an eye out for them that's for sure

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all right so that's your players for the month let's talk about the rookies in the west who else

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could it be but Victor Wimbayama for the San Antonio Spurs he played in 14 games for the months

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24 points per game 9.6 rebounds 3.3 assists and also 3.3 blocks oh by the way he's still

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leading the league in blocks not just rookies but everyone and then for the east Brandon Miller of the

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Charlotte Hornets he played in 13 games for the month 16 points per game for him over 4 rebounds

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2.4 assists so Brandon Miller starting to play well guys i'll be very interested to see coming out

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the trade deadline you could see a guy like Miles Bridges move if that's the case that opens up the

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door for Miller to get even more opportunities to flourish there so we'll see what happens there

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all right and then for the coaches for the month Ty Lou guys for the LA Clippers they went 12 and 3

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guys Tyron Lou one of those coaches who if you give him the talent if you give him the roster that

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he could work with he can get you those wins guys and he's done that for this team this team is

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starting to play well in the west there's going to be a problem in the west guys make no mistake

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about it with Ty Lou at the controls i don't put anything past this team as long as they're healthy

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that's always the caveat but Tyron Lou getting it done in LA and then for the east someone i know

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very well Tom Tiberdough of the New York Knicks the Knicks went 14 and 2 for the month their best

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record in the month of January including the eight game win streak so Tom Tiberdough got those boys

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playing well and they have to because it's so bunched up in the east i keep talking about that

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guys you see Cleveland Surgeon right now you got uh Indiana Pacer team that you can't count out

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you got Miami they're teetering a bit but you can never totally count them out Philly we'll see

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what happens with Philly with all that's going on there i'll talk about that in a minute and then

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Milwaukee you don't know what's going on with them Iva so we'll see but it's going to be Nippetuck

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and the Knicks need to be there every step of the way so with that said let's talk all-star news

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guys we have our reserves now in both the east and the west we'll start with the east guys i nailed

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this down to every single pick Donovan Mitchell Jalen Brunson Bama to Bayou Paolo Boncaro Jalen

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Brown Therese Maxi and Julius Randall so seven for seven in that regard guys the west i came

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close i got six of the seven so let's run through it Steph Curry Devin Booker Anthony Davis Kawaii

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Leonard Paul George Anthony Edwards and the guy i've missed on called Anthony Towns and now that

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i sit back and think about it yeah i should include him i wasn't 100% sure that they would give

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Minnesota two all-stars but they ended up doing that i thought it could be a case where they give

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one to Sacramento but that wasn't the case so Carl Anthony Towns well deserved guys well deserved

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and he's an all-star so kudos to him so you have your rosters guys now for the coaches

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let's start in the west Chris Finch of the Minnesota Timberwolves Chris Finch guys

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i tell you what last year him not having Carl Anthony Towns for a good chunk of that season

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really hurt the team but they were able to at least make the play in and then the play-offs

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but this season at 35 and 15 they are tied for the best 50 games start for that franchise

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and this is his first time guys so Chris Finch well deserved well earned congrats to him being

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named the coach of the west team in the all-star game for the east

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yeah it's gotten messy guys your east coach is doc rivers of the Milwaukee Bucks this is his fourth

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time let's start with that the team is 33 and 16 of that he is one and two guys yeah this is not

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good this is not good guys and this is what he said when he was told that he's going to be the

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representative coach for the east that is ridiculously bad it really is well Arian's

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going to get some money that's for sure in a ring it's one of those quirky things i think

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there should be a rule somehow that someone else do it other than me maybe i'll send my staff and

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i'll go on vacation trying to be funny about it i'm going to run that by adam silver i think adam

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is a good man i think he'll understand so here we are doc rivers making light of the situation

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but like he said at the beginning this is a bad look guys you can't have this happen you cannot

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have this happen guys i think it was incumbent on adam silver to right this wrong it could still be

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but i don't know if he'll do it adrian griffin gets them to a 30 and 13 record so he sets them up for

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being in this position i understand i get it you can't have the man come back and coast to all-star

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team that's that's ridiculous here's what you can do you can do one or two things adam silver but i

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don't think you got the guts to do it one you can just scrap that back-to-back rule and let joe

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mazula do it since he has the best record in the league you can do that or you can do this

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given the awkward situation with the morocchi bucks you reward the next team that coaching staff

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the opportunity to coast to all-star game which would be jb bicker staff of the cleveland cavaliers

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this is what you should do this situation it really is a bad look you know and i've seen people on

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social media clowning this this is not good adam silver i don't know if you're gonna correct it i

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doubt if you do but this looks bad i mean bad hey again what do i know but this is a bad look

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to reward somebody this kind of opportunity it doesn't sit right so adam now i don't know if you

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listen to this podcast but some friendly advice scrap your back-to-back rule let joe mazula do it

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if you don't want to do that let jb bicker staff do it that's the right thing to do i'm just saying

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a guy coming off his couch a week ago should not be coaching the east players for the all-star game

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that's all i'm gonna say so i'll leave it at that all right so that's your coaching situation there

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anyhow let us move on steve curry boy he talked himself into something here they had a mic

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up and he was talking to the rookie on the team he's still talking about sabrina's performance

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in the wmba three-point contest and he's pretty much challenged her and they called it live on the

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mic so the mba has this bright idea they're gonna have sabrina and steve curry go at it in a three

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point shootout between the two of them which will happen actually after the official three-point

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contest and then before the slam dunk contest so this will happen on saturday night the saturday

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night all-star saturday that's when it's gonna happen and the way it'll go is sabrina will be

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shooting from the wmba line with a wmba ball and steve will be shooting from the three-point line

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for the mba which brings out the knuckle draggers it brings out the guys locked in their grandma

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basement to come on social media talk about oh where's the equity where's the equity this and that

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y'all more worried about equity than steve curry is if steve curry had a problem with this setup

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he would back out but he's not doing that steve curry is securing his manhood unlike you guys who

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probably haven't touched the woman since 2000 and never but let me not go there but nonetheless

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it's happening the train is rolling down the tracks either you watch and enjoy or you just

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turn off the tv and no barba but it's happening whether you guys like it or not so so be it

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so so brina's doing it for her foundation the si 20 foundation and then steve curry

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he's doing it for eat learn play his nonprofit it's charities involved guys so that's always a good

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thing and from what i hear state farm they're throwing in money as well so it's all for a

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good cause guys so for you guys to get minted out of shape about who's shooting from what line or

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whatever y'all could kill that noise it like i said it's already happening so like it or lump it

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that's all i'll say with that so with that said let us move on to other items which actually is

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all star related julius randall for the new york nicks suffers a dislocated shoulder yeah that

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happened late in the january 27th game against the miami heat julius will be out several weeks

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they're now saying that he'll be reevaluated in two to three weeks which means he will miss the

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all star game his replacement just as i called it guys trey young will be one of the replacements

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for the all star game and rightfully so and then the second bit of news concerning all star

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jollam b suffers a knee injury in fact he ends up having to have a meniscus procedure and that

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happened in a january 30th game at golden state the reports are saying six to eight weeks which

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if you do the math that could put him out until april at least and then mind you guys and this

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is where the whole load management issue is brought up they sat him for the previous two games

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one was at denver he would have been matched up against nickolai yorkik oh by the way he

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hasn't played in denver since 2019 that's an aside and then the other game he sat out was at

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portland that brought up the load management subject and a lot of players are coming to

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jollam beads defense although i don't understand why they're defending him i mean he actually got

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actually got hurt in the game it wasn't where he was being sat for no reason but guys like tyrese

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hollyburton spoke against it guys like draemon green he went on his show and talked about it as well

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and that led steven a smith to go on a 20 minute tirade on first take talking about players

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abusing the system taking the money but not playing the games this and that and so forth where am i

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with the load management i actually understand the fans side of it of course because you're missing

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out on seeing a player that you probably paid most in advance hoping that he'd be in the game

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so i get that part of it but i think the larger question comes down to who makes the final decision

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in terms of guys playing and not playing is it the players making the decision is it the coaching

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staff making the decision is it the front office making the decision is it the medical staff making

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the decision i think that's the larger question and that question could vary from team to team

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so is it fair to lay it all at the players feet from the outside looking in i would say

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probably not if a decision is being made on high and the players have to acquiesce to that how is

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it the players fault so that's where i lie on it i don't know where to place the blame because

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there's nothing clear cut to say the players are electing not to play if it's the medical staff

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that's telling them not to play what can the players say or do they have to follow what

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their employer tells them so i think it speaks to a larger issue to automatically rail against the

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player i don't know if i go there i would have to know the chain of command when it comes to

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who gets that final say in terms of guys sitting or playing like we know in san antonio the buck

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stops with greg popovich we know that with the nicks well the nicks don't really load manage but

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i'm just using the makes the example i don't think tom tibidow is the end all be all in terms of

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making decisions whether a player plays or not i don't think it's in its hands it's probably the

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medical staff that makes the decision in new york yeah so i think you have to take it on a case by

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case basis but to lay it totally at the player's feet i think that's a bit strong so with that said

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imb's gonna miss some time guys so his replacement and this is a person who i actually didn't even

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bring up amongst the possible reserves but kudos for him getting in scotty barns of the

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toronto raptors who's having a fantastic year and i totally omitted him from the conversation that's

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my bad that's on me but rightfully so he makes the all-star team so congratulations to the young man

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definitely well earned well deserved so good for him making it in that regards so one more piece of

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injury news zack livena the chicago bulls head foot surgery guys he's gonna be out four to six

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months which means he's out for the season a crushing blow to chicago bulls who were already

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kind of on life support but this really now is a huge blow to them are they sellers at the trade

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deadline i would think they probably would be so i would watch chicago very closely during this

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trade deadline so with that said that's your injury news guys let's talk fines afanie edwards

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fine by the league and this is for publicly being critical of the referees and this was

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during a january 29th win that he had against the oklahoma city thunder that's kind of a

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rivalry a bit now with them being the top teams in the west but afanie edwards he's caught on mike's

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cheating refs well cheating blank refs and then in the post game he was asked about the game and

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then he voluntarily brought up the bad officiating once you do that normally if you bring it up in

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the interview that's 25 000 the fact that he was caught also saying it on a hot mic yeah that's why

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it's 40 000 so i can't defend them there but i will say this the fact that he's complaining about

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the refs in a game that they won tells you how bad the officiating is guys and i've been saying it i

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said at the last couple of episodes probably ago the officiating has left a lot to be desired guys

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and we still got a long way to go in this season so it's got to get better guys it's got to get

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better that's all i'm going to say with that he's fine and then two franchises find the

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philadelphia 76ers and the new augins pelicans the sixers 75 000 and then the pelicans 25 000

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and this is for failing to include players on the injury report in a timely manner

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philadelphia did it with joel and b actually for that Denver game it was like maybe about

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not even a half an hour for the game that they announced he's not playing tell me how i know i

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play fantasy basketball joel and b's on one of my teams i saw that he's good to go left my line up

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alone come to find out i look let's see his name with a oh there out oh i was so heated but he was

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a late scratch and supposedly he worked out they didn't like how he looked they pulled him but you

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know a lot of people want to put conspiracy theories on that you know have at it you have your fun

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with it so the league find them but they find the sixers heavy for that 75 000 whereas the pelicans

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did it with trey murphy the third where they pulled him the same day actually and this was a game

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against the milwaukee bucks they pulled him from the game and had them sit out so those are your

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finds there for that all right guys so with that said see if i could run through this right quick

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there was a trade that went down guys houston acquires steven adams from the

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mifes grizzlies in exchange for victor ola depot two 2024 second round picks in a 2025 second round

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pick houston gets steven adams the only thing is he can't play for them until next season he's out

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with the knee injury and for mefes sure they get the draft capital but victor ola depot

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he's been out and i doubt if we see him this year so for mefes probably the draft capital

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more than anything else victor ola depot they can just keep him out and then when the season's over

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they can wash their hands of it but for houston i'm kind of trying to make sense of it i guess

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he'd be a backup to operin sungum i guess at this stage of his career great rebounder great

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presence inside on defense so i'd be curious to see how he fenced it and all that but i guess you

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know probably at this point now with this knee injury he's probably looking at a backup situation

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anyway so perhaps this probably works out for houston steven adams is the type of player ma aduca

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loves so this could actually work out in the long speaking of the mefes grizzlies the mefes grizzlies

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will retire mark gazelle's jersey because he recently retired from the nba so they're retiring

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his number 33 jersey and they're doing that on april 6 against the philadelphia 76ers in a game

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where maybe mb this back maybe not but mark gazelle who played their 11 seasons played in

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769 games started in all but seven of those games over 15 point average points per game 7.7

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rebounds 3.4 assists and a block and a half he average shooting at 48.4 percent from the field

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77.7 from the free throw line while grizzly he made three all-star appearances he made all nba

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twice once as a first teamer and then once as a second teamer he won a defensive player of the

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year guys but get this he did it in a year where he made all defense but he made it on the second

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team so go figure mark gazelle getting this jersey raised to the rafters over there with

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minnesota and pretty well deserved i would say so kudos to mark gazelle for when when that happens

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of course in other news russell westbrook guys of the la clippers he becomes the 25th player in nba

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history to score 25 000 points or more and he's actually the second player to score over 25 000

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points 9 000 assists and 8 000 rebounds the only other player to do it some guy named lebron jane

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so russell westbrook in rarefied air there and when his playing days are done a surefire

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hall of famer the nba draft they're going to expand it to two knights guys starting this year on

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june 26 and june 27 so there's only two rounds guys one round one night second round the other night

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first round will be at the barclay center in brooklyn the second night at the espn seaport

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district studios there in mad hatton well that's how they're doing the draft they say it works out

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well for them to get to a spot like the players in the draft more and it's just a way to just drag

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this thing out that's the way i see it but hey kudos to them so will they get the kind of interest

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they're looking for we'll see but the nba expanding their draft night then we'll talk about jersey sales

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and one other thing and then we'll call it a day top selling jerseys guys this is how it goes

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number one stef curry so stef curry of the gold state warriors has the top selling jersey

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he is then followed by jason tatum of the boston cell ticks followed by lebron jane so the la

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lakers fourth victor win by yama of the san antonio spurs so i guess people are seeing he's the next

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big thing in the nba so let me get in on the ground floor with that fifth yonis onto to kumpo

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six lucas dockets of the dalis mavericks devin booker of the phoenix son seventh kevin durant

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phoenix son's eighth tyrese maxi knife wow that one kind of surprised me damian lilac tenth for

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the milwaukee bucks not much of a surprise there being that this is his first year there

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job moran 11th wow so job moran's jerseys is selling more than the next person who is joelan b

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your reigning mvp 13th lamello ball his jerseys are still selling uh nickolai yokic in 14th place

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and then deaeron fox in 15th place that's the way it goes with the jersey sales for individual

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players in terms of teams number one the la lakers of course followed by the boston cell ticks

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gold state warriors third milwaukee bucks fourth philadelphia 76th is fifth chicago bulls i'm surprised

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six phoenix son seventh the new york nicks eighth wow san antonlio spurs probably on the

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strip for wim by yama ninth and then dalis mavericks in 10th so that's your jersey sales there and

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then the last bit of business former new york nick bill bradley he does what he calls a performative

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autobiography where he does this one-man show documentary on max and the name of it is rolling

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along american story which actually debuts this month and he's talking about his life his life as

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a basketball player then as a politician later and i look forward to watching it i'm hearing good

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things about it so definitely want to hear that bit of history there especially he talks about the

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championship years for the nicks so definitely looking forward to that so he was actually being

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interviewed about it i was heard him talk about it so i'm definitely interested in checking that

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out that's for sure so with that said that is it guys that is it for this episode when i come to

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you again guys i do want to cover the trade deadline definitely want to cover the trade

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deadline and i want to couple that with what's going on in the wmba a lot of player movement

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over there guys that i want to cover as well so i'll couple the two it'll be a trade deadline

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episode along with a wmba free agency episode as well so we'll do it that way

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again production on the fly guys that's how we do it here all right guys so i thank you for

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