All Things Basketball with GD - 2022-23 Season, NBA Finals Recap

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

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In this episode my NBA finals recap.

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Going to recap all that went on and those playoffs there.

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Also other news, some coaching news, some player situations and whole lot of other stuff as

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well.

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Just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys so we are back.

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Your boy GD with the all things basketball with GD podcast and we are going to do our

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recap of the NBA finals.

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Everything is set and done now guys.

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So we are going to get into that but first I want to hit some other news before I go

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to the recap.

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So we will cover that and then we will circle back to the NBA finals.

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So let's get into it.

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Let's talk about coaching news.

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Firstly during the NBA finals Rick Adelman was named the 2023 Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement

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Award winner.

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So he even made fun of it talking about you must have ran out of guys to choose for this.

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But Rick Adelman in his own right he was inducted to the Naismith basketball hall of fame in

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2021.

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He started out as an assistant coach in Portland for six years under the great Dr. Jack Ramsey.

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So he was there six years before he became the official head coach of the Portland Trail

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Blazers.

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And those were the teams you had Clyde Drexler on there, Terry Porter, Buck Williams, Jerome

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Cursey and all those guys there.

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So he was there then he moved on to other places like Golden State, Sacramento Kings,

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Houston Rockets and his last coaching stop was at the Minnesota Temple Wolves.

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23 years total as a head coach, 1042 wins that puts him 10th all time among all head

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coaches and he lost 749 games.

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So that gives him a win percentage of 58.2% win percentage two time Western Conference

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champ two times his teams won 60 games or more eight times his teams won 50 games and

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more.

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He was a coach of the year runner up four times.

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Pretty substantial resume for Rick Adelman didn't win the championship but he got his

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teams there in the hunt.

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So and currently his son David is assistant coach ironically enough with the Denver Nuggets.

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So that's that bit of news.

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Frank Vogel named the next Phoenix sons head coach.

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He signed to a five year deal at 31.25 million.

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So eight years he was assistant in places like Boston, Philly and Indiana and he's the

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former head coach of the Indiana Pacers, D'Orlando Magic and most recently with the Los Angeles

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Lakers.

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He has the one championship he won.

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He won that in the bubble year.

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His overall record guys 431 wins against 389 losses.

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So that gives him a 52.6 win percentage and he coached for 11 years.

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So Frank Vogel is now the head coach of the Phoenix sons.

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I'll talk about the Phoenix sons a little bit more when I get to this news item.

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And then you have Monty Williams.

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Monty Williams, he's now the head coach of the Detroit Pistons.

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He was given a six year deal at 78.5 million.

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So big time money to turn that program around.

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He was five years assistant coach in places like Portland, also in spots like OKC as well

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as with the Sixers under Doc Rivers.

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He coached for nine years.

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He has 367 wins against 336 losses.

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So that gives him one percentage of 52.2%.

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He's coached that New Orleans who later would become the New Orleans from the Hornets to

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the Pelicans and then most recently the Phoenix sons.

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One time in this coaching stint he's gotten his team to the Western Conference Championship

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and won it and got him into finals.

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And just last year guys he was named coach of the year.

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So Matt Ishpia relieved Monty Williams of his duties and Detroit wisely pounced on the

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chance of getting Monty Williams into their program.

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And then the last bit of news, Toronto was the last place that had a coaching vacancy

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and there to hire Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach, Darko Rajakovich as their next head

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coach.

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He was assistant over there under Taylor Jenkins.

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Now he gets the head coaching job for the Raptors.

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He spent 10 years as an assistant head coach from the likes of the G League all the way

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up to the NBA.

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And he too spent a time or two as an assistant head coach with Monty Williams and the Phoenix

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sons.

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So this is a guy who's been around.

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So he gets the head coaching job.

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So we'll see what he does with those Raptors.

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And then you have assistant head coaches being hired.

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One of which is Sam Cassell joining Joe Missoula staff over there in Boston.

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And my question is Sam Cassell seems like he's been an assistant coach for so many

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years.

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Why hasn't anybody given him a head coaching job yet?

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I don't know if I can answer that, but here's a guy with a wealth of experience.

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As far as being an assistant head coach, you would think one day he'd get the chance to

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be a head coach.

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Maybe that will come, but Sam Cassell going to Boston to coach under Joe Missoula.

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So that's your coaching news guys.

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So let's move on to the next item.

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Kyrie Irvin recruits LeBron to join him in Dallas.

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The Kyrie is something else man.

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Well you know he was at the Lakers Denver Nugget series sitting front court.

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So he wasn't there for him to be recruited.

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He was there to recruit LeBron.

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Oh my gosh, it is too much.

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So here's my question.

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Where does that leave Luca Donkage if we were to say the Lakers would entertain training

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LeBron to Dallas?

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Where would that leave Luca at?

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And if I'm Luca, I'm like, what are we doing here?

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I understand.

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Bron is a once in a lifetime talent who wouldn't want to play with him.

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Would he fit?

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Yeah, probably so.

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But then you have three guys that need the ball in their hand.

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Three of them.

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Instead of the two you had when he had Russell Westbrook over there with the Lakers.

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So that would be so clunky and I would feel for Jason Kidd to have to deal with that.

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That's for sure.

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So first of all Kyrie, you need to sign your deal before you start recruiting people.

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I'm just saying.

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So anyhow, I just thought that was a very funny bit of news.

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So let's move on to the next item.

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The Phoenix Suns to wave Chris Paul.

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Chris Paul, of course he has two more years left on his deal at $61.6 million.

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Suns owner Matt Ispia, he's not trying to go there.

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Team already has a debt problem and their top heavy when it comes to paying guys like

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Kevin Durant, Devin Booker.

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Don't forget you still have Deandre Aitton on the books, although you hear a lot of overtures

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that he's going to be moved.

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So Chris Paul, it's one of two things, an outright wave or a wave and stretch.

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With an outright wave, they can certainly bring him back at a lower salary.

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If it's a wave and stretch, they can't bring him back at all.

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So right now they're talking about if this were to happen because it's still being talked

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about the landing places for Chris Paul.

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You hear places like the Lakers, of course, he's friends with LeBron James and then the

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Los Angeles Clippers, a team who he's well familiar with being that he once played for

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the Clippers.

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So Steve Bomber knows him well, the owner over there.

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You heard other places, here's a place that hasn't been mentioned.

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Miami could use him, but they would be kind of in the same dilemma that they're in now

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with Kyle Lowry and not knowing how much is left in the tank for him and he's getting

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paid a lot of money.

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And then of course, you know, they're mentioning the Knicks, which makes absolutely no sense

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whatsoever.

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I would say those two LA spots will probably be the spots I would pay more attention to

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than anywhere else.

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All right, so that's that bit of news.

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And of course, with the Knicks, Knicks are trying to get everybody.

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Now the latest one I heard, Alan Han, love him, love his work.

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He threw out the name Bradley Beale, who's getting a huge chunk of money from the Washington

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Wizards.

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The problem with Bradley Beale, number one is the money.

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It's a great deal of money.

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You have to give up.

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You're going to have to trade draft capital, obviously, young talent as well.

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And the thing is, he's injury prone guys.

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I can't sugarcoat that.

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He is injury prone.

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So if you're to do that, I mean, it's a huge roll of the dice.

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It really is.

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I don't know if Leon Rhodes goes there.

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Let me just put it that way.

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So Alan, then, you know, it sounds nice in theory, a backcourt of Beale and Jalen Brunson,

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but idealistically, I don't think it comes to fruition.

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So that's my thought on that.

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All right.

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So that's that bit of news.

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Then we go to Jarmarant.

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Oh boy.

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Jarmarant's camp now is saying that the gun that's in the second Instagram live video,

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it was a toy gun.

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Oh man.

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If that was the case, why didn't y'all just say that from the top?

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As soon as the video came out, look, it's a toy gun.

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Boom.

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The fact that you waited and waited, that's not a good look.

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Not a good look whatsoever.

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So of course, the investigation is being done.

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You know, the league is investigating.

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And actually, Commissioner Adam Silver said his punishment will come down after the finals.

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So the finals are over.

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So I would say in the coming weeks, I would say after the

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probably after the draft, I don't expect him to announce anything right now.

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I would say after the draft, maybe between the draft and free agency, something may come

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down the pike in terms of punishment.

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If I were to guess, but it could happen after the free agency period.

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So but if I were to guess, I would say after the draft before free agency.

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That's my thought.

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But all around it's is it's not good.

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I think the suspension is going to be a long one.

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My gut says a half a season.

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I don't think it'll be a full season.

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I think it will be half a season.

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So we'll see what happens there.

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So John Moran.

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That's it.

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I'm done with that.

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So anyhow, all right.

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And then this last piece of news.

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This is WMDA related.

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Brittany Grina gets approached and harassed by a social media.

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I'm using air quotes here.

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Provocateur at a Dallas airport.

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Let me lay it out.

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Brittany Grina, she comes into town.

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She's from Texas, by the way, guys.

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So she comes into Dallas to play the Dallas Wings on the road.

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You know, the road crowds have been pretty much been receptive, warm and receptive to

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BG and, you know, rightfully so.

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And she also went to Armamada Baylor and they just celebrated her there.

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They loved on her.

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So you know, it was it was a nice thing that they did over there for BG.

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All in all, it was Texas Love Fest for the most part.

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Until we get to the Dallas airport and her team is flying out to go to Indiana.

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So this person, I'm not even going to mention his name because I'm not even going to give

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him that type of recognition.

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He goes up to her and says all these things.

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But let me actually circle back because I want to talk about the WNBA itself.

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There's been a shift in terms of seeing the WNBA as public enemy number one in certain

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camps.

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This kind of started probably back about six years ago when you had the killing of Philando

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Castile in Minnesota.

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So the Minnesota Lynx, they protested that so much so that it angered police and angered

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the security there, but they were standing for injustice from that to a few years later,

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in 2020, we fast forward there and the Atlanta dream is calling out a part owner who is a

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Georgia senator at the time, Kelly Loeffler.

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So much so that they wanted her to sell her portion of the team and also they campaigned

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against her.

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So you have that dynamic.

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And then you fast forward from that to the league as a whole, basically protesting the

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killing of George Floyd.

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So you have all this combination of things.

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So social media has social media, I think it's going to be the death of all society,

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which seems crazy for me to say since you're probably listening to this on social media

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or some platform or so forth.

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So now on social media, you go to these WNBA sites, these groups, you'll get these yahoo's

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talking all this stuff about them and so forth, which you know, I read it, I'm pulled

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by some of the stuff that said, of course, they will say, oh, the NBA props them up and

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so forth.

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Here's a little fun fact, though, only five of the 12 teams are owned by NBA owners.

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So that's the case.

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How is the league propping them up?

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I'm just saying that's my question there.

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But I digress.

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Let me get back to the issue itself.

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So this jerk goes and takes it upon himself to approach BG at the airport.

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He says all these violent, disgusting things.

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I'm not even going to repeat some of the stuff he said.

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Course talking about the merchant of Venice, why we traded him for BG and all these things

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he tries to say in front of our face.

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So let us be clear.

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People like this discuss me.

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They really do.

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Here it is.

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BG sitting in that Russian jail cell having to deal with all that BG had to deal with

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over there is you got to have some kind of empathy for the situation that BG was in.

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But not these people.

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They're on hinge.

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They're off the rails.

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And you can't even talk sense to these people.

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I say if possible, he should be sued for harassment.

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Just for sure.

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Because you got it on video and so forth.

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And run these days, those type of people will get their comeuppance.

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I'll just say that and leave it at that.

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But the whole situation as a whole was disgusting.

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And it brings up the fact of what do we do now in terms of travel.

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Me and my boy, BG was talking about this too.

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About the chartered flights and so forth.

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It comes down to money.

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Are these owners willing to and this league willing to invest in chartered flights for

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these players?

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This way, you know, it gives them a sense of safety, not only just security wise, but

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health wise.

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So that is a large question.

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I don't know the answer to it, but I know something has to be done at this point because

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who's to stop the next idiot from attacking and addressing any player in that regard.

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So I think that's something the league really has to hone in on and do it very soon.

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So that's my take on that.

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So all right, so that is all the news prior to me talking about the NBA finals.

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Now let's talk about the finals itself, guys.

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So the number one seed, the Denver Nuggets take on the number eight seed coming out of

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the East, the Miami Heat.

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So let's look at game one.

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Game one, you have Denver winning 104 to 93, a game in which they were leading big at halftime,

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59 to 42.

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And the difference in the game, guys, really was the field goal percentage.

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Denver shot it over 50% at 50.6 and Miami only 40.6% from the field.

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So that's not going to get it done, guys.

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That's for sure.

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And then when you got guys like Khalid Martin and Matt Struess shooting a combined one of

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seven from the field, man, that's hard.

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In that game, Nikolai Yokic, the Joker, of course, 27 points for him, 10 rebounds, 14

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assists, shot it 8 for 12 from the field, went to the free throw line, 12 times, hit

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10.

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Jamal Murray, his reclamation story is looking so good right now, 26 points for him, 10 assists

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and six rebounds in that game.

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For Miami, Jimmy Butler didn't have the greatest of starts.

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That's for sure.

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Only 13 points, seven rebounds, seven assists.

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Bam, out of buy, you had a fantastic game with 26 points, along with 13 rebounds, five

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assists.

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But you need more from your other guys, so I've been saying that.

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I said that when I did the preview, so you're going to need other guys to step up.

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Game Vincent had a decent game in that one, but not enough to get the win.

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Game two, this is the game that surprised me, guys.

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Miami gets the win in Denver, 111-108.

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Denver gets their first home loss in the entire playoffs.

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Then it started opening people's eyes saying, oh, maybe this will go seven, you know, started

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to question and doubt the Denver Nuggets.

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And in that game, oddly enough, Denver led it to half 57-51.

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As far as the field goal percentage, actually it was in Denver's favor.

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52% for them, 48.74 Miami.

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The difference though was the 3-point shooting.

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Miami shot it 47.6% from 3-point range, so that's fantastic.

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Denver shot it 39.3%.

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So basically Miami made six more 3-point shots than Denver.

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So you're talking about an 18-point swing right there.

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And oh, by the way, in that first game, Miami only went to the line two times, guys.

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As opposed to Denver, they actually went to the line about 20 times.

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So you had that disparity.

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But game two, in this one, Gabe Vinson led the way for Miami.

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He had 23 points, three assists, two steals.

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Shot it well.

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Jimmy Butler and Bam out of bayou, 21 points each.

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Jimmy had nine assists and four rebounds.

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Bam had nine rebounds for assists.

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And for the losing side, the Joker, 41 points for him.

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He had a monster game, 11 rebounds for assists.

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And Jamal Murray, just 18 points.

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Not a standard game for him.

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So they lose a close game at Denver.

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So that was the one that shocked me.

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So the scene shifts to Miami, guys.

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Game three goes to the Denver Nuggets.

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They went on the road 109 to 94 in a game where the real difference, guys, well, few

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differences nonetheless, the rebounding Denver out rebounded them 58 to 33.

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They shot it from the field better.

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51.3% against Miami's 37%.

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The three-point shooting, oddly enough, it goes to Miami at 31.4% as opposed to Denver

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going 5 for 18 from three-point range.

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But nonetheless, the team gets to win.

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And they make history, by the way, guys.

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The Joker, 32 points, 21 rebounds, 10 assists, and add in two blocks.

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Jamal Murray, 34 points, 10 assists, and 10 rebounds.

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So they become the first duo in the NBA finals to record a triple double.

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Talk about making history here.

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And then you had the rookie, Christian Brown, coming off the bench for 15 points, 7 of 8

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shootings.

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So this kid, when called upon, he's been playing good.

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So to be on the roll and to put up that kind of performance that says a lot about this

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kid, that's for sure.

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And then for the Miami side, Jimmy Butler has a good game, 28 points, 4 assists for him.

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Bam out of bayou, 20 points for him.

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Didn't shoot it all that well, but did have 17 rebounds.

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So he had half of the team's rebounds.

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More than half, to be honest, because he only had 33 rebounds total.

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So that's your game three.

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Now Denver has gotten back the home court advantage by winning on the road.

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Let us shift to game four.

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And in game four, Denver gets to winning that one.

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108 to 95.

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The story of this game, Aaron Gordon.

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I'll get to him in a minute.

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It's a game in which Denver was winning at the half, winning by four.

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Field goal percentage, a slight advantage for Denver there, but it was the three point

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shooting that really saved Denver.

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They shot it 50% from three, as opposed to Miami's 32%.

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Free throws pretty much even.

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Denver missed five of 21, whereas Miami only missed three of 20 free throws.

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Aaron Gordon had the game of his life.

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27 points.

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He shot at 11 for 15 guys.

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It was just sensational.

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Seven rebounds, six assists for him.

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The Joker, you know, 23 points.

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He didn't shoot it all that well by his standards.

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12 rebounds for assists.

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Three blocks and three steals.

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So you'd like to see the Joker really filling up the stat sheet.

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And Bruce Brown off the bench on the road, 21 points for him.

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He shot it great.

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Had four rebounds.

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Jamal Murray had a horrible game shooting from the field.

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Did end up with 15 points.

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Love assists and three rebounds.

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So you'd like to see at least he's dishing it out and getting guys their shots.

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So and on a losing side, Jimmy Butler, another pretty good game.

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25 points, seven rebounds, seven assists.

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Bam out of bayou, 20 points, 11 rebounds, three assists.

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And then Kyle Lowry from the bench, 13 points and seven assists for him.

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So now you have Denver with a commanding 3-1 lead, winning both games in Miami.

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Oh, by the way, if you're a Miami Heat fan, I'm sure you're not too happy.

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They lost four games straight in Miami going back to the Boston series.

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So if you're a fan, paying all that money that you got to pay for the playoffs seats

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there, you are not a happy camper.

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That's for sure.

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So four games straight in the playoffs.

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That is, that's just bad.

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So we shift back to Denver.

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Can Miami pull off the impossible and come back from a 3-1 deficit?

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That wasn't to be guys.

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Game five in a tight game in an ugly game, pretty much.

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Denver gets the win 94-89.

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A game in which, and this is actually the first game that Denver trailed at the half,

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51-44 Miami lead at the half.

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But again, rebounding Denver with 57, Miami only with 44.

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And of course, the shooting from the field, Denver at 45.2%, which is substandard for

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them, but I guess you'll take it at this point in Miami, only 34.4% from the field.

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Wow.

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That's rough.

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The three point shooting was atrocious across the board.

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I won't even talk about that aspect.

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And then Denver was terrible from the free throw line.

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They missed 10 of their free throws.

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That's not good.

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So this really could have been a bigger win for them if they hit some of their free throws.

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But nonetheless, the Joker shows up in the last game and he has a fantastic game.

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38 points, 16 rebounds for Ciss.

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Michael Porter Jr., there was a Michael Porter Jr. sighting guys.

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16 points, 13 rebounds for him and three assists.

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Jamal Murray didn't have such a great shooting game, but the all around numbers are good.

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14 points, eight assists, eight rebounds.

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And on the losing side, Jimmy Butler, 21 points.

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He shot at 5 for 18 from the field guys.

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You know people going to pile on and talk about him shooting that bad from the field.

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Five assists, three rebounds, three steals.

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And then BAM, 20 points, 12 rebounds for him.

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So he scores 20 in just about every game BAM does.

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So really can't hang blame on him, that's for sure.

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So Miami wins the finals.

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Four games to one.

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Losers rolled to the finals.

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They beat the number eight C, Minnesota Timberwolves, four games to one.

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The number four C, the Phoenix Suns, four games to two.

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The number seven C, the Los Angeles Lakers, they swept them.

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And then Miami, they win four games to one.

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So less than four losses in the series guys.

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So that's pretty commanding stuff, that's for sure.

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So they go 16 and four for the playoffs.

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Fantastic guys.

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Your series MVP, who else could it be but the Joker himself, Nikolai Yokic.

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He averaged in this series, over 30 points per game, 14 rebounds and over seven assists

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along with 1.4 blocks.

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He shot it for the series guys, 58.3% from the field.

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Doesn't take a lot of threes but when he takes them he's pretty efficient and then

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83.8% from the free throw line.

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Denver gets their first NBA championship and their first championship since 1976 when they

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were in the ABA.

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That's the Dan Isseldave Thompson days there and Mike Malone, he gets his first championship

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as a head coach.

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Mike Malone, the son of Brendan Malone, another longtime assistant coach Brendan Malone.

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He served in a variety of areas there.

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Mike Malone, 10 years as assistant head coach, started out as assistant head coach with the

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New York Knicks, my New York Knicks.

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He went to places like Cleveland as well.

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He also went to New Orleans, was assistant under Monty Williams so he was assistant under

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Lenny Wilkins, Mike Brown when he was in Cleveland, Monty Williams and also Golden State where

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he was assistant under Mark Jackson.

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Mark Jackson of course with ESPN and the booth there.

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So with that said, his coaching resume, 10 years total, 2 years with Sacramento before

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being fired from there and then he goes to Denver and Sacramento he didn't do too bad

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but he got kind of a bum rap there so Denver hires him.

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8 years later they have their championships so patience and perseverance pays off.

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The Joker of course, you know his story, second round pick, no one saw this coming that's

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for sure.

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Two time league MVP and now he has his first championship as a player and finals MVP as

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well so and then we got to talk about Jamal Murray and Michael Porter.

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These are guys who last year had to sit out.

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Jamal Murray had to torn ACL.

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He had to deal with that.

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Then you have Michael Porter Jr. who started out the year last year but the back issues

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was just too much and he sat most of last year so you had these guys here working their

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way back into the lineup and back into the system.

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For the most part they played well.

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Michael Porter ensued it all at great in this series guys so you have to wonder having

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a prolonged playoff run didn't do wonders for his back so I'll be interested to see

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how his off season goes because they're locked into him for the next few years over there

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so Michael Porter Jr. I'll be watching that situation there.

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Then you have a guy like Aaron Gordon who spent most of his years over there with Orlando

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Magic.

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They did a lot of losing over there that's for sure and then he gets traded in a midseason

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trade to Denver last season in fact so this is his first full season and I tell you what

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he sacrificed his game and he had a very good year.

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Very good year on the low guys but that game performance wow that says a lot about him

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and now he's an NBA champion so kudos to Aaron Gordon and then of course he got the

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old heads over there oh and then also Cotabius Caldwell Pope who gets his second championship

477
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he got one in the bubble with those Lakers in 2020 so this is his second one and then

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he got the old heads guys like Jeff Green who's been around the league, DeAndre Jordan

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who you know he had to start with the Clippers and he's bounced around since then and then

480
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:20,520
Ishmith who's been on they say 13 teams for crying out loud so talking about a guy who's

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really bounced around so Ishmith he gets a ring and Reggie Jackson, Reggie Jackson who

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was cut by the Clippers by the way and then the Denver Nuggets pick him up.

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All these older guys getting their rings so you like to see that that's for sure and that's

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what Yolkic and Murray was talking about getting these older guys their rings so now they have

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them and it's got to feel good.

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So with that said the Denver Nuggets their salary for next year right now it stands at

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68.3 million so they're in pretty much good shape that's for sure.

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In terms of free agents Bruce Brown Bruce Brown who had a fantastic series he has a

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player option at 6.8 million I think he definitely opts out and becomes an unrestricted free

490
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:21,760
agent does he want to come back to Denver in that culture there or take his talents

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00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:27,320
elsewhere we'll see what happens I actually talked about him I did the Nick recap that's

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a guy who's going to get some substantial money guys and remember where he's come from

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00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:40,720
he was in that situation with the Nets with the Kyrie with Kevin Durant even there when

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they had Harden so he was in that situation there for him to come over to Denver and see

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a non-toxic environment as opposed to what he saw in Brooklyn you got to definitely take

496
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your hat off to him but I think he will become a free agent where he ends up I'll be interested

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to see that.

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Also the older players that I mentioned they're all free agents Jeff Green, Ishmith, Deandre

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Jordan, Thomas Bryan who came in the mid-season trade and also Reddy Jackson who I mentioned

500
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,080
earlier so all those guys are free agents so your core is still there guys that's for

501
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:24,920
sure so Denver who knows maybe they run it back we'll see so that's the Denver story

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00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:32,760
there and then shout out to that owner Stan Cronkey he now has championships in four sports

503
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:41,040
cooling football hockey and also in soccer so kudos to the owner.

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For Miami you got to take your hat off to him guys you got to take your hat off to that

505
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:53,320
organization for getting this far in the playoffs that's for sure and kudos to Jimmy Butler

506
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:58,680
I know a lot of people want to pile on to Jimmy Butler but remember he had the ankle

507
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:05,880
injury he toughed it out he gutted it out he suffered that in the Knicks series so who's

508
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to say that hasn't been a factor.

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00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,520
Jimmy Butler is a guy you want in your foxhole because you know he's going to fight he's

510
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going to claw he's going to give you what you need.

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Sure he didn't shoot at all that great in the final game but he's a guy who I would

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want to go to war with that's for sure and bam I'll buy you bam I'll buy you were solid

513
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:33,800
in the series guys he was solid in this series if he had some competent help around him up

514
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:39,320
front maybe he looks even better but it was pretty much him and that's it Kevin Love was

515
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:47,120
on his last legs Cody Zeller forget about him he needed big man help and for him to

516
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:52,840
do what he did I take my hat off to him but it's the other guys you know a lot of them

517
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:58,760
were undrafted players and it's a tribute to Eric Spolster that he got this team far

518
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:05,680
with that kind of talent so definitely hats off to him I do think he should have probably

519
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:10,800
because Matt Struz was giving you nothing guys I think he should have switched up and

520
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:16,880
started Kyle Lowry instead seemed like Kyle Lowry as the playoffs went on he got stronger

521
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:22,640
so I do think that's the switch that he should have made but you know again you take your

522
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:30,680
hats off to those guys that's for sure in terms of their salary 171.2 million for next

523
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:38,240
year remember Tyler Hero he signed his rookie extension so we'll see how they're able

524
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:45,000
to add his terms of free agents Victor Ola depot who went down with that torn ACL in

525
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:52,040
the playoffs unfortunate for him he has a player option at 9.4 million my assumption

526
00:37:52,040 --> 00:38:01,040
is that he will take that player option Kevin Love Matt Struz gave Vincent Omer Yurt 7

527
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:06,280
who I don't even know what happened with him he was another big maybe he was hurt who knows

528
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:13,280
and then Cody Zeller so those are your free agents does Miami need to add another star

529
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:19,000
a lot of people talking about Dane Lillard him being a possibility I heard the name of

530
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:25,600
Russell Westbrook bandied about but remember Dane is under contract with Portland so will

531
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:31,920
the Portland ownership will they say look you gave us all you have for this organization

532
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:38,200
we need to go and rebuild now bring back younger pieces so we're gonna ship you out so will

533
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:46,000
they do that who knows and then also I mentioned Chris Paul but again I think that's the situation

534
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,360
kind of a lateral move because you still have Kyle Lowry there so it's kind of like the

535
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:58,600
same situation so and then what to do with Tyler hero now he had that hand injury it

536
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:04,720
kept him out most of the playoffs here he didn't get a chance to play in game five from

537
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:09,360
what I hear he was annoyed about that so you know you have him under contract the next

538
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,880
four years so having a Tyler hero would that have made a difference absolutely it would

539
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:20,120
have made a difference provided he was healthy I understand the trepidation about bringing

540
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:26,040
a guy like that into this sort of situation I do get it what to do with Duncan Robinson

541
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:32,720
he still has three years that he's on contract for at fifty seven point four million so what

542
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:39,000
do you do in that regard he's a guy who can light it up does he give you more than that

543
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,640
and then Kyle Lowry has one more year left a little less than thirty million dollars does

544
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:52,640
he get waved for them to get up under that contract and then we say a goodbye to Adonis

545
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:59,160
Haslam three time champion for the Miami Heat stay there his entire career so definitely

546
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:05,560
hats off to him oh by the way he was undrafted coming out of the University of Florida and

547
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,120
he's been there through the Dwayne Wade years the big three years with Wade LeBron and Chris

548
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:19,600
Bosch and now into this era here so Adonis Haslam we salute you enjoy your retirement

549
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:26,200
I'm sure you'll be on the sideline as an assistant coach perhaps with this current Miami Heat

550
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:32,840
staff here with Eric Spulsher in those guys so definitely kudos to Adonis Haslam alright

551
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:39,280
guys so that is it for me one of a bit of news I wanted to mention it's not NBA related

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00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:46,920
per se but the person is a big time NBA fan and that's Shannon Sharp Shannon Sharp is

553
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:53,800
leaving undisputed he was there for seven years debating with Skip Bayless you know

554
00:40:53,800 --> 00:41:01,040
him as a big time LeBron fan he is leaving they didn't renew his contract but the hand

555
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:08,240
right and spent on the wall guys ever since that situation with the player Damar Hamlin

556
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:15,280
the Buffalo Bill who collapsed on the field and his partner Skip had things to say about

557
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:20,400
continuing to play the game regardless and he caught a lot of flak from that so much

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00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:26,760
so that next day was a Monday Shannon didn't even come in for that day because he was so

559
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:33,640
affected by what happened on the field remember Shannon Sharp NFL Hall of Famer so of course

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00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:39,200
he's going to have empathy in that situation he feel right going on air after that incident

561
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:46,240
so Skip did the show by himself it was cringy given the firestorm he was under but he did

562
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:51,440
it nonetheless and then the next day Shannon came back he issued the statement in terms

563
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:57,920
of his absence and so forth of course it was concerning the young man his health and safety

564
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:05,760
was his big concern so much so that skip interrupted his monologue and then you have the situation

565
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:12,680
where they were talking about Tom Brady and Shannon was pretty much saying that Tom Brady's

566
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:19,560
on the as I like to say the back nine of his career and of course Skip blindly defends

567
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:26,040
Tom Brady to the hilt so much so that he disparage Shannon in the process of doing that so when

568
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:33,280
you have all that acrimony there the handwriting's on the wall so I expect I don't know I can

569
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:39,880
call him on because me and him is the same age I expect Shannon to go elsewhere and show

570
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:45,440
his stuff he proved a lot in those seven years that's for sure so definitely props to him

571
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:51,600
his club Shay Shay he did it under Fox but I believe he still has the rights to that so

572
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:59,480
I'm sure that will still be in play for him so I expect uh he won't be silent Shannon

573
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:07,520
doesn't know how to be silent but a great guy great insight so definitely props to him

574
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:15,240
for the substantial career he has had as a talking head alright guys so that is it guys

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I'm gonna take a little hiatus here you got the draft coming up so I'll definitely break

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00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:29,720
that down in due time the WNBA is heating up right now I've seen some fantastic performances

577
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:37,840
the Juana Bona her 41 points against the Las Vegas aces that was tremendous Sabrina Nescu

578
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:44,080
what she did against Atlanta so you got a lot of things going on in the W I'll be getting

579
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:51,800
to that but guys I'll be taking a bit of a hiatus little vacay time so hey how so I thank

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you once again for listening as always guys I'm always encouraged when I hear oh you know

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I'm listening I'm tuning in so continue do so guys of course the website all things basketball

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