All Things Basketball with GD - The Wild and Wacky World of Podcasts

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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 I'm calling it the Wild and Wacky World of Podcasts.

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You got all these different all players with their own podcast.

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They go on these other podcasts and say some wild things so we'll break it all down guys

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so just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys so it's your boy GD back with the All Things Basketball with GD Podcasts

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and you know there's a lot of off-season news that has taken place since we last talked.

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Jaylin Brown breaking the bank plus other news items as well but I want to start with the

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Wild and Wacky World of Podcasts which is ironic because you're now listening to a podcast with

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yours truly. The way I kind of work is I'm taking you behind the scenes here. I do a

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amount of research. I create an outline and then I just expound from that outline so that's kind of

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how I operate but I'm going to take a line from Joe Madison the Black Eagle when he says everybody

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has a podcast and it seems like that's true in the NBA just about. Everybody has a podcast.

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From your former players like Shaquille O'Neal of course he has the big podcast with Shaq and

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that's a pretty popular one. Also you have JJ Reddick's podcast, Old Man in Three, even Dr. Jay

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Julia Servin. He has one called House Call with Dr. Jay then you have Gilbert Arenas. Now he's a hot

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guy in terms of the podcasting. He has one called No Chill with Gilbert Arenas and then Kevin Garnett

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and Paul Pierce. They have one called Ticket in the Truth. So that's your former players

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and you got your current players with podcasts. Of course Draymond Green, he has his podcast,

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the Draymond Green show. Now you have Paul George. He has one called Podcast P with Paul George and

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he has other hosts as well. Patrick Beverly of all people of course you know he has one now.

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The Pat Bev podcast and then you have former players who go on these different other shows

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like a Jeff Teague. He went on Club 520. He was actually pretty funny on there. So you have that

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Draymond Green. He goes on other people's podcasts. In fact he went on Pat Bev's podcast.

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In fact that's the one I'm going to start with. So let's get into it. Now Draymond Green of course

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he goes on the Pat Bev podcast and of course Patrick Beverly being who he is access him about

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the punch. Draymond Green gave to Jordan Pool and this is what he said in terms of the punch.

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I don't just hit people. Dialogue of course happens over time and usually ain't just triggered by

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something like that fast to that degree. You know what I'm saying? Like this is a team. Ain't nobody

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on my team triggering me in an instance. You know we know stuff that you don't say amongst men. We

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know things that you have to stand on. So basically to Draymond's pretty much putting the ball in

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Jordan Pool's court. I guess what he's trying to say is Jordan antagonized him so much so that he

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had no other recourse but to punch the guy. Draymond Draymond. You know going on somebody's

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podcast especially of Patrick Beverly. He's gonna goad you into this topic. Instead of taking the

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high row which I think you should have did to be honest. You go for the low hanging fruit and you

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of course answers and of course with him answering this this elicits a response from not only Jordan

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Pool but Jordan Pool's father. He goes on Twitter and this is what he says on Twitter. I'll kind of

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clean it up. I'm staying on this. This is some BS. That's some BS rapper. JP was his guy and he

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avoid me all last year. He is as soft as B and I'm standing on this and he didn't apologize to me

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and my wife. So he laying and me and him can meet anywhere he want. So you have people saying why is

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the dad getting involved? His son is a grown man. He should be able to handle his own business.

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I'm put it to you like this. You see this video go viral of your child being hit by another man or

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adult or what have you. Of course you're gonna be livid about it and for anybody to say no I'll let

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my child handle it. That's a load of crap. You know and I know you're gonna react. Maybe not in this

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same vein as Jordan's father but you're gonna react. So for people to say oh he should keep out of it.

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No. No. That's unrealistic. Let's put it that way. But again I come back to Dremon. Dremon you should

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be wiser to know not to answer. See the whole thing this thing ain't gonna die down and then remember

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well the schedule hasn't come out yet. I'm sure we're in the month of August so I'm gonna gauge

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probably about mid-August we'll get the full schedule and of course I'll break it down like I

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do every year. But Dremon has to be smarter. He has to be smarter and dealing with these sort of

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questions here and there's already kind of questions about him and even on that podcast he talked about

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his new teammate Chris Paul how you know in the past they didn't get along. See how the locker room

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situation happens with him because Chris Paul himself is a leader so he's coming into a situation

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here where you already got leadership in Dremon Green so it'll be interesting to see if those two

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bump heads in that regard. And then you have the young guys in the locker room who many of whom

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are still on this roster. They witness what happened with the Dremon Green stuff so it's just going

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to be an interesting situation in Golden State. Well you don't have Jordan Paul in the locker room

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now so I will be interested to see how the season progresses with that situation there.

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They put all their eggs in the Dremon Green basket. Everybody was behind him in terms of your star

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players were behind him and they kind of pushed Jordan Paul over a cliff kind of making him the

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fall guy so we'll see what happens during the season. So that's one bit of news coming out of

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the podcast. Let me talk about the next bit of news. Dwayne Wade man this guy is like catching

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strays from everywhere and I don't even understand the reason why. Here he is living his best life.

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He just became part owner of the Chicago Sky. He's less than two weeks away from a Hall of Fame

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induction. Of course he's going in with Dirk Nowitzki as well as Tony Parker, Greg Popovich

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the coach as well as Becky Hammond and others and then you have these couple of guys making

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their statements. First of all let's deal with Paul Pierce. You know I have no love for this man.

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It's something about him just grates my nerves. So Paul Pierce rehashes a four year old subject

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so he brought it up again on Cameron's show. I'm using air quotes for show because he doesn't

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like to call it a podcast. It's a podcast so I don't know who Cameron is fooling. But anyway

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on the show called it is what it is. Paul Pierce goes on there and he rehashes the whole him being

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better than Dwayne Wade as far as offensive players so forth and he claims that he too would have

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multiple championships if he was in Dwayne Wade's situation and that he's the much better offensive

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talent than Dwayne Wade. And back then I loved it when my guy Jalen Rose brought out the receipts on

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him to show him how out of touch he was in regard to him comparing himself with Dwayne Wade. So since

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I don't have Jalen Rose here as a guest I will do the honors and pull him out the receipts just to

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let Paul Pierce know how crazy that talk is. Here's what I give Paul Pierce. I give him this.

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He's the better three point shooter of the two. Hands down. Dwayne Wade in his career only 549

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three point goals made. Paul Pierce he actually quadruples that over 2100 three point goals made.

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In fact 2143 to be exact. So I grant you that you are the better three point shooter. I get

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you that. In your 19 years in the league you amassed 26397 points. Dwayne Wade with three less years

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than you playing 16 years over 23000 points. You had three more seasons to amass 3000 more points.

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So I call that us kind of a split. Oh by the way Dwayne Wade in one of the seasons did league the

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entire league in scoring. Paul Pierce you did not. And then there's this. Paul Pierce is mainly a

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small forward. Dwayne Wade is mainly a shooting guard. And then at points in his career he was a

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point guard. So you talk about two different positions anyway. So I don't even understand why

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you're comparing yourself with him rather than another small forward. But I digress. But we'll

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entertain Paul Pierce's lunacy for a moment. Tim Time All-Star. Four Time All-MBA. Once on the

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second team three times on the third team. Dwayne Wade 13 times an All-Star. Oh by the way in one of

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those All-Star games he got the MVP award. Eight Times All-MBA. Twice on the first team. Three

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times on the second team. Three times on the third team. So yeah yeah not looking so good.

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And oh by the way Dwayne Wade made all defensive team three times. He made the second team all

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defensive team. So there's that feather in this cap. Your one championship you did win finals MVP

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so we give you that. Dwayne Wade three times a champion and won finals MVP so he's up in terms

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of the ring count. Your career average 19.7 points per game. 5.6 rebounds. 3.5 assists.

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1.3 steals. Dwayne Wade 22 points per game he averaged. So you're talking about over two

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points higher per game. 4.7 rebounds. That's fine given that Dwayne Wade is 6-4 and Paul Pierce is 6-7.

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5.4 assists and one and a half steals per game. So he has that advantage there.

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6. Shooting from the field. Paul Pierce at only 44 and a half percent from the field whereas Dwayne

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Wade 48 percent from the field so Dwayne Wade was much more efficient. 3.0 range of course Paul

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Pierce is going to best him in that category 36.8 percent to Dwayne Wade's 29.3 percent. We all

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understand Dwayne Wade was not the three-point shooter that Paul Pierce was and from the free throw

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line over 80 percent for Paul Pierce 76.5 percent for Dwayne Wade so there's that.

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Highest MVP finish I like including this when comparing players. Paul Pierce the highest he's

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ever gone in terms of the MVP race. 7. Highest MVP finish for Wade. 3. So he has that over him.

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Again I say all that to say Paul Pierce what are we doing here? You're bringing up an old argument

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and again Dwayne Wade shooting guard. You small forward so I don't even understand comparison

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anyway and heaven knows you're not going to try and compare yourself to LeBron. Don't even go there

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because that's actually the small forward but I digress that's a story for another day.

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So that's Paul Pierce and his nonsense. Now we go to Jeff Teague. Jeff Teague like I said he went on

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the club 520 podcast and he turns out to be a pretty funny guy. He told the story about the Jimmy

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Butler Timberwolves practice the infamous practice where he took the third stringers and beat the

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starting five. He talked about his beef with Tracy McGrady and then he talked about him trash talking

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Steph Curry and to no avail because Steph Curry ends up lighting them up. So on this podcast on

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the same episode he tells them that James Harden is better than Dwayne Wade. According to him

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Dwayne Wade had Shaq. Shaq was still very serviceable that's for sure and very vital to them getting a

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championship but we all know it was Dwayne Wade's team make no mistake about it. Then he brings in

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LeBron that Dwayne Wade never really been by himself and when he was the team was trashed.

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So Jeff Teague you should know better kind of taking a line from Stephen A. But he should

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know better than comparing Dwayne Wade with Harden because of the sacrifices that Dwayne Wade made

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when LeBron got there he had to sacrifice his game in order to acquiesce to LeBron. He could

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have averaged more but he sacrificed his game so LeBron can be the Batman if you will to his Robin

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and doing so that allowed them to win two championships and go to a third final. So that

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right there in the nutshell I can go through the numbers I could go through Harden's numbers

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he's been in the league 14 years he's already scored over 4,000 more points than Wade oh by the way

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he's won three scoring champ he's a 10 time all-star seven times all NBA he has an MVP award he has a

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six man of the year award and he's led the league and assists twice as well. So individually you get

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no argument for me I mean Harden has the better numbers but if you were to ask somebody who's

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the player you want in the foxhole with you nine people out of ten will say Dwayne Wade that's just

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the facts of it and the fact that Wade is also a two-way player he can defend as well give me

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Dwayne Wade all day and twice on Sunday but like I said Jeff Teague who actually ended up winning a

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championship so he knows what it takes he knows the sacrifices it takes to get there so for him to

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say that Harden's the better player. On paper sure sure if you want to say on paper but we know

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there's intangibles that goes with playing the game and Dwayne Wade had those intangibles so that's

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my defense of Dwayne Wade against these unnecessary strays that he was catching from these guys so

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that's that bit of news Julius Irving. Julius Irving he goes on a podcast with Joy D'Angelo

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she's a social media influencer he goes on her podcast and it's two things that kind of caught

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the eye of people he talked about the current climate of player empowerment this is his quote

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these guys since prisoners are running the show and not the war first of all let's stop there

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Julius Irving one of my heroes when I started watching basketball one of my heroes in terms of

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basketball players I've loved and watched until Bernard King came along and kind of put my focus

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there on him but definitely one of my early heroes Dr. J but this phrasing here I can't go along with

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that doc do we've heard that used as a weapon on players previously for you to go there not very

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wise so that's my critique as far as that goes let me continue with what he said it's just where a

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star player on a team is like oh screw the city and all the support that they've given me and I'm

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going south I'm going to Florida I'm going to LA I'm going to Texas or I'm going somewhere else

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these decisions and their business decisions and I understand but they have not helped the game

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they have not helped keep parody within the game when you build these super team that's his comment

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in that regard and he was really kind of focusing in well let me continue then you can get to just a

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bit however he feels differently about dame lilor and this is what he said in that regard

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wherever he goes he probably will finish his career because of his age and the fact that he's played

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12 13 years and he wants a chance at winning a championship and he doesn't think he can get it

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in Portland so that's a good reason to leave but a guy 26 or 27 just want to hop around how many

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times have Kevin Durant hopped around so it seems his ire is more towards Kevin Durant than it is

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to dame lilor and to be fair Kevin Durant pretty much axed out of one situation and that was with

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the Brooklyn Nets it just so happens it's in recent memory so it's fresh in our minds but any

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other time he left a situation okay see he left as a free agent golden state after his contract

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was done he left as a free agent although it ended up being a silent tree so i don't really get it in

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terms of that but if you want to say you want to include other guys in there like James Hart and

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like Ben Simmons and i'll get to them in a minute i can see that but to be fair Kevin Durant only

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acts out of one situation any other time he honored his contract and stayed the duration so i gotta give

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Durant a pass on that so that's what doc had to say about player empowerment now here's what's

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getting more scrutiny is his top 10 player lists and i'll give you his top 10 players

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Bill Russell, Will Chamberlain, Oscar Robinson, Elgin Bayla and Jerry West now that's five of them

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right what do those players have in common these are players that Julia Serven grew up watching

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play so there's an admiration in that regard now the next five i'll give you is Karim Abduljabbar

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Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone and Tiny Archibald what do those five players have

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in common these are players that Julius Irvin competed against so everybody's saying where's

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LeBron James where is Kobe Bryant where is Tim Duncan where is Steph Curry he didn't compete

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against these guys so his top 10 first of all Dr. J knows more basketball all my basketball knowledge

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fits in a thimble compared to Julius Irvin's basketball knowledge let's get that out the way

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what i'm saying is first of all it's his opinion and it's funny because i went back and forth with

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somebody on social media about how can my opinion be wrong if it's my opinion and this is Doc's

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opinion a lot of people gonna say oh he's hating on the new school listen that he's just giving you

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his personal top 10 is it his all-time top 10 i think you would get a better answer from him if

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you said an all-time top 10 and not his personal favorite top 10 this seems like a personal favorite

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top 10 of his because again five of the players he watched play and the other five he competed against

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some people say oh why didn't he include Larry Bird did you guys see the footage of him with his

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hands around the neck of Larry Bird they hated each other you know they'll do commercials here and

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there would not but there was no love loss between those two so i'm not really surprised

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that bird didn't make his list you know what's the biggest surprise that Carl Malone made this

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list and not Charles Barkley Charles Barkley is somebody he played on the same team with

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that's the biggest surprise guys that's what seems to be swept under the rug why didn't he

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name Charles Barkley among those top 10 that would be the better question but nobody's asking that

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question everybody's hung up with you know LeBron they hung up with not having Kobe there Tim Duncan

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over a calm alone where was Charles Barkley on this list a guy who he saw who he kind of

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mentored a little bit why is he not on the list that maybe that's just me i don't know tiny archer ball

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remember this was a man who led the league in scoring and in a sis in the same season and a guy

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who if injuries didn't be set him he could very well be amongst people's top five point guards ever

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or tiny archer ball was that dude he was that dude guys but again injuries kind of robbed him of

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doing you know much better things and then the situation he was in with the king so he wasn't

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in the greatest of situations thankfully he eventually later in his career went to boston

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where he won a championship there but archer ball was the truth guys so anyhow a lot of people

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again attacked him i give him a pass because again this is his personal top 10 list so

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how can i knock him for his opinion on his personal top 10 so that's just me then we have the last

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bit of podcasts hoopla i'll talk about is austin rivers he has a podcast i forgot to mention him

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he has one called off guard he does it with ringer mba so he was critical of dame and the other players

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because of the player empowerment sort of deal and this is what austin rivers had to say

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regardless of how good you are as a player the mba is not it's a privilege if you're a free agent

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you can choose wherever you were gonna go that's the business but when you're not and you sign a deal

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that's part of the business if you get traded somewhere else you got to go play he also named

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guys like james hearton and ben Simmons he said it started with these guys doing that and that is

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bad for the league he also has some harsh things say about the new cba cba that i'm still trying to

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wrap my mind around and saying that this new deal is top heavy he doesn't know who agreed to it you

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got guys getting 50 million and your mid-level guys getting 2 million so it's kind of a disparity in

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that regard so i hear austin rivers on all this i really do and i kind of said it myself in terms

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of the dame situation because again he says miami is his preference and you don't really get a

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preference if you don't have a no trade clause so you kind of have to go where the team sends you

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to go and i'll get into that when i talk about the other news also which will be in another episode

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because this one went a little longer than i thought well anyhow but with me agreeing with

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austin rivers and everything here's my kind of caveat to that austin rivers he actually refused

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you yourself refused to go to a place when you got traded along with kelly ubre you got sent to

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phoenix this was around 2019 you and kelly ubre got traded there for trevor reza and you didn't

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want to go there because you said you was used to being in the playoffs you've been in the playoffs

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five straight years you wanted to go to a playoff team and at the time phoenix was kind of in a

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rebuilt sort of role so you didn't want to go to that situation and eventually phoenix understood

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and they waived you and you went to houston where you was able to be with james hartin and those

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guys over there so i agree with the message but the messenger has kind of a questionable history

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there when it comes to that but i hear my understand but he's he's right in that regard i mean you sign

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the deal you got to honor the deal that that's just the bottom line of it so so on that note i'm

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gonna end this episode here like i said i got other news i'm gonna put it in another episode so

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