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Wait a minute, because he decided not to use the time off for conditioning.

That was the straw that broke the camel's back. That's what really reported. This will be Luca's first season playing fewer than sixty games. Now here's the kicker where everybody's like, well, hold on, wait a minute. On the other side, Ad is six years older and has failed to compete in sixty games four of the last six seasons.

Right, Well, something ain't making no sense. Huh. Something is? Something is not making any sense because you traded for somebody.

You trade you're better player that's played over sixty games for most of his career outside of correct and you're bringing somebody that hasn't played in over sixty games four to five of the last season. So something may make this. That's why I think, and I still think today. Whatever the true reason is is that they traded Luca and hasn't been said yet.

I believe two things can be true.

I believe they had grown frustration with trying to tell Luke about his conditioning. I also believe they didn't want to pay him four hundred and fifty fifty million dollars.

Hey, Hey, even though I just started watching basketball. When you name the top three players in the NBA right now, is Luca one of one.

Of the three when he's at his best. Yes, I don't need to hear no more. But let me ask you a question. Let's let's just say, for the sake of argument. Let me ask you a question. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, coach Belichick, he resigns. Tom Brady is in year year five. He's already won three Super Bowls, but he resigned. Uh Andy reason after the last ye say yeah, I'm good. You don't think People go like, well, hold on, why you still got a

He'd rather go coach Indiana. I don't know about that.

Don't make no sense, even for Rick Carlyle, because even if you do go to Indiana, even if you do go to Indiana, you still don't have a player like what you got over here in Dallas, a special So as a coach, as a coach, you notice, whether it be football. For Andy Reid, he had don Donovan mcnahb. He never had we never had a Patrick Mahomeso. Players like this come around every so often, especially one is

But they don't. But see you said it can be fixed. They were wanting him to fix it and he wasn't fixing it. And ask question, that's the thing, O, Joe. What happens if the team, If the team says, oh, Joe, we want you to be here on camp, we want you a at some point in time that they gonna get tired of telling you. Now, if we let's just fast forward right quick to Aaron Rodgers. What did Aaron

Question. Yes, when it comes to the game of basketball, you know, yes, When when it comes to the any sport, it's all about what superstars superstars, and they have to do what consistently, our update your resume.

You have to perform. Yeah.

Yeah, at any point in Lucas's career, have this number decrease?

No?

What we arguing? What what? What? What? What are we talking about?

Coo too fat, too slow? The number the same, and he's been consistent.

I get that. But everybody, see, everybody keep saying do this, do this.

That's easy to say when it's not your four hundred and fifty million.

See, it's easy to say.

I would do this. It's not your money.

People leave a restaurant and don't go back when they don't get good service on a sixty dollars time. What you're gonna do when you got four hundred million and that money is full of garantation Because a lot of times, if you could have banned me, oh Joe, they'll say, you know what, mister, mister Johnson, we're gonna take this off. This was on us when you signed a four hundred million dollar contract. Players ain't giving you as ish back.

Oh.

But the one thing players are. Players are played based on performance on the hardwood. On the hardwood, his performance has always been the heat. It's always I've always been top of the list in almost every statistical category. So you're not gonna, Okay, you can say it because they actually did it. You're not gonna tell me me. That's why I'm not in GM. That's why I'm not in

Man, he had the right people.

That you do realize that when they hire a superstar, when you get a superstar, they bring your people on. They let you bring your people on, right. Oh, so you do realize that it ain't like football.

Now.

Tom Brady had a very circumstance where he got had this guy right there with him.

But most football teams don't do that. NBA teams allow you to do that.

You know what, I can't say, Mike macill Mike macill's travel with Lebron. He always has. Randy Mimes travel with Lebron, always has. So you said the right people, Kelly got the people that he wanted to know.

He's in the right place now, he is in the right place.

Well, I hope, I hope he looks at and puts something Lebron like, we know this man player, like.

This is your twin Johnny.

Ain't. Ain't gonna let him take no shortcuts.

Not over there, absolutely not.

Not only are you able to watch, but you're able to see someone that's done it for twenty something odd years at the highest level and is actually the NBA's all time leading scorer. Lucas looking at that, Lebron is talking to him, you know they gonna have that talk. I know he had that talk before because all the rumblings through the media. I love I would love that conversation. I would love insight on how you've been able to do it this goddamn long. How about I do you

What happens if I tighten up the mother almost curse?

What happened if I tighten up the bolts and approach the game of basketball the way Lebron does.

And know telling him what I can can achieve. And I'm already great right now.

But everybody doesn't have that mindset. Oh Jo, I think Lebron came in. I think he had a couple of goals. He wanted to be considered the best player to ever play the game. He wanted to play as long as he possibly could, so he took the steps very early on. If you hear people talk about when Lebron was in high school, you hear people.

Talk about Lebron when he first got there.

How everything is so routine, it's so regimented, from his rest time to his now to his scratching getting to the arena, so many guy hours early, getting his work, getting his left in, getting.

His shots up, everything for twenty two years.

Structure, structure, structure, Also discipline.

Discipline. Discipline is another one. Everybody doesn't want that, just another one. Lebron didn't have a goddamn choice, understand, coming out of high school.

The authors stacked against him. All the pressure was on.

Him, the expectations were off the roof, so he had no choice but the pros the game of basketball being the chosen one coming out of high school.

Hell, ten, Grady, I think.

You said it yourself. Ten great, he could have came and play in the NBA right then and now.

I think I think a situation on trouble. You look at Luca Luke had been a professional since he was sixteen. He had a lot of He had a lot of expectations placed on him.

People thought he was gonna be good.

I didn't think he was gonna be this good because everybody said, no, he could play.

I was like, bro, he played, he played it. He said. When he said it's easier to score in the NBA than it.

Is in Europe, I say, this kid out of his damn mind, and lo and behold, he ain't making me out to be allied. He never averaged a point amount of points he's averaged over Europe as he's doing here.

He neverage twenty nine points a game in his career.

He's averaged had the second highest playoffs scoring average behind Jordan.

I think you think it.

Over in Europe where he was playing, I can't. I can't remember where. I don't remember exactly where. Do you think they played better defense? You think that's what it is? Are the are the dimensions of the court a little smaller? There has to be some type of difference.

I think the thing is Ojoe is that the game is not as free flowing as it is here. Every time, I mean, you run plays, they don't let you do a whole lot of ice over there. So you know, it's kind of like coach Smith, Dean Smith or coach Smith when he's at North Carolina. The only guy that can keep Michael Jordan on the twenty points a game with Coach Smith because of his offense didn't allied and to get look at you, nobody saw Michael being able to do what he did in the NBA do based

But it's his offense that's been most suppressive.

He went to Major mainly a putback dunk law player, so now he has a mid range.

Now he can take it all the way out to three. Luca.

You look at that, Luke, You're like, well, yeah, he getting some points. He getting eighteen nineteen boys a game. But look at it he played against. Will he come up here and play against Ron Min? He every thirty four game?

Hey, when I watched Luga play all this, damn moves look like it's in slow motion?

Or am I tripping? Not only do the moves look like it's a slow motion.

They work every guy damn time. Yeah, he didn't have quick twitch fibers like a Kyrie Nope, or I'm trying to think or who else is really explosive?

Russell Westbrook obvious season, he's a bigger.

Man John Moran, No, he don't have that explosive like that look like that.

And the moves that he does have they work every time. And I swear maybe it's because I'm watching from TV.

It looks like it's a slow motion. Yeah, yeah, he is.

And that's why you can't tie him up because while you don't jump, he ain't left the ground yet.

And when you're on your way out, who you on your way down? On his way up?

So now he gonna get an A and one or you're gonna get your violent So he could.

He plays his pace.

He's not going to allow you to speed him up and make him play at your pace. He's really good. He can get off any shot. He's a lot bigger than you think. He has a lot bigger body than you think, and it's stronger than you think. Because you're looking at him and you're like, I don't see not one definition. The only definition I see is that if you got a dictionary in your hand, definition is been there. That's the only definition I see. But it's the same

But look, I think the thing is that's a lot.

I mean, look, we're gonna see when I'm trying to think the next guy that's available, that's really good, that can get this kind of money.

It might be Ant made.

You said, you said Shade shit, but Shade.

Can't get a super Max like this because he got traded, remember right, that's right. See a man got ant Man has been with drafted to Timberwolves and man on Wimby.

Oh let me winmy definitely finna get it. He definitely FINNI ye, Man, it ain't no reason he should get it too. I know the wars ain't gonna pull no no slick stuff over there. They ain't got no choice but to give it to him. Yeah, so that's gonna be very interesting.

So uh yeah, four hundred and fifty million for five years. And so guess what if you pay it back. Guess what he gone back to the table in five years, don't you Now you got to pay him five hundred million.

Now, so man has a possibility to get five year, four hundred and fifty million.

Yes, yes, oh boy, what maybe man man please, yep, he does. He has that opportunity. He'll win.

Bey, those are the guys that can get that Supermax. Hey, do you understand you not? You didn't hear what I just said. You're not listening to me. I don't I don't understand.

Maybe the people in the chat can't hear me five years, four hundred and fifty million. That cannot even talk about Anita's contracts, other contracts, other endorsements that you get on the side.

Damn, stop playing man and go hit the table again.

Yes, and man is twenty three. Hey, hey, I don't know, I speak. I still might got it.

No, so I think, Look he's Lucas and I'm sure he I mean, it caught him by surprise because obviously there's a lot of pride in situations like that, because a lot of time, when you get to that level, you think you're untradeable. Oh you're untouchable, and so boom and like he didn't know. He didn't know because you

I would do both. So four people knew, four people not there not that.

And you hear New Kase say hey, right before it happened, we told people cause you know it's gonna get a trade is big on Joe. If the normal coach, if the normal agents and the players know it is getting is getting out.

This two big the fact that Niko and Rob were able to keep it just between themselves and really not let anybody else know, because if they did let anybody else know, when they got out, they know exactly where it came from.

Exactly three fifty my bad, I said, four fifty three fifty three fifty five years, three fifty.

So about seventy million.

So by the time what you call them come by the time what you call them come out, and man, it probably be about three fifty five three sixty it don't listen three.

Fifty oh, because here's the thing on Yoe.

Next year that new CB ain't going to it exist US eleven years seventy six, eleven year seventy seven billion. So by the time win become it might it might be five years, four hundred million, because this is only Winby's second year, and they normally do to what three year, four year?

Hey, and Winby's only what twenty I think Womeny's twenty. Hey, that's someth That's something we're gonna get there.

Now, you hear, men, come to me, Hung if you can, Hung, you can hear. We gonna see that. We're gonna see that kind of money too. And I'm gonna i'ma I'm gonna tell you how. I'm not even gonna tell you how we're gonna see it, but we gonna see that kind of money year me. We on the we on the right path. We're on the right direction. Now we might man, but we're gonna see a hundred men, we might see two hundred. And I'm gonna tell you how because I had a dream. I'm not talking I'm not

Well, I appreciate that. I see it too. When I read forms and I see all those billion dollars. I say, yep, okay, Wimbi Yama becomes a super Max eligible player, meaning his rookie extension based salary will be thirty percent of the salary cap instead of twenty five. When he enters his eighth year, he will be thirty five percent Max eligible as opposed to the traditional thirty percent. So whatever the cap is, he's entitled to thirty five percent of that. Damn.

Hey, listen, he worth every penny? Hey, well, can be is everything advertised? Every yeah, man, every bit of it. So whatever penny he gets, he's earning every bit of it. Watching ad Man player, every penny he's gonna get, he's worth every bit.

Yeah, Weenby is definitely going to be the first four hundred million dollar player.

I like it.

And speaking of remember, I told you I was gonna start investing in going to the basketball game, so I can I can be better suited.

Jason Tatum about to hit that. He just think about it.

Looking what you Jason Tatum just got he just got three what three twenty?

He's twenty six.

But that's what But what what about those next four years? It's four fifty five, he'll be thirty one, So thirty So what's his next contract gonna be? His next contract might be, Hey, he might hit that four hundred. He just got three twenty. It's hard to see a scenario. He's gonna be thirty one, Oh Joe, for him not to get another Superman.

That's nasty. But that's nasty work. Then brin that that nasty work. It's it's it's good. It's great money if.

You can get it, absolutely, but you got you got to understand you. You want you. You wanted the best in the world. You wanted a one percenters now and you know that's what I meant to tell you right before we go home.

I just I just got court side tickets.

Uh.

The tim Awolves played the Heat March seventh, Yeah, March seventh or March six, something like that, whatever it was. I'm sitting right next to the bench where I'm sitting right next to Bam right, I'm I'm a church at Anthony Edwards.

The whole game, the whole game me do.

And I want to make sure I'm better suited to talk about basketball, so I could sound like Tim Legger, so I could sound like Doris Burke or George so Donald.

And when I come on here and you and you wonder what the hell happened to me?

And why I'm talking about the game the way I am as if I played it all my life.

You know why? Yeah?

Okay, oh Joe, So you know the discourse about the NBA wouldn't be complete what I kd chiming in kad.

This is what he tweeted.

I think it's more fun to complain about the NBA that actually watch it. Crazy, cancel All Star weekend. Let's just give everybody breaks since we're so miserable around this time, Oh Joe, what you got?

I understand Katie's frustrations. I wouldn't even call it frustration. I think he's more so listen, it's All Star break. We ain't trying to hurt ourselves. We've tried to create different formats to appease you as fans, to appease the viewers, and it's not working. You know what, how about we just cancel all this because no matter what we do, we can't make y'all happy. We failed at it, Adam

He obviously, Kad was being sarcastic.

He's tired of hearing the criticism about the All Star Game and the All Star Game format and and about not playing hard and things of that nature. Kad is one of the ones. He hear what people saying and it's his product and he's proud of the type of game that he plays, but everybody is not proud of the type of performance that a lot of the guys give at the All Star Game, and and you know,

Have been said.

I think now, because you have social media show and we don't have to wait, we don't have to just get our information because we can go on lie if we got a problem with something, how could I if I didn't like something, how could I say it?

O Joe?

I couldn't say about at the Bomber Show. Now I can get on line. I give the playoffs. I give them playoff profile his timeline. Man, you talk from trash and honestly, honestly, I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing for fans.

It gives everybody a voice, gives it everybody reason whether whether right or wrong, whether right or wrong. And for those for players, especially athletes, elite athletes like a KD.

Lebron as well, sometimes they engage back.

I think for people that are fans of certain players are just fans of whatever sports you played. Just knowing that you can even if they don't respond, knowing that you can act someone that you like or dislike and send message whether they see it or not. I think that's one of the greatest feelings in the world. I think it is. I really think it is.

I mean, obviously, no, I'm saying I agree with you. You know some guys, some guys don't pay any attention. Kadi is one of those guys that he's gonna respond if he thinks you've been a dis I mean, he don't respond to all things, but he responds to enough of him. He's one of the guys that probably respond more than anybody like that, maybe any professional athlete that I that I know, and.

Not just not just any athlete. We talk about one of the best to ever play the game. You got one of the best to ever play the game. That's great right now that takes his time out to engage with people, whether it's negative or positive. That's a good thing. That's a great thing, and I wish more players would like that. Most of them that have accounts, they have

Lebron don't really do.

I mean, it's got to be something really, really egregious for Lebron to respond. He normally just like he's heard so much of it. I mean, he's almost damnar to sensitized. I mean, that's why people were really surprised that when he responded to Chuck, because he's like he's been dealing with it from day one. Nobody has been talked about as much, nobody's been as criticized as much. He understands

In between two. It ain't nothing, ain't no on the fence. It's one side of the other. Lebron responded to something. I guess what's the guy name? He won who finally won two games with the guy there? Yeah, listen, brob brob Wade. Why did did Doug say something about him in the past, Because that's the only reason why he would do something.

Always, always, always, always, So here's so that's but see a lot of a lot of times you gotta be smart enough, and a lot of these players are smart enough.

Why am I going to lend my audience your ear? So? Oh he went hard on Brownie? Okay, Okay, I knew it had to be. Oh, but here's the thing. How many? How many? How many? Look, there are a lot of people. Go back and look at the jobs.

I think eighty percent of the jobs are feeled that never advertised. Hey man, he they hired her in my job. You got to put in an application. They didn't list the job, but somebody told you they were hired, but you got in. Or you got somebody that works there that knows somebody and my buddy looking for a job.

Oh timer, come on in.

I love it, love to sit down and talk to it. But now it's cool when they do it. It's a problem when we do it.

Oh.

So, now, when you just told me that they saying he was talking about Brony. Now it makes sense for the context and wh Lebron tweeted.

So let me ask you a question. How many of these coaches sons just get put on the staff? Oh?

All of that a problem happens all the time.

Huh, it happens all the time. All yeah, not a people not a sound about it, not a people out of sound. Now, obviously Lebron being in a special position that he that he's in, and if anybody else will reported the opportunity to be one of the best to ever play the game and have an opportunity to get his son to play alongside him. You think I wouldn't do that?

Of course, stop man, stopped playing? Please?

You try to put your kids in the best situation was possible. Always, that's what you strive for.

Yes.

Speaking of critiquing the NBA, Oscar Robinson has some issh to say about Draymond saying the NBA is born. Let's take and listen to what the big ol'd had to say.

Well, a lot of Draymond says so much. You know, who cares what Draymond says? He doesn't mean anything, you know, you know, people.

This is what I mean?

You know, I mean, if one guy can say this and one guy can say that the game is the game is what it is. People either like the game of the doubt, and I think people enjoy the game, especially if the team can win. And if you look at the basketball, it might be boring him because if he's not past the ball to carrier, what is he.

Doing are great?

I'll not to single that out because I think he knows how to play basketball, but he's passed his ball to carry more than anyone I've ever seen in basketball, and so mean and I so, you know, it might be boring to him at times because what he's doing, maybe it is born. When he's out there, he's not getting you're not shooting, he's not shooting a lot, he's not guarding a lot.

So it's boring. Man, the big old, big old Ye listen, he gonna tell it like it is. Huh.

That's one that's oh yeah, he's oh gz, you know the old the older folks gonna do, especially when you criticize the game of basketball today, they're gonna they gonna find every everything, every critique wrong with your game, why you're playing right now, and why you find it boring based on what you say now, is it right? Yes, in some sense, and he could also be wrong. So especially him, agree to disagree because that Draymond feels exactly how it feels for a reason.

But if you know anything about the Big Old this is who he is. He's always he's always spoken up. He's always said exactly what was on his mind. Now, a lot of guys like, hey, you know, hey, blah blah blah, But that's not how he is. He's gonna get right to the point and says, okay, well, let me tell you why it's boring. Because you don't get to shoot, you passing the ball. You sit and screamed.

That ain't no.

I mean even listen that that's that's the player he is. That's not what he does. Obviously, shooting is not his game. You know, setting screens, passing, being an enforcer, that's what Draymond does.

Yeah, that's what he does.

So obviously that part of his game it has to be enjoyable, just when it comes to certain certain aspects of it, especially now at All Star Game, it's boring.

Well when you look at it, I look at it like this, what am I good at If I'm doing what I'm good at I'm happy if I IF I if I'm a score, but I'm not scoring, it ain't no fun. Draymond is a defensive player. Pat ball defensive players. You look at defensive guys that are limited or challenged offensively, they get excitement or the defendant an offensive player gets get gets satisfaction out of scoring. Well, if I'm not scoring,

That's a fair.

There are very very, very very few players that at an elite level could both put the ball in the basket and limit somebody on the all the end. You're talking about an Elijah Wand you're talking about a Jordan. You're talking about Tobe, You talking about Tim Duncan you talk about David Robinson? You talk about Lebron when he was in his prime. There are very few guys that

And if if you have no office of prowess or office of skill set on the defense end.

You got to be elite. You got the d And I think when it comes to Draymond and.

His role with the Warriors, obviously being an enforcer, but what he's been able to do for them, he's very valuable in the way.

That he does some everything. I mean, he's a jack of all trades. He doesn't master anything limited scoring. Ok Reebinder can run the offense. A lot of times they run the offense through him. He does a great job of sitting picks and he'll fake it like he's gonna pass it, and he'll drive to the whole. He's carved out a nice niche and he's probably gonna end up in the Hall of Fame with four championships, a Defensive Player of the Year, two gold medals, He's probably gonna be in.

In in uh in Springfield. Just it's just the reality of it. O Chuck, I like it. I like it.

And one thing by Dre, you know he's gonna fire back man, Hey, he gonna fire respect the.

Bigger Nah, he probably gonna say he I mean the really really like the old guys like that. They let them fly. Now, maybe if Chuck had said something, he might have came back to Chuck. Anthony Edwards would ask if he considers himself to be a top candidate, candidate to be the face of the league going forward. This is what he said. He said, not really, that's what they got win before. O Joe, do you have a problem with what ant Man see?

Because I can see ant Man is one that doesn't really want or need to be the face of the league at Man and one of them just want to play basketball at Man. They kind of dude in high school, he got his book bag on and he got his got damn basketball shoes tied to his book bag. He had the bus stop with his basketball shoes tied his book bag. After school, he on the park shooting everybody else going home. That's the type of dude. A man

Does I think they want they want to face the league to be a little bit more.

Butter Man, that's boring. Okay, Jordan was boring. Kobe lebron boy, Keeth Curry's boy, Jordan was born. I'm just telling you.

You said it. You said, you saying being buttoned up is boring. I said Jordan was blown up. You said he's boring.

Jodan wasn't buttoned up on on the court, he did.

You see the way Jeordan.

Let me ask you a question, how many times do you see Jordan give an interview without Okay.

That's different.

Now off the court, he was straight bitten.

Oh, Joe, that's what I'm talking about. Your game.

You can't even be the face of the NBA if your game doesn't speak on the court. We're talking about off the court. And see, I caught a lot of flat what I said. They kind of want the guy to be a little bit more. Second, Jordan married Kobe, I'm married, Braun married, Steph married.

Oh oh oh. But just go correct.

You're correct, you're correct, you are correct, you are correct, you are correct in that sense. But for me, you know I am you know I'm I like the entertainment value. I like the exciting side. I like the person and the people that are gonna put butts in the sea. I like the John Moran be in the face of the league. They would never let that happen. I like Anthony Edwards be in the face of the league. They would never let that happen. You you get what I'm saying. I like it.

I like it.

I like the Alan Iison of the world to be the face of the league. But it would never happen. He would he buy it on five T shirts. But I'm just saying I'm thinking about and think about, think about my way of playing the game of football. I could never be the face of anything ever because of the way my style in which I played got on the field.

I was the exact same way off the field. Hell I'm still the same way now.

So I stay in my lane and I do what works for me because I do it extremely well.

You look at the quarterback, but there's one quarterback that that is refused to change.

And if your Maine is authentic self, he died there in Baltimore. He was he from Pompino. Ain't changed one bit, right, Who's the face of the league right now? Mahome, Yeah, okay, and before and before he and before he left who that twelve? See, it's all about an image, whether you lived that life or not. What do people because here's the thing. You remember Tiger. Tiger was the face of golf. He got married, he had a family, he was wholesome.

I'm so glad you just said that because I was just getting ready to go there.

When we talk about Peyton Manning, when we talk about Tom Brady, and I talked to Tom when I was in New England after seeing him interacting and see how he is when the cameras aren't rolling, and I asked him, are you truly happy not being able to be exactly who you authentically are? How are you how you have to mask us for all these years? This same't even Peyton Manning. I've seen paid the real Payton Manning at the Pro Bowl to an interviews.

But the thing is, O Joe, is that they've done it for so long because your quarterback is like when you're one of those guys, they've been quarterback all their life and so they get to understand you've got to be positive in all situations. When you when somebody plays bad, you take the blade. I need to do better of putting my guys in a position to make plays. They say, they get so and so it's it's like you said,

But he ain't gonna never get in them never ever? So what are we doing with a team over there in Kansas City the same way? It's like they went to training. It's like they went to training for this. Give me something different. Matter of fact, we just we just talked about this the other night. I mean you you got on me. You got on me about people telling the truth. Remember, yeah, they just can't.

And I don't like that. I don't know.

I mean, it's just the way it's the nature of the business, is the way it will always be.

And look at the quarterbacks. What did that? What did that get married? Jalen Hurst? What is he getting married? Josh Allen? What is he getting married?

Oh? You think it's a is though not at all?

Okay, then okay, longer we here longer we here.

Well, listen. It's a funny thing about it too. As they are finding wives, you know, because in the Bible say what a man finds a good When a man finds a wife, he's finding a good thing. You notice how things after they get married then continue to elevate to go great. They continue to So guess who else couldna get married?

Oh?

Yeah, oh hey, why are you gonna guess what? Oh?

Shay too, I'm coming it out the right. You know what they say? You know what they say. Now when one out of the group getting married, it causes a trickle effect and everybody start walking down the aisle.

I'm gonna jump the room. Wait, I'm a ceremony. Hell if I get married. If that's the wrong one, I jumped across we divorced? Uh, yeah, you gotta come in on that. You gotta come in on that right on, Joe?

Hey, Oh, would you say everything wrong when you're gonna jump right across the room? I jo across the room right crossing me?

Divorce? Hey? All that?

But and another thing on Joe. They say the bigger, the bigger diamond that you buy, the more likely it is to get you get the boys. That's what that's what. That's what. Studies show that.

I was going to ask you where that came from?

Is that real?

Yes?

Hey, because do you think about our grandparents. They ain't have no diamonds. They had a gold band. Everybody had a band back then. Yeah, I had My grandma had a gold man.

Grab.

My Childie had a gold band. Granted had a gold band. I guess these diamonds came along in the fifties of sixties or something. I don't know, because my granted, my granted, my grandma got married in in the forties. Uh yeah, forty grab, I think Granty got married in like forty two, forty three. Grandma Childie got married like thirty nine, thirty eight something like that. Uh, I get it, I get it. You know you're like any women like I won't do you know, I won't at least six casts.

I want at least ten carrots. I want this.

I mean, what kind of carrots? You tell you about the kind of bugs bunny bus be? Hey, Hey, what the prices are? Diamonds are coming down the beers.

You see, they got these lab grown diamonds, and it's really really hard to tell. And so everybody starts flocking to that. But oh Joe, I look at some point in time, Oh Joe, you know I got to come in nobody this rain you.

Got coming see see see want to listen to me? Now you hear me, You start to listen to me.

Now I know.

I know. You got your team of people. They keep they keep everything, they keep everything together for you.

You hear me.

You know you got you gotta you got a good squad over there. You know you got got this spend. You got things running, you know, consistently in a good way. But when you find a woman and she laid hands on you, well you ain't gonna know where hit you. You have me, you ain't gonna know it. You because I don't want you. I don't want you getting older, and y'all don't want you. I don't want to see you in the home. I want I believe with my daughter. How are you gonna invade her space like that?

He already told you, already told my boyfriend my daddy, get old, he go, he gonna stay with me, all right?

Okay?

I was like, nah, you too much like me. You be yelling and screaming. I can't I can't tell you that you know what you making joke? Now, I want you to think about something now that what you want to think about it. Statistically, you're fifty seven, right, I'll be fifty seventh June. Well, we're gonna do something special. I'm forty seven right. You got to think.

Yeah, we've already lived the better half of our life. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going I tell myself something.

Listen to me now, stay with me, chat. We've lived the better half of our life. Now we still have a good amount of life to live. But at this point, we ain't got no time to be playing no games. If we ain't found nobody in our twenties, we ain't found nobody in our thirties. You know you ain't found nobody in your forties. You know I'm finna be. I'm finna be fifty.

Man.

For me, I ain't got time to be playing no more.

You hear me?

What would I tell you? What I tell you? Man, Man, it's my time and I deserve I'm perfect. I ain't ever been perfect, but I deserve. I know my my time in ticket maclock is. My clock is ticking. Don't forget what I deserved. But I ain't got time't got time to play. Oh, I just I wanted to show you that CARDI crash too. I forgot to.

I got to show you that, you know, spend all that, buddy, spend all that buddy.

Listen, Hey, thank thanks, thanks the night cap. You know I'm moving different all twenty twenty five and I'm taking in chat if if you pay attention, I got one quote that will be science. Anytime you see me moving and acting different than out of character.

This, oh we saw.

Yeah, your fault. It's your fault. It's your fault because I never do things like this were able to happen if I want catching the football and scoring touchouts. When they tell you God's good boy, you ain't been nothing but a blessing. You hear me, I'm here the first one.

To thank you. They're talking about Jesus, got this will ship, got the will.

No, it was just it's the bad look like I told you that man, when we're gonna get you know, you had I have a conversation offline.

I said, no, Joe, We're gonna.

Be so good. They got they got to come. Hey, listen, they coming. They gotta come see the movie Feeling Dreams. Right, you know what they said in the movie. In the movie, they said building, if you build it, they will come.

That's for us.

People have to also understand when it comes to us, stay saying look, look, look, use your ass now. When it comes to us, things come a little bit more difficult, and we got to work a little harder to get we want to go.

Well, we just we keep doing what we do it They're gonna have to come since because they see like our fan base, Look, we're gonna have We're gonna have dollars, and they sales haters, whatever you want to call them. But all I know is that twenty five fifty eighty ninety thousand, they watched.

They listen, and they like our content.

A lot of times people quote come back and they quote our content.

So advertise a sponsors see that. Trust me.

I'm sitting in the meetings with them. I'm talking to them. I know what they're saying. So all that other stuff that people be talking about, oh they ain't talking about nothing, Okay.

Talking about nothing.

Wait, well, you better tune in for two hours, especially on the night like the while I'm feeling good. You can tell I'm feeling good because I'm talking real God, damn fast, and I ain't even cursed. I ain't even cursing tonight. I'm feeling good. Why im feeling good Caause I took me in that I slept for two I slept for three four hours a day.

This is what you get.

It.

It's only gonna get better, Oh Joe, It's gonna get better.

Can Clark agent faild She won't ever be paid what she's worth to the league. Will Cave and Clark ever be paid by the w NBA what she's really worth to that league. I don't think that's possible. She's a part of a larger player player body. They all need to be paid more. She should be recognized for what she had done and what she's brought to the league. From an economic standpoint, it's as simple as that.

Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. The product is a part of the money and revenue that they bring in. It is what it is. So there's only so much you can make now, Catenin' Clark, her money gonna come off the court.

That's you.

Of course she's gonna make her Hey, that's for her. Asian Wilson, Kelsey Plumb, Oh you know what's by you? Barbie by you, Barbie Anduryes. That's where it's gonna come from and along with the other players. But as things increase, they're gonna be fine. They're gonna be fine. As time goes on, things are gonna get better for all those women in the w n b A because the game is exciting. I know a lot of people, they talk about it, they trash on it because they're not dunking

But I think the thing is O Joe, is that there are certain players Michael Jordan has never played. Its value to the NBA Kobe Lebron step that you can't unless you'renn play, unless're gonna play the one hundred and fifty two hundred million dollars. That's the only way you can't think about what the league was with Magic Now, Magic and Bird they got TV to be a live event all of a sudden. Now the finals weren't take delayed. Jordan took it to a throw a whole new stratosphere.

You can't pay her work.

You can't unless you player fifteen twenty million dollars and.

Then that that would probably be her worst right now, yes reaction.

Clark's salary is expected to be just over seventy eight thousand dollars for the twenty twenty five season, and economists for IU and the Owl of University recently calculated that Clark was responsible for thirty six million in economic impact to the city of Indianapolis, are at almost twenty seven percent of the league's economy activity in twenty twenty four, including attendance, merchandise, sell, and television. When Stevie Day we were secured, we were wrecked across the coast.

When we said what we said, everybody, did you just say how salary was for twenty twenty five, seventy eight thousand, this year seventy eight thousand.

All we did was try to tell all Trump said, Look, she's the biggest thing in the WNBA, in WNBA history. Oh what about I said, guys, that's not the minimize O the Jordan was the biggest thing to hit. You can't what will Oscar and all those guys, But Jordan was a different level. It's okay to say that, Yes, there were great players, be it Cythia Cooper, be at LSA Leslie, be at Sheriff Swoops, all of those, whoever you want to name. The biggest thing to ever hit the w NBA is Caitlyn Clark.

Hey, Listen, Timing is everything. Timing is everything.

The timing in which she started doing what she did at Iowa, the timing in which she entered the NBA along with Andrew Reese, the feud between them, not really a few, but I'm just saying from a competitive standpoint with LSU playing Iowa that the timing which they came to the NBA, I mean it was perfect, especially in this social media era era, to my area social media era, it was perfect.

So don't get mad. I mean I would embrace it. I'll be trying to push your hey, man, put on the living team.

Man.

You made me know all the joy said, we're gonna sayd they little girl's gonna be put brother, put on there, all star game. Let her be all start. Hey, even if she ain't a starter, let her be all start. If you don't mad if she injured, vote I asked like they did Magic Johnson in ninety two.

And understand, understand, have the long term vision, have the long term vision to understand what happen her in positions does for everybody else?

Yep, I mean, look she does.

I mean Michael made all his money off the court because he is making.

Yeah, oh yeah demns.

But I'm saying the man and then you know, like I said, he made a couple of flat lebron stepped man, Come on, bro, how you gonna.

Pay them what they're worth? Possible? And seventy eight thousand man? That come on? Man? Who well, hopefully she can make two hundred thousand.

It jumps all the way up to two hundred thousand, which is you know, twou there thousands a lot of money. So I don't want people to say, can't I talk about he either lost touch reality?

I understand, guys, when.

We look at stuff and sports term, we understand that the average person is not going to be making two hundred thousand dollars a year. Once you get to once you get the six figures, you get that one hundred thousand of mark. That's the money. Then you go to one fifty, you go to two hundred, you go to three hundred. Yeah, we understand that. When we're speaking in sports turns. Sports turns, and all I know is she's worth more than seventy eight thousand dollars dollars.

That's what I know. I don't know anything.

Look, I ain't no economists, but I know I know when I saw her at the at the Ace's game, I know they had like nineteen thousand fans up in there.

Yeah, and listen and to speak on it, not to leave anyone else out. She's worth more than that. Asia Wilson is worth more than that. All the young ladies in the WNBA, especially those that are stars on the Pacific teams, are worth.

More than what they're being paid right now. Oh cho, I don't think you heard me.

They estimate that she's almost twenty seven percent responsible for the economic activity in the league, attenders, merchandise, well and television.

One person that people.

Swore up and down and called me everything but a child of God when I said this, and I didn't even need numbers to buy me up, because I saw the buzzers.

I saw the buzz from which she was in college, right, yeah.

Jesus, yeah got it. I got a question.

Yes, if you played Caitlin Clark one on one till you level right now, you think you can score?

Man? Look here, man my knees. Y'all have to roll me around the wheel. Man, I ain't ran or did anything. Hell no, man, when I squad, I have to come home with ice my knee and you talking about running bound up and down to that hard ass court.

Hell no, I can't beat Katelyn Clark.

No, hell, I could barely beat Roy Clark and he been dad forty years.

Please could I score?

Yeah?

Just with my physical side, just overpowered? But I ain't baking, Okay, okay.

Cause after about after about we get about five minutes here, my back got tightened up. Yeah yeah, man, that's all I need. I jump one time. Now, I don't pulled a quad. I'm gonna pull the hamster. Nah calf No, I'm good, she got it. That's funny. No, I be hey, I ain't be none of them with now. Hey, now, if you asked me when I was in.

My twenties, yeah yeah, you can score then? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, go score. I beat all the ass.

I can't fifty seven every every lady in the NBA right now, I guarantee you I I'm older than that parent.

Yeah, or close. We might be the same age. They might have graduated eighty five. I graduated eighty six, but it ain't much different.

Oh man, I thought you you know when you're gonna put up a love fight, but you got it. No, no, no, I'm really I'm really okay, okay, okay, probably fifty seven.

I haven't dribbled a basketball in like thirty years. I haven't run since two thousand and nine. And you think I'm about to just go out there and play somebody that does this port.

Mean, you know jog you don't do no cardio at all.

I do cardio, but it's on it's not low impact to no impact row machiney stuff like that.

Right. I've tried to bro I got artificial helps I need. I need a knee replacement probably in the next three years. I've tried to post push that down the road on shoe. Nah. I'm good, No, I'm good.

Maybe next time I get her baby the next life.

Trevor Lawrence does not want to go to the Steelers.

I was like I wouldn't say your heart drops, but you're kind of like what And then I'm thinking about how can I even get I have a no trade clause in my contract, so I would know about it, and if I was getting traded or there's something that was going to happen, you know, I'd have to be on board with it, which I'm not. I'm happy hearing Jacksonville. I play, I plan on. You know, we want to win the super Bowl here and I think, well, we can do that, and I don't want to leave Jacksonville.

It's benefitsmal which is why the calls are coming from inside the house. Stuff like this starts from somewhere. Stuff like it, Stuff like this gets leaked purposely to the media. But this is a good wake up call for Trevor Lawrence to get you know, to to tighten up, to get it done, because they will move on from you.

But they will.

Oh Joe, he has no trade so any trade cannot happen unless he signed off.

You don't have no choice but to sign off on it if they if they tell you they don't want you, then they gonna ben That's okay.

Guess what this is my house? I mean, it ain't for sale. I want to buy it. It ain't for say.

I know the answer to his problems, and it's very simple.

Was that the answer to the Jacksonville Jaguars problems and anything dealing with Trevor Lawrence, there's one simple answer. Throw the ball the Brian Tom and Jr. Every player, I guarantee you and be all right.

I Jr. Every time.

Oh joh, I know you don't keep up with this. But Bradley Bill got a no trade clause. They did everything. They putting the man that had got the man coming off the bench. He's like, I ain't waiting for no trade claws. Guess where Bradley Bill lives still in Phoenix?

Hey, I thought, Hey, I thought them three was gonna be special boy, even though they in some way or really the same players all at the same time outside of KD him and Booker. You know what's the difference between Bradley, Bill and Booker from a skill set standpoint? I'm not talking about being a fishing and shooting. I'm just skinning. You know, can both handle the ball, then both shoot. The three got a ned rag and put the ball on the floor. You know, can play off

Now.

But Hey and Plugs go to Pittsburgh where they got state tax. I mean, I'm in Florida. They ain't got no standing income tax.

Oh yeah, I know. To listen, all the players see this too.

But when I did the band advance, everybody, everybody, all the players talk about Nightcap.

Jake.

Oh yeah, I went to the Fanatics party. They gave that guy got love. I saw Jetta.

Saw uh huh, Chase.

I saw a lot of the guys. Oh, they watched it. So Trevor Lawrence, I know you're gonna see this. I'm gonna solve your problems. I just solve your problems right here, man, it's one answer number seven. He was there les you throwing the ball. Every player, I don't care what play they call.

You see. You see uh two high safety running.

You see one high safety throwing the seven boom case close.

Matter of fact, when he scoes stream, do ball,