It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee. All right, let's do this the five o'clock hour here on a draft day edition of Coffee and Company. The NBA Draft starts tonight. I gotta admit I look like a real fraud here claiming to be a big NBA draft guy, which I am. But if John did not tell me that the NBA Draft started tonight, I would have not known because it's always been a Thursday. It's been one night. And now
they're doing it a little bit differently. They're gonna have the first round tonight and then they will have the second round tomorrow. So you know, if you didn't know, now you know. And I don't think this is going to happen, because it does sound like the buzz as far as the number one overall pick is growing more and more to be Zachary Risuschet. I think it's how you say that from France, and you know, all every mock draft I'm looking at in the last five to six minutes has him as the
guy that's going to be number one and going to the Hawks. But there's at least a little bit of noise out there. Trulli Donovan put it out there on his discord that reach Shepherd could also potentially be I mean, they're not going to take two guys at number one, you can't do that, but that there's some belief that Reach Shepherd might go number one over him, which would be really crazy to think about. I mean, he's probably going to be a top three pick, and even that is still kind of crazy.
Not to say that like it's unheard of, but Kentucky fans a year ago, and really not just Kentucky fans, but people who follow recruiting and follow college basketball. I mean, if you would have said that there's gonna be a guide drafted with the third pick from Kentucky, that's a guard that only played one season as a freshman, it would have been DJ Wagner, Rob Dillingham, and then a distant I mean, nobody would have guessed read
it would have been it would have been Wagner Dillingham. And who's I feel like I'm missing somebody? Was there another guard they had? I mean obviously Reeves and he's great, but he wasn't He wasn't a freshman, So Sheppard. I mean, he's always been been an elite recruit. McDonald's all American.
He had offers from just about everybody, but I think there was this belief that he's he's just really good, but not elite, not an NBA caliber player, but really good for a Kentucky kid and his dad played at Kentucky. And he'll probably make an impact, but it'll be in year two. Probably won't play a whole lot in year one because you know, we've got Reeves and Wagner and like there was another guard? Who am I missing? Do they only play three guards? Am I losing my mind? I
wish I could confirm or deny. And by the way, how do you know when I when my mind goes blank? Your job is to is to is to know what I'm talking about, and I'm there sometimes times sometimes. So yeah, So they had hum Reeves, Shepherd, Wagner, and I guess that was I guess that was it. I guess that was it. Who came off the bench for him a guard? Uh? Those two? If you remember, I mean, well, I guess, yeah, that's
true. So who were they starting? So Wagner started, Reeves started, and I guess they said Joey Hart on the bench who just you know, yeah, I mean the arrow is a guard kind of but not really. But yeah, either way, Dillingham, I mean just Edwards, he wasn't he's not a guard, but like, it's just crazy of all the guys, if you would have said a year ago today, how many you know, how many of these guys will be first round draft picks next year?
I honestly think nobody would have said dilling him because you got to keep in mind he was a highly hyped guy, but he didn't really. I mean, he's six one hundred and seventy five pounds and he did not have a good showing when they went to Canada if you remember, I mean, he
barely played. So if you'd just said, hey, there's going to be four first round draft picks for Kentucky next year in the twenty twenty four NBA draft, you said that a year ago, none of them would have picked Reach Shepherd, not a single one, not a Kentucky fan, probably not even anybody who just you know, was trying to project the draft. You certainly would have said Bradshaw, you would have said Wagner, you would have said Edwards, who in the eyes of some was like the number you know
one player in that class. So it's such it feels so awkward to say, wow, like this is crazy because again Dreed Shepard was a five star player McDonald's All American, could pick any school, but he just didn't have the same level of hype those other guys had. And yet here he is potentially gonna be a top three pick some you know, who knows, maybe
he goes number one. But despite this being a really weak draft, I'm still going to be locked in because I love the NBA Draft and I'm hopeful that you know, Louisville has some representation in the NBA Draft once again down the road here, but I don't really think, I mean, that's gonna be if you've got NBA talent. Clearly that's gonna help you. You're better off when you have NBA talent. But I'm just curious with the portal now
changing everything about college basketball. You don't have to be young unless you want to be young, and most coaches don't want to be young. And guys that don't play or don't have NBA upside, they stay around in college longer because they can make good money, make make more money playing college ball at a high level school than they could play at a high level lee in Europe. So, you know, let's just look back at the you know,
the final college basketball rankings in twenty twenty four. Yukon obviously number one, and they have they've they've got guys that are going to be taken in the draft tonight. Stefan Castle probably gonna be a lottery pick. Clinging same thing. Is that his name, Clingon or Donovan Clinton? Yeah? Yeah, So Purdue they got Zach Edie. He'll you know, and I still think
he's gonna be one of the most intriguing players in this draft. Alabama, I mean, I've not seen anybody on the Alabama anybody from Alabama and the mock drafts Houston, same thing, Tennessee at Dalton, connect Illinois, Terrence Shannon. But their other great player came back to school. Now he's going to Kansas State. That's Coleman Hawkins. Uh North Carolina number seven, Iowa
State number eight, Duke number nine, NC State number ten. So that's how the final which, by the way, that's stupid that NC State ends up at number ten. I know they made the final four, but they
sucked during the season. But I think you're gonna see every year when you get to the end of the season, if you go back and look at at not just the teams that made the farthest run, like Final four, but just the teams that had the best year, I think it'll be rare for them to have guys that are viewed as potential lottery picks because you just build your teams differently. Now. I mean, in the Final four,
you had Alabama, NC State, Yukon, and Purdue. Right, I'd be willing to bet this Final four probably had less NBA draft picks than we've had in a long time. That's just a guess. The reason I bring this up is because I just don't think that's going to change. Right, Like, if Pat Kelsey's gonna go out there every year and build the best roster he can, you're going to continue to be using the portal, and you're going to be using it not as extensively as you did this past year,
where you literally built I mean the team he just built. Let's be real, all transfers, every single one of them outside of one, I should say, so all but one where are transfers. So let's say, in I don't know, three years, you are building a team with three freshmen that are in coming. You've got six five to six guys that are back that are not transferring and they're returning, and then you have that would give you nine. Right, so you have four transfers from the portal.
Well, if they're transferring from the portal, there's a good chance that it's probably because they're not looked at as to be NBA guys, at least not yet. So your best chance at having somebody go proud would be a one and done kind of guy maybe, and one and done guys this day and age, like, they don't really impact the game that much in a major way because there's a lot more old dudes playing the game now. So maybe your best bet would be somebody who came back, and that's possible, But
I just I don't know. I feel like the NBA draft moving forward, it's not going to feature, especially like on Night one, a bunch of dudes who you watched in the tournament just being absolute ballers. I mean, Zach Edy was an exception. He stayed in college for four years and he's rare. Right, there's a reason Zach Edy stayed in college that long despite winning National Player of the Year two times consecutively. I mean it's because he's
not believed to be a guy that translates well on the NBA. And if this draft wasn't a weak, maybe he wouldn't be considered a guy that would be potentially a top twenty pick. But I would take him. I think Zach Edy I talked about it than three o'clock hour. I would take Zach Edy in his draft in the top twenty and just live with the fact that he's you know, his style is a little different. In fact, it's a lot different than most guys that are at the center position in the NBA.
Regardless of style, he's a weapon. He's humongous, he's good, and you know, you have to worry about, you know, him stepping out and guarding the current typical big guy in the NBA. I mean, even guys like you know, Joelle Embiid stepping away knocking down threes, and that could be a real mismatch problem for some like Zach Edy. But he still has value in my opinion, and I wouldn't be shocked if he plays in the league ten years. He's not you know, He's not Taco Fall.
He's a guy who has skill, has size, knows how to play, has a motor. So I'm kind of pulling for him a little bit here. I don't care about Purdue, and I don't really care about Zach Edy, but you know, he's clearly been doubted for a long time as a pro, and I think he can play. I think I think he'll play in the league for a while, but we shall see, all right. Something else we discussed earlier that I think is awesome is that the TBT.
The Louisville bracket was unveiled today. I think they did Lexington yesterday. Maybe they're doing it tomorrow. I'm not sure, but both Louisville and Kentucky have teams and are hosting in the TBT. So Louisville their first game in the TBT is going to be on Saturday, July the twentieth, at two pm. They're going to take on a Bellerman team. They're called United,
and they have a lot of guys. I mean, in fact, I'm familiar with just about everybody on their roster because it's guys who played at Bellerman somewhat recently. Are guys who played at Bellerman a while ago, like back when Russ and Peyton were playing, So you know, who knows what happens in that game, but Louisville should be I mean, I think there's a reason Louisville was given the two seed and Bellerman's team was given the seventh seed.
So after that, Louisville will play another team, which I can't think of it is right now. I don't have the bracket in front of me, but they've wisely set it up to where if Louisville can get out of their region and in Kentucky can get out of their region in Lexington, they will match up with each other, which would be great Kentucky. Of course, they are called lot Familia, Louisville is the Ville, and they could play in the quarterfinals. So for the first time in TVT history, they're
gonna give home court advantage to the team who sells the most tickets. Really well done on their part, and it's gonna help them sell tickets. Trust me, Like, that's a really, really a savvy move. And I don't know who's going to end up selling more tickets. I think, you know, Louisville has a little bit more eagerness to, you know, watch these guys play, because spend a long time since Louisvell's had some good basketball to watch. And I know this is not U of L, but let's
you know, it's it's close. It's a bunch of dudes who played at u of L and were great when they were here, at least a lot of them were. But I did I did mention this earlier that the Kentucky roster lot familiar. They're a lot better than than I than I realized. I don't know how great of shape these guys are in currently, but the leader of this team, the guy who really put it together, who's also
playing as Eric Bledsoe. But they also have Deron Lamb, Daniel Ort and James Young Reed, Travis Nate Cstina Marcus t Kellen Grady, and Willie Carley Stein. So that's a that's a good team. Now. I don't know who's in their region as far as how tough it's going to be to get out of it, but I do we get that matchup because as much as we know this is not like I mean, this is not a real game between Louisville and Kentucky, let's not act like we won't whoever wins brag about
winning like bragging rights are on the line. I feel like for everything in this rivalry because that's how much we care about the rivalry. Obviously, you're gonna feel a little better about beating Louisville or beating Kentucky when it's basketball or football, but anything else, it's still something you'll if you win. Even if you don't care that much about that sport, You're gonna feel good if
you beat your rival because that's just how rivalries work. So if we do get these two teams in a quarterfinal matchup, I'd be highly shocked if both Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope aren't front and center for that game, right, I mean, that would be awesome. And Kelsey's gonna be there regardless.
And you know, he's a hype man, a showman himself. We learned that the day we were introduced to him, and it just I think it'll continue to keep the good vibes going here for Louisville basketball since he arrived and he hadn't coached a game yet, we know that, and only time will tell as far as how successful he is. But so far, so good, and I you know, I think this event specifically is a chance for him to kind of even further that good vibe feeling that a lot of us
have right now. All right, So we also played the sound from the Texas A and M coach who bolted to go to Texas the day after he lost in the national championship game to Tennessee in the College World Series. And he did apologize, but then kind of, you know, like didn't really. I mean, I wouldn't call it a half ass apology because he did say sorry, but I guess more than anything, it was like a half ass excuse as far as you know, why he did what he did.
And there's now more allegations out there about this guy that kind of makes them look like a slimbag if I'm being honest with you. But here is here's what he had to say when asked about the Texas opening right after he had lost in the College World Series just two nights ago to Tennessee. He was bothered by the question, Coach, with respect of the difficult outcome tonight, but with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening, what you have
to say about your future in Aggie Land? Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question. To be honest with you, but I left my family to be the coach at Texas A and M. I took the job at Texas A and M to never take another job again, and that hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to talk about something like that. That'd be like you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand you got to ask the question.
But I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job. And I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job. And I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. Write that the right that I don't get like it's against him trying to be my Gundy. But it's another it's another seemingly, it's another attempt, it seems like to really make it clear that you're not leaving. I mean, I left my family. I took this job so I could I would never take another
job again. And I don't know. I mean, I just that go has a piece of work to go from that to then the next day taking the job. But he did apologize today, and here's what it sounded like, because again, you know, I do think him apologizing is at least worth something. But you know, I guess he wasn't ever. There's no world he was ever going to come out and say he lied, but he did lie. When the game ended, I want to publicly apologize to Richard
Zaye from Techsaggs. He's a young reporter. He asked the question. That was an obvious question. I wish I could have answered that better, but in the moment, all you know, thirty minutes after the last pitch, all I could think about was our players, and I really wasn't in the mood to talk about myself for the future. So I apologize for that to Richard. By the way, Richard Zayne, why are you not going by Dick Zane? Come on? Dick Zane is a badass name, is it
not? It is, but it could be used against you. How I dare you to use that against me? Dick Zane is a dick name, Dick Zane is electric, Dick Zane's cutting his own yard, Dick Zane is doing whatever the hell Dick Zane wants to do. It's Dick Zane's world. Baby. You could you could you could be Dick Zane go third person and say that, and nobody would really bad master. I know you hate that movie or don't like it, at least in terms of Adam Sandler's catalog.
I'm not sure you've ever heard me say I don't like that movie. You made fun of me for putting it picking it in my draft last year, which because it's probably not a good pick. Yeah, I mean there's a lot, there's a lot better Sandler. But I mean, so do you like the Soohank. It's a stupid funny movie. Like I'll put it up there. It's not as good. But another movie that, like, you
know, like Little Nikky. Little Nikky is a Sandler movie that I that I can't claim is a great motion picture, but you know it's stupid funny and and stupid funny with Sandler always it always works for me. But yeah, shout out dig Zane. But anyways, he was lying when he talked to the media on Tuesday night by saying that he took the job to never take another job. But I guess you could do that and then have a change of heart. But then right there, you know, he said he
didn't want to talk about his future and he didn't, you know. But now there are players that have come out and accused him of recruiting players to Texas while still coaching for Texas A and M. Which I can't give you some fake surprise like that because I guess I'm not really that surprised by it. But it just, you know, this guy seems like a real piece of work. But this is from a baseball player, I guess. Let
me see this. This tweet is where this came from. And this is from somebody who played for Texas A and M. And he says more will come out, but recruiting kids to Texas from burner phones while playing in the National championship game is an all time greasy move. Kind of agree, kind of agree. But here's what's crazy. What if he would have won? And I was thinking the same thing when we played this, he would have still, right show? Would he have? Would he have stayed? I
don't I still think he would have left. I mean, still it was already done. Maybe he would have been in line for more money had he won the entire I mean, what's it matter though they lost by one run? Yeah, and you know I thought about the money thing as well. But it's Texas A and M. They've got money, that's true. I don't think it was about money. I think it was him wanting to go to Texas. Now. Both these schools, I mean have money, They
got money to burn and and I'm sure they can pay whatever. But yeah, not a not a good look for this guy. And again, if he would have just said, you know, I understand why you're asking that question. I get it. I have respect for what you guys do, but I don't want to go there today. I'm not even thinking about anything other than these players in that locker room, in the great run that we had. And uh, you know, I'm still the coach here at Texas
A and M. And that's all I'm focused on right now. You could have said that, and it would have just been one of the many canned answers that coaches have given us about those kind of situations. Before, it
wouldn't have been controversial. You may have found some people saying, you know, he's chick and he didn't answer, but that kind of became the new norm coaches have since I think kind of learned how to deal with that without really giving an answer, and people can kind of take with it whatever they
choose to take. But he didn't. He went full on insulting the guy for even asking the question, while then also acknowledging he understand it why I asked the question, which is very odd, and he made this a national story. If he'd answered it the way I just mentioned, the only people that would have been upset about this and even talking about it would be Texas A and m fans. But now it's a national story because he he had a goof. He had a goof. All right, let's take a quick
break. We'll come back on the other side. You guys heard the poop story in Paris the Olympics. I swear I had to Google it and go to like page two of the Google searches to fully believe this was real because it looks like something you'd see in the onion. But it's not. And it's another reminder that the Olympics do, in fact give us some good content every now and then. So we'll get to that talk a little more. NBA Draft get to the text line, so don't go anywhere. It's coffee
and company, and we are fueled bout Thorton's right here. On Sports Talk seven ninety so with it being draft night, John Calipari making his rounds, we played the clip earlier. He was on with Pat McAfee and said that seventy percent of the players that he's recruited in the last fifteen years have been drafted. Seventy three of those seventy percent have gotten second contracts, which is
pretty insane. In fact, it's just unbelievable. Thirty percent of the max contracts in the NBA are guys that came to Kentucky to play for him, and those guys have earned over five billion dollars without endorsements. That's what he shared on Pat McAfee. And of course that clip has gotten I mean, just in the last two hours, it's got over nearly half a million views because it's just a reminder this dude has put a lot of guys in the
NBA. However, however, there are some saying that that's not true. He like he needs to be fact checked, like the number is way too high, which I believe that, and I think Cal has oftentimes thrown stuff out and just hoping. I mean, he says things that everybody knows for
sure is not true and it's just Cal being cal. But I actually think with the way it ended at Kentucky, and maybe this is why he's energized, But the way it ended at Kentucky, I think Cali Perry is motivated to win more than he has in a long time, because I mean at Kentucky he never lost because of lack of talent. But when they lost to Oakland, I feel like the national narrative about Cal, it didn't you know, it didn't. I guess it did change, but people were always making
fun of him for doing less with like that. That's been a part of the Cal brand nationally for a long time. But you know, to lose to Saint Peter's in Oakland twice in three years, and then you know, have some other losses mixed in there against bad teams, Like I think now when Cal gets to the point where he's bragging about guys in the NBA, he's put so many guys in the NBA that are so successful, it's almost inevitable that it's gonna be used against him because people are gonna say, how
the hell did you not win more? You know what I mean? Let me sens John like I think the more he started, I mean against draft A so he's gonna keep doing it. But I think unless he starts actually winning big when it matters in college basketball, even if he still still is putting guys in the NBA, he'll continue to get guys that want to come play for him because they want to go to the NBA. But I feel like that's going to turn into a brag that backfires to where people are just
gonna be like, damn. That really speaks to how badly you can't coach you can recruit though. Yeah, and people have said that a lot, especially I mean, maybe not a ton of Indiana fans, but that's always been the argument from Indiana fans who were jealous at Kentucky was that he can never coach. He could just bring in whoever he wanted to because he was col Yeah, and I mean, you know there is jealousy there, trust me. There's a ton of players that ended up at Kentucky that were great
that everybody wanted Louisville fans, Indianna fans and whatnot. But college basketball is different, man, Like, none of that matters if you don't win big. I mean it matters to the players. Putting guys in the NBA can help you get more guys to come and play for you that are NBA caliber players. But I just, you know, I'm looking at all the responses to that clip that I played earlier, that was on Twitter, and it's
just it's not Kentucky fans. It's it's just college basketball fans, you know, Rando's on Twitter that are like, damn, how's this guy not been to the second weekend in five years? How's this guy not been to a final four and ten years? I mean, and that's valid, Like those are things. I mean, those are real numbers. But this is crazy. Rick Betino when he won his title in ninety six at Kentucky, that team had nine NBA players on it. Not all that went at the same
time, but that team had nine guys that became NBA players. Some left that year, some came back and played in ninety seven, some came back and played in ninety eight on that championship two I believe. I think Jeff Shepherd won two titles there because of that, And that's one of the best runs I've ever seen as far as teams that had elite players. I mean, again, I was a kid and I knew I hated Kentucky and I love Louisville because I knew early on that's how this works as a Louisville fan.
But I was in awe of those teams that Rick had in the nineties. I mean, just unbelievable teams with insane talent and they won big. So Rick had nine NBA players on that title team. Caliperry had three different teams at Kentucky, one that had as much or more than that nine on one team ten on one. He had eleven NBA players on one of his teams at Kentucky, and all three of those teams did not win a title.
I mean, that'll be a random, unbelievable, what the hell fact slash stat that when you mentioned it to somebody, if you ever find yourself needing to mention it to somebody, that you'll say, there's no way that can be true. But if you go back and look at it, I mean and look all those guys that I'm mentioning or that I'm that were, you know, that make up to be the team with nine, ten and
eleven NBA players. Not all those guys were great. Hell a lot of them didn't last, but they still were NBA guys, which Let's be honest, there are dudes who play. I mean, like, even if you even just making it an NBA for a cup of coffee is not an easy thing to do. It's not It doesn't happen that often, right, I mean Louisville's two thousand and thirteen National Championship team, excuse me, I mean there are on that team three guys four that that you know even had a
cup of coffee in the NBA. Trez obviously had a long career in the NBA, and hopefully he gets back to the league after he helps Louisville win the TVT fingers crossed Peyton was drafted, played a couple of years, and then he went G League and ended up playing overseas for a while. Russ same thing, honestly, and then Gorgy Gorky had had a good run in the NBA just recently retired. So I mean, just eleven NBA players on one team, unbelievable. And that team, I don't think that was even
the championship team. I'm sorry, I don't even it clearly wasn't a title team, but they had a team that played in the National Championship Game. Gosh, that's crazy. So the twenty fifteen that would have to be that team, right, Yes, that he that had that many It was not the Twins as well, yeah yeah, yeah, and they played in the
NBA, I mean not long but yeah yeah. If you look at the Kentucky roster, I mean, all right, here, let's see start with Harrison Towns Booker, the other Harrison, Willie Cauley, Stein, Treyli who still plays in the league. Dakari Johnson was a first round draft pick. Tyler Eulis was a first round draft pick. Poithrus. I don't know if
he played in the NBA, so maybe it wasn't that team. In fact, this is random as hell, but I think the twenty seventeen team Monk Fox, Bam Brisco Winning Gabriel, I mean, he's I think he's still in the league. Michael Molder, he played in the NBA. Maybe wasn't that team anyways. Uh, I'm gonna have to fact check that, but it came from somebody on Twitter that responded to that Goodman tweet. Who covers the NBA draft for one of these outlets. But here I am thinking like
maybe that's maybe there's no way that that that's true. But I believe it, but eleven of your thirteen scholarship guys, I don't know. Maybe that's not true. Either way, the point remains the same. The more he brags about all the NBA players that he's put in the league without him actually having great success in college, it's going to have people just saying, oh cool, you can recruit, you can sell, but man, that's all
you are. You can't coach, which I'm not saying he can't coach, and he's allows he coach, but clearly, like it's hard to defend him as like a great coach given the fact that some of the most talented teams that we've seen in college underwhelmed. I mean, just looking at the two teams he had that lost to Oakland and Saint Peter's, I mean, that's that doesn't make you look like a good coach, that's for sure. All
Right, So this story is insane, but it's true. There was a poop protest that was expected to happen earlier this week in Paris, but they ended up postponing the poop protest. So I'm gonna read here from Complex dot Com, a defiant act of timely defecation is poised to give a voice to the frustrated, to the fresh straded ahead of the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics. So CBS News, I feel like it's been covering this for for quite some time, and it's and it just recently, I think became like a
well known thing most people are laughing about. But the Cyane River is the location for the Paris Olympic. I guess, you know, protest that's been planned. So there's been extensive rain in that area, and earlier this month, an elevated level of E Coli had been detected in the river, all while you know, the Olympics served just less than a couple of months away.
So apparently there's been a bunch of money invested in cleaning up the dirty river, and it doesn't look like there's been any really good progress, Like it still looks disgusting and filthy. So this past Sunday was originally set to be the day to see Paris the mayor of Paris and Hidalgo actually doing what everybody else had claimed they were going to do, which is, you know, jumping the river and I guess take a dump. I mean from what I saw, and this may be incorrect, but I don't think it is.
They had like squatty potties set up on the river bank where you could sit down on something that looked like a toilet, but it would empty out into the river. Okay, that makes it a little easier to do if you're going to do it, I guess. I don't think they were just jumping in the river, pulling their pants down and letting them rip. So this says that there was a threat from from people from Paris to poop in the river in a protest because they're angry at the expense of cleaning up the
river. And there was a hashtag that is in fringe and I can't I'm not if I cursed in a different language. Is at an FCC violation where we have to dump it? We're not going to risk it. But what it translates to in English is I in the sign on twenty third of June, so it's supposed to be the day that it happened. And I how does this even turn into like, yeah, we'll show them we're gonna poop in the river like that just seems to be a very very It seems like
an overreaction. I would say, but yeah, they're frustrated at the money that the country put into cleaning up this river while other social issues have been neglected. That's that's the root of it. So it's already dirty as it is they put and I guess they look at it as a big waste considering it still isn't clean. So I guess to poop in the river it would be basically like, yeah, good thing, you spent and wasted all that money and then it didn't even work. It's already dirty, so we might
as well just all take dumps in the river. I mean, is that is that it's still to retell you? It still sounds stupid? Is that you don't you don't even accomplish anything. They're not get a protest, But what exactly are you trying to get out of it? They've already spent your money, Yeah, I mean, and it's going I mean, like, I don't know. Wouldn't you want people to have an enjoyable experience in your country if you're hosting the Olympics. Imagine if I mean I probably shouldn't say
this, but imagine if they did that here with the Ohio. Oh god, I mean, I don't go near the Ohio River, John, at least not you know down here, there's parts of the Ohio River that, you know, I'm not gonna say it's clean, but it almost looks reminds you of like the being just a standard lake. Right. Supposedly there's a prop octopus somewhere at the bottom of the Ohio River. I read that a
very long time ago. I don't remember that octopus, like a movie prop octopus from some movie that got thrown in the end of the Ohio River after the movie or whatever it was it was in Now that now, that would be fun, yes, to just have somebody go down there and look and see what the hell is at the bottom of the Ohio River. Imagine finding something like that and no, no, dude, you're down there. You'd find a ton of stuff down there. You'd find dead bodies down there.
I mean, I never thought about that, like, wonder what is in the bottom of what's Yeah, and some gross stuff. But yeah, I hope the Olympics gives us some entertainment. I don't I'm not a big Olympics
guy. There's often times every it seems like every time the Olympics roll around every four years, there's at least the one sport and it's not necessarily even a new sport, but it'll really catch on and people will be really into it and like, you know, hey, this was on and more often I'd watch it and maybe they're telling the truth, but you know, we'll never know, because here in America, we like what we like. As far as sports we watch on TV, it's kind of been the same for
a very very very long time. All r let's gouea and get our last break out of the way. We'll come back put the finishing touches. Here on a Draft day edition of Coffee and Company, talk a little bit about some of the more memorable moments from the NBA draft over the years. Most of this is just terrible takes being given by NBA draft analysts, just like we do during the NFL Draft. Right, I remember, was it who was it Kuiper who said that that Brian bram is going to be better than
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Again it is Edlin and Elin. All Right, So the the NBA Draft is tonight, and uh, there are not as many like all time memorable moments from the NBA Draft as there is the NFL Draft, at least not in my opinion. Uh, and I'm glad this one still has some life. This was I think three years ago now, and it's I mean, it's it's a classic. And that is when Kendrick Perkins, who was on the ESPN draft coverage, really really had a tough time saying this draft picks
name, which isn't even a tough name to say. Two of the best to ever do it. When you look at Modi Mosy, Modi move, Mody moving Modi Moses, Modi move Moses, Moses's Moody what he did to Holly Moses Moody of Arkansas. Uh, that's not that tough to say, is it. I Mean, sometimes you just get stumbling that. I mean, this, two of the best ever do it. When you look at Modi Movie, Modi move, Mody moving, Mody, Mosing, Modi move Moses Mosy Moody. College in mind, rarely do you have somebody have to
step in and help you, you know what I mean. The wheels were like if whoever was with him on the desk didn't step in and say Moses Moody, he probably still three years later be sitting there, move Mody moves, mose Mo moozy. And then Seth Greenberger, who I already think is is a is a boob? Is he part of Is he actually even a part of the NBA draft coverage anymore? I'm sure he is, but I can't stand the guy. But he had an old time bad take even at
the time that has since aged very very poorly. And that is what he said about Mobomba, who, by the way, Mobamba was a big time recruit, went to Texas and let's be real, wasn't really good there at an the NBA. I mean, he's been an absolute I mean, he's been in the NBA for gosh seven five six years now, and he's he's I mean, he's lucky to still be in the league after being taken sixth overall. He's played for four teams now, and let's just say, Seth
Greenberg was very very much wrong about Mobamba's upside. This is what he had to say about him prior to him being drafted that night. I think he's a hybrid between Anthony Davis joelbe what. But that's somebody who videoed their TV and added that reaction, which I agree with the reaction. He's in hybrid mixture of Anthony Davis and Joel Embiide. And he just recently wrapped up his sixth season in the NBA. Uh and he played an average of thirteen minutes
a game, averaging four points and four rebounds. So yeah, swinging a miss, say it happens, it happens. I still think that the all time NBA draft bust is Anthony hard Forgot. Yeah, Anthony Bennett. Who I mean, I just don't think it's possible for anybody to surpass that. This is a guy who was taken number one overall by Cleveland, and I mean, I'm not I don't think he plays professionally anymore. And this is the guy who is the number one pick in the league and was completely out
of the league in two years. I mean that's unheard of. That's hard to do, to be honest with you. So I mean I think he hey, yeah, he no longer played. I don't know if he's retired, but he's not currently playing anymore. But I think the reason it doesn't get mentioned as much, like everybody brings up Greg Oden, But I don't think you're a bust if it's injury related, because it doesn't mean you can't
play. This dude was healthy and could not play. Also, right after that is when Lebron went back to Cleveland and like it's just a forgotten thing because of how quickly Cleveland, like Cleveland never really had to pay for that terrible pick, if you know what I mean. So happy NBA Draft night, everybody. We'll be back tomorrow to talk more about it and talk about a lot more. So join us right here. Have a good night,