Diluted Samples, NFL Draft, NBA Playoffs, and More!

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We got some talk here because the NFL Draft is coming up on Thursday, and now there's two Jabil Peppers and Ruben Foster have both said now have failed a drug combine combined test with a quote unquote diluted sample. Okay, and here's what's very interesting. Joe Thomas, offensive tackle of the Cleveland Browns, tweeted today. In the NFL, if you have a diluted sample, they let you take the test over again. How is it inconsistent with the NFL combine?

What does this mean? Are these two guys entering the program now? So we got a poll question up there. Do you agree that a diluted sample should count as a failed drug test? Yes? So no, you could get on that pole. Also, we're talking about the NBA. Yo, we got a big show. I got my boys Jason and Ken joining the cipher. We're gonna talk NBA playoffs. I gotta poll question up. How much will missing Steve Kerr actually impact the Golden State Warrior is title run?

That's something I want to know. You know, we got options like not at all? Did you see last night? Within five minutes it was over and I could go to bed. Or will it have an impact later on? You know, maybe it will when we're talking about the Spurs or the Rockets or the Calves, or do you think the Warriors will not win it if Steve Kerr is not on the bench. We're gonna get into that with my boys. Like I said, we're gonna do NFL Draft breakdown as well. We talked to you guys about

the running back position yesterday. We're gonna talk about the quarterback position. Watson, Trabinsky, Mahomes, all of that. Come on back right after this. We're gonna have a great time. It's your boy Speeds, the Spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is, this boy,

Dame Martinez Speeds, the Spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let's get into Speeds to starting lineup right now. We're gonna switch it up a little bit because we're gonna go hard nb A a little bit later on. So I gotta give you, like we always do, my starting line up to help you win your league and win that cash. In Major League Baseball, Ryan Braun left yesterday with a bruce foot. He fouled the ball off his foot.

I gotta tell you the truth. I have been playing baseball for about fifteen to twenty years. My guests later on cand of test that I have never fouled a ball off my foot. I don't know what that experience is like, but it happens all the time in Major League Baseball. And I gotta tell you something. I played pretty high level baseball, but that's what happened to Ryan Braun. Jack Peterson, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's going on the ten DA d L with a groin issue.

They called up hot shot rookie keep and Eye and Bellinger that is coming up. Zach Brner, the closer for the Baltimore Orioles. He's on target for a Friday rehab return, coming back from the forum. Roger Davis, though, goes to the ten day DL with a hamstring in re Remember though, uh, Donnie, I know you remember Donnie b we Um. We had

licensed certified athletic trainer. Thomas Lowe on on the four asked him about that rash of hamstring injuries that happened at the beginning of the season, and I thought it was because it was still cold out there and most of these Northeastern cities in April. But he also said people changing team to team when you're working with a new trainer, just a new stretching and training regimen could be enough that the body of Justin That's why you see some of those as well. Will add Roji Davis

to the list. In the NFL, Adrian Peterson in the Saints have agreed to a deal, but mark Ingram there now reporting is still the lead back. So if you had mark Ingram on your dynasty teams on stuff like that, he is still the lead back in New Orleans. And we've been talking about this New England Patriots running back situation. How now Mike Gillisley is a Patriot after the Bills did not you know, sign that offer sheet. Legarrett Blunt and the New York Football Giants are said to have

mutual interest in each other. Lagarrett Blunt eighteen touchdowns, eighteen Andre LGB t rights. He still could not get a Pro Bowl nod even with that great season last year. Martavis Bryant has been reinstated by the NFL after four hundred and seven days suspension. That is a solid wide receiver two for Pittsburgh. Remember, you know, coming up to the draft, this maybe impacted their strategy. Right, Let's keep

you moving though here on speeds is cipher um. Yesterday I gave you a mere Garrett as a DFS pitcher, and the rule and the wheels just fell off. I apologize, okay, listen. I give you what you need to win your leagues and when net cash, sometimes you ride with me, sometimes you don't. I'm here and I'm I'm accountable. I'm accountable, okay. Unlike Agent Orange and many fashions. Big shout out to

the American Forces Radio Network. Yo, he didn't do his thing three point one innings which he gave up nine his e O A one from one point eight four all the way to five point oh nine in one start. That is what you get early on here in the Major League Baseball season. These these averages, these ratios fluctuate a lot. Tonight, you got Clayton Kershaw. He's ten thousand, seven hundred dollars on fan duel. I am trying to

beat him. The way I think you do it is with Michael Waka, who is seventies hundred for the St. Louis Cardinals tonight he's got a two. He's two and one with a two point four one ear right going up at home against the Toronto Blue Jays. Remember though, Josh Donaldson out of that lineup on the d L with the CAF injury. Now Troy to Lwitsky also on the d L for the Toronto Blue Jays. That lineup is not as fearsome as you may think. And I like the way Michael Waka has been performing. With all

these rainouts. You gotta go somewhere where you could, uh, you know, maybe get that quality start. Well, we're gonna do though here with the NFL Draft, and you know we are doing big things here on the Fantasy Sports rado for Network on Thursday, live NFL Draft coverage with the Fantasy Executive my man, Corey Parson is gonna be leading that, telling you all the things you need to know. Who is drafting who, who just lost their job? For example,

someone's gonna draft Leonard four Nett. Someone's whosing their job. Might it be you, Frank Gore? Might it be you? Chris Ivory. Someone is losing their job. On Thursday night, we're gonna be covering all of that. He's gonna come. It's a Fantasy Freestyle. Also big Things. My boy Joey Pizzapia is coming on the Friday show on the Fantasy Freestyle, breaking down Day one, looking ahead to the second and third round. And that's where it's really one. That's where

you're getting your starters. I heard Bill Pollion today say sixty five of the NFL are players that were either drafted in rounds four or later or were undrafted free agent. So that's when the real work is done. But I'm gonna spotlight our quarterbacks today. Okay, let me first tell you this is not two years ago. This is not Jamis Winston and Marcus Mariota. This is not even next year.

Let me tell you something. As a Jets fan, I hope we go to in fourteen so that next year I can get Sam Donald at the USC or Josh Rosen at u c l A. This draft class is not next year's class. It is maybe around the same level as last year with Goth and Wentz. Okay, I don't know if these guys you're hearing about whether you Watson or Trabinsky or Mahomes is really that franchise guy. HT tell you who I like. First of all, ok

you gotta like Deshaun Watson. Okay, that's the poise that he has, that leadership quality, which I believe is still the number one quality you need to have. This be a leader of men in the huddle, right, And Deshaun Watson did that against this vaunted Alabama defense that some people thought was the best college defense of all time. Deshaun Watson in two national championship games scored over eighty points and shred them. So you gotta like that. Okay,

you gotta like that. But remember what I said in the huddle. That is my concern with Deshaun Watson the commune. With these all these spread offenses, the college game is now actually so much different than the pro game. You don't know if Deshaun Watson can command the huddle. You don't know if he can actually spit out the verbiage of a play in the huddle. You don't know if offensive lineman can get into a three point stance because

of these spread offenses. That is my only concern with Deshaun Watson, but I like him and I think he should be the first quarterback off the board. Let's talk though about Mitchell. Don't call me Mitch Trabinsky from you, University of North Carolina. I do not like this cat. Okay, this cat reminds me of Jared Goff. This cat reminds me of Blake Bortles, Bordle Service. Okay, this is a guy. This is a guy who only had thirteen college starts

and only when eight and five. Okay, this is a guy who may have a great arm, may have all the tools, may have a sixties seven completion percentage while even under pressure, which is nice. But he comes off as aloof to me. And John Gruden said the same thing. Do you guys see like that John Gruden quarterback camp. He really breaks everybody down, then he applies it on the field. I think this is the same kind of story as one of these other guys kind of coming

out of nowhere. May have the arm, but remember, do they have the leadership? Are you going to look into the eyes of an eight year veteran offensive tackle and command presence in that huddle when you were just barely doing it in the spread offense at what's really a basketball school in North Carolina. I don't think so. I'm telling you I am fading. I am fading, Mitchell, don't call me mimrra Binsk. I'll tell you who I do like though. I like this Patty Mahomes kid out of

Texas Tech. Okay, I like Patty Mahomes. And here's why. This is a straight up gun slinger. Okay. Pro Football Focus had him rated as like the second best on deep throws again though a spread system. This guy makes what they call like the hero throws. You're like the gun slinger Brett far If you hear that about, you know all sorts of guys that just like to sling it deep, j cutler, things of that nature. That's who this kid is gonna be. It depends on the system

that he said. I'm hearing that Bill O'Brien and the Houston Texans really like this kid at. I'm telling you right now, he's not gonna be there at. People are gonna go up for this kid. I'm thinking about a couple of teams that have starters in place that are getting a little long in the tooth, most specifically the Arizona Cardinals. It is time to consider who will be replacing Carson Palmer. Whah and cultivate that when you still have David Johnson at the top of his game over there.

Outside of that, there's gonna be some other guys. Okay, DeShawn Kaiser at a Notre Dame. This guy, this guy is real high on himself. He says he has Tom Brady's mind in Cam Newton's body, yet he got benched at Notre Dame. I don't know about this kid. I think he's gonna need to eat a little bit of humble pie as well. He's gonna need to go into a system where he's gonna be the backup for three years.

Maybe this is where you know your Steelers make a draft pick, your Giants make a draft pick, Your Chargers make a draft pick once again. Some of these guys remember that two thousand and three or four draft class. Eli Mannings, the Ben Roethlisberger's, the Philip Rivers where there has been news about their heir apparent in all three cities. So they're gonna be looking for that as well as

Arizona thinking about Carson Palmer's replacement. I'm gonna tell you, though, I got a sleeper and it's Chad Kelly out of Old Miss. This guy has the pedigree. Yes, you know that Kelly name Kelly Strong like Jim Kelly of the Buffalo Bills. Yep, same DNA. Chad Kelly went to Ole Miss, was a slinger, beat Alabama all field can serns though wasn't invited to the Combine. And also check this out.

At his pro day he got hurt and had risk surgery that you know, people don't know about him, but I think if he gets in the right situation and has a chance to develop, Chad Kelly might be one of your you know, Dak Prescott's this year. Don't sleep on Nate Peterman at a pit or just Dobbs out of Tennessee as well. But check it out. That's enough football talk. When we come back, I got my boys. They're gonna join the cipher here on the Fantasy Freestyle.

We've got so much stuff to talk about as it relates to the NBA playoffs, as it relates to the rest and the schedule, fouling people, the Melo drama in New York. So much stuff to cover with my boys. We're gonna be doing that right about now. Come on back after the break. It should boy, Dame Martinez speeds

the Spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and of course all the service men and women out there on the American Forces Radio Network, we all come on right back. You know what it is. This is your boy, Dane Martinez, a k A. To Spitting Statistician. You're listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Yo. NBA playoffs are going on right now. We got some

big game fives in the first round. A lot of storylines going on that I want to get into with my special guests here. N B a correspondence on the Fantasy Freestyle. I got more boys canting, Kirby and Jason and Day Hey sus on on Mondays when we got the Fantasy first look, Joe Galina is the Fantasy Hey Sus, I got my boy Hovao Jason Davey sus We're gonna get into right now. How you guys feeling joining? That's what it is. We joined in the cipher and I

got my boy Donnie Burns. Donnie Burns brings it First of all, did y'all know Donnie Burns is the coach of a national a AU team that are going to Nationals? Right, Donnie Burns? How are the kids doing that? First of all, I gotta ask you, how are the Lions doing? Are we? Are we paying for the flight? What's good? Yeah, we're gonna head out in about three weeks, so it should be good. Okay. And so we took out the state. Now we're going. Yeah, we took down the New Jersey

state title. We're going for the national get it yet? You know what it is? Yo? And I'm telling you if you and Nationals, y'all can come on the show for real. Oh you know, I'm pretty much on this thing all the time, considering fair enough, fair enough, fair enough? All right. So here's where we want to get into the side. For we were on the East coast, right, were on the East coast. Let's start in the Eastern Conference because also, many people would probably argue that is

a simpler conversation. Right going into the playoffs, there were so many questions about the Cavaliers defense. They gave up like a twenty four point lead one day. Could they switch it on and off? You know? And all of a sudden four games later, it's a wrap. We got Paul George talking smack about his teammates, positioning, in my opinion, positioning himself a free agency, you know, to make sure that he splits and go to Los Angeles. Will talk about that a little bit later on. But are all

the fears gone? That's I guess my big question for you guys. Or do you think like it's you know, express past Lebron to the finals seventh strade year or do you see anyone in the East that can derail that? Like it's the Eastern Conference a moot point. And I think to say this, I feel the Calves go where Lebron goes, right, I feel in this uh this series, I mean, they still were a little shaky on defense, but I feel at the end of the day, Lebron

wills himself and wills his team to the next level. Okay, do you think do you think I mean, he's probably not, you know, nervous about anybody, right, but yo, Donnie Burns and me, we were talking about how the Washington Wizards and that backcourt of Beal and Wall, we would have liked to have seen that. We've been talking about like who could pop up and challenge Cleveland. You know, Toronto we were very on the fence about and and Donnie, why why were you so into the Wizards as a

potential threat in the East. Yeah. So here's the thing with my Raptors. We talked about this. I believe yesterday. The Raptors are not scoring at the pace they normally do. Like they've had wins where they only had seventy seven points, shooting three for twenty three and like the first half. That's not normal Raptor play. I know they got Kyle Lowry back a little bit before the post. I'm just

they're not complete to me at this point. The only team I think that could challenge them is the Washington We've been talking Washington, But where's where's Gore Tot right now? If Gore Tott continues to do that, John wall is gonna have to up his game even more. And he's even I know, he's averaging like he's ridiculous. But that's the only road. I mean, who's Cleveland gonna play next? The winner of Toronto and Milwaukee. I think that's easy,

easy cake. Alright, alright, Jason, let me get you in here. Right quick. Uh, I'm talking Eastern Conference. We're throwing out Washington, throwing out maybe Toronto. You know, I love the Greek freaking all. But is it is it a fade the complete in the East? Nobody, it's a fabricaid story. I mean fake news. Okay, any threatened East fake news, it's fake news. You know they're talking defense. Um, you know before the regular season ended, right, you had a couple

of injuries. But you know what they're saying. They were talking about defensive defensive efficiency. Yeah, yeah, talk to me. It's a simple stat Talk to me about it. Uh, the number of points a team allows possession? Right, It doesn't keep in mind uh style of play pponents. So we're trying to get to apples versus apples. I don't feel that it's Uh, it's a story where you have seven other teams. So you take a look at these seven teams and you think, maybe it's not it's not

a real thing. Okay, but let me Okay, So I I think we're all coming to consensus here. We think the East is gonna go down and once again Lebron James will find his way to the finals. I do got to say something though, I want to give a shout out to the Milwaukee Bucks on a number of levels. On a number of levels, and one is this has been a complete emergence of the Greek freak Gianni's attendant Coompo and Donnie, I know you love the Greek freak as well. But two questions. One, what would this team

be like with a healthy Jabari Parker? You know, I mean, we don't even forget about what was the number one, number two pick? Right? And then I don't know if you guys saw, but I'm giving props to the Milwaukee Bucks. You see how hard they are trolling the Toronto Raptors in this series, playing the Barney Feet music. When they're introducing players, their their mascot. Their mascot was talking about, um,

why don't don't the Toronto Raptors have a website? And it was because they couldn't string three ws together like www. They were saying. It was all sorts of things. So like, talk to me about in the longer term, like this Lebron domination is not gonna last forever, right, So how how do how could the East in the cycle of life here in the Eastern Conference, could the Greek Freak and Jabari Parker, Greg Monroe off the bench as a MAX player. Do you see them as the up and

coming team and East maybe? Oh, no question about it. I mean, I'll say this, I feel, especially going back to the trolling of the team, it's very much sounds very much like Jason Kidd. Yeah, that's true, Jason Kidd. This is the man. This is a man who while coaching will knock a cup of coffee onto the floor just to get an extra kind of time out. You're Donnie. Do you do that at the a AU level? Of course not. I'm a professional day. Okay, in some circles

j kids considered professional. But but I'll say, I mean the Greek freak is really is this coming out? Part of this? Adding adding Jabari would have been I can't imagine what this series would be like. Um yeah, but I think that's the team in the few of the future in the East. Man, it's definitely definitely a problem. I don't know if when Roe was gonna be a long long term piece for that team. Yeah, but I mean I got I don't, I don't know signed the

Max deal. But even these guys like Broaden had had a good first year stuff like that. You know, Jason, when you want to get in here on the box, No, you know, I just an antidote. I traveled to Milwaukee, came on a Tuesday night. It was probably jumping just like Rock and Riley's here at the Sports radio Network and Studio thirty four. I bet there were more people here in Rock and Riley's that maybe in Milwaukee. That is exactly That's exactly my conclusion. Nobody was coming to

help this guy. He's alone. Uh, he is the best, probably the best young player right now. Um porzingis in towns maybe a side better than better than the ladder right now. I don't see a guy in free you can see coming here. They're gonna have to build through the draft, and I don't think they're gonna be able to do that in the immediate term. Alright, alright, And also, of course, big shout out to eleven thirty Am in Milwaukee, and that's what Let's go to the West because there's

a lot of interesting things here. First of all, I think I thought this Jazz Clipper series was very interesting. I thought there was gonna be no way the Jazz at first without Rudy Gobert. We're gonna be able to hang with the Clippers. But now Gobert back, Blake, Griffin gone? Is this pretty much in my I mean, I'm gonna tell you right now, I think you could put the nail in this, you know, incarnation of the Clippers. I think they're pretty much done. Paul probably could be gone,

Blake could be gone. Do you think the Clippers have it in them at home tonight? But without Blake? Do they even move on? I don't think the Clippers beat the Jazz in this series? So you like moving on in this series? Do I do with Gobert back? Check out? Uh? It's that simple in my opinion. But when you add a potential trade and they're talking mellow, right, can I get Austin Rivers? Can I get Austin Rivers Crawford? Maybe? I think that works for both today and I'm getting

ten cents on the dollar day exactly. Then I think what you do is you get that big three, You add somebody and the end of his career, but just a score, and you can bump yourself up to a top two team, three team maybe in the West. All right, now, let me ask you this. Let me ask you guys, this in the Western Conference obviously, in the same way we're talking about oh, Cleveland sweeping for Oh, you know,

Golden State looks sick as always. And you know, we gotta pull question up right now, get us on that f N T, S Y Radio, Twitter or at spitting speeds right now, we gotta pull question up. How would you losing head coach Steve Carr impact the Warriors title chances? Right right now? Fifty seven percent of our voters and big shout out to like the hundred people already in the last hour, say no, see last night. Ut seven percent say maybe but like later on, and six percent

say Golden State will not win. I am probably in the thirty seven percent that say maybe later on, maybe later on, right because this is not a team plays ice ole ball. This is a lot of fluid motion.

Does as guys who play ball does that? Then you know, do you need your coach more or less in that situation with a team that has such ball movements, such scheme and it's not just like a give it to give it to mellow in the low post, I'll say that I feel like as the as the rounds progress, yeah, they're gonna need to coach more so when it gets

to the Western Conference finals. But when they they're gonna need curves when they get to the finals, when they're playing against Cast, because we know it's gonna be a Cast Warriors series again, no doubt. So check this out. We're having so much fun. We gotta take a break already. We gotta take a break here. Check this out. So we're gonna do that. We're gonna talk Steve Kerrent his back. We're gonna talk. We're gonna talk Steve Kerr. We're gonna

talk to schedule. My man Donnie Burns telling me we could go a little bit longer. We can go a little bit longer. You're right, I can't do math. It's bitten statisticians. Sometimes I messed it up, Donni Burns. It's all good. But so you think later on, later on, what about you, Jason? I fully agree, and just to be god to answer your back question, if you've had a back injury, you need to lie down, flying down on the floor. At the end of his career, why

can't he coach? Why can't he still coach? Though from the prone position they needed, they need a game manager. When you get closer to the finals, get to the West cons finals, you need a guy, a coach in the middle, in the in those sections, drawing up plays ords and knowing the road station, who sub in which, which part of it, and that's coming from your head coach, all of it. Okay, So so not this round, Okay, next round. Right when they're playing, I guess the Jazz.

If let's say Kerr misses all those games, and I give you an over under, will that game, will that series go six or seven against the Jazz with no Steve Kerr? No, I think that goes five. It still goes five. Okay, Let's say they see the Spurs or the Rockets in the Western Conference finals, no Steve Kerr, does that series go seven? They will lose to the Spurs. Without Kerry, they will be the Rockets. Really, you never know.

I listen, I hear you on that. The Rockets are a wild card to me, though, at any in time, the Rockets can get hot enough to outscore anybody, including the Golden State Warriors. It's possible. Eric Gordon out there, James Hard, I mean, come on now, it could go either way. But you guys think, okay, so wait, you think the Spurs could beat them. They would beat the Rockets against the Calves. They need Steve car the question about it. Absolutely Okay. Now we're gonna take a break.

There's so much more though in the NBA that we can talk about. I got my boys in the cipher with me here on the Fantasy Freestyle, Canton and Jason, We're gonna make it happen. Come on back. We're gonna talk about the NBA schedule, taking this rest and what if anything can be done about it. It It should be way. Dane martinezps and spitting statistician. You're listening here on the Fantasy Freestyle Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Ah, here comes the brand new flavor in your ear. It's your boy, Dame

Martinez Pisa, spitting statistician. You're listening to the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Big shout out as always toward Sports Byline affiliates around the country and with the American Forces Radio Network around the world, making Fantasy Freestyle truly a global show. I got my boy Donnie Burns with me on the ones and two is keeping it so hot that we sweat steam blowing up

like a Samsung seven. But we also are joined by my boys Kenton and Jason in the cipher here today when we're talking NBA playoffs, Hey, I wanted to get your thoughts, Donnie be on our on our poll question how important in your experience? I mean you coach? How how important is a coach? Yes, so in the early rounds it's not as important because if your team has a good you know, chemistry, the fluidity takes care of itself. A lot of these times. You see these coaches at

the end of game. Smart ones at least won't call time out because they trust in their players. So you can get away with that early in the I guess playoffs, but later on. Steve Kerr is a very, very, very telligent player. You've seen I've seen quotes from Michael Jordan. That's one of the only people he trusted. So that's the guy that I want joining me plays later in the playoffs. But like I said, fluidity early is if your team can do what the Warriors do, score forty

five and one quarter, it's a little ridiculous. So it is. It is a little ridiculous. I was all hyped to watch that last night, and I think they literally went nine. It literally went nine oh after like five minutes of play, and right now, fifty seven percent of you are saying that Steve Carr will have absolutely no impact. Didn't he signed, Didn't he signed for like five million a year or something. And now and now greater than half of you are saying, Nah,

it's all good, it's all good. We do not needed him. All we need is the space and press all right, check check it out. We're gonna keep it moving here. One of the topics that we've been talking about on the Fantasy Freestyle, my boy Donny Be knows about this is this darn schedule right and and and we've been

talking about it from a daily fantasy impact. What guys are getting rest here on the DFS lineup lock with my boys Benny Riccardi and Sony Senkada from six to seven on the fan se Sports Radio network, they were constantly getting, Oh, these guys are arresting. That means you gotta play these guys. And what I find interesting is a couple of things. One, certainly, during the NBA Playoffs, they space out these games. Right. Maybe that's for TV,

maybe that's for players safety. I don't know, but they certainly, you know, you're not resting Steve, you know, Steph Curry and Clay Thompson for the nationally televised Game three of the playoffs. But also who who can really stop this in the schedule? The owners are not going to give up the gate, They're not going to shorten it to a fifty game regular season anything like that. How do we Is this something that we're just you know, gonna see or is there some some kind of pressure we

can apply as fans, as coaches, as as advertisers. What's the way around this guy's it comes down to from a fan standpoint, it's not it's not ideal, right, Uh if remember that the SATURDA night games San Antonio one play, not one star. You need to give one eight o'clock seventh, right, So what what I mean? You know, you saw Silver come out with his like sternly worded letter to the owners. You know, like, but what is this just gonna happen? What can we do make the regular season longer? To

spread out? Some games have less back to backs? Is it about like you know, or it does like you know the NBA on NBC do or you know, ABC that should just be like listen, nah, we're not gonna, you know, pay, We're not gonna pay for the contract if we can't risk what the product is out there. I just think the season is to the regular season's way too long. I mean, yeah, I don't care about

the NBA until Christmas exactly. No one cares about Christmas. Right, And on top of that, place, they're gonna rest of the players because they want to prevent injury. You don't want to shoo team stumbling into the playoffs, right, you want? We all would runch much rather to watch a team left. Let me tell you this, though it's not even this rest. Check this out. In the nineteen sixties sixty one season, Will Chamberlain played all but eight minutes the entire season.

He actually averaged over forty eight minutes a game. Because of overtime games and stuff, he missed eight minutes the entire season. No NBA player this season averaged thirty eight minutes a game. So bye, bye bye. Just mathematically, okay, and this and these guys, you know, these guys didn't have. These guys didn't have you know, Hyperbarick Chambers, and they

didn't have and they flew coach. You know what I'm saying, but Bull Chamberlain, you know, nobody in the NBA played as many minutes, you know, like he missed eight all season. Everybody else has been missing eight minutes a game. There just is it just and he was travel travel is what it is like the tallest person about two feet alright, Alright, let's people moving out here, and then we got a

lot to get to. You know, I relish all the time here I got with my boys in the psychher Donny b h I know you had you had interesting thought on this. Remember when we had the pulls up about who is the true m v P of the

league this year? You know, obviously Russell Russell with his triple double, you know, forty two triple doubles, going Ham with it, um, you know, great since Oscar Hobbinson obviously, But the argument can be made that James Harden, for the offense that they run with D'Antoni, is quite frankly the perfect pick and roll player for that offense, and they have you know, built that team in that way around them. There's also the argument for Kauhi Leonard as

the best two way player in the NBA. Obviously, There's also the argument that Lebron James. Any season he's in the NBA, he is the most valuable player, similar to Michael Jordan's um Donnie Burns. Let me get you first, because we've done this pole a couple of times. Where are you coming out on this? So here's the thing I think I've actually talked to you about. Yes, I have like a three. It's such a loaded question. Here's my thing. If you went by what an m v

P should be, this is how it would go. Lebron James would get it, Kauai should get it, and I would want Russell Westbrook to get it. Okay, okay, but this is not like between Harden and Westbrook, and I have to pick hard I mean Westbrook just because of the fact that the triple doubles. If you're going by wins with Owen, Harden said they only had like six more wins. Okay, okay. And remember we talked about also how James Harden talked about like yo Hooper's hoop and

I'm playing in every game. You know, we had this rest conversation things of that nature. Does the fact that he's playing in all these games tilted maybe in the favor for you? Jason does, and I hope I get invited back, even though I correct you fourteen games, fourteen

additional wins with Harden versus last year. Yeah, and the only difference is d'anntoni if you and no Dwight Howard, I agree, I agree, but you have you lost Dwight Howard, you lost Josh Smith, and you lost Jason and you implemented a brand new offense, and you implemented a brand new offense. Um, I don't think that's hardened as much

as it is D'Antoni. Give him D'Antoni the coach of the year Westbrook, and it's funny, you know, it's funny though nobody's talking about Billy Donovan for coach of the year and he like enabled the conditions for Russell Westbrook to have this historic season. Why why why? If you're talking about how D'Antoni you know, so, why can't I apply the same logic and all of a sudden, you know,

consider Donovan, you know, an incredible schematic guy. I would say this, basically, what Donovan is doing is going, hey, Russell Westbrook, here's the ball. Why is D'Antoni not doing Why is D'Antoni not doing the same thing. That's what he's doing. He's picking role basketball part is getting a lot more out of his players than a rest Brook is okay, okay, Jason, I said no shooters on Oklahoma City, So I actually agree with your comment about Donovan. He

deserves more. It's not I don't think it's just Westbrook going uh solo. I think he's actually making a lot of place for him. He doesn't have a lot of talent around him. There's two guys, one was injured for

most of the year. I don't see it. Harden has a much easier pass scheme with the Antoni fair enough, and you know these are my boys here on the side for Jason and Ken and of course Donnie b NBA correspondent on the Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, which boy Dave Martinez SPE's a spitting statistician.

Let's keep it moving here though, in the cipher. Um. We're here in New York, Okay, Studio thirty four Rock and Riley's directly across the street from Madison Square Garden. So I would be remiss if I didn't have two big time Knicks fans here. We didn't get into this Melo drama for a hot second, Here's what I was saying, And you know, truth be told little inside radio. Jason over here, this is one of my boys. I probably text them about fifty times a day, so I might

have he might have heard this before. But what I've said on air, you never thought, you know, how in hockey, how they have like the plus minus that you never thought that Mellow's plus minus on rings when he was in New York would be minus one after his experience. But it turns like it is, and this is like this, I think that's like emblematic of this entire Melo drama. Right, first talk to me about, um, you know, Phil, what

is Phil doing? Um? How did Mellow play it? And do you think that elevates the cache the narrative of Mellow that he pretty much did handle this all like a professional. I would say, I don't think Mellow cares a ton um about what feel the same, to be honest with you, But I think Philissen thinks that are

what most New Yorkers believe. Um, I think Melows should be somewhere else at this point is we can't win with the current line, right, and so it must actually transition and everyone must know it should be porzingis and building around porzingis right. If he's willing to stay, if he's willing to say that, I mean, he's playing for a lot of vio. We know that. I'll just tell you. I feel I worry. Um, I feel it's like a bad relationship. It's just time to just go our separate ways.

Let melow somewhere else, you know, let us keep Phil. I guess, and I guess as with his seen out, he seems seen o on me. I don't know what's going on. To leave it to seventy year old men in power these days to make some crazy decisions, you know, check this out. Though, Um here's my other question. And we had Donnie Burns, Donnie Burns, my boy is also the love doctor here about the fantasy freestyle and Donnie Burns,

remember we were talking about this, Um he got her pregnant? Though, come on, now, don't you don't you like, don't you kind of know to at least I kind of think that this is some weird pr thing to just make like, let's get it. Let mellows maybe hitting the reset button. Hey, Donnie Burns, you were talking this as a man as a as a ladies woman, the doctor. You like, Mellow's got to know better than that, right, I smell something

shady here? What do you think, Donny, I think we talked about this as well, Like this is just a story that if you put on the front page, I'm reading regardless. I'm a sports guy, so I don't care what the magazine is. I don't care what they're talking about. I'm reading that. So it could be true, it could not be true. But what is your take on this? How it all got to the you know, page six and page one of the New York Post. Here, I'll say,

poor mellow, poor mellow. But I'll also say, at the end of the day, man, we should just let him go. I mean this just let this stuff is. This stuff is ridiculous and like we're watching a movie Frozen and let it go. I mean, let it. I'm just I'm I'm over it. Like I wish him well. I think we were shocked when he thought he impregnated a stripper. This was a regular a woman, a regular master. You know, this means this wasn't an affair. Seems like got it?

Masters from Northwestern Okay. Prenancy okay if you say so, if you say so, Um, I saw this one crazy thing with Laala and Gabrielle Union. And Gabrielle Union though was like, no, it's okay. I say with Dwayne Wade, he's got rings, so that's why it's okay. But who knows, man, everybody has their own things. We're here on a fantasy freestyle. Last they want to tell you before we go to break here, let's look ahead, and I'm talking about what used to be Titans of the NBA, the Celtics and

the Lakers. I believe that you're gonna see incredible small forwards go to each of these teams in the off season. I believe we're gonna see Paul George head out west, and I believe that joining Brad Stephens in Boston will be former Butler great Gordon Hayward moving over there. What do you think about these like historically great teams potentially moving on. What must they do to even improve? We

saw Boston doesn't look like they have enough. Maybe Rondo might help, you know, the Rhondo win dream might get them past it there, but they're clearly lacking something. Do you think these historic franchises can be on the come up in the next couple of years. I definitely see with Boston they can get they get Hayward. I mean that's all I don't you think. Don't you think Stevens is just like chomping at the bit to get his

former butler starback, but no question about it. And Hayward is really throwing out this absolutely right, and you don't think so, like he's kind of hidden out there. And you take Donny Bards, what do you think Gordon Hayward to the Celtics. Yes, I don't know how they how they would get around that. I don't really know because the thing with the Celtics now is, like I said, they all four except for Isaiah Thomas, defend really well. The only knock on is Marcus Smart and Jake Crowder

sometimes really can't score the ball. So Gordon Hayward would be really nice, all right. And lastly, I'm Paul George. You know I've been saying literally he's been commenting about his teammates, you know, critical on PJ on Tucker, critical on Stevenson. Is he just trying to get himself out of Indiana? Wouldn't you actually? I think that it's Uh, he doesn't quite have a mellow situation, but he needs to move to a team where he's closer to a

win now situation. And in Indiana, if you remember, coming into the season, this was a team that should have been a top three team just on paper. Sure, and they just they just didn't turn out to be that case. But I think he's out all right. And just so you guys know, that was my boy Jason. That was not speeds and spitting Statistician Am Cocomo, INDIANAM Richmond, Indiana. We'll be coming right back to tie a nice neat

little bow on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. Come on right back, even if you're in Indiana where we're here live on the Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and of course our sports Byline affiliates, even in Indiana and the American Forces Radio Network, Come on right back. First things first, I want to give a big shout out to Joe Pizza Pia, my man Joey Pizza Pizza and the Fantasy Black Book. That's what's

coming up next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. And my man Joe is gonna join me on Friday it sounds like for a little bit of special NFL draft coverage. Big shout out once again, thanks a bunch of my boys, Canton and Jason for joining the Cipher today. Um checking real quick on the polls, sixty two percent of you do not agree with the NFL policy. Agree with your boys Peza spitting statisision that a diluted sample should not

constitute a failed drug test. That's the situation that Jabrill Peppers and Ruben Foster, the linebacker round of Alabama are in leading up to the NFL Draft. Some team is gonna get very lucky getting Ruben Foster later than he should go. And right now, fifty six percent of you are saying, next head coach Steve Carr, who makes millions, has no impact on the Golden State Warriors title chances. That's kind of messed up, though, guys. No, I agree

with your fans what we will see. We got a couple of money and hopefully when we get to the finals, you guys can come on back on the show and talk about it. My man, uh I got Donnie Burns with me. The Love Doctor will continue tomorrow on the show. We're gonna break down the wide receivers going into the NFL Draft. All that and more here on the fantasy Freestyle, which your boy, Dane Martinez speeds the spitting statistician quick check of the baseball scores right now in the after

two winnings. The Detroit Tigers up big on. The Mariners have already scored four runs. We are scoreless in Baltimore, zero zero. The Cubs are up one nothing. Remember a lot of postponements in Major League Baseball today in Philadelphia, Boston and here in New York. Um. So that's it for me. Dave Martinez spez a spitting statistician from a rainy, rainy studio thirty four here in Rock and Riley's I

bid you ADU for yet another day. Quick picks though on this Jazz Clipper series, we like Utah moving on. Of course, does Houston close it out tonight? H yeah, they do, they do? Okay? And San Antonio we like San Antonio. Uh, I have to say yes, alright, alright, alright, we'll come on back. We're gonna hold these guys accountable.

They're gonna have to come on back. I'm me boy, Dane Martinez, a K A speeds a K eight to spitting statistician, this has been yet another episode of the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Come on back tomorrow, We'll do it again.