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It is about that time NBA teams start really going after their projected picks in the 2017 draft. Tune in as Dane Martinez gives you an inside look as the very popular Lonzo Ball goes for his first workout with his projected team, the L.A Lakers. Tune in as Dane also breaks down how the Cavaliers could possibly take the win in game 3 tonight as they look to bounce back! #Knicks #Nets #Celtics #Raptors #Sixers #Bulls #Cavs #Pistons #Bucks #Pacers #Magic #Heat #Wizards #Hornets #Hawks #Spurs #Mavericks #Rockets #OKCThunder #Grizzlies #Pelicans #Suns #Kings #Lakers #Clippers #Blazers #Warriors #TWolves #Jazz #LavarBall #LonzoBall #KevinDurant

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You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now about to witness the strength of fantasy knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now tuned in to the speeds and spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. Up next on that sifer on the microphone. You know that I'm one of the best yet Martinez, you know what it is. This is why Dane Martinez a k a. Speed dek to spitting Statistician and you are listening live to the

Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. And of course, as always, we give a big shout out to our sports byline affiliates around the country and because of the American Forces Radio Network around the world, the servicemen and women out there on basis around the world hoping up you know when their leagues and win net cash holding it down with speeds to spitting Statistician. I got my boy as usual, Donnie Burns on the ones into so hot that we sweat steam. We got a

good Wednesday show for you today. As usual, I'm gonna give you my starting lineup, which starters you need to win your cash in DFS Baseball tonight. It's also Game three of the NBA Finals are gonna get tipping off about an hour or two from now, so we're gonna be breaking all that down. If you listen to Donnie Burns and his calves in six, that means Cleveland needs to do big work. So under that assumption, what kind of bets can you make tonight to win that cash?

We're gonna get into that when my boy Donnie Burns a little bit later on. Also, I don't know if you guys know, but today was the day Lonzo Ball worked out for the Lakers, So you know, there are some quotes and you know, there's some stuff for us to talk about. As usual, though, you can get at me this hour at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. You could also get at us on Twitter, at f and T s Y Radio on Twitter. You could always holler at me at Spitting Speeds on

Twitter as well. We got to pole questions up. Okay, first of all, because we told you that over the weekend, Jeremy Macklin was really released. Now that we're here that Eric Decker will not be on the jet. But the first question is which of these wide receivers can help an NFL and your fantasy football team the most. Is it Jeremy Macklin or is it Eric Decker or is it an Kwan Bolden who is also still out there as a free agent. Also want to know is this

NBA Finals gonna be worth the way? Is it gonna be worth the hype? We have that up on our pole question right now as well. Later on though we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio, we'll find out how the Ryan Brothers are spending their time in Nashville during the Stanley Cup Finals, who Joe Mixon is starting to train with, and there's a new theme park out in China that we're gonna have to tell you about. All that and more on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle.

I'm your boy, Dame Martinez, holding you down, Okay, on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We're doing a good thing here over at Studio thirty four and Rock and Riley's in midtown Manhattan. We got some people outside having a good time at a happy hour. Come back after the break. You can grab a drink yourself and then come back. All right, day Martinez Fantasy Freestyle. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle. Here on the Fantasy Sports

Radio Network. I'll mean boy Dane Martinez holding you down on a Wednesday at tappy hour here at Rock and Riley's in Studio fifty four, Studio fifty four. The Studio thirty four, Studio fifty four was a whole different thing here in New York. But you know, if you're of a certain age, you may remember a little Studio fifty

four as well. But we are here at Studio thirty four and Rock and Riley's on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Dame Martinez and my man Donnie Burns, the basketball correspondent and love doctor. We're gonna get into our starting line up here around Major League Baseball. I got some news

and notes. First last night's game, Mariners outfielder and stud with the boomstick, Nelson Cruz left after um you know, he singled in the fourth inning, had a little calf flare up, was lifted and pinch run for He's day to day and that Mariners lineup has not come out yet,

So keep an eye out on Nelson Cruz. Other Mariners news, though, Mariners uh infielder Jan Sagura signed a five year, seventy million dollar extension, he currently is unavailable though um on the d L right now, but the Mariners locking him up long term. Also, and someone who's coming back he's missed all season long. Don't forget if you need any help at catcher. Wilson Ramos doubled in his second rehab game yesterday, coming back from an a c L injury.

Remember this is a guy who had over three hundred for the Washington Nationals last year. He signed a two year, twelve and a half million dollar deal with Tampa Bay in the off season. Okay, Wilson Ramos maybe back up with the big club in Tampa in about a week, so check him out if you need some help at catcher. Someone going on the d L. That was Rockies outfield of Herado Para. He's got a quad injury, UM injury to trying to steal second base and a a recent game.

He's gonna be on the shelf for a little while. And as you did, as you probably heard on DFS lineup lock Scooter Jeannette was only one percent on the last night when he had four home runs and ten r b i s. Also, big shout out to Scooter Jeannette. I saw a clip with him where he talks about how he got the name Scooter, and apparently he got

the scooter from the character on The Muppet Babies. All Right, so you know, big shout out to Scooter, because you know, the Muppet Show and The Muppet Babies were both shows that we had in our TV Greatest of All Time Tournament a little bit earlier on this year. Okay, last night, though, I told you, I told you that there were gonna be strikeouts to be had. I said, obviously, with Max Scherzer at eleven thousand, nine hundred yesterday, what do you do.

He struck out fourteen guys in a to one win, so you gotta figure he was worth that eleven thousand, nine hundred on FanDuel. But I gave you two starters yesterday that I said had good matchups, particularly for strikeouts. The first of them was Chris Arsher, who's arriety going against the Chicago White Sox at ten thousand, seven hundred, I said he was gonna get a good amount of strikeouts. What he do? He went seven innings and struck out eleven. Got you a quality start, only gave up two h

two runs. But the White Sox did, in fact beat the Rays last night four to two. The other guy I gave you, and I have been saying it all season long. He has been my guy since the beginning of the season when I was giving you Speeds a spotlight, and I gave you a diamond and a full gaze on every team. My diamond for the Arizona diamond Backs

was Robbie Ray. And last night at ten thousand, I told you that he had strike out upside against the Padres of the team who strikes out the second most in the NL and the team that scores the least amount of runs so far in the NL. What did Robbie Ray do? He went out there and struck out eleven, only giving up one run. Got a quality start and a win for you as the Diamondbacks one ten to two. I'm telling you, I'm giving you these starters to win their cash. So as usual, you may ask yourself self,

who do Speeds think that I need to start tonight? Well, tonight you got some aces on the mound. Okay, if you're willing to pay up on FanDuel, you got Dallas Kaiko Dallas kaikl like ten thousand, nine hundred. He is nine and oh with a one six seven e r A on the season, and guess who they're facing, The Kansas City Royals. This is a team that continues to have the lowest run total in the American League. That

I have been saying for weeks. Now, you can fade this offense the same way you used to fade the Cleveland Browns in NFL Survivor pools. So all of this lines up for Dallas Kaiko to probably be worth the ten thousand, nine hundred. The only thing that gives me pause is that this is the one day where the Royals are running out their ace as well, Jason Vargas. But I ain't mad at that. I still love Dallas Kaiko.

You also got to love especially in cash games. Zack Grenky, I told you he gives me anxiety every time I say his name, because he has anxiety himself. But it's kind of the same rationale as yesterday. Yesterday I told you Robbie Ray against these Padres, with them their propensity to strike out. This the same thing can be said tonight for Zach Grenky. Is the same theory. Zack Granky ten thousand, seven hundred. I think they stay cold. That's

the Padres stay cold. Striking out against those Diamondbacks. If you want to go a little cheaper though, Okay, if you want to go cheaper, how about Mike fultonevitch against the Phillies. He's only seventies seven hundred tonight. Last start, he had a great start against UM. I think it was the Dodgers. Seven innings of shutout ball and ten strikeouts. In his last five starts, Faulty has struck out twenty

four batters only given up six walks. The Phillies are also twenty four in the majors in Wobo waited on base average VERSU rightys there, and Faulty is going against Jaredikoff. Jaredikoff with a five plus e R a oh in six. I think all that lines up for Faulty may be able to get a win UM at home against the Phillies for only seventies seven hundred on fan duel, that may be the place to go. I wanted to say one more thing though. A couple of things I've noticed recently.

I saw Sweeney Murder, he was a beat reporter for the Yankees, tweeted out yesterday that he was at the stadium, and at Yankee Stadium You know how in most stadiums you see the radar gun and it'll say like, oh, the last pitch was ninety four miles an hour. Many will also say, oh, it was a fastball, a slide, or a curve, a change up, things like that. Sweeney Murdy is saying that a Yankee Stadium they now also

have a board that shows exit velocity. Remember what we've been talking about, how Aaron Judge is just murdering the ball with that exit velocity. Home run he hit previously um was about a hundred and sixteen miles an hour just last weekend in Toronto. He is absolutely crushing the ball. And now at Yankee Stadium they're showing the measurement of that. I think that's a big step forward in terms of

some of these you know, advanced stats. I wonder what's next, you know, will they be putting up launch angle, you know, will they be putting up you know, things like a guy's ex fit when he comes in from the bullpen. I think it's very interesting. I also want to know is Yankee Stadium the only ballpark that does that? My boy Frankie Standfull, who you can hear on Fantasy First Look and I'm best friends forever along with Florio and Sasmania. He told me he went to the Yankee game and

saw it. I I don't know about other stadiums that are posting this. If you are out there on any of our Sports Byline affiliates listening live right now and you have seen exit velocity in a stadium this year, please holler at me at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine, or holler at me at spitting Speeds on Twitter and let me know what other

ballparks this might be in. Again, shout out to my man Lance Newman on Twitter yesterday when I was saying what changes would you make if you were a commissioner, and I said, some people mentioned that, you know the UM All Star Games should not be for home field. Uh. Lance Newman mentioned that we should have robotic pumps uh calling balls and strikes to just basically use that kind of stack cast grid that they put up, which I think is interesting. But I did want to give him

a big shout out as well. You know, we're talking about all these different changes UM. And I mentioned to you guys what Gary Sheffield was saying yesterday about batting, the shift and picture suspensions and pace of game. I'm gonna be giving you my big time official platform tomorrow, and I may have a special guest as well to talk with me about the changes that I would make to Major League Baseball if I were commissioners. So make sure you stay tuned for that tomorrow. But regardless, we're

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What we're gonna do is I'm gonna be bringing in my man, the basketball correspondent and love Dr Donnie Burns to say, you know, if he's got his calves in six, what is he looking for to see if they can get one. You can't win four until you win one. Will they do that in Cleveland tonight? We'll check in on that. And like I said, Lonzo Ball worked out for the Lakers today, so we're gonna talk about that

a little bit as well. Right here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning and fancy Sports Radio Network. It's your boy Speeds, it's fitting statistician, Come on right back, let's go. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle here on

the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Of course, a big shout out to our sports Byline affiliates around the country and for those of you guys getting ready for Game three of the NBA Finals in Ohio, for example, shout out to point three FM on Selina fourteen fifty A M in Hamilton, Ohio, w M O H in Marion, Ohio four nine a M W M R N all getting ready for Game three of the NBA Finals. But listen. If you're not listening live, it's okay, it's okay. Download

the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. And this way you get everybody here giving you what you need to win your leagues and win that cash. My man, the King, Scott Angle, we got Tony Sencada, Benny Riccardi, Greg Sussman, Jake Seely, the all in kid who apparently was blocked by old Dell Beckham. But the thing is, everybody is giving you that advice and you are getting it for free. We're not trying to take your money. We're trying to let you have your money so you could bet it

and it can grow. Okay, Just remember when you're filling out that that is the Fantasy Sports Radio Network holding you down. News and notes. As we enter the cipher here around the NFL, Julio Jones says that he is on track for actual training camp coming back from that foot injury. He said that last procedure he had in his foot was just to remove a bunyon. But he did admit, and I think this is kind of interesting.

It's kind of like him patting himself on the back. Um. He said that sometimes his foot just can't handle how explosive he is as a wide receiver. Who am I to argue with the great Julio Jones? Right. There's also apparently progress being made in the Kirk Cousins contract talks with the Washington football team. Even Dan Snyder came out and says that he he does, in fact want Cousins as his quarterback for the long term. It sounds like

they're having a better tone in those negotiations. Remember, Kirk Cousins has played this franchise tag approach and and has turned it into I think twenty four million dollars. He clearly think won't be able to do it again, so that it behooves everybody for them that to find a long term deal. Um. Also interesting story I wanted to

tell you. Did you hear that Bill's cornerbacks Sharik Right, took an uber from Chicago all the way to Buffalo for o t a s. It was something like an eight hour drive and in the Uber cost six hundred and thirty eight dollars. I guess that's one way to make sure you get to work. You know. As football starts to you know, creep up on us, things are starting to get excited here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.

We are getting ready for football. And as soon as the NBA Final end, I am going to start giving you my team by team previews. Okay, because we got thirty two teams to go through, it is going to take a while. Throughout most of the month of July, We're gonna start giving you team by team previews. You know who you need to, you know, find on their fantasy teams, who are the diamond two of the full gazes,

and also teams where I think they're gonna go. Remember, I'm giving you those over unders because that, in my in speeds his experience, is a nice way to win that cash. But as we moved on here in the cipher on the Fantasy Freestyle, I want to bring in my man Donnie Burns, the love Doctor in basketball correspondent for the Fantasy Freestyle. And here's the thing, Donnie, Donnie likes the Calves in this series. I've been already on the Warriors, Okay, so we don't have to talk about that.

You know, we got that all up on the board already, so that's fine. What I want to talk about is, Okay, I'll say this, even though I think the Warriors are a dominant squad and I think that they are going to win this series in five games, at this point, my original prediction was, you know, Dubs and six. If you believe that the Calves are gonna do anything, it does. In fact, you think that they are gonna win Game three. If they're gonna do anything, it's going to happen tonight.

So my first question for you don is, like, early in the game, what kind of adjustments might you be looking for? What are you looking for as an indicator of, oh, this might be something different. I'm gonna tell you what I'm looking for. I told you already when we talked about the pace of play, how it was just out

of control, looking like an All Star game. I think the Calves may try to slow it down, play Eastern Conference basketball, keep the game a little bit slower, because they clearly can't hang with the Dubs going end to end. Do you think that might be an adjustment? Don What do you expect to see a little bit later on tonight. Well, you know we talked about that earlier before this series even started. First one of the calves to know to slow the pace up a lot, and um, looking towards tonight,

here's my kind of take on it. I think they need to have Darren Williams come in, and not in terms of scoring. They need to slow the game up. Kyrie is not playing well at all. They need to get the ball out of his hands, maybe put him on the wing. They need to do something with that, because not only is he not scoring, he's scoring at a terrible rate. I think he went eight for twenty three last game, but he's turning the ball over against Steph Curry, who I said he was gonna play dominant against.

So that's one thing I kind of want to take on that. But if you do remember the last year. I hate to keep going over this, but Golden State won in dramatic fashion. The first two games they want one nine the first one one ten is seventy seven the second one. But the third game they shot almost thirty percent as a team. They lost a hundred and twenty to ninety. So you know, I do have Calves in six, but I mean Calves couldn't win in seven. To listen, the King is the King. I hate all

this talk about Kevin Durant. You know they're starting to talk about Kevin Durant is the best player on the planet. He's not. They ask more of Lebron on the Calves than the Warriors do of Kevin Durant. No, I absolutely agree with you. And here's the thing, because what we gotta do here on the Fantasy Freestyles help people win some cash. Right. So remember remember how um I gave everybody that they needed to bet the under in game one, right when that was a historic over over under total.

The over under tonight is two hundred and twenty seven. And I think, and it sounds like Donnie Burns things as well, that they may if they try to slow the pace down, it is certainly not gonna get to a two seven over under. Okay, So I again like the under if the Calves make any kind of adjustment, and part of this end to end, remember we're wondering if guarding Kevin Durant has been you know, tiring Lebron out if it's hard because he's expending that much energy

on the defensive end. Somebody asked Lebron about that leading up to Game three, Donnie, do we have what he said in reply, let's hear that now does on you? You know, like in the second half, maybe I don't know people people, you know, the question still salty Lebron. I'm I'm I'm pretty good. I would think I'm saying, here's the thing. So he's like, nah, nah, doesn't tire me.

I'm averaging the triple double. It's like he never like when things are not going well for him, he gets real salty, he gets real aloof remember a few years ago when he was like, I'm gonna still go back to my great house and I'm still have a great life. I don't know. I mean, like, I love Lebron and all, but I think he's got to be you know, kind of stand up in in in times of adversity as well.

But I will say this, Donny, the other thing that you know may happen as this series switches to Cleveland. Not only do I think it might be a slower pace game. So I like the under um, you know, the saying always goes that role players play better at home. You mentioned Doron Williams coming in maybe to help slow the game down because Kyrie hasn't. But I see some player props for the Cavaliers, like if it starts to go well and they do in fact get the game three.

Here are two things that might be interesting for people if they want to throw a couple of bills on it. Check this out. J R. Smith over under point total. Donnie is seven tonight. If Cleveland's gonna do anything right, and if Kyrie hasn't been that guy, you gotta think j R. Smith will score more than seven points. No,

what do you think about that? Donne? I do, And they kind of need him to know he's he's in there specifically to you know, drop three or four three's and push up the tempo and kind of change it at that moment in time, and he's not been able to do that. But I just kind of want to get your take on. You know, I mentioned Darren Williams coming in not necessarily a score because he essentially can't. Um what do you think about isolating Kyrie not necessarily?

You know, we talked about you know, Calves making it one on one. What do you think about isolating Kyrie on his own? Yeah, I mean unless Klay Thompson's on him, then sure. As long as Clay Thompson's on him, then absolutely. And that was gonna be another over runder I was gonna give you Kyrie tonight. Kyrie Tonight, the over runder on his point total is twenty seven. Do you think he'll be able to go for high twenties almost thirty? I think that might be another way to do it,

absolutely done. Like Kyrie has to come to play tonight, like you said, maybe not even as a point guard, but as a scorer for this team. So yeah, I think you know you could, you would say, okay. And then here's the one thing I think. I think this j R. Smith over seven points. I like that. I like the under for the game tonight, okay, because I think, like you said, they are going to slow it down and to come on man to seven. That means it could be like one, fourteen, one ten, and it's still

under twenty seven. This game is not gonna be as high scoring as they were in Golden State. Here's the other one that I wanted to bounce off of you, Donnie Burns. The other player that has not you know, has not been kind of doing what he was supposed to do for this Calves team is Tristan Thompson. And what if I told you that the over under on Tristan Thompson rebounds tonight is seven and a half, wouldn't you go over on that? I would go over. And

here's the thing we talked. We also talked about that before they started, right, he needs to exact seven offensive rebounds can't exactly, it can't be it's total for the over under, right, So that's I'd probably take the over on that way said seven seven and a half. So yeah, he needs eight or more, right, take exactly. So that's the thing. And listen, listen down. We're trying to do this segment so that I don't give you, you know, I don't give you poo poo for picking the Cats.

So we're assuming that the Calves are gonna get this one right. So if they do, I think what you gotta go is under tonight for the game. I think j R. Smith can get you more than seven, and Tristan Thompson will have to grab down some boards. Those are probably ways you can go tonight. To get some cash. Okay, and we gotta pull question up right now. We're asking you on Twitter, will the NBA Finals be worth the weight and the hype or's calves worries pretty much just

like the rest of the playoffs. Fifty eight percent of you right now say Nope, it's not worth the way Golden State is too dominant of you. Guys say you hope so, but you are skeptical of that. And only eighteen percent of you agree with my man Donnie Burns, the love doctor and basketball correspondent. Eight eighteen percent of them say yes, we have just begun this series, so we'll see about that, you know when we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Like I said, Lonzo Ball

worked out for the Lakers. You know, this is a topic Donnie Burns and I have been discussing. We're gonna attack it from all angles, and I'm gonna give you a couple of you know, other sports stories where we put the fun and functional sports radio. If you want to holler at me, let me know eight four four eight four three six seven nine, holler at me on Twitter. Got polls to answer to. We're having fun on a Tuesday evening, Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.

Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyleish your boy Dame Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician, giving you what you need to win your league and win that cast, dropping stats over beat with mom man Donnie Burns, so hot that we sweat steam. Of course, big shout out, of course to our Sports Byline affiliates around the country and with the American Forces Radio Network around the world, on bases around the world, you're getting a little taste of home, even in Doha.

So you know, Speeds holding you down. Hey, Donnie Burns, today was the day, you know, we heard going into this um lead up to the NBA Draft, we heard that a Lonzo ball and the ball and the ball kind of faction, the Triple B brand, and you know it's always been weird. Why do we say the triple B brand. The third B is the word brand, so it's like we're saying the big ball our brand brand. But I digress, Uh, the triple B brand. Um. You know they were saying they would only work out for

the Lakers. Well, today Lonzo did in fact work out for the Lakers. But I have some interesting news. First, of all. Luke Walton said going into today's workout that uh LaVar would not be welcome in the gym. He was closed out of the Lakers workout. He will be going to dinner. It looks like tonight with Lakers brass check this out. Luke Walton says, absolutely if he wants to come to the dinner, but I think the workout

is something that will keep the doors closed on. But at the dinner, he would definitely make the dinner more entertainment, more entertaining. He's welcome to join us for that one. He also goes on to say that he would not be concerned about LaVar's kind of, you know, opinionated nature. He says, we're in the NBA. To me, that's not an issue. Parents are always gonna have their opinions. They're gonna be outspoken at time times. Then he goes as, you know, I have a very outspoken father myself, so

it doesn't bother me. If we were been to draft him, we're gonna coach him. He'll be part of our team, he'll be part of our family, and we'll go from there. I thought it was a good point that um Luke Walton mentions that he has, you know, a pretty outspoken father himself. Maybe that means he kind of knows how to um, you know, kind of manage this kind of thing. But we are also starting to hear some smoke about

like maybe the Lakers would pass on Lonzo Ball. You know, an anonymous GM actually said that LaVar Ball is in fact hurting Alonzo's prospects, saying and I quote, it doesn't help all this stuff with his father. I don't know what is gained for the kid by putting that much pressure on him. Nobody from the league has been meeting with LaVar or anything, but that is going to be another thing to look at when it comes to doing due diligence before the draft. How does he handle his dad?

Is it just something he laughs about or is it real pressure on him? Now I'm hearing things the Lakers may pass. They may think your boy Donnie Burns d Fox is the best point guard in this draft. Remember they also already have Ingram, they already have D'Angelo Russell. Maybe they need instead to not use it on another guard. Maybe they need a guy like Jackson or Tatum to start filling the wing rolls that they also need on

that team. And here's another thing that I think is interesting before I bring you in here real quick, Donnie Burns on this Lonzo Ball workout. The thing is, we always hear from LaVar Ball. We hear from the var Ball all the fin time, but we never hear from Lonzo. We never hear from a Lonzo himself, even when, like we're now getting reports that they turned down a ten million dollars shoe deal. Remember when they wanted to be

like co branding and partners. Now we're hearing word that the figures that you know, Nike and Adidas and under Armor we're throwing out. We're ten million dollars that would be probably double the salary lone So would be making in his rookie year. Alonso has nothing to say about this. Why do we never hear from Alonzo himself? That's what I'm starting to wonder, And I wonder, and then we

hear from Alonzo today. Alonzo after his workout with the Lakers, he actually, you know, for the first time, I actually heard stuff from a Lonzo. Alonzo after the workout said, and this I think is very interesting. He says that the Lakers need a point guard and a leader. And he is someone who can fill both of those roles for the Lakers. Now, I think that's kind of not setting yourself up to be, you know, not ingratiating yourself

to the locker room that you may eventually join. You know, that's clear throwing shade at D'Angelo Russell the page with one of those points he made, but I digress. Okay, well, I'm gonna get your taking a hot second. Don I mean like he says that, you know, isn't that shade for di'angelo Russell if they were to be on the team together. Isn't that shade, you know, saying that they don't already have a leader? Don't you want to come in if you do, you know, saying you know that,

like you'll just do whatever is asked for you. Blah blah blah. The other thing he said was that in his conversations with the Laker executives today that the Laker executives quote unquote, love my dad LaVar. I think that's very interesting, but it was kind of weird. I haven't heard quotes from a Lonzo in a while. We heard him freestyling over that Drake beat, but we haven't heard a Lonzo, you know, with any of the issues actually related to Triple B in a while. So if you

disagree with that, let me hear you take Donnie. Yeah. So, as we get closer to the NBA Draft, you know a lot of these uh mock drafts have Daron Fox possibly moving up to that second spot. You know, I don't really Folds is probably still the best point guard. You know, he's he averaged twenty three point two points and Jesus score. You know, they don't know if they're getting rid of Isaiah Thomas yet, they don't know what they're doing there. So that's I guess that's a lock

for me as of right now. Darron Fox moving up to the lakers second pick, however, doesn't really make much sense to me. They need a player that will make the rest of their young players better. Um Alonzo Ball mentioned in that interview, you know, I'm a leader. Here's the thing. His leadership is by example, and you know, he plays at a specific pace that I don't know if some of those players can play out. Like I said,

Julius Randall is a good player for that. I don't know how D'Angelo works with that, but I definitely don't see Darron Fox being a Laker. However, I have seen Dearn going to the Phoenix Suns, which I do like him working with book or a lot, you know, a lot of fantasy value for Booker next year. But here's the thing, like, do you see a universe where if Lonzo Ball is taking number two overall, that the Lakers still have D'Angelo Russell on that roster. I see George

Clarkson moving. I don't see D'Angelo moving. I see them shipping off Clarkson. Okay, Well, like we said, he worked out for the Lakers. There were some reports that he may work out for the Philadelphia seventies sixers as well, but a Lonzo confirmed today again that the Lakers were the only team he will in fact work out for. The NBA Draft is coming up right after the NBA

Finals are likely over. I believe in a couple of weeks June twenty, I may have to bring my boys, Hove and Double K, Cat and Kirby back on to dissect the draft like we did when he had the draft lottery, and we're gonna find out, you know, where Tatum goes, where Jackson goes, where your boy Fox goes.

I still for that, I know you do. So what about could you see could you see them thinking that they're find in the back quarter ready with Russell and Ingram You mentioned Clarkson and instead, like I said, go for a wing player like Tatum and guy for Tatum, I feel like they would be getting rid of Russell at that point in time because Clarkson and Russell they

just don't work together. I'm sorry they don't. So one of him would be leaving and it would be Russell on that in that case, if they took Tatum at that pick, which I don't think they will, I think Russell would be gone at that point. So but here's my thing with with Alonso. If you watch some of his college tape, his weaknesses. He's too unselfish and he's not aggressive enough. Like in Oppress, he wouldn't even be getting doubled and he's you know, he's waving it off

to go to the other side of the ball. So that's kind of one of his problems at this point. But I mean, I see them taking him. I really do think makes any splash. And the reason, like you said, Walton's dad is he loves to keep it weird. And

also here's the other thing. Now that it's it is all lined up for ultimately for Alonzo to be a Laker, I wonder if Alonzo, I wonder if LaVar should, you know, go back to those shoe companies, you know, now that it probably does look like he's gonna be a you know, and be like, hey, you want to talk deal now that we think he's gonna be in Hollywood as a Laker.

I know it probably won't happen, but man, oh man, I wonder, I wonder how that's gonna go because remember he also you know, he also kind of shut down a female reporter on Fox Sports, right, So I wonder, now, now if he's gonna be a Laker, you're gonna need to respect Genie Bus. You know what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. So maybe he needs to, you know, go back to the shoe companies, go back to the Lakers,

and have a different tone. But we shall see. Sometimes I think my man Jay Z said, you never changed. That's just the top layer man. You was who you was when you got here. So we'll see if Alonzo and LaVar and the whole Triple B brand and all of them if they change their tune after potentially landing in Los Angeles with the number two overall pick in

the draft. Later on this month, when we're talking basketball, though, you know, Donny, we also talk Big Three, and when we gave out our rankings of our guards one one, one guy that we did not name was actually the umber two overall pick of the Big Three draft, and it's Andre Owens. We didn't have him because you know, he didn't really have that name value that cash. But let me tell you something. I have audio from Andre Owens. He's talking about, you know, he's working hard, he's grinding,

he's ready to eat some dudes up. Let's hear that right now. Hand quickly, stretch, stay low. This is Andre working out. This is Andre working out. If we go a little bit later on, Donny, to go to the thirty second mark, we got him answering like how hard he's working and who he's gonna ball on. I just got a note. Would are you think I'm a cannable?

He's a cannibal. He eats meat and nothing, nothing. I'm not leaving nothing to no second Arduus killing at the temp Who would you every gardener guard of me, he said, he was putting on everybody. Do you know who you are? I'm not going nothing nothing. So your Instagram name is a twenty buckets Where you get that name sounds initials? Twenty is my number in buckets. That's what I do. Well, there you go, there you go. All right. So so

Andre Owens is talking about all these buckets he's gonna get. Now. The question I have for you, Donnie, is have we underrated some of these guys who may not have a big name value but maybe using this and really to try and ball hard and establish themselves. Yeah, we probably have because you know some of these a lot of these players. Know these players, we haven't watched them in years, right, they know something that we don't know because something He

was the number two overall pick. He was the number two picks, so he was probably doing it at the combine, busting heads. Like he said, we had him in a lower tier for sure. But you know, some of these guys, like my man Quam Brown included it may in fact, um really you know, may may have been in gym and grinding hard for it. So again, don't get it twisted. Later on this month, right after the NBA Draft happens

in the last week of June. The Big Three tips off June at Barkley's Don Burns and Speeds and spitting statistician. We're gonna try and be there to cover it for you guys here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know. Um Also, I don't know if you saw this, but the Ryan Brothers were at Margharitaville and Nashville for the Stanley Cup and there and there's the footage of them like fighting in Margharitaville. Let me ask you this, Who

fights into Margharitaville. I thought you getting drunk and getting happy? Ryan was ready? He was. And who goes up and tries to fight the Ryan brothers? Those are big dudes. People don't know. People don't follow up sports man. They probably didn't know who those are big dudes? Why would you do that? Check this out if you saw this. A less reported story from when Rex was down there

in Nashville. He apparently bumped into a bachelorette party and uh was winking at all the girls with their open toed sandals and said, uh, yeah, you guys, you ladies have great feet. You know what I like Barstool reporting that. I mean, Barstool is not the most Uh, That's why I had to give credit there. I'm saying that came out of bar Stool, but you know that, right, I don't think that's out of his book. What I'm saying,

I'm saying, yeah, to bring it back though. We do have a poll question up there on that f n T s Y Radio Twitter handle, and it's one of Rex's former players that is leading the vote right now. We asked you which available wide out or you know, ultimately available wide out will help you your NFL and fantasy football team the most. The options to Jeremy Macklin, Eric Decker, and am Kwon Bolden. Still time to vote

on it right now. I'll give you the results of that and we'll go around the league real quick with scores. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle Come Back, it's your boy, Dame Martinez speeds It's bitten statistician on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyleish boy Dane Martinez feeds and spitting statistician holding you down on a Wednesday with my man Donnie Burns keeping it's so hot that we sweat steam. Let's go around the

league right now. In games underway so far tonight, Phillies and Braves are scoreless in the top of the second, White Sox with an early one nothing lead on the Raise. That's in the bottom of the second. Cardinals have jumped out to a lead on the Cincinnati Reds in the Great American Small Park. Matt Carpenter with his tenth home

run of the season. Angels and Tigers scoreless in Detroit. Uh. The Yankees are up on the Red Sox one nothing after three innings, Dee de Gregorious going yard for the Yankee run pirates and Orioles Pirates up to one on Baltimore in the bottom of the second. I mentioned also we got a pole question up right now. Remember Jeremy

Macklin was cut. We get news that the Jets are gonna trade or release Eric Decker as well, and Kwon bolden Old faithful also out there UH to be signed right now as a free agent by any NFL team who wants him. So I asked you which of these wideouts can help an NFL team and your potential fantasy football team the most right now? And thanks to all

the people that have voted. Okay, thanks to the over hundred and fifty people who have already voted in the last hour and a half since it's been up fifties six percent of you say Eric Decker is the guy you'd get. I agree with you. There was a stretch there when he was healthy with the Jets where he was scoring touchdowns. I think like seven games in a row. It was absolutely ridiculous. Thirty five percent of you say Jeremy Macklin is the guy you would take or want.

A nine percent say a Kwan Bolden. Let me give a big shout out real quick to gaming Guru nine one at Gil daving Ill. I believe he says Jeremy m glenn and his reason is because he's a Saints fan. I don't know, um you know if that means he's down south and likes Macklin or he thinks that Maclin would be a good fit for his team, the New Orleans Saints. But regardless, that's what we have here. Say Deck or thirty five say Macklin, N say an Kwan Bolden.

Keep it locked up next on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, It'll be in this league coming up with my man Bogman and Welsh, and also tomorrow we'll be right back here on the Fantasy Freestyle reacting to Game three scene. If that underseeing what j R. Smith and Tristan Thompson did with my man Donnie Burns, this is your boy. Dave Martinez speeds the spitting Statistician Fantasy Freestyle. Come on back tomorrow

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