We finally got a podcast from Draymond Green. It's been months by a lot of months, but it happens to not be the podcast that everyone was hoping for, the one that we've been waiting with baited breath to listen to. What we wanted was Draymond Green right after he punched checked Jordan Poole. I want him directly from the practice facility to his computer, and I want him to record why he did it, what happened, what was the circumstances
around it, what's going to happen next. He recorded it right after the incident, but he decided not to release it. So listen to this in terms of.
Why that also coincided with what we all know the incident to be. At the beginning of the season, with myself and teammate Jordan and quite frankly, if I'm being one hundred percent honest, Jackson and I we recorded an episode right after, and I know everyone was looking for it. Everyone wanted to hear it, and quite frankly, I wanted to allow you the chance to hear what I had to say. I wanted to allow you the chance to kind of take a trip in my mind and just
maybe understand more. And when we recorded the episode, I hated the way I sounded, and so we simply just didn't release it. I didn't like my tone, I didn't like the things I said. I didn't like the way it came out. I didn't like it. Almost if you're not careful, it almost comes off as unremorseful and distasteful one hundred percent distasteful, but also fast. And what do I mean by fast? Quite frankly, I'm not big into saying things or doing things and then run into my
show because it's going to get more ratings. Like I don't really like that game. That's the old media. I don't play that game. I don't I'm not very interested. And I think there's a time to speak, and you know, if the opportunity is there, I'm going to speak. I'm never going to shy away from a topic. But the thing that I had to take into consideration with that
is number One, someone else was affected. And not only one person was affected, but multiple people, tons of I mean, however many you want, whatever word you want to use to describe the amount of people. People were affected. And so it wasn't something that just affected me. And so when you do something that affects someone else, you can't just take yourself into consideration, how you may feel, how it may benefit you, all of those things.
So backup. So, Draymond recorded a podcast right after punching Jordan Poole. He was about to put it out, did not like the tone of it, didn't like what he said how it came off, and felt that it was one hundred percent distasteful. I'm not gonna lie, y'all. I want to hear it even more now. I think this is my new white whale of content. I must. One time I looked for a record, you know, worked for looked for it for months and months and months, finally founded Jazz Record And now I need to find the
lost tapes of Draymond Green. I must. I have to. I am one hundred percent sure that at some point we will get a bootleg copy from Jackson, most likely selling it on eBay, and there'll probably be an NFT attached to it, and we'll be passing him back and forth at Summer League like the mixtapes back in the day, like this is the new lost tapes of Draymond Green, like we need we need to know what he said
I can tell. It's like, listen, I'm not trying to place blame on Jordan in any way, because that would be horrible. That's not me. I have to take responsibility as the grown man that I am. But listen to what he said about me, and you tell me whether you would punch him, And you're like, wait, hold up, you just did that whole preamble to then put us or Hey, you know, there's just some things you just
don't say on a practice court to your teammates. And when you step over that line, I just felt in that moment I needed to knock him the fuck out. And you know what, he got knocked the fuck out, And maybe he won't say those things anymore. I gotta hear what he said, Like, what did he say? How distasteful? Could we get?
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Would we get a like I would do it again? If he said that to me again, I'd do it again. Did anyone ever ask him that, Hey, if he said those things to you again, would you think you would hit him again? Because I need to know. Does anyone have a hookup on this podcast tape? I need it, Like, drop me a note, you can find me anywhere on social find me I don't know if this is an epidemic or if this is a phenomenon. Let's just call it what it is. It's a sickness. It's an epidemic,
and we need to address it. It's infected pretty much every team in the NBA, Every star player in the NBA, even fringe star players in the NBA have caught this. Are you talking about COVID, No, we're talking about scoring. We're talking about lots and lots of scoring. An epidemic in the league, and it's getting out of hand. It is getting to the point where I don't even know this league anymore. I don't even know this version of the NBA anymore. Donovan Mitchell last to catch it. Seventy
one points for Donovan. He had eleven at halftime, so he was free. It was okay, he seemed fine at halftime.
Everything seemed to be shaping up for a good twenty seven twenty eight point performance, and then all of a sudden, one of the highest scoring games of all time, also the highest scoring regular season performance in Cavs history, which people don't talk about enough, and that came right on the heels of Luka Doncic in his insane sixty point game, which he followed up with a fifty three point game two games later. Jannis last night had fifty five career high.
No one said a word why why? Because the scoring right now is out of hand. The scoring is so silly, the defense is so bad that nobody even blinks when someone drops fifty anymore. Do you even remember Do you
even remember Devin Booker scoring fifty eight? Do you remember it? No, you probably don't even remember Devin Booker playing for the Phoenix Suns because he's been out with an injury for so long this season, since December of this year December, okay, not the full season, not the calendar year, December, one month. These are the highest scoring games. Donovan Mitchell seventy one, Luca sixty, Booker fifty eight, Anthony Davis fifty five, Jannis
fifty five, Clay fifty four, Embiid fifty three. Scalciakam scored fifty two points. Say it ain't so Luca fifty one, Luca fifty, Lebron forty seven, Garland Darius Garland scored forty six points, Jannis forty five, Paul George forty five. That's in the last five weeks. What are we talking about. That's like twenty people, that's insane. Twenty guys have scored forty or more this year, eighty nine games in total.
This is scoring at epidemic proportions. We need these guys to start wearing masks like the guys are catching it. It's not just superstars. My man Dennis Shruder put up thirty two last night. I love the NBA, I love scoring, I love buckets. Guys are skilled. I'm not trying to say, get off my lawn. This isn't as fun, blah blah blah. But if you're in your thirties, which maybe you're in your thirties and you don't listen to podcasts, or maybe
you watch the news, I don't know. But if you're like me, you remember when it was hard to drop fifty. Doesn't seem hard to drop fifty anymore, just seems inevitable. When fifty is inevitable, if you're a superstar, nobody's playing, no damn defense. We have nobody out here strapping anymore. We expect now forty points nightly from embiide of course, but Jordan Clarkson, I'm getting forty out of Jordan Clarkson. Do you guys even know where Jordan Clarkson went to school?
Do you even know who drafted Jordan Clarkson? Do you even know what teams he's played for so far in the NBA? Did you know he played for Cleveland? Did you know that Jordan Clarkson is dropping forty? Okay, Pascal Siakam, who no one knew before Kawhi got there, and he's a fine player. I like Pascal. He's a fine player. Fifty two is he that guy? Is Pascal that guy to score fifty two on someone's head when they're draping the defense around him. No, because they're not draping the
defense around him. At least Donovan Mitchell seventy one. He was the only man out there. Everyone knew he was gonna get the ball. Everyone was exhausted, and he was just better than every guy on that floor. They were double and triple teaming him. That's the kind of seventy one I want to see. I don't want to see guys just in a layup line. Just lay up, layup, dunk, layup, easy mid range layup. What is that? That's literally just me watching practice. Pascal Siakam is not Yannis, He's not embiid.
He should not be putting up half of one hundred points against any team, especially the Knicks. Where was Isaiah Hartenstein? Where was Mitchell Robinson? Where was RJ? Barrett? Where was anyone? He scored a career high? And they still lost? The Toronto Raptors still lost. By the way, they're in free fall. We'll get to it at some point. Someone make it make sense. The defensive schemes have had to change so that teams are willing to let guys like Yannis or Luca.
They're just basically saying, let the number one guy go off for fifty and we'll see. We'll see. Let like, just give him everything he wants, and then if he gets fifty, who cares, We'll get one hundred and ten. Luca has lost twice so far this year, scoring fifty points in a game that strategy apparently is working. There's a combination of things that explains this high degree, this
epidemic of scoring. Guys obviously are more skilled. They can score buckets in a bunch of different ways, three three different styles like and then you have defenses designed not to worry about one guy right concentrating on stopping the other players? Is this fun? Do you find this fun? I was talking to a friend the other day while having a nice little chi te latte out in LA and I think he agrees. Is this fun? No, it's not that fun. Does it feel meaningful? No, it does
not feel that meaningful. Is it hard to bet? Yeah, you fucking believe it is. I can't tell who's gonna score on a night to night basis. I love watching Devin Booker go off for fifty eight, but I'm not sure when that happens whether it's even good basketball. And in that game, the Sun's won one eighteen one fourteen over the Pelicans. We all celebrated his game, but he went down four minutes into the next game and he hasn't played since. So is that good for his health?
Is that good for his longevity? That's the issue. Luca's gone insane because if MAV's aren't gonna win unless he scores fifty, how can anyone do that on a night tonight? Basis, they can't, That's the simple answer, and at least they probably can't. Maybe Luca can. But all of this makes it, at the end of the day impossible to decide who's the MVP. We don't know if everyone's scoring seventy fifty points, what are we doing here? Like, how do we know?
How do we choose four players Luca, Jannis and b Braun all averaging thirty six points per game? What if you look back at the league in like two thousand and you look at like the scoring leaders, like thirty was a lot, thirty was a lot. There's like twenty five guys in the NBA scoring thirty on average. Right now. I had a joke all ready to go about how Adam silver Is juiced the ball in some way to make it go in the hoop. There's a magnetic force
inside this ball. He just turns it on with the remote. He's just like that one's going in. He can just push, he can just push buttons to decide tonight tonight, Devin Booker's going off, See that will go tonight? Giannis is going off because I think he was jealous of the World Cup. Really, he wants to do anything that he can to make sure that the eyeballs didn't change over the World Cup and the EPL. Now for the first
part of the season. I know this isn't like baseball, but I really need to explore more whether Adam Silver is good for basketball. Everybody thinks he is upon first glance. I don't know, though, We'll have to look into it and dig into it more. One thing's for sure. For every fifty Burger a star and maybe non stars like Anfrety Simons drops. I think Adam Silver smiles and the ratings due too e