Covid Show 2: The Pandemic Proceeds

how bad has it gotten in the last week. We are currently approaching one hundred NBA players currently in health and safety protocols, the vast majority of them having caught the omar On variants. Here's where I have to remind you to go to math school. There is only four hundred and fifty active NBA players at any given time in the league. That's fucking a quarter of the league that's currently quarantining. Like right now, a quarter of the NBA is in health and safety protocols and Adam Silver

and the NBA are in full crisis mode. Now of course they're like, what do we do? Like these guys can't even field full rosters, Like it's just the YMCA after a Saturday night, Like and you get there on Sunday morning, and like it's just you and three people. That's currently where we're at. Like as of the recording of this show, they've now canceled seven games or postpone

that I guess. And although Adam Silver has made it clear that I paused to the season is not going to happen, even though he's keeping his eye on the NHL, which has paused the season, I don't know what that means. It means he is not sure what to do, like I said, and and that's a lie, Like I think

he might have to put it on pause. Not sure because maybe, just maybe he should have thought of that before he created an entire eighty two game season and not said, Okay, for first half, he's gonna be schedule and then we'll evaluate after that's Nope, Nope, that's what they did last year. Seven two games. Half the season was planned out in advance, and they said, we'll see

where we're at. We'll make adjustments. Given that the entire Wizard's roster has had COVID for two straight weeks, like we're gonna need to backload some of these games, give him some and then we'll figure out when the playoffs really start. We've got buffers in in place. Concerts are gonna have to wait. No, they said, unless something extraordinary happens, things are good. And now they have had some extraordinary circumstances happen and extraordinary rules implemented. Just to keep playing.

The nets played and won with only eight players on the roster. The other night, teams are struggling. Teams are struggling just to put out players we know, struggling to put out players that can actually be in shape to play full minutes and to make sure they have enough warm bodies on the floor. The NBA has passed a new extraordinary rule allowing expanded rosters. This is what shams or shams tweeted out. Whatever shams or shamps unless sure

scham so that's rude, that's rude. I like shams. He's great. The NBA will allow teams to sign one replacement player for each player who's under contract and test positive for COVID nineteen. Remember one hundred of them are in cell health and safety portal calls right now. That's a lot of dudes that they can replace, effective immediately through January nineteenth. What happens after januinely, what happens on January twentieth, I

guarantee it's like they extend that. The nice part though for teams is that in every new signed player under the COVID nineteen hardship rule, it's not even a hardship though, get boosted fam and then maybe you can play some hoops. Does not count towards the salary cap or the luxury tax threshold. So cheap ass teams can sign these ten day guys and they don't get taxed for it, and they don't need to like doesn't add to their situation

with the cap. Also, they revolt the ten day contract rules that stated that a player could only play so many games before you have to convert him to a full contract, So guys can literally just be ten days through the end of the season. Probably you're gonna find some former G League player who's on like seven or eight different ten day contracts like between now and the

end of the season, which is tremendous. What does all of that mean, First and foremost, I think it means that the league goes on even in the face of mounting pressure to cancel games during and do to the pandemic, and those games that have been postponed have been really not because they care about health or safety, but because they couldn't find enough plumbers in enough time to field eight guys. Like if Toronto had the ability to pull up their g leigue guys and bring them to the

roster by tonight, they wouldn't have postponed the games. If it was like just Kembirch and Scottie Barnes and Greg Monroe and some guys from the Washington go Gos and they could get up to Toronto in time and pass all tests and blah blah blah blah blah, they'd be playing. They do not. They're not postponing them because there's just covid is in the air. It's Mady holadays, covid is all up in the No, it's not because of that. It's because they literally don't have enough physical human beings

that they can play the game with care. The quality of humans. It literally can be mister Plumber from Quebec on the Toronto Raptors. They do not care ten day contract for mister plumber. First and foremost, and second secondly, teams are gonna have to be flexible. We're gonna have to be flexible, moving forward. Even the NBA Christmas slate is now up in the air. We'll say it's two days way. The Knicks game apparently may be upended by COVID.

They're saying that, Okay, we're gonna give you twenty four hours notice at the very latest. You might hear whether you're playing or not by Christmas Eve in the evenings in the eves. This is like now when Jason Kidd had his team running practice on Christmas Eve and they didn't get to go home, like you were the random Memphis Grizzly team. You guys are, have the most complete roster of full NBA caliber guys. I know that you're not slated to play on the Christmas slate. Guess what

you are now. I know you had some thoughts and prayers out to you and your family. Happy Holidays, like you're playing on Christmas Day. Like we don't care. They do not give a fuck back to backs. Now they're saying, are going to make up for the growing number of makeup dates that will fill the back end of the schedule. And we all hate this, especially gamblers. We don't even

know who's gonna play until game time. NBA is not even giving the right designations for the injuries, which we've talked about, and now the NBA is going to have to find teams that are not giving designations until all the way up until because listen, also, television rights contracts depend on mark he stars. So if it's like Steph Curry's got COVID or Steph Curry's got a sprain ankle, and you don't even say until no, Steph Curry at tip,

it's like, all right, fifty thousand dollars five for you. Third, Although the NBA has figured out how to continue playing, I think the main issue, which is the million dollar question. The billion dollar question is fans. Will fans be an arenas, Will they be playing in front of fans or not. There's growing concern that having fans in the midst of the omarian surge will have catastrophic effects. We talked about this last week, Right, Okay, nobody's really doing the whole

like this is a highly contagious virus thing. They're not really taking that into account. So you don't test a fully vaccinated player. He's walking around with COVID, he's a symptomatic, he's in a stadium with a fan, The fans wearing a mask. The fan also, so it was maybe vaccinate, maybe not. They go home to grandmama, Grandmama gets sick,

Grandmama dies. Now you've got COVID tracing. And now you find out you've got a player who had COVID who you didn't tell anyone had COVID because they don't announce that, like you're not testing them. Finds out he's got COVID. You got death. Now you've got disorder. Now you've got

big time legal issues. Right, you can't have a roster full of guys who may have COVID and are asymptomatic playing in games with fans like you just that they could be the most spreadable variant to date, and this could end up being in a crowd of two twenty thousand people, fifteen thousand people in there like a super spreader event. Remember where was it? Someplace in the South where they had an election like a campaign event, and they had like a big rally and it was like

a super spreader event for COVID. Then, like what imagine one of those fans, like I said, going home and getting someone sick like this is a fuel for a nightmare. One writer noted at the nation. I don't even know this place, but this is the that's the that's it. That's the place. The NBA has decided that someone will be taking the court, even if a team has to play a fifth string guard pulled off the streets. It's not discussing limiting seating in arenas or retreating back to

the bubble. It has decided that the television money and the gate receipts are worth not only a probable increase spread of the contagion across our population, but also the possible devaluing of the product. All of that to say, fuck you fans, fuck your grandmother, and fuck this product that you think is keeping you distracted in the middle of a two and a half year long virus that's

making you go out of your fucking mind. In fact, one of the few things that Adam Silver said, and he is absolutely unwavering in, is that there is not going to be a bubble. Nope. Because they talked with the MVPA Player Association. No nobody wants to go back

to the bubble. Even though nobody got COVID inside the bubble and nobody died as a result, no fans got sick and Fourthly, you know, we're not sure, and we will have no idea who's good and who's bad as a team until like late in the season because we've got plumbers and like electricians coming in and playing basketball, and like we don't even know who these full rosters are or what they look like. And at no team and no time in history has roster construction been so

incredibly fluid. Like teams that can stay healthiest to me are the teams that are going to be rolling the season. Teams like Phoenix. Phoenix is seventy five degrees all the time, like except for the summer, Like it's beautiful there right now. You wonder why nobody's had COVID on Phoenix. Like you

never hear about anybody in health and safety protocols. It's like everything's at outdoor event all things like you've got you know, Chicago and Cleveland where it's tiny little spaces and it's cold as fuck, and you're like, the whole team has COVID except for Lonzo Ball. Like Lonzo Ball is massed up, double triple massed up, and he goes home and he plays video games and he's like, yeah, I'm not I'm not gonna do anything, and like that's

that's it. Like it's gonna become a point where your scouting report is, like what does this guy do on weekends? Does he do anything? Is he a partier? Like I like Paolo Bancaro, but like does he have a penchant to go to the clubs? Like because I don't want a guy like that on my team because he could end up having COVID. Like that's where we are right now, Like we don't have a bubble because guys like Lou Williams will go to fucking Magic City, come back, get

some wings, and then spread COVID everywhere get fined. So to recap, you've got a league, the NHL, which uses helmets and masks and is barely like in close contact because they're on skates, has like very little close contacts and like they're pausing the season. And then you've got another league that is like basically people who are naked, just shorts and a tank top and they're breathing and

sweating and spitting and bleeding all over one another. And they're like, yeah, Isaiah Stewart was bleeding all over his face and body, and I'm just that's just what they're doing. I'm not going to say which league is right in which league is wrong because I have an NBA podcast, so I don't have an NHL podcast, or maybe I've had have some different things to say about what the NBA is doing, truthfully, but goddamn it, it does not

seem like this. Like you know when you see something and you're watching it and you can't exactly put your finger on why, but you're like, this doesn't seem like a great idea. You know, I'm not gonna speculate how this is gonna turn out poorly, but it just doesn't feel like this is gonna be a smooth exit. And that's what I think is happening. Right, You've got like, yeah, I mean, it's just that it doesn't seem like a

recipe for success here. And Adam Silver said on ESPN just the other day, NBA players are ninety seven percent vaccinated and only sixty five percent boosted. To me, that seems like the most likely first step. Maybe get that number up to ninety seven percent if you're testing players outside of the parking lot of the When NBA players come in, they're getting tested, which they are right as

soon as they get out of the cars. It's maybe time to say in addition to this test, we got them on Durna Booster, what do you think hey, just like offer it to them. Hey, I know you're uh, you're going in practice, but what do you think about I'm Jerner Booster, what do you think about a Jane j Like? Can I offer you this? And maybe you'll get some guys saying yes, that's the bare minimum. They have it everywhere, so why not do it? And then who's playing on Christmas? I have no idea. I don't know.

It might be a team. We don't even know the names yet. You had Austin Rivers on a live stream being like, I don't know how to scout for guys. I've never seen these human beings before. These guys that I'm playing against, I don't know what they do. I don't even know if these left handed are right handed? Who is he? I don't know. I don't even know if he came from the G League overseas? Who else?

We might have games, and we do have games like we might not recognize half these players and why The question is why is the NBA doing it this way? Because fuck them? That's why like that's basically what they're saying to us. We want our money. We want it now. We're ABC, We're ESPN, We're Disney, and Mickey Mouse is having a hard time making money these days, and Mickey Mouse needs something to go. Oh boy, you know, and

the machine must continue to go. There's too many millions at steak and in order to get those ESPN ads in front of you on Christmas Day, the show wants a hold.

Like take the words of Celtics coach Ema Udoka. This is the best time in history to be a G League guy, or a free agent player, or a forty year old trying dying to get back in the league. Lance Stevenson is on a roster, folks. Yes, if you've been struggling overseas to get on a roster, you've been in Israel like, or you're toiling for the Iowa Energy for a few years, or fuck it like, say you're old, you don't want to play around in the G League to try to get back in. Maybe been on the

Big Three hanging out? Now is your time. The Winter Showcase just took place in Vegas and there were guys who have never been on a G League roster ever in history. They showed up, played one G League game in front of real NBA executives who are evaluating them, were signed as soon as the game was over. This is not an exaggeration. As soon as the game, sweat on your face, towel over your neck, Hey, do you

want to come play for the Houston Rockets? Well, actually not the Houston Rockets because they're actually getting rid of guys. But you know what I'm saying, point stands So with those new rules that we just talked about, there's an absolute bonanza of signings. Players who haven't played in years now getting run because of this expanded roster rule. Guys like Isaiah Thomas are in the starting lineup, got signed one day next day in the starting lineup for the

Los Angeles Lakers. What are we talking about right now? This is a reality that is not a joke. It sounds like a joke, but it's not a joke. Slow grind turned into a fast fucking cry for Isiah Thomas. Boom kidding me? Mike Marquise Chris has not played since

the twenty nineteen season. Back up and down, guys like Admiral Schofield back, Langston Galloway back, Alphonso McKinney, Emmanuel Moodier, Wnyon Gabriel, Portland legend, Theo Pinson, Justin Jackson, North Carolina legend back in the league, Lance blow him a kiss. Stevenson back in the league. CJ. Miles, fifteen year veteran, has not played since twenty nineteen, three years ago. Back. There are a ton of players also now that you've never heard of on NBA rosters. Second, never in your

life heard these words edtered out of my mouth. We're gonna go there, Quindary Weatherspoon, Joe, Mario Jones, Trevlyn, Queen Hasani, Gravit names I don't even know if I'm pronouncing them correctly. Even get this. It's Christmas time. Charlie Brown is on our roster. Charlie Brown. These guys are in the NBA,

and they're gonna get minutes. These guys you've never heard of their names, getting minutes no matter what happens, no matter how long this lasts for, they can say for the end of time they were in an NBA player, I played in the NBA. I did I played this game. They probably gonna queue it up on their Infinity app. Is gonna be saved, save this thing extended out another hour in case we go to overtime. Every minute of this action is now going to be recorded in history.

They're gonna even get baseball cards, basketball cards, excuse me, NFTs. Probably they're gonna be on top shot. You imagine like G League Scrubs top shot that's gotta get sold. Who knows, Maybe there'll be a game where Charlie Brown gets seventeen to eight and eight and he gets sign of a big contract like these are. This is the American dream happening right here. This is the unintended consequence of COVID.

COVID just making dreams come true. Truthfully, when would Charlie Brown have ever gotten a look by any real NBA executive? He there are real scouts putting their eyeballs on film and evaluating Charlie Brown. Think about that, like they've watched tape of him and like, oh yeah, he's like got a decent crosser. They would never even look at him. Never.

The NBA is impossible to break into unless you've gotten a huge break and it's kind of a racket because they'd rather recycle these like dudes like Jared Dudley or you know, you've got like DeAndre Jordan, who's trash. They got one of the worst plus minuses in NBA history, just keeps ending up on rosters just because of what he did in twenty twelve, And like guys like Charlie Brown, you never know, never know. My favorite signing though, by far,

Iso Joe is back. Yes, he is forty year old Joe Johnson who has been just killing in the Big Three since leaving the league in twenty seventeen was just signed by the Celtics. Dude is still bucket, I guess. But come on, you're gonna play on Christmas Day. You got Joe Iso Joe playing on Christmas Day, folks. And let me just say this. His nickname I went through because you know, the insane person just he has a nickname,

maybe the greatest NBA nickname I've ever heard. The Armadillo Cowboy. Yeah, yeah, Armadillo Cowboy coming in. That's the lead we're gonna get into. Why what a tremendous story about how you got that nickname. But and all that reminds me of this is like, you got the Armadillo Iso Joe Cowboy playing on Christmas Day, and you have a seven footer who can shoot three and handle the rock out of Illinois by the name of Meyers Leonard and he is not even sniffing a job.

Think about that, folks. You've got a guy who was paid ten million a year just a year ago playing on the Miami Heat who now no one will even look he is a leper in the NBA. What that says to me is that there are owners with a certain line they allow things to slide. Probably like domestic violence and other things they do not and the red line for them for a seven footer with a three

pointer getting run with the Toronto Raptors. Instead of him getting run, he's selling his million dollar mansion and pushing his energy company that he co founded with his wife. And the question is why, because the hard line is a word. I'm not even gonna say it. You can't say the name. The slur, the racial slur is where you end up crossing the line, folks, That's what it is. So instead of playing hoops, he's selling all of his assets and he started a new nutritional company and he's

out the league. So get used to seeing a lot of familiar names as well as unfamiliar names the rest of the season. And I tell you what this is just Oh, we are just on O Marion right now. Think about P Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z like, think about how many more variants and then we could circle back around to the beginning of the alphabet all over again, folks. Maybe there'll be an Alfonso variant. Maybe we'll start getting into new global variant names. Who knows. This is just the glipse into

the NBA's future. And who knows, maybe we'll see Charlie Brown on the front cover of a wheeze box.

So what's best for our team. We can't have guys coming in and out of the roster, in, out of the lineup here, there, everywhere, not in shape, in shape, et cetera. And then this is what Sean Mark said about Kyrie's return. We arrived at this decision with the full support of our players and after full and careful consideration of our current circumstances. That's the keyword, including players missing games due to injuries and health and safety protocols.

So yes, they're basically saying COVID is the reason that they have to bring this guy in who doesn't believe in vaccinations for COVID crazy, I know. First things first, Rolling Stone has to have an inside man because they've now done three four articles deep dives. There's got to be like fifteen thousand words that Rolling Stones has put out in the wake and all centered around Kyrie, mostly like something in the peripheral of Kyrie, and definitely all

COVID related. How is Rolling Stones getting all this access? When did a music magazine turn into an NBA deep dive on medicine? Don't know, but it's happening. It's happening. So today a new article dropped on NBA, Kyrie, and COVID. Those are the three some by He's in with all three of those. So the big revelation of the story that got buried in the lead is that Kyrie the great the greatest story ever. Really, Kyrie gets allowed to come back. First day he gets there, pulls up, gets tested,

has COVID, literally walks in the door with COVID. Are you fucking joking me? Like, that's amazing. Apparently he's now like as I saw it, it popped up. Kyrie Irving is now in healthy safety protocols. I was like, he just got there. I was like, is this a part of this? Like is this a stipulation where it's like he's coming back into the fold. So basically he's within the health and safety protocols until he gets enough negative test. No, he had COVID, folks, he got there, tested, he got

out of his car, test it boom, COVID. See you later, get back in your fucking car and go into isolation. What amazing? And then Iguodala comes out and talks about Kyrie. He's like, yeah, Kyrie's my man. I hope he shows his talent to the world and continues to prove me right that he's a top player. Ever, they don't want us to see his skill set though. His mind is too free. It's not it's not folks, because let me

just say this, Kyrie's mind is so not free. He's apparently only gonna take the vaccine if it's plant based think about that words. I never thought I would ever google. I did today googled what is a plant based vaccine for COVID? I didn't know just so much the perfectly stated Kyrie Irving sentence. Ever, like, Kyrie Irving isn't against vaccines, He's just waiting for a plant that based vaccine for

him to take. And you know what it's coming. Apparently a plant based vaccine out of Quebec City, of course is coming, is I mean? And let me just say I went down a rabbit hole to the point where I might not even even recorded this episode because I was like a health dot com plant based vaccine, like it goes literally, you're going to ship plants that have the vaccine and the spike protein, fake simulated, just like

fake meat. It's like fake vaccine, right, It's like not quite the real meat from the cow, but it tastes like the burger. It's like the impossible burger for vaccines. That's basically what it is. And you can just chip the plant itself. It doesn't even need to be anything more than refrigerated. I don't know. I mean, there was so so much to it, I can't even explain. It was so complex. All I want to say is, apparently

it's safer. I don't know. I am now back on the Kyrie irving sympathizer train again, because I don't know if there's ever been a human being more confusing and yet also as a former vegan, I understand it on like on a deep spiritual level. I went to a movie Softworks over Knives. Never ate meat for the next three and a half years, like just because of that, and I was hard fast, and I got it. I get Kyrie like he is actively vegan, and there is

nothing more stubborn than an active vegan. Like they you can't tell them nothing, like you got vegans coming out talking about we shouldn't even have leather, we need to have synthetic leather because and it's like these cows are dying anyway, We're just gonna like, hey, you should just uh just throw the skin away. No more leather, like they are wild, these vegans. He's like he's not gonna

compromise his stance whatsoever. It's like, I am vegan and I'm not gonna put anything in my body that's not plant based. And until then, I guess I'm just not gonna play basketball. Professionally, like that's the mentality of a vegan, like no compromises. This is my personal moral stance. When I was a vegan, I only drank nut milk that I made myself. I had a Vita mix and I had a nut milk bag and you put the you blend up, so basically you soak these nuts. I'm gonna

just go through it. You soak these nuts in the water for like twelve fifteen hours, and then you drain it and then you put it with water and vanilla bean into a blender and then you strain it through a nut milk blake and then it's actually pretty good, and then you put it in like a mason jar and then you drink it right. And there was nothing that Starbucks. Starbucks could do or say to convince me that they're all enjoy in a box wouldeverever touch my

coffee in any way. And the coffee probably was tested on animals. Probably animals were killed growing that coffee bean in some way, But it was fine. All I needed to know was that I wasn't eating any meat and that I had nothing to do even though I probably did with animals being killed with my synthetic fake meat shit. That's veganism. Veganisms are like that. Veganisms are like Kyrie, and so I get it Kyrie, and so I kind of now understand why he wants to take this one.

And he's waiting for this plant based vaccine over all the other like real active viruses injected into his veins. But also he's probably eating morning Star and morning Star isn't really meat, and truthfully, that means he probably doesn't care that much about his health because if you've seen the ingredients list of morning Star, it'll make your fucking like hair stand up on your hand. I mean, I digress all of that to say, Kyrie's back. All of that to say, and he might be back back with

this new plant based vaccine, like playing home games. He might be back back, and that just who knows. And here's the thing. You know what this is all about. You know why the Nets changed their mind so rapidly. The New York Post hit it on the head when they said this. The Nets are a third of the way through the season and they haven't beaten a single really good team yet They've realized they can't win big

without Kyrie. So COVID is the excuse that they're using all these players in health and safety protocols to bring him back. This's that's it, right there. That's the nail on the head. They needed an opening, a wedge to change their mind rapidly, and now they have one. And Joe side least was honest about it. He said, because he caught some flak after this. One eighty was egregious. One eighty he said, my only religion, It's amazing. My only religion is to win game teams and to win

the championship. That's where we are. I think a lot of people are either pro vax or anti vax. People are mad at me for taking one stance or the other. But I have said from the very beginning, I'm not taking this as a political thing. I'm doing this to help the Brooklyn Nets win a championship. Paul's I don't think that's exactly true. I think he had some very very serious comments about that. Joe SI, Kyrie Irving's decision

is about the team, not him. Joe SI says choice to not have Kyrie Irving play is a decision for the team's best interest. Says that he's not going to speak to Kyrie until he gets vaccinated. That's his own belief. But I have to make this team decision, and we are not. It is not tenable for us to have a team with the player that comes in and out, no home games, only away games. What do you even do for practice at Okay, Joe sigh. Okay, here's the thing, Kadi.

If Katie had a co star that was a real co star, Like if James Harden was the James hard we know in his MVP season and not the James Harden whatever James Harden is that we are seeing now.

If they had a better offense, like the offense that they had last year where they were number one in the league instead of fourteenth in the league, it's closer to the top top, and they didn't have to have these monumental performances from Kevin Durant two years off of an achilles in NiCl and the Olympics, he was averaging thirty seven minutes a night, by the way, in order to beat the fucking Charlotte Hornets, for God's sake, Like, if we didn't need that level of performance for Katie

in order for them to just stay in the mix, I don't know. The number one in the East. But this is not the same team. Then Kevin Drank wouldn't give a shit where Kyrie Irving was. Kyrie Irving wouldn't be me sniffing the roster knowing to be talking about him right now. That's he'd be on his couch burning stage. And but that's not what's going on. Harden's not himself. Joe Harris is dead, probably gonna be traded, like Joe Harris is out for the season. He's done, Probably gonna

be traded. Blake Griffin, He's not Dunky anymore. He's back to Detroit Pistons Blake, which is probably one of the worst versions of Blake we've ever seen. Nick Clason has always been Payotian human form, like you cannot rely on. It's not even, it's not even. It's like you don't know what you're gonna get from him. One night you might have a wonderful experience of luxury and psychedelics. The other you're like, this is a bad trip. He missed four free throws in a row and crush time. He

can't have this guy as your starting center. LaMarcus Aldridge has a heart murmer who knows how long, he's gonna play, got guys like David Duke Junior getting minutes. Like that's where we're at right now. So KD knees reinforcements, put pressure on Joe's sigh, get this guy back. We need some scoring. Here were the fourteenth fucking offense in the league right now. We need someone who can get me buckets. Do you think David Duke Junior is gonna give me buckets?

David Juke Junior's not David Duke Sr. Who knows he's probably light the world on fire, David ju Duke Senior. Truthfully, you know he's lighting other things on fire. KD is tired of carrying this team with three guys on the bench from the G League that like what was his name again, quandrelle quandrelle Quendrie sch Witherspoon, jum Mario Jones. He's like, give me Kyrie Irving back. What is this nonsense?

And truthfully, when you think about Quinn Dairy Witherspoon versus Kyrie Irving's like, I'll take half of a Kyrie over a one hundred and fifty percent of Quindaari Witherspoon, Like, please, please, I'll take ten percent of Kyrie Irving even if he goes on walk about what are we even talking about

right now? I've got I've got Kyrie or Langston Galloway, Like, okay, we need to just think about things in another light right now, Joe, Like, we're trying to win the championship and we got guys that are literally just have a plumbers slick coming out of the back of their pants and wrenches around their waist, and then we got Kyrie Irving burning stage on the couch, a very good Kyrie Irving.

Can we just can we just be reasonable here? And Joe Sie's like, you know what, You're right, You're right, we should do that. We should just give Kyrie an opportunity to play and maybe once he gets out there, he'll take a play at bass Vaccine and we'll have him back in the fall and we'll be good to go again. And like, let's be real, Like Joe Sai

only cares about winning. Joe Sai is a rich billionaire who bought the team from another rich billionaire Russian who is said, basically, I'm opening up my doors for you guys to have whatever it takes to feel comfortable to win me a chip, because this is just a nu other measuring stick of my dick and my success against all of my other billionaire fucking friends. And if I don't get like Ruka salt, if I don't fucking get that, now, I don't even know why I'm paying you guys all

this fucking money. Like why do I have all these divas on the team if I can't buy my way to a chip? So you know, that's it. So like it's like a parent who grounds their kid and then they realize and it's like, you can't have my car, Like you're grounded from the car for a month, and then you come down with like you're sick and you can't take him to school, and it's like the person that's supposed to bring him he's not available either, and you're just like, I'm not getting my ass out of

bed for this kid. You just take the keys and go. The grounding is off. I don't like, just do what you need to do. I'll see you later. That's basically it. You just Omarion got him and KD needs some reinforcements. And truthfully, like Josie might be the perfect NBA owner for the COVID world like just it's very loose and fast with the rules in his morals, which I mean, he's a billionaire. We already kind of knew that, didn't. We like win no matter the cost, fucked the optics

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