Ja Morant Headlines Busy Weekend In The West

are like vultures circling around Jaw's cold body. I also break down some news from around the league, including New York Knicks bing Bong and how the perilous future is for the new Brooklyn Nets, especially and particularly Sean Marks. A lot happening, Nick, drop that generic ass beat. I want to talk about basketball. I want to talk about four of the best shot makers on planet Earth going

toe to toe on a Saturday afternoon. I want to talk about Luca and Donchetz and Devin Booker going head to head, face to face, smile to smile at the end of a game. But you know what I have to talk about. I have to talk about one of the best superstars in the league, one of the most electric players in the league bringing a gun and taking off his shirt and going to a strip club after getting his ass handed to him by Yo Kitchen the Denver Nuggets And how did he get that gun to Denver?

I don't want to talk about this. I bet you don't want to hear about this. I bet you don't bet there's twenty five think pieces written about it already for those who have returned from a darkness retreat and don't know what I'm talking about. Jah Morant is I don't even know if it's considered suspension because they didn't say the words suspended. But Ja Morant is going to be away from the Memphis Grizzlies for at least two games. Wow.

He sorts his shit out, and the Grizzly sort their shit out, and certainly the NBA sorts out what they want to do with Jah Morant. Why Because in the same week that a Washington Post article dropped about Jaw flashing a gun, Jaw actually one on his own Instagram live. He did himself, people, He went on his own Instagram live and showed a gun in his own hand to his own face. Why Jaw, Why At like two in the morning of course it was at two in the morning.

What do you think it was at two in the afternoon. No, there was alcohol involved, obviously, and he is in trouble. This is also on the eels of the Indiana Pacers thing where they accused him and his friends pointing a a laser scope gun thing. Adam, I don't even know there were right words, because I don't have guns. That's how you know. I don't know the terms. What is what is going on? Everyone is wayed in. Gilbert Reinas

is weighed in. Gilbert Arenas is a fucking idiot, by the way, Gilberna said, who, by the way, got suspended fifty games for bringing a gun into the locker room. So I'm not gonna say he's the beacon of wisdom here. Thought maybe thought maybe he would have learned from this. Gilbert Arenas's take is the ja moran. We should just pretend we didn't see it. This is real take. That's

his real take. Boogie Cousins, why are all these people you see how it's like it's never never, like Dame Lillard like weighing in on it, you know what I mean? It's like Boogie Cousins. Gilbert Ornus uh, Paul Piers like, people who truthfully shouldn't be weighing in on this are weighing in like that's I guess what makes it funny. Boogey Cousins says, this is why you need a strong veteran presence in your locker room. Someone lobbying for a

job here. Also, Boogey Cousins, I don't know if that's you, right. I'm not sure that that type of person matches up with you and your reputation. Paul Pierce, of all people, also chimed in. God. He says, I don't care what y'all say about jaw. I carried a gun after I was stabbed. Okay, oh god, Uh, we all don't know what he's going through. Everyone got something to say. Until you really know what's going on in someone's life, when you black and rich, you're a target period.

and Gilbert's Arenas and Boogie Cousins have to say. First, the guys who I can really rely on to give me a cogent understanding of all the facts on the ground here. Ah, everyone wants to lecture, Everyone wants to point out what Jaw's doing wrong. People want to pile on fucking columnists. They are vultures, aren't they. They come out of the woodwork. I don't even know what they do,

what they would do without this type of stuff. Like I'm sure Nancy I haven't read one column because why would I. But I am certain that Nancy Armor has a column. I'm certain Christine Brennan has a column. I'm certain Sally Jenkins has a column. That Dan Wolkan, who, by the way, I love I know these people like personally, so it's no shame to them. But Dan Wolkin covers college football. Okay, what does Dan Wolkin need to say about Jahn Morant. Not a damn thing. It's kind of gross,

isn't it. Like when you think about it, they all have some POV about how Jaw is going the wrong direction and how without proper guidance and leadership, and there's always some socioeconomic thing that these yts have to say about it. Right, it's wild. It's when you think about it from that, it's absolutely Bonker's land what we're living in. They just sit around and they wait in a corner somewhere until somebody, some athlete does something bad and then

they have a think piece ready to go. They have no connection to Ja Morant, They have no connection to these streets. They have no connection to being someone who's that young with that much money that quick. And I already said I think Jaw's being an idiot, so that's obvious. But these think piecers they got to get the fuck out of here with that. Also, the person that I did like when he had to say the only person that I think had anything to say good was Jalen Rose.

Let's listen, I am Jahn Morant.

and how to change the dynamics of my family. The one thing that young people have to understand, and in John Moran's case, when you first get drafted, you go from being a member of the family, a member of the crew, to being the leader, to being the bread winner and first and foremost. I hear a lot of people talking about like his family and his crew. When you're the leader, it's on you because you end up searching that lifestyle. You end up wanting to be down.

And what I had to learn is that people come into your life for four reasons. To add, subtract, multiply, or divide. You have to choose wisely. He has way too much to lose. Trust me. I've been that young player carrying a gun and Will Bond alluded to this. When you start waving it, that could get you killed. That that ain't that's that's all. That's an entirely different thing than we're talking about. A superstar athlete should be

putting themselves in position. And as Stephen they mentioned, that's him on the video on his ig live. Ain't nobody coaxing him, Ain't nobody got a uh, Ain't nobody egging him on to do that. That's a personal choice.

his own. It was Jaw who decided allegedly to beat that seventeen year old kid down when the kid threw the basketball at him. It was Jaw flashing the gun on his own Instagram on social media, which is just crazy, Like that decision is just baffling to me, as someone who's made my own share of Instagram live decisions wild. This is wild, and as I say, I say this that Jaw could be the problem, Like Jaw is his own worst enemy. That is an issue that needs to

be addressed. Who he decides to have with them is only augmenting what's going on. I think Jaw is the most exciting player in all of sports, period. End of story. I love Damian Lillard. I think John Moran is the only player I would go to the Capitol One Center to see. It's true, Capitol One is trash. The lighting is horrible, the vibe is awful, parking awful, Chinatown, all of it, all of it. But I said, you know what, I'm gonna go and see Jaw at the Capitol One.

Did I see John? No? I did not. That's a totally different story, a different day. It's a low management discussion. But I was like, you know what, I'm still gonna go. Why just so I can get a glimpse of Jaw in street close. That's how cool and how exciting and how electric Jaw is. You want to know what his vibe is at any given moment, but Jaw clearly has not. Is just the problem, has a problem, and he alludes to it on his statement the pr statement that like

his Olivia Popes put out. He said, I take full responsibility for my actions last night. I'm sorry to my family, teammates, coaches, fans, partners, City of Memphis, and the entire Grizzlies organization for letting you down. But this is the key piece. I'm going to take some time away to get help and work on learning better methods of dealing with stress and my overall well being. Straight out of the Josh Primo pr handbook.

I think that's like basically what he said. I'm gonna take some time away and find some better methods to coping with stress. The keywords get help, learning better methods. It is very clear that Ja Moran has had I don't know if problems is the right statement, but definitely things surrounding alcohol, and it's clearly something that's being used in a way that could be construed as destructive and toxic. It's certainly not new. I remember thinking ooh when I

watched Jaws again. Another Instagram wive, this man wants to broadcast all of his business out on the streets for no reason, clearly being like Ooh, I get drunk, I'm so cool. So he posted on a private plane on the way to Cleveland last year to the All Star Game, his first All Star appearance. I'm watching him not shirtless, but just guzzling a bottle of tequila on the plane with his friends, loud dancing. Fine, but it was like, you're already fucked up, you are already trashed, and you're

taking another bottle of alcohol to the head. Not good. And then he was like, oh, yeah it was lit at All Star Game. Ooh it was lit. Yeah, okay, yeah. The like a lot of this surrounds bad decisions when you are not sober and you lose control, things happen in your brain. Those sensors that tell you, hey, you shouldn't do this, Those sensors go away when you've had too much tequila. Hence the whole blame it on, Blame it on Henny, Blame it on Patron, Like that's you

can't you bring a gun to the club. You can't blame it on the alcohol. You can't. Sorry, Like it's the truth, and you people forget Jaws only twenty three years old. He's a baby. Yeah what I was doing at twenty three years old? My lord, my lord, It doesn't excuse anything. But this is a guy who just signed five years two hundred and thirteen million dollars. Nothing can prepare you for five years two hundred and thirteen million dollars at twenty three years old. And I love

him because he's defiant. He's defiant, and that is what that Instagram life was. Oh, Washington Post, you want to post a story about me putting a gun in my waistband, let me show you this gun to the face, no shirt on. Like, okay, I don't think you get it, sir, Like you can go to jail for this. You've now moved a gun allegedly. I don't know how the gun got there, but the NBA is gonna want to know the gun got from Memphis to Denver, across state lines,

maybe on a team plane. Now you're talking about felony, You're talking about Gilbert Arena's suspensions. All kind of things are in play, and now this just came in today. Colorado police are now investigating the incidents to see if job Brokenny laws. It is believed that jaws Ig Live was filmed in Glendale, a suburb of Denver known for its strip clubs. He since he was only It's the only county in Colorado that is not an open carry County. Very unfortunate scenario for Jahn Morant. He may be now

in play for a weapons violation. That is, in addition to whether it can be ascertained if it was his playing his own gun on the team plane, which would break all kinds of NBA locker room type laws. This shit could get ugly very fast. Sometimes it's better to be a slept on team. The Grizzlies, I think, are a team that's better to be slept on them as the team that everybody's looking for, they do not know how to handle that. You have Dylan Brooks with sixteen

technicals already at this point in the year. He's getting suspended suspensions. You've got John Morant happy. This is probably the worst weekend for the Grizzlies in team history because they lose Brandon Clark to an achilles injury, which is not being discussed. It would have if this jaw thing wouldn't have happened. You've had Steven Adams missing a bajillion games, knows when he's coming back, and now you've got one of the thinnest teams as a two seed and you're

losing to the LA Clippers. When you had a fifteen point lead in third quarter. You're just pew Downstandings, Sacramaro Kings breathing down your throat, Clippers breathing down your throat, MAVs breathing all down your throat. I want Jaw back, but I only want jawback if he's changed as a player, if he's changed as a human being, Because if he has the same baggage in the Satis decision making tree that he had when he decided, Oh yeah, you think this is gonna harm me, I'm gonna put the gun

in the ig life. If that shit is going, this is gonna get bad very fast because Jaw, we don't deserve it. But really, Jaw doesn't deserve it. Really, Jaw needs to sort himself out. He deserves to play with new tactics to deal with being him. Outside of just bottles of Henny and strip clubs and guns. There's gotta be other things. Kyler Murray chooses call of duty. Maybe

it's call of duty. I don't know what the methods of coping are going to be for Jaw, but this clearly can't be the method because obviously it's leading to being reckless and reckless decisions with a superstar with pajillions of money on the line. We're talking about sponsorship, we're talking about the league is not going to work. And I will wait and we should all be ready to wait for as long as necessary for this new version

of Ja Moran to come back. I was thinking about the Brooklyn met Nets and Shawn Marx the other day. She just just the Saturday. So Shawn Marks gets like a lot of flak right for being this mediocre or poor GM. Everybody says it, Oh, Shawn Marks doesn't know what he's doing. Shawn Marks can't build teams. But if you look at this that I'm about to tell you, there may be no better GM in the world than Shawn Marks. I can hear you, like Trista, what are

you talking about? Their team has eroded, they have no picks. Find another GM in the league that has built three Eastern Conference powerhouses and had the team he took over build a fourth. Find that no one in the NBA has built more winning teams than Shawn Marks. The only problem is they're not his team. They're not his teams. There are other teams that he's building. So in fact, the Brooklyn Nets are responsible for building right, now the top four rosters in the East that are not him.

Let's break it down. At the top of the East, you have the Boston Celtics. Now this is not Sewn Marks, but it is the Nets. While this slightly pre date Shawn marks tenure with the Nets, he did not arrive until February twenty sixteen. The Nets famously trade Boston for a couple of warm corpses and included the draft picks that turn into Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown for you guessed it, Paul Pierce and Garnet. Well done, Brooklyn. You just gave two of the most prolific two way wings

four guys who did not contribute to you whatsoever. Next up, you have the Milwaukee Bucks, who have one of the best defenses in the NBA. The center of that defense is not Yannis. The center of that defense is actually Brook Lopez, Yes, the same Brook Lopez, who has scored ten thousand points for the Nets, which is the most in team history. He's one of the leaders right now for Defensive Player of the Year. He came over from the Nets to Milwaukee just to show how Sean Marks

is a good dude. The Nets are actually paying Javon Carter four million dollars this year to play for the Bucks. Carter has started thirty three games this year and is averaging a career high eight three and two with a steel per game and a plus minus of plus seventy eight. Brook Lopez was traded to the Lakers and then signed with Milwaukee in twenty eighteen. Third is the most interesting one,

I think is the Sixers. So we know that Sean Marks traded James Harden, but he is also kind enough at that same time to take on the worst contract in the entire NBA in Ben Simmons. So you give this team James Harden and take back Ben Simmons. Ben right now is probably a negative asset. You're probably gonna have to give up two first round picks to get him off your hands. And yes, the Sixers, like you said, like you may know, gave up two first rounders to Brooklyn,

but not ever first rounder as equal folks. This included the twenty twenty two unprotected first rounder which was deferred to twenty twenty three, which will end up probably being between twenty five and thirty, and then also a twenty twenty seven first round protected which is top eight that's garbage. So you give up James Harden, and now the Sixers looking like one of the most potent Eastern Conference teams in the league. The two man game between Joel Mbi

and James Harden is looking very very good. And why did you do that deal? I don't know why he did that deal? Do you know what? Does it make sense to anyone? I don't know. Next up is the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have some of the best defense in the league as well, And you traded Jared Allen for no reason to get James Harden, who turned into two random first round picks and Ben Simmons. Oh yeah, you traded Torrian Prince as well away. Torrian Prince turned into

Ricky Rubio. The Calvs also used the twenty eighteen draft pick from the Nets to get Colin Sexton, who they eventually use checks notes as a major piece for Donovan Mitchell. So Ricky Rubio, Donovan Mitchell, and Jared Allen all because of Sean Marks and the Nets. So we're talking Jared Allen, Ricky Rubio, Colin Sexton, Donovan Mitchell, Brook Lopez, James Harden, taking on Ben Simmons and Javon Carter all because of

Sean Marks. That is that's impressive. That's impressive. No, nobody is more friendly to the competition than are Kiwi Shawn Marks. He even traded Spencer Dinwi to do the Wizards for no reason in a five player trade with the Russell Westbrook, just because just because he was a mensch, only to trade back for him a year and change later, same amount of money. The draft capital, if you look at this team is very wonky. I think they're gonna need

to make some moves. They have three first rounders this year. They have their own Phoenixes and the sixers, but none of those are likely to drop into the top five. And that's where franchise altering players are unless you're Denver and you can find Jokic and the forty fourth pick. They have one first rounder phoenix which is likely in the twenties between twenty twenty four and twenty twenty six.

They're probably gonna have to attach to some of their later futures just to get out from under Ben Simmons contract. And the bigger problem they don't have any of their own first rounders because they traded them all to get James Harden. So Houston has all their own first their first rounders, and they're probably gonna be a lottery team before long. I don't know what's going on. You have

Sean Marx, Josigh. They're swinging for the fences. They miss, they get Kyrie and Cady, they miss on them, they lose, They get very little back for them. Now you're stuck till waiting till twenty twenty seven. We have two first rounds picks. That's four years. Four years from now to start building through the draft, that's three whole years away. Michael Bridgers at this point is gonna be an unrestricted

free agent. I don't think that people realize how screwed Brooklyn is unless this team somehow becomes really, really good. At least in the short term. They're gonna have to hit home runs in their first three first rounders this year, or bundle them and move up to the draft to get like a top ten off I pick, to figure out a way to get Brandon Miller or somewhere the Thompson Twins or something. No one has more writing on

this draft than Sean Marks. Does. You either pull a rabbit out of the hat or you have to trade mckel Bridges. That's that's it. Those are the only two options you have. You have one year, two years to save your job. But if Josie cuts ties with him, there's probably a lot of GMS out there they'll owe him a favor so he won't be unemployed for long. That's what we can say. Let's let's face it not

easy to believe in this next team. Everybody was ready me even me, including to think that Tom Thibodau is going to get the boot this year. A lot of people slept on Jalen Brunson. Not me. Uh, He's one of my favorite players in the league. I think he's probably a top five point guard in the league for me right now, plays with such a chip on his shoulder. But the next culture is different. Right now, they are

on their longest winning streak in two years. But they they are beating really, really good teams along the way. They beat Boston last night without Jalen Brunson. Yes there was no Malcolm Brogden, Yes there was no Rob Williams. But I don't care. You have Tatum, you have Brown. You should be able to beat these Nicks teams with this Knixt team without Jalen Brunson. Shit, they took Boston's best shot, repeatedly, get off the mat, taking them down in doubt. And I think that was a signature whin.

I said to myself, Wow, this is when I'm in on the Knicks. You did it without Brunson, you did it with Emmanuel quickly, Emmanuel quickly getting thirty nine points. He played every single minute in that second half. And it feels different. It feels different to me cause two years ago it came out of nowhere. Everybody's like the Knicks are back. But October twentieth, twenty twenty one, the Knicks beat the Celtics at home one thirty eight, one thirty four. That was the bing bong that was then.

That's when the bing bong cree got created. Jalen Brown had forty six, Evan Fournier had four threes. In overtime, the Knicks went five to one. Everybody was bing bong, bing bong, and then they went six over six and sixteen over the next month. That win was the beginning of a season against a Boston team that was still not a Boston team that we know, catching them out of nowhere. This is Boston Number two seed coming off of the finals, and yes, under undermanned, but Jalen Brown

and Jason Tatum in their zone. Nothing like that one, nothing like that win. The Knicks have wins during this streak the last month, two times over the Celtics, two times over the Heat, the Nets, the Hawks, the Wizards. All teams tenth place are higher. They're not feasting on teams like the Houston Rockets and the Spurs. They beat the Sixers as well, all playoff teams except for the Wizards. They're doing it on the road. They are twenty and twelve away from MSG this year. That is second in

the NBA. But really, since the deadline is when things change for me. Josh Hart has been incredible in the Celtics game. He was he was hounding Jalen Brown, he was hounding Jason Tatum. He was just like a fly on raw meat out there. It was impossible for them to get any shot up. And Tibbs loves Josh Hart. I love Josh Hart. Most importantly, Jalen Brunson loves Josh Hart. And they get him for getting rid of Cam Reddish and a first round pick for this year. They're nine

and oh since Josh Hart got to New York. They are undefeated. They have won eleven out of twelve games. He is plus one twenty Josh Hart in those games on average, a plus thirteen per game, eleven six and three with a steel per game, and he's shooting fifty nine percent from three. Josh Hart kind of what I wanted to see from in Portland. But we'll just move on from there. We got some glimpses. He was a little bit tentative. That's what happens when you have Dame

Willard on your team. You allow him to hit those shots. He averaged sixteen ten and two in his last week with Portland, so maybe he was finally healthy. I guess why does this work? Though? To me, the reason this is different and the reason that Josh Hart is so good is he's really an extension of Jalen Brunson. On this team, you have Villanova DNA it frees Jalen Brunson up even more with Heart in the lineup. Brunson's numbers are up ten percent and his minutes are down ten percent.

He's averaging twenty eight four and six and he was averaging twenty six three and five before. So He's playing less scoring more direct result of having a guy who's defensively really going to be there to protect you the primary defender on the other team's best scorer, which frees you up energetically. He gets out in a transition. He can play point guard if he needs to, which is what he did last night. He had the ball in his hands a ton when Emmanuel Quickly didn't have the

ball on his hands. He doesn't turn the ball over, and more importantly, he ensures when Brunson is not in the lineup that the intensity stays high. Yes, was it ugly against the Celtics last night with no Brunson. Hell yeah, it was very, very similar to Julius Randall, just dribble, dribble, dribble, shooting step back threes. But the biggest change for me, the Knicks are different because they're having fun. The enduring image is Brunson putting his fist out during the timeout

to tap up Tibbs and TIB's fist bumping him. Jalen Brunson is having a good time, Emmanuel Quickly is having a good time, and you know what, they are all close. According to insiders, people are saying Julius Randall's body language is better. He is bawling out In his last twenty five games, Julius Randall averaging twenty eight ten and five,

including thirty eight percent from three, all the while having fun. RJ. Barrett says, they're having fun and the young players like Quickly Grimes, Obi top End, Jericho Sims, Duce McBride all don't care how many minutes they're having, and they all have an impact. When you consider the fact that they are the average age of the team's like twenty four

years old. This team's gonna be good for a long time, to the point where you could say, well, I understand maybe why Leon Rose didn't want to trade for Donovan Mitchell. They were gonna have to give up too much to get them. Stefan Bondi of The Daily News summed up the difference between this year's nixt team and this one that surprised everyone in twenty twenty one. He said, well, this year they have the fifth best rated offense and

have an identity around efficient scoring. Their seventh ranked net rating underscores the balance of both sides of the ball. For perspective, the year that they came out of nowhere, they had the twenty second ranked offense and one of the slowest teams in the NBA, feasting on their defensive identity and a very old Derrick Rose. So yeah, it's the offense that comes during playoff time. It's half court offense that you can rely on during in playoffs. You've

got to thank Brunson for that. You're gonna think Emmanuel quickly for that, and to a degree, Julius Randall as a third option as well. There is a reason New York media is saying that this is the most fun Knixt team since the nineteen nineties, and with their record on the road, there is no Eastern Conference team that wants to see them in the first round, especially the Cleveland Cavaliers. Man we have had justin and killed. I don't know why it's been so good basketball wise these

last couple of weeks, but it's been great. Clipper Sons had the one seventy six one seventy five rematch which came down to the wire there as well. You had Sons and the Mavericks. You add Kad Kyrie Booker Luca in a game where we had everything that we would hope for one eight one twenty six was down to the wire, Luca missed a bunny with three and a half seconds left, and of course there was electricity there.

In addition all four superstars putting up thirty points per game in the same game, there were also a couple of fascinating interactions I wanted to note. Outside of the fact that you had four of the best scorers in the league all playing at the same time, having over I think one hundred and thirty points combined between those four one the interaction between Kyrie and Katie is curious. Nobody's really talking about it, which is exactly what I

find fascinating. There's nothing going on between them. There's zero looks, there's zero touching, there's zero conversations. Nothing. These guys were supposedly so thick as thieve. They're best friends, their brothers. They want to play together for the rest of their careers. They want to take control of their future, they want

to build a dynasty together. They have been planning this over facetimes and Palo Sancho, incense burning sensions, and all of a sudden you have Kyrie saying that Kevin Rant was him in a prior life. Like these guys were tight and now it's like they see each other. They don't even speak, and we find that strange. I find that strange. They didn't even acknowledge each other. During the game.

Kevin Durant came over the Dallas Mavericks bench talking to Jason Kidd and he's like dapping up and hugging bear hugging Mark Keith Morris, who I don't know, played with him for a cup of coffee in Brooklyn a month they played together. They did not played together on any other teams. He's giving him a bear hug and he says nothing to Kyrie Zero. They did not even acknowledge each other pregame. They did not shake hands after the game. What is going on here? It deserves a full on

tea investigation. Kevin Durant was asked after the fact about what he felt while facing Kyrie irving All. He said, I felt no emotions at all. It was another game. I'm glad we got the w whoa no emotions, stone faced, stone cold, Steve Austin, My lord, it's dead over there. It's a dead relationship. Kyrie said this before the game. I'm looking forward to it, playing against the Suns, playing against the new look sons with KD. I think it'll be an exciting time for us to compete again with

each other. He's my brother for life, but when we're stepping out there, I'm looking forward to the competition. So Kyrie seems to be less upset with Kevin Durant than Kevin Durant is with Kyrie. Rumors are that Kevin Durant was angry that Kyrie just dip set it on him in the middle of the season. Could you blame him logic police, Yes, we of course you want to see him play this thing out. He would not play it out because they would not give him the extension, and

he dipped out kind of in a suspect way. So is there beef. I don't think there's beef, but they're certainly not close vibes close energy between the two. Are they gonna be going to Turks and Caicos this summer and spending some time on a sailboat. No, I do not think so. I think the relationship has grown chilly. I thought that they would. I thought that they would stay close after a last offseason when Kevin Rant was like, yeah,

no matter, what's in the best interest of Kyrie. We're always gonna be tight, not the way that it went down this time, folks, No, sir, I'm not sure anymore. The other great thing that was happening in this game was this rivalry between Devin Booker and Luca. It is something I need full seven games of again. I needed. The rivalry obviously stems back to last year when Luca did that little meme in Devin Booker's face. Just google

if you don't remember what I'm talking about. He's smiling because he has thirty and the Sons have twenty seven at halftime, and he's just looking him dead in his face, like two inches from his face. Maybe Sons were up in that series. Of course, they talked a lot of shit. Luca was not happy with that. Hey, why don't you, uh, why don't you wait to talk shit when it's just

even it's all fun and games when you're up. But then all of a sudden they get their asses handed to them in game seven and then obviously Devin Booker talked shit to Luca when he missed a bunny with three and a half seconds left. Luca was not having that. He said to Booker, Yeah, it's a competitive game, it's all good. Next time, just don't wait until there's three seconds left to talk. That's facts. Booker was asked after the game about the incident. He said this, You guys

say you don't want everybody to be friendly friendly. There you go. We got smoke, So the star players on these teams have smoke. I want to see a first round playoff series between the Suns and the Maths. Yes, I do. Do I want to wait until the Western No, I don't want to wait. I want the first round to be that. I want all the drama. I want all the questions about Katie and Kyrie. I want Luca and Devin Booker to go at it. You're damn right, I do. That's all the time that we have for

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