Kyrie Phone Home

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I haven't spoke to him yet.

You know, I can't really comment because I haven't spoke to him as personal reasons, so it'd have to come from Kyrie but I don't believe that to be the case.

I don't know really where to begin on this. First, you obviously have Steve Nash like clearly dry snitching, clearly. I mean, what can you really expect though, when your marquee Starr is not telling you or answering your calls or your texts and he's just not showing up for games. I get that, And on the other hand, Kyrie believes he's probably doing exactly the right thing. I have nothing to explain to anyone. You should know exactly why I'm sitting out. There's really nothing to say. Do you see

I don't really see us having a head coach. You know what I mean.

Katie could be a headquach.

I could be a head coach. Jacq Vaughn could do it one day.

It could be, It can be.

It is a collaborative effort, I think.

On our part.

Oh no, no, okay, So you know who might Marty take a little exception to that.

Who Steve Steve Nash?

Nash, the guy who is paid handsomely to be that head coach, the guy that if the team loses, is going to be fired. There's no one else on that team that is gonna be on the chopping block if they lose, then hate he is. So, I mean, what can you expect when one of your star players says you're not the head coach and then the other star player agrees with him. Listen, you don't think I'm the head coach. You don't think I'm the head coach? All right,

I would have loved to see Steve Nash's live reaction to.

That, right, Yeah, what did he just say? What excuse? Kyrie also said in that famous or infamous interview, we don't need someone coming in here making us run drills, changing our offense, changing our flow. We got things handled here. And you know what, Kyrie was right because now, just like last year, the Nets are just losing games while Kyrie and Katie are still sitting on the sideline. So

I do completely, And as someone who's Steve Nash is my favorite athlete and Kyrie Irving right now one of my least favorite athletes. It's maybe the easiest sports beef I've ever had.

To pick a side on.

Yeah, but you have to admit the easiest thing that you could say as a head coaches. Yeah, me and Kyrie have worked this out. Yeah, he's handling some things. He's some personal issues. We'll get back to you when he's coming back. He's got some things to handle. You say, I haven't spoken to him. That is That is bus tossing. That is public bus tossing the most. You know those people, the sneaky, sneaky like I'm gonna get back to you, back at you, like six months later, passive aggressively. I

Yeah, I mean Heat Celtics was canceled yesterday, which was unfortunate for me. I had a nice teaser with the Heat.

But I also had a teaser with the heat and that that game was postponed. So now all the money that I had is I don't know what happens. Actually it's in limbo. Yeah, so let's recap what's happening. The league, big money grab league. All leagues are money grab leagues. But the league decided we are gonna rush to get the league back on Christmas Day, Marquee game Day, just so happens a Christmas, a big time family holiday, people

Yeah, and they got steamrolled by fucking smoked.

They really had seven guys, and then there was this like scrub that was sitting there just so they didn't forfeit. It was giving me serious, like Saturday morning wreck ball vibes, where you come in it's empty gym, you expect the crew to be there. You're there. You like four went is that a word? You four went going out because you're a responsible hooper. All of your teammates did not. They all went out hard, and then they somehow text

Yeah, man, Poor Rudy, Poor Rudy, Gobert.

Fuck Rudy, go bear what poor Rudy Gobert. That man said COVID was fake. That man said COVID was a hoax, and then he put his hands and feet and breath all on a million microphones, and then he got COVID and we didn't get the final four, probably because Rudy Gobert. And then also, by the way, in hindsight, he said he regretted that decision. What else, Rudy, would your viewpoint be what you're you wish that there were more mics on the podium to touch? Is that really what you

Lots of hate, yeah, I mean people say he's an overrated system guy, like not tough, bad defender, you know, all that, all that noise.

Do you agree with that?

I don't. I never have.

I've I've been a big Stephan for a while.

Things got extremely slanderous when Steph, you know, he had Steph hasn't been himself for a little bit, so things got extremely slanderous. We'll say recently, and you know what I am. I'm gonna admit something to you.

Yeah.

Yeah, I haven't told people this publicly. I have told people this privately. I was one of those people. No, I was one of those people slandering Steph Curry. I thought maybe he needed Clay and Kadi to open up his game. I thought maybe he made too many bad decisions to be a leader, chucking from three from fucking three seconds in the shot clock a million times anytime he wanted, being real, casual with his passes, just sloppy at the well at anytime, anytime, sloppy with the rock.

I just think, yeah, I just think that's wow.

I mean, games like last night were why two of sixteen shooting historically bad night, just poor, just terrible. When he looks bad, let's just say this, when he looks bad, he looks really bad. But it wasn't even just me, though, you had you had NBA champions, NBA champions like Channing Fry saying the same damn thing. They were standing for Lebron James. They were saying like, oh, look at this roster lebron James. He all he had was Eric Snow and this and that, and Steph Curry's had three all

Steph faser a world class and if they'll Scooper and owner of Unbreakable Jim, thank you for coming on.

Absolutely, I'm here right now a breakable were Fortunately we're closed down in signs we got to adopt no matter what. These times we actually moved our gym to the parking lot. Just keep our health as wealth baby.

Parking lot pimping as it were.

Yeah, that's right.

So I was doing some background research and I came across this quote, the phone never stops. I've got to take every single call that comes in. I was on a date with the young lady last night and I told her these calls are going to come in, and I've got to take every single one. So my question is this, is there elite enough vagina out there that you will pass on scoops for like not disturbed scoops are off, no scoop zone.

No. Well, if something's coming in, I mean I deal in.

Uh, I'm an information broker and I don't decide when that is. So, you know, I used to back in the day. There's one time I was I finally had enough money to go to like a nice restaurant in New York. So the first ten years of my career I have, I made ninety seven hundred bucks a year. It was brutal, and I finally had enough money and I went out to this beautiful, like fancy restaurant in New York and I had my girlfriend at the time,

So even if it was like halle Berry or like some of these elite.

Understand I gotta be charming. I gotta get them to understand, you know, that's what I do.

Now It's ruined every relationship I ever had, So let's put that point in.

Also, yeah, yeah, because I have a guy that I've been dating and he his shit never stops and it's just ding ding ding Friday night, eleven thirty pm.

Annoying. Yeah.

Well, now, plus for me, I'm out in La So I got some coaches who'll call, you know, I'm like, man, I'm like their therapists. So you know, they're on the way to the office at six o'clock in the morning their time, at three o'clock in the morning my time, and they just want to talk and like for Also, when you're getting scooped, it's not just haking me scoop. You build these relationships, you know, and oh yeah, it

How often have you had to multitask You mentioned it a little bit. How often have you had the multitask scooping while loving?

Oh my god. Probably one of the funniest was with the flat gate.

I was in Arizona at the Super Bowl and when my third source called to tell me the NFL is zoned in on they have film and they're jeering in on. Uh was the locker room attendance, I think and the Patriots to fly it in. That was the worst possible time for me to ever get a phone call. But to take the phone call and we're talking about the flategate, so it was it was even worse. I was like, You're word was, wait, what's happened to your stopping because of

Course, mid mid pop scoop. Is scooping a passion or isn't an addiction?

That's a good question.

I think you need to be passionate about if you want to be great, you gotta have some passion and uh, I don't just want.

To be somebody. So it's both.

It's well, I've curbed the addiction throughout the years because it used to be like I was the first one to.

Do the inside and stuff minute by minute.

It was me first guy whom Len Pascarelli from ESPN, and then you know, I think Clayton Moore would chime in a little bit, but not much. It's just us and we were grinding, grinding, grinding, every second, every story, a fifth round pick signed, a guard was traded, everything we were battling for. And that was started in nineteen ninety nine when that whole Internet thing came out. I think it's going to take off. I think the Internet thing it's going to work.

Just to hint here.

And now they all do it right. But over time I said, okay, I kind of did that.

It is really.

Consumed my life. It is is an addiction, and I want to have more in my life. So now I want to make sure that on Sundays on Fox and Vil Sunday, when I say something as crazy as it may sound, people go, okay, we can take it to the back. As Goose Glazier said it, because I care more about being right than I do about being first.

Always hell yeah.

Is it a team sport or an individual sports?

Individual?

For me?

For the rest of them, I thing is probably a team that could work.

Together but I've always been a low wolf when it comes to it.

It's my relationships.

Yeah, people get real solid when they get scooped on to They miss a scoop two minutes early or two minutes to take, so they try to like link up and get that third source.

Yeah, I think they do. Again.

For me, it's just my No, it's it's always just been me and my contacts and my I call my glaze bafia.

Yeah, you for sure are in a mafia. You and h Stra are definitely in the mafia.

Yep, no doubt.

What's uh, what's the story that you sat on that you ended up getting reported but you weren't about to publish or break it because you felt like it was gonna break loyalty.

No, it was not so much that. It's a lot of times. Look, my job is to break stuff on Fox a double Sunday. I don't work for Twitter, you know. And back when I was working at Fox Sports dot Com, I break stuff by a minute. But now it's for Fox Cuble Sunday or for Time for Thursday. So I gotta wait on stuff and hope it holds the stress.

Of things holding.

And there's been some times I've waited two weeks because I didn't have that third source and big stories, huge stories.

And then that that's what gets me. And you're like, oh, like you know, you wake up every morning you're like, is it out? Is it out?

And all of a sudden, boom, it's out. And you know, there's a lot that we all that we all know. But when you come out of left field with stories, that's what I love. But sometimes those stories that seem like I came out of left field on them, I've been working on them for two weeks.

Bro I mean you talk about having anxiety, and that shit must fuel the anxiety.

Right, Oh, it's terrible. It's it's horrible.

It's it's And the crazy thing too, is the rush you get when you break a story like look I broke the other night bet Is Bryant, right, And it was the real time that his test was inconclusive, and it was he was pulled for the field and got retested as we were doing the game on Fox, right, we're doing pregame, and it was crazy how it unfolded and there was such a high for it from it

How do you think that the NFL drama compares the NBA drama?

In your line of NFL is the greatest reality show on the planet, you can kidd me.

I mean, hell, we have the lockout years ago.

It was a lockout in the off season that led every sports newscast and every Oh it's not even close, that's that led the first five stories and then you got to, oh, baseball is opening or basketball is the player. I mean, it's just the NFL is that it reigned supreme in that thank god.

Yeah, it's you can tell that even though the NBA's off season is I think more exciting because there's so much. You know, it's a player, yeah, starg of the league versus you know, the NFL is so much more team oriented, I think, but the NFL is you know, twenty four to seven. How do you compare the difference between how news is broken in the two sports.

I just he woke everywhere. So you know, I've known him for a while and I just love how he does his job.

You know, we're get a world of trust and again he doesn't get stuff wrong and he builds these relationships.

It's funny because he and I used.

To shoot hours all the time at the ESPN and like for me when I first started this, I would I would pick a fight with ESPN when I felt they'd steal my stories.

And people used to think I used to get so mad about it. I wasn't. It was just a good brand. It was David versus alive. They should whip me in everything they do.

So every time they would take some that I broke, I would just I would try and make it a fight because that's our mentality.

And you know for woes, you got him paid good for him.

You know, he's known for being like this down this don mafioso guy in the NBA scoop Land. Yeah, is there has there ever been any equivalent to that in the NFL where it's like you bring these scoops to me.

Oh, I think we all have relationships like that, And it's like I've always told my God, listen, it's gonna get out anyway, might as well let me break it. Like you know, I'd love I'd love to be the one that you come to if it's gonna get out in anyway. So I think we all have kind of relationships like that. He's just dominated that field.

Yeah, he really does.

Yeah, we kind of we kind of break up the pie a little bit more over here for sure?

Are you on like any scoop inner chat like where it's like you and Wold passing.

No, I said, I'm I'm my own lone wolf.

And even like when I started covering the league, I the reason why my relationship with stray and so close is I had you know, I was still I was fighting on the side right, and so I had more in common with the football players I was covering than my fellow media. And they used to kill Michael and I kill us like they would just murder us for our How close we were and how we're not supposed to be as close, and man, I'm you know again, I had more in common with the player than I

Yeah, I think that there are newsbreakers that don't really like obviously their peers having friendships with players. But at some point you either get it from the agents or you're getting it from the players.

And then for those who say you're not objective, well they're not objective when they write something bad about somebody who won't.

Talk to them, you know. So it's my job is.

To get the fans the best, most accurate information as fast as I can something that they were not here anywhere else.

That's my job. That's what myalty list time.

What's the angriest someone's gotten, like either a family member or a spouse about something that you've had to report?

Strandon, I almost fought in the locker room one time. Uh, that was a big one.

Yeah, we had get separated in there and a bunch of guys had to jump in there.

We had to get separated. What was the story?

Hell, I don't remember something I had written he got pissed off about and then we kind of.

Went at it and we separated.

Uh, there's been a couple other guys, but for the most part I've had, there's been a lot of respect I've also I've had.

I'm a lot calmer now.

I used to be a lot and I used to be a lot more itchy, trigger finger, I kind of like ready for looking for something. I'm kind of always looking for a fight. So now thank god I've grown up.

Someone.

Well, I mean, you've been with Fox. Now how many years?

Thirteen sixteen, no, eighteen, well, two thousand and four, let's have let's.

That equal seventeen seventeen years, Anti Rita and now you and Stray are like, yeah, run in the town and now Tony Gonzalez too, yep, our.

Little crew and that listen.

Michael and I became friends our first week in the job ever nineteen ninety three, and when I didn't have enough money to go from New York to Giants Stadium and back every day because I didn't have enough money for bus fair, he drove me back in the city every single day, literally every day, so I own.

Like twenty eight Grand and Lincoln Tunnel Fair.

No, that's my guy. Me and Strayer have played a ton of golf together in LA and he talks talks really highly of you. I mean, you guys are an interesting duel though, because like you always talk about living in the gray and he's basically mister sunshine.

Yeah, yeah, so that you know, I got to kind of learn from that. But yeah, I mean living in the gray. I've always needed kind of that team, and guys like him have always been there for me, like for me to get through my depression, having a team, which is why I'm here, Like even those places closed for me right there in a cage, Like I didn't have a lot of self worths kid growing up.

So in a cage is where I felt I belonged and not even a win to more take beatings in there, and for.

Me, it's a team is what lists me up. I just felt I deserved it. I didn't really feel worthy of Yeah, I didn't really have a lot of self I felt like I deserved kind of take beatings there. And I wasn't raised like my parents didn't beat me or anything like that. I was just born with depression. Like it's just how I just how it is, and it's like so for this team.

They they kind of lift me up.

And that's where like with Stray and Tony and all these guys, they became this other team for me to help me through the gray the off season when we don't have foxing up all Sunday, I really struggle.

It's really hard for me.

And because every Sunday I have that crew, and I don't get to see Michael anymore. I only get to see him on Sundays when he comes in. And then you know, the other thing is being of service, and that's what we did. We started MVP out of here, our merging best some players foundation. That really gets me through the grade to see to see some blues being of service to other people.

And he's along the way with that too.

You're gonna have to get us spot in New York in the Upper West Side to kick it with Stray more.

We're going to know why he got freaking nineteen levels of his place. That it's great when your friends make it, fly on their planes, stay at their places.

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Let's do it I'm in all.

Right, let's see, how do we got here? What's the most points you ever dropped in a game on someone?

So this is this is how you know that? Like my ego is so big. It's my freshman year in high school and I still remember this. Nineteen points. Your girl was throwing up buckets and we're down three. There's like forty seconds left to go, bringing up the rock shoot at three in transition, get fouled. The girl and I are john back and forth and think she pushes me technical foul. Four free throws in a row to seal the game ice water. I'll never forget. It was like,

All right, this is an interesting one. What are your thoughts on the Raptors playing in Tampa and can you see this as an expansion city?

What are the Raptors? Uh? What's the Raptors record right now? Do they have? I would say that's the Tampa effect. I would say Tampa and people are going to disagree about this. Tampa's not a good sports city. I don't think. I think it's a snowbird city. I think it's a city that most of the people there are remarking Bob Coosey's accomplishments, and they're not looking to see Fred van Fleet shoot threes all day from thirty seven feet. I'm not saying that the Raptors would ever move there. I

I mean Tampa they're winning right now. But no, they don't deserve an NBA franchise.

They just don't. They just don't. They just don't.

Uh, this is a personal one. How many NBA players have you slept with?

So this is a great story.

So zero.

So I got a I went to college with this kid who ended up being in the front office of one of the NBA squads. And he calls me and he goes, hey, Tee, I know you're getting into media.

Uh? Would you rather have a career like Charles Barkley where you were multi time All NBA but never won a championship or be a role player like ri and wins seven plus?

Yeah, Robert Ory, we won like seven titles Charles Barkley zero. You know you may not know this about me, Mikey, but I have a massive ego, like crazy. I mean here, I'm in here in a podcast studio about my fucking self. So you know who it's gonna be, right, Like, Tk's no role player. I'm not hitting quarter threes. I don't care how many fucking rings I get. I want to be transcendent pop culturally for the rest of my life,

Uh, do you consider Luca a top five player this year?

Bro? Come on, that's that? See what it is? Now? You know what it is, isn't it? It's the recency bias again. People are now people are now all in on Luca. And what I'm gonna say is this hard to be a top five player when everyone around you is not good. And that's what's happening on the MAVs. They're not gonna be good. I'm sorry they don't have more three and D help. KP is probably gonna log forty games Max. It's just not no, no, he's not. I don't even think he's a top ten player right now.

Yeah, it's funny to me every year, like whatever team Josh Richardson goes to, everyone acts like he's going to improve their teams.

So thank god you said that. Someone asked me that too. They said, now that the MAVs have improved their three and D and I was like, is that a Josh Richardson comment, because he's he's not three and D. He's he's what you would hope to be three and D. But he is not good. Sorry Josh Richardson.

Yeah, much respect, Please subscribe. Okay, will Lebron James ever win another MVP?

Great question from whoever asked that. I would say no, because he's gonna have Anthony Davis on his team for the rest of his career. You cannot win an MVP right now as Lebron James the most dominant force we have seen in a very, very long time with Anthony Davis, who's the top five player, Because as Lebron has famously said, are you really that valuable? You know who's going to win an MVP? Another one, Steph Curry is gonna win another MVP because right now he's the most valuable player

You agree, I do, And yeah, the voter fatigue, I think I think it has more to do with that. The MVP has become more of who owns the headlines, like who owns the story of who's MVP this season? And Lebron almost never, you know, starts it off like that, Like twenty fourteen I think was the last time Lebron was like a serious MVP contender.

Yeah, it almost has a life of its own, like Heisman voting. Yeah, all of a sudden, you're like, oh, Devonte Smith is who we're choosing this year. Okay, it's already pre ordained. I think it is preordained for Steph Curry at this point. As long as the Warriors keep winning and they make the playoffs, because they should not make the playoffs, and he's doing the things that he's doing, I think it's his in the bag. And I think voters love them some Steph Curry. They love it.

Oh yeah, then yeah, Steph Curry finally has a comeback story.

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