West Drama Spills into Regular Season

against the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard's return. And let me tell you depending on who you asked, because to me it went great, it did not go well. How bad did things go well? I tweeted out the following after the game ended, a game where they were down by fifteen, came back looked like they had won the NBA Finals because they went up by one point. They I think Patrick Beverley stood on the scorer's table and then they

proceeded to lose by six. I tweeted. If there was a book called Lebron Teams for Dummies, Page one would say, surround him with shooters. Somehow, Genie and Rob haven't gotten the memo, went to bed, woke up in the morning, five hundred quote tweets and retweets and thousands of likes,

and Rob Polinka started to trend on Twitter. The world wants him gone because, let's face it, after Game one, Lebron said, hey, we don't have any lasers, we don't have anybody out here to shoot threes, we don't have any guys that are forty percent career three point shooters. Their Laker guards shot one for twenty five from three. That's pretty bad, including an incredible for eleven from Russell Westbrook.

And all Lebron had to say and all Russell Westbrook had to say is we're not a team that's constructed of great shooting. No shit. I must have forgotten that watching Beverly and Westbrook miss one open, wide, open, look after another. People are blaming Legm for this, saying this is the team that Lebron wanted, that Hey, don't blame Rob Polinka, blame Legm. And so I thought about this.

Have you ever seen those like SVU episodes or like Law and Order where there's a murder and it's just too perfect, The crime is just too perfect, Like the body's there dead, with blood the murder weapons there with DNA and fingerprints on the coffee table is the matching fingerprint test result of the perpetrator in the corner of

the bedroom. Is the perpetrator sitting on the table or sitting on the bed with his hands tied up and like a handcuffs, sitting there with the note that says I did it, And you're like, open case, close case. That's right. So that's kind of what this Lebron thing is. Lebron James having a team full of non shooters, not just good shooters versus elite shooters, like very bad shooters, all of them led me to believe, is this something that's too clean of a case? Is there a conspiracy

a brewing? Why would Lebron James, one of the most powerful athletes in the world, sign off on a team of full of non shooters that not just don't aren't great shooters. They love to chuck and they look bad doing it. He's a smart guy, one of the better IQ's in the league, So why would he do that? And then a conspiracy rolled over my body like if the creator herself was speaking in my ear directly. The same of energy people talk about when they get abducted

by aliens. Folks, I now know what's going on. First and foremost. We've talked about this before. Lebron James is a guy that we know loves attention, He likes the spotlight. A guy we know is never going to win the undisputed goat debate title, never based on rings alone, So he has to just basically break every individual record set on planet Earth. In the NBA, he's nipping on the heels of the all time scoring record by who Kareem

abdul Jabbar, another Laker. So Lebron James in the Laker uniform is trying to beat and break the record of Kareem abdul Jabbar in his twentieth year. Who knows how long it's gonna be until Father Time takes over start breaking his body down. There's an entire national advertising campaign about this right now, Lebron James literally battling Father Time as played by Jason Momoa. It's on his mind. What's the one thing that slows that possibility down and allows

maybe an injury catastrophe from stopping this. Sharing the ball with a bunch of lasers, a bunch of scorers, a bunch of bucket getters. With a team full of non shooters, Lebron can blissfully shoot and score thirty five forty five points per night and nobody will call him a ball hog. They'll say that he is dastardly under manned. He is trying desperately to get this team to be competitive. No one will even say a word about him holding onto

the ball like his life has depended on it. Plus, we know he won't have to go deep into the playoffs. His season ends in April. What does that mean, Well, we know playoff scoring doesn't matter for the title, but more so, like I said, his body, his body now gets April through October to rest, rejuvenate and take whatever jin blood that Tom Brady is taking to regenerate himself

for the rest of time. Good players increase the probability of playoff appearances, which only hurt his goat argument because he has a bunch of playoff appearances and no titles. Just take the playoff appearances out, Just take that out. He's gonna put more tread on his tires. What are the point of the playoffs if Lebron James isn't gonna win at all? We've cracked the code. That's gotta be it. Why else would Lebron James have the worst shooting team

in NBA history. What if Rob Plinka isn't doing his job poorly? What if Rob Plinka is doing his job to perfection. Bet you haven't thought about that. Think about that? Well, we talk about the Golden State Warriors. Good news and bad news out of Golden State. The good news the Warriors back to back championship off to a hot start. The team looked absolutely on stoppable, and that is with Clay on a minute's restriction. The bad news, Draymond Greenstone

in the doghouse. He's probably making things worse right now. He's probably got a television crew recording part two of his documentary right at this very second. It's not about the punch anymore, I don't think either. I think it's just the tone deaf reaction to it, all, the backlash to the punch, and just lay down, lay down and take take your punishment a tone, don't clap back, don't make excuses, no content, no new media. Just be quiet,

sh be quiet for a while. I talked about this on the last part, So I'm not gonna go through the details. It was terrible, But Zach Lowe has now reported that things are frosty. Is fuck in the dubbed nation. This is what he said. If anything, I think we may be underplaying the level of iciness and tension that they are navigating right now. And that's not to say are they gonna trade Draymond. Everything I've heard is that they're not trading Draymond, not going to They're trying to

win the championship. And we'll try to write it out unless something drastic happens. But Draymond is going to be on the team all season. Locked On Warriors host Cyrus satsats He also talked about this. He said there is zero healing right now going on between Draymond and Pool. He said, I've had sources tell me behind the scenes, Jordan Poole has not forgiven Draymond. They haven't spoken. Wow, he's not happy. I don't know how you could be. It's a horrible look. The image of it is us awful.

It's borderline emasculating. Yes, Jordan Poole got knocked out, he got knocked down, whatever you would say. I'm not sure if he was unconscious. That's only you know, between Jordan Poole and his medical team. But I am absolutely shocked that Jordan Poole hasn't forgiven Draymond for just sunning him and punching him in the face. As for the Draymond documentary, by the way, it was entirely filmed, conceived, finished in the seven day that he was away from the team.

Steve Kerr, Steve Kerr hasn't seen it. They didn't even know that it happened until I don't know, the media asked him about it afterwards, they were like, huh. Steph Curry said he hadn't seen it. He also said this, which was kind of a warning. He's been in production with the new media stuff and I'm sure that's not gonna end, but hopefully everything is in light of trying to protect the team and make it about what we're

trying to do on the floor as the priority. Let me just let you in and on a little secret stuff. It wasn't about that at all. It wasn't There was no protection for the team. It was protection for Draymond. Draymond was about himself. Man. There's a ton of thin pieces out about this, like why would he do it? What was the purpose. But that's really not the question

to ask. The question that we have to ask is should we actually believe Draymond that he cares about this interaction in any way, that he was appalled by his own actions. Was he really sorry? Was he spending his time away reflecting? Because if the first thing you do when you get pushed away from a team whatever, it

was mutual, but it wasn't right. So the first thing you do is you call your agent and you set up a meeting with Omaha Productions, and then you call TNT to say, Hey, I've got a seven minute documentary to put on top of the documentary you guys are already making about me. Can you have a film crew come over to my house for the next seven days while I'm away until I come back for a ring night. That doesn't tell me you're like thinking about being very zen.

You know, it doesn't feel like you're looking inward. It feels like you're kind of trying to push your own agenda and using your relationship with TNT to push said agenda to make you look better, probably to increase the value of your contract or increase your brand, or who the hell knows what. But listen, when you don't tell the Warriors ahead of time you're gonna do this, Oh my god, that is night night sleep, Matt. That's a bad look, even to me, the sole fan on Draymond Island.

We gotta watch this one. I don't know how it ends. Quick update on Jay Crowder for those who don't know. J Crowder is sitting out until he gets traded because the Suns aren't paying him what he's worth. They won't give him a starting role, and this has created yet in another locker room issue for the Suns. And with

the eight and drama bubbling, they do not need this. No, no, no. Even if Aton said, oh yeah, yeah, everything's good now, we're back to normal now, I do not believe that normal is not a word that we can use to describe anything that's going on in Phoenix. When you have a point guard that grinds his teammates down to dust, you've got an owner who's currently selling the team because

of all the isms. When you've got a big man who is the number one pick who you couldn't even muster up enough enthusiasm to offer him a contract until he was offered by another team. And now another player who's holding out, actually not even holding out. You've told him just to stay away from the team, which is fucking weird. It's fucking weird. A new article dropped yesterday from my guy, Jake Fisher, exploring how weird the whole situation has gotten since Phoenix decided to replace Jay in

the starting lineup with Cam Johnson. We knew he was gonna want a trade, not going to offer him ten million dollars a year, which is what he's getting paid now to sit on the bench. So if Phoenix doesn't want Crowder and Crowder doesn't want to be there was the problem. Well, Jake says, the Suns rather famously may spend less on resources than any rival, draft scouting, and evaluation. Phoenix is curiously the only team in the NBA that does not owe any outgoing picks from previous trades or

have any incoming picks on the horizon. This Sun's throne office appears to operate on one year's schedules, where each campaign is its own trip around the monopoly board with its own set of resources to reach go once again in prosperity. That way, you're never assets strapped with only distant first round draft picks to upgrade your roster. What does that mean? It means they do not care that Jay Crowder's sitting there at home on the bench, and

they do not care about trading him. And what's very bizarre is why the Sons have banned Crowder from being around the team period. I don't know what that's about. He'd be very helpful at a time when Cam Johnson just goes down with a thumb injury all of a sudden, maybe Jay Crowder can increase his value, but I don't know. Starting some games, where is he gonna end up? Well, looks like he's going to land in Miami as PJ. Tucker's replacement. Actually, it's not really p J Tucker's replacement,

is it. It's it's PJ Tucker replaced him, and so he is replacing himself. Yes, yeah, he is. So. Jay Crowder was there when they went to the finals, then he left to go to Phoenix because Miami wouldn't pay him. And then now PJ. Tucker moved on for greener pastures. So he is he is his own replacement. Yeah, that's really it. Yeah, very strange things though happening in Phoenix