Luka Dominates Mavericks In Return Home (Hour 1)

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Visit Facebook, JR Sport Brief TikTok, JR Sport Brief X, Twitter, and JR Sport Brief. I am all over the place. Anyway, I'm happy to be here. I think Luca's happy to be in Los Angeles. I don't know what that guy's happy about. We sat on the air last night as he cried during his nice fancy video package that took up about, I don't know, two, three minutes. It was the longest video package for a guy returning to a team that didn't want him that I've ever seen in my life. I mean, at this point, if you're the Dallas Mavericks, I say this in jest, you can't do it.

You can't rub salt in the wound more than they already did, even though they did last night. If you're the Dallas Mavericks, not that you'll do something as dumb like trading Luca again, but go all in next time. You don't want Luca Doncic?

You want to trade him to the Los Angeles Lakers? No video tribute. No t-shirts. No pat on the back.

Double down. You don't want the guy. You wanted to trade him. Don't thank him for taking y'all to the finals. Don't thank him for being great with the community. Don't thank him for all the other things. You didn't want him because he's fat and out of shape.

He likes hookah and he likes beer. Sounds like a lot of sounds like a lot of people. If you're not going to like somebody, just why not just double down? This is like dumping somebody. This is like dumping a girlfriend.

This is like dumping your girlfriend. And then you'll have you have to see her at a party. And then you come over to her and go, hey, Stacey. Stacey goes, what do you want? Stacey, you know, I, I loved you so much and I had a good time when we went to Six Flags. And I remember we went on that trip to Italy and you were so sweet to my family.

And here, look at these pictures of us, but I still don't want you. Like that's basically what the Dallas Mavericks did last night as they got smoked by Luka and the Lakers. 112 to 97. Luka dropped 45 points, had eight rebounds and six assists.

And the Dallas Mavericks, just the organization comes across as a jilted lover. What a sad, sad world. Super producer and host Ryan Hickey. How are you today? I'm doing well. And I'm glad you went on that little, I don't say tirade, but like rant because I like the more I thought about it and rewatch the videos this morning and kind of seen the tributes, it felt like it felt disingenuous. Like you, like you got rid of them. You kicked them to the curb, you blindsided him and all the fans.

And then you give them a nice video. And it almost felt like you watch a video, you see the t-shirts of all, thank you so much in Slovenian. It almost felt like Luka left them versus them saying, we don't want you.

It was now you kind of mention it and you think about it more and process it almost 24 hours later. It does feel disingenuous by the organization. This is what you call gaslighting Hickey, right? Like the Dallas Mavericks are gaslighting everybody.

They're fan-based, they gaslit Luka. That's why when we sat here yesterday and watched them, I'm like, wait a minute, like this guy is crying. And these are not no fake tears. Like look at Don Church is really out here.

He's boo-hooing, his lip is quivering. And then the basketball game started and he said, hey, here's 45 points, eight rebounds and six assists. But here's the alternative. That's why I said what I said in jest, what else are the Mavericks supposed to do? Like they can't do the opposite. They did exactly what they were supposed to do. They didn't do it.

Oh, they're real jerks. They didn't do it. They're really rubbing salt in the world. They didn't do it.

Oh man, what's wrong with them? Hickey, they had to do it. Don't you agree? They had to do it, right?

Yes, but they're levels. Did you have to give away t-shirts? No, you did not. Did you have to make the video three minutes?

Could you have made it 45 seconds? Absolutely could have. You're right. They went all in. They tried to even work with his sponsors, which also was weird. And he said, no, like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

This is news to me. They tried to do what? They tried to do. I didn't see exactly what the plan was, but they wanted to coordinate something with some of the sponsors that work with Luca for his return. And he said, no, we're not doing that. What do they want to do? Give away Nike's Jordan brand? What are you doing? I don't know if they're going to plan on putting a sign up like welcome back.

I don't know, you know, like kind of one of those Nike inspirational signs. Yeah, I know there was that truck outside that was saying fire Nico. What an odd situation in Dallas last night.

Luca shows up, bust they ass. The fans are cheering him every chance and opportunity. He wasn't booed one time. The fans are yelling fire Nico. There was one time during these fire Nico chants that Mark Cuban was caught on video, just kind of putting his head down in his hands and just kind of shaking it like, oh my goodness, this is really happening right now.

What a disaster this is. It was just wild last night, all the way around. And the Dallas Mavericks, if you needed further confirmation, they're the bigger losers here. They're the jilted lover. They're the crazy ex that is bat, you know what, out of their minds.

I wonder how long it's going to take for, for Nico to actually be fired. This is a wild world that we live in. And thank you so much to the Dallas Mavericks for providing this to us. A matter of fact, there were multiple times last night where the fans were chanting for the GM to get the boot. They should have also yelled at the owner because he's the numbskull that also approved this. Listen to the Dallas Mavericks fans.

This is one instance. They did it multiple times. Chant, fire, Nico. Fire Nico. Fire Nico. Fire Nico. Fire Nico. Man, it must be nice to show up to work and have 17, 18, 19, 20,000 people yelling at you to be fired. I have to think, I have to double think that.

No, no, not all good press is, not all press is good press. That's bad for him. Oh, and then Luca, how did he deal with all of this? He had to go out there and play a basketball game, especially after that long three minute video where he cried his eyes out.

This is what he told ESPN after he carved up his old team. I don't know how I did it because when I was watching that video, I was like, there's no way I'm playing this game. But you know, all my teammates had my back. They were really supporting me.

So I really appreciate that. Yeah, he did it and then he dropped 45 points. I was thinking the same thing. We were thinking about the game before it got started. It's like over 30 points or under.

We both were like, we went over. I didn't know he'd get to 45. I was hoping he got to 70. I wouldn't be mad if he got 80 points last night against the Dallas Mavericks. Like they deserve it.

Acting like a crazy ex-lover. What a world. J.J. Riddick, he was like, man, that bum should have got 50 points. I thought he was going to get 50.

You know, I was disappointed. Well, J.J. Riddick always looks disappointed. Hickey, now that he's a coach, you know, he's never happy. The happiness has been sucked out of his body. But isn't that when he's always happiest? When he's coaching? When he's miserable. When he's miserable? I mean, you don't really see him smile too much. Anytime he's on TV, he's yelling at somebody.

It feels like he's at his happy place when he's upset and miserable. Wow. You know, and then I think, well, when he played, nobody cared, you know, so we didn't hear from the guy when he played. Who wants to talk to J.J. Riddick? Nobody.

Fair. It's like, what does he do? He knocks down threes and mid-range jump shots and uh, nobody. We haven't heard. Hickey, I didn't hear from him at Duke. Who cared, right? Nobody want to hear from him?

Not too much. Didn't hear from him at, uh, in the NBA. I didn't start hearing from J.J. Riddick until he retired. You know, so maybe he's just been a miserable, you know what, his whole life. And that's, again, goes back to when he's in his happy place.

Okay. I guess he was in his happy place last night. I know Luca, I guess he was in his happy place. He won at the end of the night. He cried, shot a lot of threes, made a lot of them, beat his old team. Luca was also asked on ESPN, man, you were an emotional wreck.

How the heck did you go out there and give him 45? So many emotions. Uh, can't even explain it, you know, brought tears to my eyes.

Uh, like I said, I came as a, as a young kid here with 18 and I know what this type of NBA and, you know, they made me feel like home and, uh, it's just a lot of great, great memories. All right, now it's time to move on. Enough of that crap. Well, not, not from us or from him. It's over every time he shows back up in Dallas, he can light them up.

He can go to town. I don't know if that's going to be the next five years. I don't know if that's going to be the next 10 years. Luca Doncic is going to tear them apart. I don't even know if there's going to be a point, however much longer his career is. Apparently the Dallas Mavericks didn't feel it would be a long one.

Otherwise they would have kept them and paid them. It could be five years from now, six years from now, Nico Harrison. Well, he going to be going to six years.

The only thing that may save this is when Nico actually gets fired because it's inevitable. This is one of the dumbest trades that has ever taken place in sports history. Right after February 1st, I gave you a top six list gave you a top six list. And we talked about some of the worst trades in sports history. I gave you that top six list.

You want to know something? Babe Ruth was on that list. You want to talk about the worst trades ever?

I give you a quick reminder from a couple of months ago. I had Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Kings. I had the Dallas Mavericks sending Luca to LA.

That can still climb the list. I had the Brooklyn Nets trading Pearson Garnett in exchange for picks that ultimately turned into Tatum and Brown. Number three, I had the Red Sox sending Babe Ruth to the Yankees for cash. Red Sox won in 1918.

They didn't win again until 2004, almost 100 years. And number two, I had the Browns trading for Deshaun Watson. Think about all that guaranteed money. We'll talk about Deshaun. He has some words for the Browns owner. You want to talk about the worst trade ever in sports history? The Vikings bringing in Herschel Walker and basically launching the Dallas Cowboys dynasty.

They were able to get guys like Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson just to go ahead and give them that boost to three championships. Luca's contract was an issue for the Mavericks. They didn't want to pay him a lot of money. And as a result, they traded him. One of the worst contracts or one of the worst trades in sports history.

And it could get higher and higher up the list. I told you Babe Ruth was terrible. Well, he's one of the greatest baseball players ever being moved to the Red Sox to the Yankees.

That was terrible. And so I don't know if Jason Kidd, he's from Oakland. I don't know if he's an A's fan. I don't know if he kept up with baseball.

I'm pretty sure he grew up watching Reggie Jackson. I don't know the deal with Jason Kidd. But after the game last night, after his team lost and he watched his former player, his former pupil, Luca Doncic, carve them up, Jason Kidd talked about the trade. And I don't know if Jason Kidd needs a refresher.

He actually compared the Luca trade to Babe Ruth. Newsflash to Jason Kidd. That's not a good thing. That's a bad thing.

Jason, listen to this. With 77, there's a lot of hope, right? With Luca, there's a lot of hope. This is a business. It happens, right? Trades happen.

This won't be the last trade. Some are compared to Babe Ruth, which is kind of cool. But like when you look at just the business of sports, change happens. But when change happens, it's the ones who can carry on.

Those are the special people. And so there's hope. There's still hope. It's not cool. You do not want to be compared to one of the worst trades of all time. People are looking at Luca's talent and they're saying he might be in the Babe Ruth category of being so great and all time great and being traded for nothing, which is bad. Hey, let me tell you something, Jason Kidd. This is not a good thing.

It's not a good thing for you. And it certainly isn't a good thing for Nico Harrison. There's a reason last night that the fans, we can play it again.

There's a reason the fans last night had a very simple message for Nico. Yeah, Jason Kidd, that might be the change that an ownership that Dallas Maverick fans want. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Kevin Gray is going to join us next hour.

Covers all things Mavericks for the All Dallas show. We're going to talk some NFL football with Nick Bumgarner covers the league for the athletic. We are now two weeks away from the combine or excuse me, not the combine, the draft. Forget the underwear Olympics.

I don't know why that's in my brain, but it was. We'll talk about what's going on with Chidor and his stock. Abdul Carter, people are talking about his health. It is a lot to get into there. The Masters is underway.

We'll chat it up with professional golfer Alexis Benton. We are just getting warmed up. And speaking of change.

Yeah, sure. Dallas Mavericks made a stupid change on February 1st. Two days ago, the Denver Nuggets, they made a ridiculous trade with Michael Malone.

Or is it not ridiculous? Apparently, we have more details. We'll get into that on the other side of the break as Jokic, Nikola Jokic spoke. Did he know that Michael Malone was getting fired? Did he approve the firing?

Or does he just punch in and punch out? We'll hear what Nikola Jokic had to say about his coach getting the boot on the other side. Happy Thursday. You're locked into the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. And so last night, Luka Doncic returning to Dallas wasn't the only big story in the NBA.

There was no return. Just so happens to be the Nuggets played their first game without Michael Malone in about a decade. Nikola Jokic played his first game for the Denver Nuggets without Michael Malone. Rick Adelman's son was leading the way. And to be honest, I saw a clip of him at the end of the game.

I think it was at the end. Jokic looked like he was coaching the team. This man was drawing up a play on a whiteboard and the coach just kind of kneeled down and just kind of watched Nikola Jokic do his job.

And I'm just like, okay, like who's going to argue at Nikola Jokic to, hey, we don't care what you say. That's why this guy's an interim coach. Hickey, I've had many opportunities throughout the course of the past kind of 48 hours to remember the interim coach's first name. But to me, he will be Rick Adelman's son unless he keeps the job. And the season's over almost. Like, I'm not going to remember this guy's name.

Don't care. We'll be featured a lot in the playoffs. I'm sure you'll hear it over the next, like, I mean, they should win the first round.

So over the next two or three weeks. Hickey, I've heard this guy's name. I've heard it. I've read it many times.

I've heard it maybe about, I don't know, a bunch. Let's just put it that way. I don't know his first name. I just go to, oh, Rick, I see Adelman. I go, Rick Adelman. I go, this is Rick Adelman's kid. Maybe if it helps, David Adelman. Same kind of same name as David Adelboro, famous voiceover guy who does a lot of those nature shows.

Hickey, no, that's not going to help. No, that can help you. You said it's David Adelman? Yes. I'm always going to just say David Adelman.

Yes. I'm always going to just still think Rick. I hear Adelman. I go, Rick.

OK. Did you do the same thing with Ryan Saunders when he was coaching the Pistons? Flip. Flip's son. Yeah. I just go, I go, oh, Flip. I go, I think about the dad first. Yeah.

At least you're consistent. Hickey, I hear Vladimir Guerrero and I think about his father, not the fat one. The reformed fat one.

Sorry. The one who just got slimmed down. Yeah, he did.

He did. He's still a big dude, right? He's still fat under there, you think? Yeah, I think some of that's never going to go.

It's like Zion. It's always going to be there. It's part of you. It's part of who you are.

See, I'm easy for word association. A lot of these younger guys, when they had dads play, I think about their fathers, not the son. So you go Adam and I go Rick. You go Ryan Saunders, I go Flip. I don't like, I know what Flip Saunders looks like. Hickey, I don't know what his son looks like.

I don't know. He's got a good comb-over. His son?

Yeah. His son has a comb-over? Well, like, like the new kids do from like left to right. Not like, you know, you're losing your hair comb-over. He's got a lot of hair, gels it. He's got a good head of hair. I hear comb-over and I think, well, he doesn't even have a comb-over.

What is Tom Thibodeau doing up here? What's that? The three hair comb-over? It's like three strands of hair. You can put some gel in there and like, he does it. He does stuff to that. He does stuff to it. Oh, he gels it.

I don't know why. And he uses a lot of gel. That head is always shiny.

Yeah. He's just, it's like, it's like Charlie Brown up there. It's like five strands of hair.

He just kind of moved it over to the side and it's not by, you know, he just rolled out of bed and did it. Like he took, I don't know if it's two minutes or 30 seconds, but he puts stuff in it. You can tell.

It's, it's. I think he combs it too. Cause it's not like, that doesn't look like he ran his hand through. I think there's like a comb involved. Yes, there is a comb. He's combing his scalp.

Yes, he is. It's like that time LeBron James was sitting at his locker. You seen that video? LeBron James had a hairbrush and people are like, the heck are you brushing your scalp for?

There has to be hair up there to brush. I don't know. Anyway. Yeah. David Adelman is the, you think he's sticking around? You think they're going to, they're going to do a coaching search and they're going to give him the boot. Bravo.

I mean, unless he goes to the conference finals or the finals, which is very unlikely with how this roster is right now. I would agree. I think they just hired him to fire him or promoted him. I guess you can't hire the promoted him to fire him.

Yeah. Maybe he stays as an assistant when the new guy comes on, but we'll find out. And you talk about the roster. One of the reasons that we've all learned that both Michael Malone and Calvin Booth got fired is they hated each other. They didn't agree on how to utilize the roster. Apparently there was a lot of beef as to how to utilize Russell Westbrook. Apparently some players also didn't appreciate some of the preferential treatment that Westbrook got, although he was not a part of the championship team that won the title a couple of years ago. And Westbrook, not surprising last night, he was benched for Jalen Pickett.

Jalen Pickett starts the game. He scores 18 points is five of seven from three, something that you do not expect Russell Westbrook to do. Russell Westbrook, maybe he wasn't in a good mood. He came off the bench to only give you five points on two of 11 shooting. He was all four from downtown.

He did all of this damage in 17 minutes. And the Nuggets still won 48 to 32. And so maybe there's a point that Russell Westbrook needs to be shown the door. He has a player option for next year, like $3 million.

Is he going to pick it up or try to go elsewhere? We have reached the sad state of bouncing around Russell Westbrook. Some days he looks good. And some days he looks like crap. Like the other day.

Hickey, I can't even keep up. He missed a game winning layup. And then he didn't get back on defense, I think. And then he fouled somebody on like, what was the game winning three?

Is that the sequence for him in like 15 seconds? Nailed it. To lose the game.

Absolutely nailed it. Yeah, that's how you get benched, folks. Hickey, if I did that at the YMCA, they'd kick me out. They'd be like, we're not even letting this guy into the building to play basketball with him. The old man with the sweat bands around the wrist would, yeah, and the headband, he would not let you come back.

Yeah, I'm done. He had the headbands and the wrists. And the sweat bands on the wrist. Man. Old school. I'm retired Hickey, but man, some of the old guys used to bust ass at the gym. Like, jump shot is wet. They can't move.

They look like they ain't running in concrete and they still beat you. It's like Jokic and the NBA, right? Yeah, like Jokic and Luka, both of them. Matter of fact, Jokic was asked about the firing of Mike Malone yesterday. And he was asked, hey, did you fire him? Hey, did they ask you? Did you give them input? The joker's like, man, I knew like five minutes before you did, I don't know nothing.

I just work here. I knew a little bit before everybody and he made me, people made, like we made a decision. So it wasn't a discussion. It was a decision. And, you know, he made, he told me why. And so I listened and I accepted, you know, it's, I'm not going to tell what he told me. I'm going to keep that private. Yeah.

Well, he says he's going to keep what he was told private. Wow. Hickey, I like that first part about what Jokic said. And that's a good T-shirt as well. You imagine a guy walking through the park.

I don't have discussions. I just make decisions. Could you see that on a shirt? That is pretty bad ass. But if you saw somebody and he'd be like, this guy's a jerk, I think so. Oh, 100%. It's a bad ass shirt while also just having douche written all over it. Yeah.

Like every man, women, everybody, children would hate this person wearing it. But I don't have discussions. I make decisions.

Wow. I can think about a few people that could wear that shirt, Hickey. You want to name any? Nobody that we know. Nobody that we work with. No.

People we work with are lovely. Very. Do you recommend somebody wearing that shirt?

I don't have discussions. I make decisions. I could see Shaq wearing that shirt. Yeah, that's right. He'd be saying some dumb things all the time. No, not. Yeah. And not hearing the other side of it. Yeah.

Like who did he like? Jimmy Butler should be getting a long term contract extension like something like that. Stupid.

Jimmy Butler actually would wear that shirt. I don't make I don't have discussions. I make decisions. Or maybe Pat Riley on the other side. Eighty one years old. All his success.

Why not? He wins out. He's accomplished a whole hell of a lot more than Nico Harrison. So we'll see. And by the way, Jokic himself out there, 20 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists when he's not drawing up plays for the interim head coach. Nikola Jokic, by the way, he says this is the NBA. He told altitude sports.

He's like, what do you want? Like, change happens all the time. It sucks, but it's what it is that I'm coming from. It's part of the sport.

You know, people go and come and go. But, you know, it was a 10 year relationship with the coach and we went through everything. We were bad. We won a championship. Definitely. We have some great memories, but, you know, it's it's it's part of the business, obviously.

It is part of the business. He was then asked after the game. You got all these young guys. Jamal Murray, his leg hurts, his hamstring sucks. Y'all are the fourth seed. You're trying to avoid falling. Are y'all are y'all worried about whether you're good or bad?

Jokic, I think I might know the answer. I mean, Josh, get a get a response that he won. You know, he the people say that we are vulnerable, but I think the beast is always the strongest, the most dangerous when they're vulnerable. So maybe he woke up the beast. OK, all right.

What beast is that? You're good. Your teammates suck. Come on now. And Russell Westbrook, you can forget about it. If Russell Westbrook is now in his feelings, by the way, he yelled at another fan last night not to call him Westbrook. Did you see that? No, I missed that.

Yeah, he was. You know, there's so many cameras and now they they mute the audio and and raise the players on the sidelines and such. You can hear a lot more than you used to.

You can. And so Westbrook wasn't even on camera, but you could hear him and he was yelling at a fan not to call him out of his name. And it's just like, we're still doing this guy. At this point, stop talking to if you're going to do just go punch him in the face. OK, I know my apologies to Adam Silver, not something that he would ever want to hear. But Russell Westbrook has been saying this for like three years now. Just just go punch somebody and do it. Whether you're on the basketball court, you're on the street, somebody rolls up to you and says, hey, Westbrook, just punch him. Heard enough of these threats. They sound idle at this point. Do something.

I feel bad for Westbrook. Excuse me. See, I did it.

That was a. Damn, he's going to come after you. He's going to call into the show now as an accident. You think he listens to sports talk radio?

I mean, he has rabbit ears. I hope, though, for him. No, because he's going to call into the show now.

For him, no, because I don't think anyone talking about him is going to do it in a positive way. What are they doing right now? Do they even play basketball today?

What's that team he plays for, the Nuggets? I think they're off. I got to double check the schedule today is hanging out. He is in there at home. He's in Denver. OK, they were in Sacramento last night. They play tomorrow at home against Memphis.

So he is he's home in Colorado. What time is it out? What is it? Four o'clock, four thirty, I guess. Maybe hanging out, relaxing, getting a massage, maybe. Yeah, probably having a nap.

I don't know. But talking to his kids, I don't know. Hope he stayed far away from the media. Yeah, he got better things to do than listen to this, right?

Count money, hang out with his family. Make laps. Oh, my God. No, he missed the layup. Right. So make him get practice and practice laps. Well, maybe he can't dunk the way he used to.

Every now and then I see him fly. But maybe that's why he tried to dunk. Couldn't make the layup. He's the reverse Ben Simmons. The sad world. Give give Russell Westbrook a break. People give him a break.

It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Nuggets ain't winning no championship. Throw that out the window.

Speaking of wanting a break, needing a break, asking for a break, being motivated for one. Deshaun Watson has spoken. Deshaun Watson has responded to his owner, Jimmy Haslam of the Cleveland Browns, who basically said, yeah, we made a big mistake in bringing this guy in. And Deshaun Watson is still on the team. He's still getting paid all his 230 mil guaranteed by the team. He's working out at the facility that pays him the Browns facility.

And he has a response to the owner as well as the general public. We're going to hear what Deshaun Watson had to say on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is smooth jazz. No, it's not smooth jazz.

It is the JR Sport Brief show. Nikki, we should do a jazz show when this one is done. We're not done, no? Is it too much work? Too much work. Oh, you know, I'd have to also lean on you.

I would contribute nothing to what? It's the late night, you know? Right.

I guess. I don't know anything about jazz. What's good?

What's bad? Well, it doesn't have to be jazz. It could just be that music that gets people going that night. You know?

OK, now we're talking. Yeah, provocative. Yeah, it gets the people going. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. Mix it up. Put a little, I don't know. I don't want to get personal here. Don't give me no ideas, Hickey. I'm just trying to throw out some songs here. Yeah, let's hear what's on the JR playlist. Uh, I'm not giving that away, no.

It's personal, Hickey. I'm going to put DMX. What? So it's proprietary?

It's not proprietary. DMX, OK. OK. All the, yeah. Where the hood at? What?

Where the hood at? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, yeah. Yeah, there we go.

Anyway, I'll figure that out, Hickey. I don't know. There's plenty of music. Ken Maxwell, Usher, there's tons of it. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder.

It depends on what you want. And Teddy Pendergrass? Hickey, make sure, uh, make sure you play. You know Teddy Pendergrass songs, Hickey?

I know one. Which one is it? Um, the late, great Tony Page on WFA, and you always used to play it. Uh, what was it? Was it Love TKO? I don't know.

I don't think so. I have to look it up. I could tell you in the break what song it is. You know, honey, that's crazy you said that. I need to text Tony. I need to text him. I've been meaning to, hey, how you doing? I've been meaning to do that.

How about that? Yeah, Teddy Pendergrass, classic, he's great. You know, that's actually one thing. With all these athletes that we have in the world right now, I am glad I don't know any professional athlete this moment who makes music. Everybody does a podcast. Nobody makes music. Am I missing something here? Or am I, is somebody out here trying to be a rapper?

Am I missing something? Flau'jae Johnson of LSU. I think she makes music. She, you're correct. And she's, she actually is, uh, she's actually good. She's actually good. I was, uh, she's from here in Atlanta.

I wanted to get her on the show and, uh, and talk to her about her. You know, stuff is actually pretty good. Actually, I'm not going to say I think she's a better musician and basketball player, but she's good. But she's good. But I mean, there's nobody like Allen Iverson tried music. Allen Iverson sucked.

Okay. And Kobe Bryant tried. He sucked. Tony Parker did music.

He was garbage. Does Shay Gilders Alexander do anything? He's in those underwear ads. I thought he did some music. Oh, I don't know.

Skims? I don't know. Um, it's the guy from California that Drake is mad at him now. One from Toronto. Yeah, DeMar DeRozan.

He stands behind Kendrick Lamar in the music videos. I think athletes have smartened up. I want to say, maybe I'm about to say, Hey, stick to your day job. But now they're podcasting terribly. Most of them, some of them.

Pretty bad. And speaking of podcasts, I still don't know what the whole thing was. What did Pat McAfee do in Pittsburgh last night?

Just invite a bunch of celebrities and charge people to show up? Was there something more to it? Was there a theme? Pittsburgh theme.

I think the money went to a good cause, I believe. But other than that, I think it was just like, yeah, kind of hang out. We're going to do some Pittsburgh things. We're gonna have some people on the stage singing giveaways.

I don't. It wasn't a comedy show. It wasn't a concert. It was a get together.

Yeah, I hang out. I saw Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Sidney Crosby, Ben Roethlisberger. I guess were there more Pittsburgh people there? Jelly Roll was there. I'm not sure if he's a Pittsburgh native or not, but he was there. He said he lost weight. You heard him? Like 150 pounds.

Is that pop? Oh, I guess you can. Well, he said his weight start with a five. Icky, if I lost 150 pounds, I'd be dead. Dead. That's a good thing.

That's a good thing. He lost a whole me, bruh. 150 pounds?

Damn. What a guy. And so what is he at now? 400 pounds?

Oh, no, he's in the threes. But I think he wants to also slim down even more. I forget what he said, if it's skydiving or like he wants to do something with his wife where he has to wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let me look this up really fast here. Oh, wait, wait. Is there a weight limit for skydiving? You got to be a certain weight? Uh, well, I mean, you got to. Yeah, you got to have that parachute be able to hold you up and not just go plummeting down to the ground. We, Icky, you pass by one. I see one all the time. The driverless.

We got driverless cars rolling around in the street, but we don't have parachutes strong enough for a giant man. Come on. Here we go.

I'm pulling it up right now. He's dropped nearly 200 pounds. Damn, bro. Whoa. He started. Oh, my God. He started at 540.

Oh, my sumo wrestler. He's now at 357. He wants to lose another hundred pounds so he can go skydiving with his wife in Sweden.

Damn. Could you imagine he's going to be, he's going to be, we're trying to get to 250 after starting out at 540. He lost. He's trying to lose two people.

He's trying to lose 300 pounds. Is that a record? No, come on.

Gotta be close. No, a record weight loss? No, bro. 300 pounds?

No, that's not a lot. No. You ever seen some of this stuff on TV? Some of those shows. Yeah, I don't think they're ever, I don't think they actually make it all the way down.

Isn't there a whole show, right? My 300. Is it my 600 pound life? Yeah, they don't shrink down. I think it's just they follow them around at their weight. I feel like 20, 25, 30 years ago, I remember watching the news and they had to like get a fork, knock somebody's wall out. They couldn't go through the door. This is sad. It's terrible.

You know, eating food is an addiction. It's bad. But they couldn't get the guy through the door. They couldn't get him through the window.

They had to knock down a wall and put them on a forklift. Yeah, it's bad, man. That's bad. Is that Jelly Roll? Maybe.

Bruh, when you got a name like Jelly Roll, this guy ain't eating no salads. OK, put it that way. And shout out to people in Pittsburgh. Matter of fact, when we come back, we're going to talk about Pittsburgh. We'll talk about Deshaun Watson and maybe T.J. Watt leaving the Steel City. It's the JR Sport Brief Show, Infinity Sports Network.