It is the JR Sportbrief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in all over North America. Happy Thursday to you. I'm an Atlanta super producer and host Ryan Hickey.
He is in New York City. The show gets started every weekday, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. And we got a lot to get into. NBA, NFL, NFL Draft.
You got some guests that are going to join us as well. You know, just last hour as we got started, we talked about Nikola Jokic's comments about Mike Malone. He said, I ain't fired a guy. They told me, but I didn't do it. They just told me the decision.
There was no discussion. We talked about Luka Doncic and his return last night. Los Angeles Laker makes his return to Dallas and then torch them for 45 as we continue on with the show. We just talked about Pittsburgh. I'm going to tell you about a stealer named T.J. Watt. We're going to get into an individual that is telling everybody there's a major comeback on the horizon. That is Deshaun Watson. Yeah, I believe that when I see it. Hey, Kevin Gray is going to join us from the All Dallas podcast.
DLLS. Yeah, no vows. Also, we got another guest next hour as well. Nick Bumgarner is going to join us to talk about the NFL combine. And Shador Sanders has been in the news a lot recently about potential slippage in the draft.
And Abdul Carter has been in the news about his injury, his foot, his shoulder. And we'll get into that all. And then with the Masters underway, we're going to have a chat with a professional golfer. Her name is Alexis Benton. She is in Augusta. I'm going to get her thoughts on who she expects to walk away with this green jacket. And we'll check in with Alexis and see what else she's working on. You want to be a part of the show, you can 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Now that we got some of that basketball out the way, Nicola Jokic and Luka Doncic. I'm just making sure I get the names right here. I want to talk some football. Yeah, last night, Pat McAfee had that big old show in Pittsburgh. What it was, I have no idea, but it raised money to help people out apparently.
Good. Ben Roethlisberger was there and Wiz Khalifa, Pittsburgh artist was there. Sidney Crosby was there. So yeah, it's all Pittsburgh. Snoop Dogg was there, I guess because he's a Steelers fan. And Pat McAfee, he was kicking that football for the Indianapolis Colts. He also happens to be from Pittsburgh. There's a man in Pittsburgh who may not be long for the Steel City.
And if you're a Steelers fan, you do not want to hear this. This guy's name is T.J. Watt. Oh yeah, T.J. Watt, you know about him. He's the little brother of J.J. Watt. What his parents fed him as a kid.
I mean, both of them, all the brothers, I have no idea. This man is a defensive player of the year a few seasons ago. I think he deserved to be the defensive player of the year last season when Miles Garrett won it, but what are you going to do? A seven-time Pro Bowler. And in the case of T.J. Watt, he's basically finishing up a contract.
He's in the midst of a four-year, $112 million deal that expires at the end of the season. You want to know what that means? It's time to get paid.
To get paid. Here's something else to keep in mind. When you want to make your point known in 2025, what do you do? You don't pick up the phone. You don't call somebody. You don't send a telegram. You don't do any of that. You go on social media. T.J. Watt went on social media and did something very simple. I don't know.
Maybe he's consulting with the Kirk Cousins. He didn't say trade me. He didn't put up a silly message. He put up a photo of him holding up two fingers and a peace sign, like peace out. There was no caption. There was no words.
There were no phrases. It was literally him in his uniform with a peace sign. And so what are we all left to interpret? That he wants out? That he wants to leave? That he doesn't want to be a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers anymore? Steelers? When does a Steelers just let a great defensive player go?
Let's think about this. If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, the identity of the Steelers is to be rough and tough. Defense.
Smash mouth football. And in what world would you want to get rid of one of the premier pass rushers, one of the best defenders in the game, because you don't want to pay him? And yes, we've all seen the deals that have been handed and given out to some of these, well, not some of, the best pass rushers, period. Think about Miles Garrett and the contract that he got. You think about Crosby, the deal that he got for, it was, Hickey, how long was Crosby the highest paid?
They gave him 35 and then Miles Garrett got 40. And so what did that last for, like, three days? I'd say maybe a week.
A week? At most. And now you got Miles Garrett, you make him 40. And so if you're TJ Watt, what the heck do you want? His contract this upcoming season is valued at 28 mil. OK, you don't think he wants to move into that 40 range? You don't think he wants a raise? Let's think about this.
DK Metcalf just arrived. They just traded for this man and gave him a five year 150 million dollar contract. And so if you are TJ Watt, you want the cash, right? And if they're not going to give you the cash, are you ready to be traded from the Steelers? Like what happened to the Steelers that I loved? The team that just punched you in the face, I feel like every time the Steelers are now involved in drama, we got potential trade issues with TJ Watt. The Steelers don't have a quarterback. I'm sorry, Mason Rudolph doesn't count. This is just very unstealer-ish. Ian Rappaport, he was on the NFL network and he said that these contract negotiations, TJ Watt and the Steelers, they haven't gone well.
So my guess, and this is only a guess, because again, we're reading into cryptic social media posts at 903 in the morning here. TJ Watt is in a contract negotiation situation with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We've seen several top edge rushers get paid. Miles Garrett topping 40 million dollars. We still have Micah Parsons need to get paid. We still have Trey Henderson needs to get paid.
But TJ Watt said to make just 21 million dollars this year is in that category. Generally, when a player makes a social media post, it forces us to talk about it on TV like we're doing right now. It is because contract negotiations are not going as well as anybody at home.
Oh my God. Social media is now it's used for a contract negotiation. Like, is that supposed to move the Steelers towards getting a deal done? Hey, by the way, I'm so unhappy.
I'm going to go online. Is this what we do now? Brandon, I you did it last year, didn't get moved. He got a new contract and he ripped his leg up.
It's just. Kurt Cousins has taken photos and in Cleveland restaurants to just kind of let the Falcons know he's not what's next? Like, what's next? Like, are we going to have players just like is TJ Watt going to go stand in front of a landmark somewhere? I don't know.
Hickey, what's a team that needs a defensive vet? Get him over to hump the commanders. Oh my God. He should just go stand in front of the Capitol with a thumb up, right?
Like, is that what he should do? Just visiting. Yeah. Just visiting. Go take a photo next to Abraham Lincoln.
Stand in front of the White House, just just visiting. I got I'm sick of that. Did it work for Brandon? I, you know, didn't do anything. Tyree kill for his own. And Hickey, did you see that there's some type of video of Tyree kill? Did you see that?
No. About what? The domestic dispute that is apparently his wife filed and now they're getting a divorce. She took a video of the incident. I did not see that. No, I think somebody outside took video. Oh, maybe it was TMZ. I don't know. That are the neighbors, I'm sure.
Well, they're used to it. I saw a screenshot. I didn't bother. I'm like, do I want to watch this? The answer was no, but I did see there was video.
But wasn't he online a couple of weeks ago about a trade and his head coach had to go ahead and answer it like, what are we doing, man? What are we doing next time I'm ticked off? I'm just going to go. I think I guess that's what people do anyway. It's a bunch of angry people on social media all over the place. You don't have to be in the NFL to be ticked off. So these guys got millions of followers. They make millions of dollars. They work for billionaires and they voice their displeasure.
Like teenagers going on social media, just being being cryptic. I'm just surprised. And I hope this isn't the case with the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are a classic organization, classic. Like they are one of the biggest sports brands in America. I'm not going to slap them there with, I don't know, the Celtics or Lakers, but in the NFL, they're right there. They're one of the biggest in the entire country.
They're no nonsense. They don't go through a million coaches. They're not the Denver Nuggets. They're not firing a guy. They've been having Mike Tomlin here forever. I'm just hoping that we're not entering into an era of Pittsburgh Steelers football where it's just like, yeah, we got to keep up with the Joneses. We're trying to get a quarterback and it hasn't worked out post Ben Roethlisberger.
We didn't have a successor in place. We're not a good one. And now the Steelers just got to try crap to keep things together. What a leg, and I don't think this would be the case, but when you got to sit around and publicly wait on Aaron Rodgers, that's not good. When a guy who won defensive player of the year and has been in that conversation the past couple of seasons, when he's itching for a new contract and goes public with it, that's not good. And yes, we've all seen over the years, if the Steelers are going to have issues with anybody, it'd be a wide receiver.
Hello, George Pickens. Hello, Antonio Brown. But ultimately the wide receivers, people expect them to act like divas and then they expect for them to get the boot. The Steelers are not a joke of a franchise. I know a lot of their fans want to get Mike Tomlin the hell up on out of there, but I'm just hoping that this isn't a spiral because waiting for Aaron Rodgers, public contract negotiations with TJ Watt, none of it sounds good.
None of it. Good luck to them. And speaking of not sounding good, I still can't believe I heard this. Deshaun Watson has a response for his owner, Jimmy Haslam, the same man who sat down and approved the 230 million dollars going the direction of Deshaun Watson, despite his almost, I don't know, 25 to 30 accounts and accusations of sexual assault. Despite the fact that he didn't necessarily want to go to Cleveland, they just threw him 230 million dollars in the middle of knowing he was going to be suspended.
And they just were so desperate for a quarterback, they gave him the money. And then he was hurt outside of the suspension of 11 games. This man needed shoulder surgery. He tore his Achilles. He tore his Achilles again in January, even though he wasn't playing football. Deshaun Watson, who's 29 years old, went on social media, which is crazy, sat down and did a video and explained to everybody that he will be returning, he will be back, even though the owner said signing him was a massive mistake. Ouch. Listen to Deshaun Watson. You know, the performance comes when, you know, your back is against the wall.
It comes better because you kind of got to really lock in. You know, you don't have anything pretty much to lose. And I feel like that's where I'm at right now. You know, everyone's doubting me. You know, everyone don't believe in me. Everyone don't think that I can get back to where I was. But I know and I believe the word that I put in, what I believe in myself, the peace that I've been, you know, channeling these last couple months, I know I'm gonna be way better than before. I'm prepared. And I think before I wasn't prepared because, you know, I was kind of going with the flow of how the world was seeing me.
But, you know, when you kind of get knocked down to the ground and you got to stand back up and walk through the rain, that brings out the that brings out the real another fire, another challenge. Who is he trying to convince? Like, who did Deshaun Watson make that video for?
The other 31 teams in the NFL? Like, is Deshaun Watson trying to inspire reformed perverts? Like, who is this man trying to big up himself? Like, if I'm Deshaun Watson, like, I don't have a message to anybody but the other people in the league, because the fact that you have to share a message like that in public is almost like, hey, you should probably be laying low. Go ahead and do your rehab. Let somebody else get the message. Go call one of these, you know, boot-looking reporters to say, hey, Deshaun Watson is working real hard.
He's prepared to make a comeback. Do that. We don't need a video, man. Nobody needs a video from you. Like, you should let your work do the talking, not a video on Instagram.
To each his own. That guy got a guaranteed $230 million coming his way and he's earned zero of it. Zero of it. What a life.
Good for him. Come back? We'll see. I feel like we haven't seen him really play in the NFL for about four years.
Come on now. It's the JR Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. Yeah, the Browns, they admitted their mistake, even though they're still paying him. He's still on the roster.
He's still working out at the facility. The Browns admitted their mistake. When we come back on the other side of this break, we're going to have a chat with Kevin Gray. Covers all things Dallas Mavericks for the All DLLS podcast. Yeah, All Dallas. When are the Dallas Mavericks going to admit to their mistake?
Probably never. Going to figure out what's next for the Mavs on the other side. It's the JR Sportbree show coast to coast. The Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sportbree.
It is the JR Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, we just talked about Deshaun Watson letting everybody know he's not done. He plans on coming back. We talked about TJ Watt apparently letting everybody know he's not happy with his contract negotiations in Pittsburgh. Could he potentially leave?
And unfortunately, on February 1st, 2025, we did see a superstar get traded in the world of sports. That's Luka Doncic being sent to the Los Angeles Lakers. Well, last night he made his return for the first time to Dallas. He decided to go out there and drop a 45 plus points or excuse me, 45 points and a victory.
After he cried, he decided to carve out their hearts. I guess one part of this chapter is over. Fans chanted Fire Nico and Jason Kidd compared it to Babe Ruth situation, which is terrible for the Mavs. What the heck do the Mavericks do from here?
Anthony Davis was also asleep last night, even though he played. What happens next to talk about it all is Kevin Gray, who hosts and talks the Mavs on his podcast, All Things Dallas Mavericks on DLLS Mavs. How are you, Kevin? They are good to speak to you again. How are you, man? I'm very well. How about you? I mean, after last night, man, is everybody a Lakers fan now or a Luka fan?
What's the deal? Let's just say there were 20,000 Luka fans inside the American Airlines Center last night as Luka made his return. The word I continue to use is surreal because to see him with LeBron James and J.J. Rennick and obviously his Lakers teammates and then him coming back to Dallas for the first time, being showered with love and praise throughout the course of the game. It's an experience like I've never had before covering a game or going to any kind of sporting event where the home team was essentially an opponent of the fans on a particular night, just because that is just how much the fans love Luka Doncic that the Mavs became an opponent in their own building. It felt like in a lot of ways last night, for sure. I mean, there was no bigger opponent than Nikko Harrison as he kind of stood in the tunnel and the fans were chanting to fire him. We saw a video of Mark Cuban kind of putting his head down and just like, I guess reality hit him once again, like it's it's hitting, I guess, every now and then everybody in Dallas.
Nikko just has to kind of grin and bear it. When's the next time he talks to the media? End of season, which is going to be soon?
It would be at the end of the season when they have exit interviews, whenever their season does come to an end. I mean, they're locked into the play in now. And we'll face the Sacramento Kings in the play in. The question will be whether it's in Dallas or Sacramento, it's most likely going to be in Stacktown, given the standings and the Kings holding the tiebreaker. So the Mavericks would have to win not one, but two games on the road just to get to the eight seed with the opportunity to face Shay Gildas, Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder. So it doesn't it doesn't look good in terms of their prospects of making any kind of run or even getting out of the play in for that matter.
Not at all. Kevin Gray is joining us from the DLLS podcast covers all things Dallas Mavericks. You know, I told you about Anthony Davis said he fell asleep last night.
He had a whopping 13 points and 11 rebounds. Now granted, he doesn't have a playmaker to give him the ball. But this is not shocking coming from Anthony Davis. Have the fans just kind of been one big yawn with him like nobody cares?
Am I wrong? I mean, last night in particular, he was an afterthought. And for a player who's a member of the 75 year anniversary team, the 10 time All Star and NBA champion, a gold medalist. He's literally won a title on every level from high school all the way through the professional ranks.
This is no slouch. But at the same time, he's not the homegrown superstar that played six and a half years in Dallas that took the team to an NBA finals and was a generational superstar. And for Davis, he's been put into a very, very difficult situation where he's trying to do the best that he can even playing through injury to provide fans somewhat of comfort because he is there. But at the same time, he will just never be the guy because their guy is now playing with his old buddy and LeBron James. So I was disappointed in Davis' performance last night. I mean, the Lakers, excuse me, the Lakers did a lot of things defensively I thought to keep him from getting the ball in certain areas. But at the same time, I thought he would be a lot more aggressive given the nature of the game, the emotion coming into it, and knowing that Doncic would be looking to put on a show.
And I thought Davis would try to respond in kind and it just simply did not materialize throughout the course of the game last night. Oh, absolutely. But are the fans, are they sick of him?
Like already? Do they care about him? Nobody cares, right? Nobody in Dallas cares about Anthony Davis. Well, I would say they're not sick of him. They realize that this, this trade has nothing to do with Anthony Davis to how they feel about him personally. I think the large, you know, conversation has been, you know, that this is a guy who has been put into an impossible situation and they're not blaming Davis at all for any of this. He just happened to be the one that was traded for Doncic. So on a personal level as a player, Mavericks fans who may not necessarily have embraced him, but at the same time, they're not angry with Anthony Davis by no means at all.
We know that's being saved for Nico Harrison. When you think about the future of this team, this organization, knowing that Kyrie is hurt, torn ACL, going into a contract year where he has an option. We just talked about Anthony Davis, there's no chance or whatsoever. We don't know, he'll be healthy one day and non-aggressive the next.
Where is there a glimmer of hope that this can turn around? It's difficult because not only you mentioned with Kyrie Irving, you know, he may not be, you know, available for most of the season, you know, next year. Anthony Davis has a three or $175 million extension that kicks in at the beginning of this upcoming season. Um, so there's a lot of money on the line between him and Kyrie Irving that you're going to have to begin to pay guys like Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington are extension eligible, uh, as well. So they've got real decisions to make and they don't have control of their picks from the years 2027 through 2030. So all the future that they've leveraged to make this happen and then moving on from Luca Doncic has put this organization in a really, really, really bad position that if they don't succeed and find a way to win a title in the next year or two, uh, they'll be staring in the face of having to essentially blow the thing up and start all the way over. And Nico Harrison, uh, I imagine would not survive any of that by the time that decision will be made because it's already considered the worst trade in NBA history, if not sports history, uh, say Babe Ruth. But, uh, at the same time it already looked like a loss in a lot of ways because you smoked away already a window of time to try to win a championship this year and most of next year already anyway.
So yeah, it's, um, it's, it's pretty bleak given their situation that they've got to face in a number of areas. Kevin Gray is here with us on the JR sport brief show covers the Mavs for the DLLS podcast and show that, well, somebody had to approve the deal and that's obviously a Patrick Dumont. This, they would chant and fire Nico. Did he, was he the guy who was the engineer of this? Well, I was trying to figure out why Dumont didn't get a little bit more heat.
When he talks, he puts his foot in his mouth, but people don't typically blame the owner, you know? Well, this was Nico's trade. He was the one that approached Dumont about this. He was the one that began conversations with Rob Palenka, the GM of the Los Angeles Lakers.
This was all his idea. And he had earned somewhat of credibility, you know, from last year acquiring PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford and pairing those individuals along with Luca, Dodgidge, Kyrie Irving, um, you know, a terrific young center and Derek lively, the second, and all of a sudden they're making a run to the NBA finals. So in a lot of ways, Patrick Dumont trust Nico Harrison to make the basketball decisions because he saw the results from less than a year ago. So the problem Dumont had was not consulting really anyone else. You know, when it came to the idea of trading Luca, Dodgidge, cause even from the basketball side of things, we know how absurd the tree was, but from a pure business standpoint, it just made no sense at all, given just the popularity of the player, uh, in the amount of business that the player generates that it just did not make sense in any number of areas.
So Dumont definitely has a lot of blame for this. Uh, but Nico Harrison will always be the one that will be the face of this trade because he was the one that decided it was time to be out of the Luca Dodgidge business. And one of the moves forward in doing so we saw, well, I mean just over the past couple of days we saw Michael Malone and we saw Calvin Booth get fired at the same time for just internal issues with the Denver Nuggets. I'm not saying that this is the case in Dallas, but when you have Jason Kidd, who's just one of the greatest players of all time, I don't care point guard or elsewhere. He was a one man, a basketball team by himself. Uh, do we see a scenario?
He just goes, you know what? I don't want to be a part of this anymore. I mean, honestly, JR, at this point, anything's possible in the league after Luca Dodgidge has got traded. Uh, anything is possible at this point, but yeah, it does reach a point where it potentially becomes untenable, uh, for parties involved here to continue forging forward when they will continue to be public outcries for Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd to lose their jobs, uh, in the wake of making this trade and how, how much this team has gone by the wayside in just a short amount of time, given what they've decided to do from a personnel standpoint. So that will be up to demand to ultimately make the decision on whether or not Kidd and Harrison survive here. But yeah, it would not be out of the realm of possibility if certain parties decided, you know what?
I can't handle this and deal with this anymore because it will be a constant state of conversation, uh, no matter what, because of the magnitude of the trade and the player that that was traded. Yeah. It just, uh, unfortunately seems like a, a matter of time. Um, it's just bad all the way around.
Well, Kevin, thank you so much for the time. I mean, we're looking at the, uh, Washington wizards of the, of Texas sooner than later, right? Let's just hope they don't turn into the Washington generals. That's the case.
I think they may be on their way there. Hey, Kevin, where can people follow you and everything? D L L S. Appreciate it, man. Yeah. You can find me, uh, on Twitter at Kevin gray sports.
I host the DLS Mavs, uh, podcast five times a week and do our pre and post game shows as well, uh, throughout the course of the season as part of the, uh, all city network, uh, with DLS sports, but you can find me on exit, uh, at Kevin gray sports. Amazing. Hey, enjoy the rest of the season while it's still here.
Okay. Kevin, you'll be looking at the drafts. Well, uh, maybe you won't be looking at the draft. You'll be looking at the general.
No doubt about it. Thank you so much to Kevin gray for joining us covers all things Dallas Mavericks. I wish there was a, uh, a greater outlook. I really feel bad for the fans of the Dallas Mavericks.
Like what do you have to look forward to? The answer is nothing, nothing. There's no draft picks.
There's no players. If you got to look at Anthony Davis and call him your star, I think he did. Nico Harrison played basketball in college. I thought he, he understands something about basketball, right? And he's, as Kevin said before, he's all made all good moves up to this point. So we had an understanding of what a team looks like, how to build around a star and in one move, just killed a team, killed his reputation. What did Luca, what did Luca do to this guy? They do something. They make a pass at his wife. Like, did he take the last?
I don't think he was the last cookie out the box. I don't know. I keep going back to something like that. Cause there's no football football. There's no basketball reasoning. That makes sense. Like that you can point to say, this is going to help us.
You can't sit here and say, Oh, we're going to be, we're going to have a better chance to win a championship with Anthony Davis as our number one versus Luca. Makes no sense. They feel that they couldn't pay it. They couldn't feel it.
They didn't feel like you give them an extension. It was going to be fat and out of shape. The lungs were going to be black with hookah smoke. Hookah smoke. Oh, maybe I depends on the flavor.
That's a good question. I guess all hookah flavor and smoke is all black. Yeah. Been a while for me on the hookah front. But do you think that cotton candy flavor makes his lungs turn pink? They have kind of, they have cotton candy flavor hookah. I'm assuming so.
They definitely do. I know that they have mint. I've had mint before mint. Yeah. Mint. Yeah.
Interesting. So you think your, your lungs turn green then? No, they probably too much mint hookah, little black. I haven't had a hookah in a hickey. I try to avoid the hookah.
Okay. People, there's a lot of hookah here in Atlanta. There's a lot of hookah in New York. I've never done hookah and I don't really see the appeal. Good.
Why don't you smoke cigarettes? As someone who has done both hickey, not on a consistent basis. So here we go. No, no, of course not. Oh yeah. Here, here. Hickey, I smoke, I think I smoked the cigar before I ever had a cigarette. Okay.
Okay. It's my life. By the time I had a cigarette, I said, what is this?
What is this dainty little thing? Yeah, I said, what is this? Yeah, I smoked that cigarette in two seconds. I said, who, people stand around and do this all day.
I can't do it. I just, I smoked, I've had cigars every now. I might have a cigar once a year. Haven't had a cigar in a couple of years, but I'll smoke a cigar at a wedding, at a backyard. I'll have a cigar. Having a cigarette, I'm like, I'll be out here smoking these all day.
I'll never get started. And then I've had hookah, right? These things come in all these flavors. There's a different, a different relaxation or buzz that you get in each of the above. A cigarette will just, it's a little jittery.
Like you get jittery real fast, right? It's like a cigarette's a little joke. You have a cigar, it'll, you know, smooth you out real good.
Okay. A good cigar. He's smoking a good one. Hookah is like a quick shot to the brain. It's like you inhale that hookah. You inhale the flavor of it.
It's in your lungs. It makes your brain tingle. It gets you, you know, little lightheaded. And then, you know, you gotta keep, like you'd have to smoke hookah all day, like all day to get anything. It's like you smoke it and the feeling is gone two minutes later. So I guess that's why Luca continues to smoke it. Well, I mean, yeah, if he was out here smoking cigars the way they made it sound like he smokes hookah, he'd be out the league. Maybe that's why he doesn't get back on defense. Maybe.
Like maybe. Hookah lung. You've seen that video of the guy at the park? Hookah Donchich. Yeah, he took a pull of that hookah and then he, what did he knock down, a three or a layup? I think it was, I thought it was a three, yeah. It was a nice shot. This guy's just like, he's taking a pull of the hookah and then he, during the basketball game. Like somebody needs to just put a hookah on the sidelines and see if who could, who could.
Let's see what Luca does. Wow. Yeah. I feel, I feel real bad for the fans of the Mavericks. I really do.
It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break when we come back. You know what? There's another miserable fan base and I think their fans, they might find a little bit of hope. I'm actually a fan of this team. I think I am.
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I said, I mean, we concluded the chat. I said, man, Dallas Mavericks are about to be the Washington wizards of the NBA in Texas. That's what they're about to be. Kyrie Irving will leave. Jason Kidd will leave. Anthony Davis, somebody will pick him up off the trash heap in a season or so.
It's just bad. Hickey, I'm surprised Klay Thompson hasn't pulled all his hair out. Think about that guy, right? I mean, that I'm sure that low ball offer, whatever golden said offered him, not looking that bad after all.
Looked nice. It sure would. Now I wonder if they would still be able to go out and get Jimmy Butler if Klay Thompson was still there.
That's a, that's an interesting one. I don't have that answer, but Klay Thompson, I know that guy's hurt. And he's like, man, I left the Warriors and I'm going to the team that just went to the West finals and nope, I'm going to the West finals.
And nope, dumbest trade in NBA history. And I know Steph Curry is looking at Klay like you're a dumb idiot. This is what you get.
This is what you deserve. Poor Klay Thompson, not really still getting paid. Got championships, couple of them. Warriors will fully embrace him in about 10 years or so.
So he's, he'll be perfectly fine. I did mention before the break, speaking of miserable teams, if the Dallas Mavericks need advice on misery for the next several seasons, they could go to the NFL and ask the New York Jets. Yeah, an NFL team that hasn't been to the postseason in what 14, 15 years now?
Pathetic, sad, demoralizing. They had to finish up the Aaron Rodgers drama. They went five and 12 last year. Rob Salah, the head coach got fired. Joe Douglas, the GM got fired. They got a new GM. They got a new head coach in Aaron Glenn. And now the Jets got a new quarterback in Justin Fields. And so Justin Fields is here off the heels of his tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He got benched the minute that Russell Wilson and his Cavs were ready enough to go out there and play. And Justin Fields last year in six starts, he had a four and two record. He threw for 1100 yards and five touchdowns. He rushed for 300 yards and had another five touchdowns on the ground. And Russell Wilson came back and they benched him. They didn't feel that he could deliver the ball down the field. We know Russell Wilson did so when he started and then he sucked at the end. And Justin Fields never getting another shot, never getting another opportunity. Well, Aaron Glenn is a first year head coach. And so the New York Jets, they have OTAs. And so guess who was available to talk to the media?
The newest quarterback of the New York Jets, Justin Fields. And he said a few things like being benched in Pittsburgh is actually going to make me better. I'm a big believer in everything happens for a reason.
So, you know, I was put in a place where I wasn't, you know, really never in a place of my entire life. So I think, you know, I tried to have a different perspective on it. Of course, you know, Russ has been in the league for a long time. So I learned a lot of great things from him and, you know, got to kind of learn a different perspective of things. And, you know, like I said, he's been in the league a long time.
So just seeing how he works every day, seeing his routine and, you know, picking up things that I can implement into my routine, into my game. Fingers crossed for him and the Jets, because typically if you play quarterback for the New York Jets, your career, this is where it goes to die. Vinnie Tusta Verde looked like he was going to have success with the Jets. Looked like he was going to help take them to at minimum an AFC championship game. Vinnie Tusta Verde blew out his Achilles. Chad Pennington, he looked like he was going to be decent. That man blew out his shoulder. Mark Sanchez ran into another man's ass.
Gino Smith never had a chance. Sam Donald saw a ghost. Zach Wilson. I don't even know. Where was he throwing a football to? Aaron Rogers head case. Brett Favre sending naked photos to people who didn't request them before they even saw him.
They didn't request them before he was broken. The New York Jets are just a, they are a quarterback graveyard. And so Justin Fields, somehow, someway, sat in front of the media and he was asked about the New York Jets and what he expects, what he wants to do. I don't know how this is going to work.
Listen. I think just the people, you know, in the building, the coaches, my teammates and really just everybody that's ready to, you know, get this thing rolling and get this thing going. So, of course, I know everybody around here is very excited and so am I.
So I'm really just ready to get to work. Ah, well, the New York Jets still have the same owner, the same owner who did get that F when it came down to the NFL Players Association report card, the same owner who said that he does need to evaluate how he operates the team, the same owner who then said that the NFL Players Association survey was a sham. You would hope that Aaron Glenn has a positive impact, the former New York Jets, you would hope that he has a positive impact on the team. Otherwise, Justin Fields, I hope this is not the case. I hope he's not a corpse in that quarterback graveyard. If it's his luck, well, hopefully on his behalf, he ends up like Sam Darnold in Minnesota or Geno Smith in Seattle. You would hope that Justin Fields has a chance and an opportunity to turn his career around and be a starter.
This is probably going to be his last chance. It's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. And speaking of owners, the Major League Baseball owners got something to say about spending. Are they spending too much? Are they spending too little? We'll talk about it. The J.R. Sportbree Show.
