It is the JR Sportbrief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Happy Friday to you. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well.
I hope you've had a tremendous day. Yeah, we're basically at the start of the weekend. I'm going to help you get you closer. I'm going to help get you closer to Saturday and Sunday, and hopefully some rest and relaxation. This is when the show gets started every weekday 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific.
I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey holding it down for us in New York City. What a busy Friday it's been. This is the final weekend of the NBA season. A lot of teams jockeying for position. Hey, we just learned that Derek Carr of the New Orleans Saints.
This man might miss the entire 2025 NFL season. Like doing what? What?
He slices his hand on an apple. He blew out his shoulder. We'll talk about that in a bit. We got the Masters going on right now. Justin Rose is leading the way.
Yeah, eight shots under right now. Bryson DeChambeau riding underneath him. Rory McIlroy. He's still in the mix as well after having a mixed bag yesterday.
We'll keep you up to date on the Masters as we continue on. Kirk Cousins looking for a job. Joe Flacco potentially took one of his jobs. What does Derek Carr being hurt mean for the rest of these guys? What does it mean for the draft? What does it mean for Chador? We're going to get into it all on the college side.
Nico Iamaliyava. This guy is sticking up Tennessee. I'm like, he's sticking him up for money. What a world that we live in. How the tide has turned, right? College athletes are trying to stick up their teams.
Give me my money before I go into the transfer portal. Speaking of sticking people up, Jon Morant isn't doing that with his fingers anymore. Jon Morant has graduated to hand grenades. Yeah, Jon Morant is throwing imaginary hand grenades into the stands.
Go catch one. It is Friday. If we can get there, I don't know if things are going to be funny, but later on in the show, maybe we'll get a couple of callers to tell a joke or two, get us all loosened up for the weekend. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. You can always listen to the show on the free Odyssey app.
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And if you got yourself a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. I'm in Atlanta. Hickey's in New York. Hickey, how are you on this Friday afternoon? Almost evening, wherever the hell you live.
How you feel? Well, well, happy Friday. Happy that the weekend is basically here for most of us. Excited to watch some good golf, I think, over the weekend and see the the ending of the NBA regular season, which just looks like really outside of one or two matchups. Going to be a bunch of scrubs playing against each other.
So looking forward to it. You took the words out of my mouth. And you know what? Speaking of scrubs and with all this dysfunction going on, I mean, in a lot of cases, I find the Saints to be dysfunctional.
They got some choices that they have to make right now with Derek Carr potentially out with that shoulder issue. We'll get into that in a second. But in about 20 minutes, we're going to have a chat with Dana Scott from the Arizona Central newspaper, which is now digital. I think everything is digital now to talk about a dysfunctional team that they ain't competing and nothing after the weekend is up. That's the Phoenix Suns.
Just a complete and utter disaster. So if you want to be a part of the show, you can do that, too. The phone number here is 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. You can find me online. I'm on the Internet. I am at JR Sport Brief. That's at JR Sport Brief everywhere. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Tons of it. And a matter of fact, the Talk Everything Masters, we're going to have a chat with Matt Adams from the Golf Channel. Matt is going to come through and join us next hour.
But this is news that kind of popped up just an hour ago. This is bad news or maybe it's good news if you're a fan of the New Orleans Saints. Derek Carr might be out for the 2025 season. Derek Carr might miss a portion of the season.
He might miss none of the season. But apparently Derek Carr has a shoulder issue. And if you think about the New Orleans Saints, you might say to yourself, well, how the hell does he have a shoulder issue when he played 10 games last year and he had an injury to like his midsection and his non-throwing head?
Well, I guess when you get to be 34 years old and things start to hurt and act up. And now he has a shoulder issue that we do not have a whole lot of information on. Ian Rappaport broke this news to us about an hour ago, as I said. And what does this mean for the New Orleans Saints? It's kind of late in the game, kind of sort of, to go out there and get a quarterback.
Earlier today, we learned that Joe Flacco is on his way back to Cleveland to play for the Browns. He's going to be making four million dollars this upcoming season. Now, if you're Kirk Cousins, you might be ticked off about that. You're like, hey, I'm stuck here in Atlanta and they won't trade me. Well, you got a big old contract. Joe Flacco is playing for four million dollars.
All right. Derek Carr and the Saints, they don't have the luxury of just waking up tomorrow and just bringing on, you know, some schlub as a quarterback, OK? What the hell would Aaron Rodgers want with the New Orleans Saints? Why would Aaron Rodgers want to go to the Saints? Can we just throw that idea out the window? Unless he wants to be closer to, you know, voodoo and hoodoo and I don't know, unless Aaron Rodgers wants to get into some, you know, interesting things, I see no reason whatsoever that this man would dare ever want to go down to New Orleans at all.
And so let's just X that off. And so if you're the New Orleans Saints, what the hell else do you do but just take a dip into the draft? That makes the most sense, doesn't it? I mean, if you're Derek Carr and you can't play, they just restructured your salary. He's basically stuck with them for one more year. Be stupid for the Saints to just go ahead and cut them and cost them tons of money.
They're stuck with them. They got no cap flexibility. If you're Kellen Moore, you're a rookie head coach. You just look at the draft. It's as simple as that. If you're the New Orleans Saints and Derek Carr is now hurt. Part of the season, all of the season, let's be quite real and quite frank.
I mean, the early portion of the season from when Kellen Moore was hired, it's pretty apparent that they might be looking to go elsewhere with Derek Carr. But who the hell wanted him, I guess? Maybe his family? I don't know. Hickey, is his brother still on TV? He is. Yeah. What's David? Is he NFL network? David's doing right.
You nailed it. Wow. He's been there a long time.
He has and does a pretty good job. Wow. Man, I've never, I don't sit around and watch the NFL network. Maybe I'm at a bar having a drink or something.
That's the most I see it when it's on mute. Yeah. Well, I'm glad he looks good because the way his career started down in Houston, they were beating the living hell out of that guy. We're getting sacked like his, his 60 secs, his 70 secs, his 70 secs.
That guy, that dude was a pinata. They beat, they beat the professional football out of that guy when the Texans got started down in Houston. And I don't know, maybe that's the case right now for his brother. The Saints have the ninth overall selection in this year's draft. And we've all heard about the usual suspects. Cam Ward expected to probably go to the Tennessee Titans. There's Chador Sanders.
His name kind of keeps falling down the draft board. But if you're the Saints, isn't this now the time to act? And if I'm the Saints and I'm looking at Chador, I'm looking at a guy who I'm not expecting to go bursting out of the pocket. I'm not looking at some speed demon.
I'm not looking at some physical freak. I don't, I think there's something to be said about playing indoors in a controlled environment, in a controlled climate for rookie quarterback to take some time to learn. Look, the Saints just went five and 12. I told you Derek Carr missed 10 of those games with a basically a hand injury, not to his throwing in.
And now he has a shoulder issue. You're bringing in a new head coach in Kellen Moore. And I told you there's a good old time to be had down in New Orleans at the Superdome. I don't care if them bums are winning or losing. It's certainly better if they're winning. But the point is, if I'm the Saints, I'm just getting Chador. That's it. I'm keeping it simple.
I'm getting Chador. Hey, we had a quarterback here in Louisiana. This man was not fleet of foot. This man snapped the ball and he threw it fast. He wasn't thinking he wasn't scrambling.
He wasn't running around unless he absolutely had to. That guy's name was Drew Brees. Now I am by no means saying that Chador Sanders is going to end up like Drew Brees. I'm by no way, shape or form indicating that Chador Sanders is going to have the career of Drew Brees.
But there can certainly be some similarities. So Chador just gets the ball out. And I think that's his best case in the NFL, because if he has to get running and scrambling, I think he will be destroyed.
I mean, you could run around for Hickey. Sometimes it felt like Chador ran around behind the line of scrimmage for. I feel like I could read War and Peace. He's not going to be able to do that in the NFL. What a reference. Wow. What a pull. That's a long ass book. The long ass book is running and running and running, running a circle, running and running and running and running and then just throw the ball deep. Can't do that in the NFL. Next thing you know, somebody be snatching that ball out of the air and running it back the other way for a pick six. And so I think Chador Sanders best chance and opportunity is to learn from someone.
And then get thrown into the fire. And his physical attributes don't match up to a Cam Ward. He ain't going to beat him at the bench press. He's not going to beat him at the 40 yard dash. Use your brain.
Use what you've learned all these years sitting under the learning tree of your father. One of the greatest defensive football players of all time. Pre-snap read. Whatever you need the audible and call at the line.
Go ahead and call it. Ball snap. Throw ball first down.
Just keep on doing that and go down the field. That's what I would do if I were the New Orleans Saints. And isn't Kellen Moore a former quarterback? Isn't he supposed to be one of these these quarterback whispers? I mean, he played for the Lions barely. He played for Dallas barely. He was the offensive coordinator for years, went and did that for the Chargers, did it for the Eagles. Won himself a championship. Good for him.
Shadore Sanders is the way to go. Except for a couple of days ago. Tony Pauline, you can take it for what it's worth.
A matter of fact, not even a couple of days ago yesterday. Maybe Tony Pauline knows something. Tony Pauline said on the Saints block party podcast that the Saints, they don't, they don't fancy Shadore Sanders. They want Quinn Ewers.
But as of a couple of hours before I came on with you guys, I asked specifically about number nine and someone told me, no, I said, no, they don't think it's going to be Shadore Sanders at nine. Look for Quinn Ewers in the third round because evidently the Saints like Quinn Ewers a lot. And Quinn Ewers for some asinine reason has been the forgotten quarterback in this whole process. People have just dismissed him. But that's what I was told a few hours ago. What makes it so asinine?
And why wouldn't anybody question Quinn Ewers? I mean, if you can't stay healthy in college, I'm supposed to believe that a gigantic man falling on you is, is, is going to be better. It's going to be worse in the NFL. I mean, if you get knocked around by 20 and 21 and 22, and in some cases, some of these guys in college feels like they're like 40 years old.
But I digress. If you get knocked around by young men and you're getting hurt, what happens when Quinn Ewers meets Miles Garrett? And I'm not saying that's Shadore. I mean, he's slight himself. Miles Garrett hitting anybody is going to be bad. Look at Tuatongo Veloa, this guy's brain. They got to worry about his head.
Quinn Ewers, I think it's, it's makes plenty of sense. Why would somebody want to take him at number nine for what? For him to be hurt? Sprained a pinky toe that have damaged cartilage?
Ah, no, no, thank you. A big shout out, well, not to Derek Carr because I'm not wishing injury upon anybody, but thank you so much to the Saints for giving us just something to take a bite out of when it comes to the NFL because he had the draft might be two weeks away, but we needed a story. We needed something that was not directly related to Aaron Rodgers and what he ate for breakfast and when he's going to the gym and if he's going to play, we needed something and Derek Carr in his shoulder gave it to us. If you're the Saints, just take Chidor and bring the party to New Orleans. I think that would be an amazing fit and an amazing situation. Dion can crisscross between Boulder and Louisiana. That'd be a good life.
I think it'd be good for Chidor. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network and Derek Carr didn't want to be out there anyway. Let's be real. Hickey, you think he paid for, you think he did a Nancy Kerrigan to his own shoulder? Oh, no. You think that's a no. No. OK. No. He wants to play. All right.
Not bad. Oh, you don't want to play there. Well, the problem for him, though, is, OK, if not there, then where you are. Well, the the fans don't want him there. Ownership doesn't what it's like. It's like an arranged marriage at this point in time. Either play for the Saints, sit in a rehab room or join his brother on TV. Yeah, only one is going to pay a whole lot of money.
And that's sticking with the Saints. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to give you an update on the Masters next hour. Well, we'll have a chat with Matt Adams to dive deeper into the Masters.
We'll talk about Nico Iamaliyava. The man said Tennessee pay me money or I don't play. Give you an update on Kirk Cousins. What does this mean for him? Derek Carr going down and Chidor, the draft, Flacco.
What does all of this mean for Kirk Cousins? We'll give you an update on what's going on in the NBA as the teams in the West jockey for playoff position. We got a lot to do when we come back. We're going to have a chat with one team whose season is about to end very quickly.
Well, let's be real. It's already over. It is the disaster of the Phoenix Suns. Dana Scott's going to join us on the other side. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze Show. Happy Friday on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbreeze.
It is the J.R. Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I love Palin, Texas. I love Arizona too.
You had to open up the show talking about another place that I love. I love New Orleans. I love the Saints. They got an issue with Derek Carr and his health right now. I may not play this upcoming season.
We'll find out sooner than later. We got a long way until we get to September and the start of their year. But on the basketball side, there's another team.
I guess we can call them dysfunctional at this point. This season is about to be over even though they got a lot of stars. So at least they're paying a lot of stars, a lot of money. That's the Phoenix Suns. This is a team with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal and then your next door neighbor.
And then they just got a lot of other guys on the team in there doing nothing like not going to the playoffs with a record of thirty five and forty five to talk about this team, its future, what we can expect to happen with Durant or Booker and or Beal is someone who covers a squad for azcentral.com. It's Dana Scott. Dana, how are you? I'm great. How are you?
I'm excellent. Thank you for taking the time to join us. Here we are. Two games left in the season. The Phoenix Suns are in action tonight against San Antonio. They hit the road against Sacramento. And that's it for a lot in the organization, for the fan base.
Is this now a sigh of relief just to get it over with and hopefully fast forward to July when they can move Durant? Well, yeah, from what the crowd kind of looks like, you can hear a pin drop in those games now. Now, I remember the 19 win season back in twenty eighteen, nineteen, when the two top players on the Suns were Devin Booker and and D.J.
Warren. OK. And there was barely any people in the stands and that basically nobody booed because everybody expected them to lose. So it's interesting that they basically have what you said, this function with three stars, Devin Booker as the mainstay, Kevin Durant now in his third official season with the Suns since the twenty twenty three trade deadline and also Bradley Beal since June of twenty three. So it's basically what you said, dysfunctional discord, disrespected, because now it's become a dunk contest for opposing teams in this late in the fourth quarter.
And they're laughing at them. And also the media of what Spencer did, Woody calling them ass when they show up last, when they that streamer. So that flashcard of the Phoenix Suns logo and so many things that you can think of that it might be disassembled as you just pointed out come this season for this team, even though Matt is he doesn't want to use the word rebuild.
So it'll be a semantic thing coming forward. Dana Scott is here with us covers the Phoenix Suns for azcentral sports. Matt Ishbia a year ago, he gave us there's a bunch of teams like right now today over the weekend in the West who are competing for for playoff spots. They're like a game apart. Five teams at a game apart.
The Suns are completely out of it. It was almost exactly a year ago, a little bit more that Matt Ishbia said. We have everything that we need to win a championship. Has Matt Ishbia spoken or do we have to wait another couple of days before he he says anything? Well, it's an interview the next week and I anticipate that he will be addressing the media again, because Matt Ishbia does love to hold press conferences at the arena. He will put whatever it might be for small player signings, meaning not small in terms of size, but in terms of the magnitude of the player to the coaches or maybe a new investment of a facility of some sort of upgrade.
He likes to do those things in grandiose style. So best believe he will be addressing this team's failure moving forward because of what he said a year ago compared to now. Dana, when you think about the acquisition of Bradley Beal, we know he has the no trade clause.
He didn't want to wait. But we know Kevin Durant was not cool with moving in the middle of the season, regardless of his reasons of, hey, I just don't want to move in the middle of the season or not. Like he's the most likeliest of guys to go. The Suns have zero draft picks having acquired both Beal and Durant. They just have to move Durant. It's a foregone conclusion. He's going to be gone and they're going to have to get back draft capital and then I guess wait for Bradley Beal's contract to expire.
Is that best case? Well, there's some speculation that there could be possibilities that if they don't move on from Bradley Beal to another team to push him with, uh, if they can't find a suitor like they could have the trade deadline, they may have the option of waiving and stretching. That might cost a lot being that Bradley Beal is, uh, they would have to stretch his contract over the course of the next five years because if they're over the second apron for a third year in a row, uh, then they will be basically, um, or second straight year at least, then they'll have their first round, uh, draft capital frozen in the next seven years. They don't have their own pick until 2032 and that's seven years from now.
So that could be frozen. Um, that will be my apologies for interrupting you. What you just said is almost, it's hard to put a finger on. Correct, correct me.
You just said as it stands today, 2025 the Phoenix Suns do not control their own first rounder until 2032. Is that correct? That is correct. Oh my God. Okay, go ahead. That's uh, that's, that's crazy. Okay. Yeah. They got to trade the whole world and get picks back.
Go ahead. I mean they have picks. I mean they definitely broke up their picks into a little bite sized pieces and unfavorable picks with, you know, from that 2031 pick that was their own and they tried to make that deal, uh, while having a, I think it was the, uh, Cleveland's pick, Utah Jazz's pick and they traded it and also believe it was the Hornets. So, um, I'm, I'm just thinking of the fact that those are unfavorable picks in the years 2020, uh, for late round picks in 27, 29 and 31. So, uh, those are things that they try to do to get Jimmy Butler that didn't work out.
You saw where the warriors have turned the corner since they got that trade and they're, uh, in a six spot avoiding the play in tournament as the sons were basically lowering their expectations precipitously over the course of this season to get in a 10 spot. And the fans expectations have basically gone from, yeah, we, we, we're, we're going to get back to where we were in the finals four years ago to, uh, we don't know if this team is going to make the play and hopefully we get in the 10 spot and then now the fans don't even care. They basically are just like, you know, uh, it's almost like coming home or going and that, and that's in my own case cause I'm not like that. I'm totally happy with my wife and kids, but it's like coming home to a wife that you know is basically bound for divorcing you and you, and you, there's nothing you could do to save the relationship. So really you're basically at a, a verbal impasse where you just don't speak and sleep in separate rooms. That's the best comparison I can come up to with the fans and the Phoenix sons right now and how they've approached this basketball team coming to the arena. Damn Dana, you're making me think about the days of sitting in the driveway, not wanting to go in the house, man.
Oh, thank you. Yeah. I mean there's, like I said, there's, there, I just had my child, so I, my son, so that doesn't apply to me, but I think we've all been there at some point in some relationship in the past where we know it's over, but you know, you're basically like, uh, I'm not breaking up with you until you break up with me. That's where it's at between the sons and the fans and this front office and this team right now. And Dana Scott is here with us. It covers the, uh, the Phoenix sons having a divorce with their fan base. Now it is not to the Dallas Mavericks level.
They're, they're a complete waste of time in and of themselves. What do you think is the most likeliest of scenarios of the, of the, over the summer, over the next couple of years, they're going to suck. They just got to get rid of a couple of these guys and, and, and start fresh. No, they have to get rid of some of a one piece to basically get back under the second apron. Even though they, if they can't get on the first day, but do they have to get back on the second? So at least they can get a player so they can use a mid-level exception of 12.5 million, which they can do past the second apron after the first day.
And they can do that. But this is a prime example of what the collective bargaining agreement of July 2023, when it was put into place. Uh, this is a example of what a super team looks like when you apply that CBA and how roster construction can be hampered. Uh, and what the CBA was initially designed to do to not allow free agents to just, uh, come together and basically make the, the, the, the league lopsided, uh, to one conference. And you see a lot more, uh, there's more parody now, even though the West is still the strongest conference in the league. So you see that the East still has, uh, some very good teams, even though the records don't show it from the bottom five, uh, all the way till, uh, the 10th in the play in, but they're still a competitive in a way compared to the West.
So, uh, the sons are certainly, uh, just this lab rat of what, uh, basically a cautionary tale of what a super team is. And I don't know if we'll ever see a team like the warriors or the heatles or the Celtics of 2008 ever again, because of it. Uh, Dana Scott, last question for you, man, you, you cover this team. We saw what took place down in Dallas the other night. They were chanting for Negro Harrison to get fired. It appeared that James Jones, the president of the Phoenix sons and runs the basketball side, he didn't want to go through with all of these trades.
And then Matt Ishbia buys the team and he kinda pushes the button like, Hey, let's go ahead and bring in stars. James Jones, he's kind of Teflon right now. He's not going to be bothered or touched, right? People he might have the case of say, I told you so.
Well, here's the thing. Whenever it comes to an organization that's failed, there's always going to be a fall guy. And I'm not saying that's going to be James Jones, but James Jones is somebody who has said in the past, he does not like the draft. He understands why teams tank or why teams go through the draft process, but it's not for him. And I'm paraphrasing what he said, but he did know last summer that they had to get younger and have some youth energy. So if you've seen that youth movement with Collins, Gillespie is the backup to waypoint guard, getting more minutes, Ryan Dunn, getting 42 starts out of his 72 appearances. And also, uh, Iguodaro being the big, uh, backup and getting some time, uh, in his, uh, five starts this past season, uh, or this current season, I'm already thinking past tense, sorry, but there's, there's just things that James Jones knows that he's like accepted that they have to get younger because he became executive of the year in 2001 from the youth movement of the sons and the draft after the bubble. So, uh, there are certain things that he didn't want to do probably from, uh, Matt, if you're coming in, but when you have a guy with a big wallet and a billionaire spender, who's willing to, uh, turn the tide, uh, with a big name like Kevin Durant, how can you say no to your Svengali?
Who's basically the black hand and opening up his checkbook that is bottomless. So, uh, but in this whole thing that we've seen over the past week with Calvin Booth and Mike Malone getting ousted together from the Denver Nuggets, we just won a title two years ago, anything can happen. And, uh, I wouldn't be surprised if James Jones becomes expendable in that sense.
Yeah. Phoenix son's going to expect us to go through quite a few changes. Well, Dana, thank you for coming through and breaking it all down. Please tell everybody where we can follow your work as these sons implode over the next several months. Tell us. Thank you.
Um, and, uh, I just want to say before I give you my information that I am not one to tell somebody or somebody else that they don't deserve their job because I don't want anybody to tell me I don't deserve mine to be fair. But that being said, my handles on social media are at I am, which is at I a M underscore Dana Scott, D a N a S C O T T that's on X as well as Instagram. Hey Dana, thank you so much. Appreciate the time. Uh, I'm sure we'll be talking with you in a few months. Okay. When, when Kevin Duran is traded to XYZ. Okay. Yeah.
Or maybe even next week after, you know, the patches starts coming down on some guys. Well, let me know anytime you want me to come back on. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dana.
Have a terrific weekend. Wow. Wow.
Stuff. Now that is a disaster what they got going on out there in Phoenix. You bring in Bradley Beal. Who's just been hurt the past bunch of years. I mean, look at this Bradley Beal has only played 52 games this year. This is a guy who didn't want to waive his no trade clause.
You don't go play anywhere. He ended up anyway. Kevin Duran has one year left on his contract.
You have to think about what the hell you'd get from for him in return. He's still one of the best scorers in the league. He's just, he's going to get hurt every now and then.
Now it's his foot landed on the guy's foot. He's done for the year. He played 62 games. Devin Booker just shows up and scores. He's played in 74 games.
They got two more games left, so he's been durable throughout the course of the season. The Suns are just a disaster. These owners come in, they get the money or they have the money. They want to spend the money. They want to get the stars instead of actually going out there and building a team.
And what Matt Ishbia did was impulsive. He says, I'm the big boy with the big boy money. I'm going to spend my big boy money. I'm going to get Kevin Duran.
I'm going to get Bradley Beal. I'm going to fill out the rest of the roster. He started naming the young guys.
God bless him. But these guys are anonymous. The rest of the roster, these guys might as well be on the back of a milk carton. You know what they should do the last two or three games?
Get some real plumbers and real firemen out there. Well, you know, and shout outs to Dana. Dana did say that there's a disconnect between the fans and the ownership group. I guess they got to be second to the Dallas Mavericks at this point in time.
Oh, man. That would be great, like fan appreciation. They should do it tonight as they host the Spurs. Let fans join the layup line and actually stay in the game.
I mean, I think so. How else do you say thank you to the fans for putting up with this crap? First guy to get an assist to Devin Booker wins $5,000. Now we're talking. If you can execute a perfect assist and a score to Devin Booker, you win $5,000. How about a rebound? What do you get for a 10k for a rebound? You know, I think what do you think is more likely for just the schlub to walk onto the court and get an assist or you can accidentally get a rebound. You know, like ball falls to you, it slips out of hands and you just happen to be standing there. Like to get a pass through on an NBA court against guys out of six, five and seven feet is I feel be impossible.
I feel the other way. I think it's impossible to get a rebound when you are by far assuming this is just a normal, let's say, six, six foot one person. Good luck. You're the shortest person by five inches on the court.
Yeah, you don't have to. A rebound will roll to you by accident, but just by accident. Come on.
Devin Booker coming off a screen. I can throw a pass to him. That's easy.
It's a score? Yeah. You think you can get a pass off in the NBA? Absolutely. A pass, 10 times more likely than getting a rebound, which is 10 times more easier than scoring a bucket.
Let's see. How many, how many rebounds do you think Muggsy Bowles averaged in his career? He's up, but he's also an athletic freak to where he was like five, six and still made it.
Like you used to be super human. He was five, three hickey. No fan on the court, even if they have five inches on Muggsy Bogues has his athleticism. At his peak, he averaged four rebounds a game. For his career, he averaged two and a half.
We're talking about an average fan here, like a 40 year old guy. Is he going to out rebound? Watch your mouth. No, no, but I can, I can accidentally have a ball roll my way. Come on. I think it's throwing a pass is way easier and saying, Hey, Devin, go score.
I don't think you get a pass off. That's what I'm saying. Let's ask Rich. Rich, what do you think is more difficult to accomplish in the NBA? Getting an assist off where the guy scores or getting a rebound?
I don't know. I have to think about that. Uh, I'd say, I'd say the, the former over than the ladder, because right now getting a rebound, I mean, you look at half the possessions, there's one guy underneath. Yeah, but you accidentally have the ball just spurts out at some point.
Yeah. I feel confident if I stayed in an entire NBA game. Not that I could do that. If I played a quarter, I can't do that either, but let's just pretend I think I have a better chance of a loose ball. Just ended up my way and just picking it up, done rebound over. Right. But then to actually execute a pass to these giants, these guys, they move their arms out and the whole court is covered.
And then having the guy score, I wouldn't get a pass off. I'd be cooked. It's okay. Hickey, you're just Magic Johnson out here. I'm just. No, I just, I'm just playing, I'm playing the odds. That's all I can make a pass to Devin Booker. Also, it doesn't have to be perfect. You're just saying, okay, I'm gonna stay in one part of the court and pray to God this rebound comes to me.
It will, it will. The ball, every shot is a rebound. The ball, yeah, just what? Okay, so now, but you're saying you are not getting a rebound unless the ball comes directly perfectly to you with no one else around. With all these threes that these guys take, I'm going for the long rebound. Okay.
Okay. Kind of camping out in the near the elbow. I'm not hanging out under the basket. That's stupid. But no, look to Axe point, no one is really camping out under the basket anymore.
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. If I'm out, if I'm out outside of the paint, I'm outside of the key, I can get a long three, but I'm saying rebound. Like if no one's under the basket and everyone is more spread out, you're actually by where you're saying you want to post up at, you're actually probably right in the middle of where most people are. Watch, watch a game. The loose, the loose balls are just the loose balls.
The loose balls all over the place. Okay. Okay. I listen, I hope one day we can not talk about this and actually see it happen. We can actually have some results.
I think we have as good a chance of seeing this happen as a pig fly. We see hockey go, you know, some guys come off the street to play hockey goalie in an emergency situation now. A basketball player come off the street? That's unique to hockey?
The closest thing I think we've seen to that. Remember that guy the Lakers had with the salt and pepper hair a couple years ago? Yeah, like the 40 year old guy that's been like the G League his entire career? Yeah, he played one game for the Lakers. That guy had like, what do you have, like 25 points or something? It was not bad.
It was not terrible. And he came from the G League. That's the closest we'll get. Hey, shout out to everybody out there going for their dreams. Hey, that's a an allude to what's the guy's name from Michigan? Mr. Fantastic.
Oh, my God. Mr. Fantastic. Mr. Perfect.
Breaking his heart. Mr. Amazing. Mr. Positive. Oh, he's never gonna call again.
Oh, okay. Greg in Michigan is good, too. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you to Dana Scott for coming through to join us to talk about a disaster that is the Phoenix Suns. You know what?
At the top of the hour, we'll talk about another disaster. The Cleveland Browns. Because today they picked up a quarterback.
His name is Joe Flacco. What does that mean for the Browns? What does that mean for Chador Sanders? What does that mean for Kirk Cousins? In just a matter of like five hours, things have changed just a little bit in the NFL. Saints probably looking for a quarterback with a shoulder injury to Derek Carr. Got the Browns picking up Joe Flacco. Does this mean that they're not going to draft the QB? What does this mean for Kirk Cousins? We'll get into all of that at the top of the hour to kind of put a bow on on what we discussed just a few minutes ago with Dana Scott.
Thank you again for joining us from azcentral.com. He covers the Suns on a full time basis. Devin Booker was asked this Wednesday. He's the guy who's been a part of the Suns. Yeah, he had the weight on Durant to be traded there and Beal to be traded there and they've done nothing.
They suck. Devin Booker basically said, yeah, this season has been a complete failure. You know, it's been a slow bleed out. You know, I've been feeling this way for majority of the season.
I think the small glimpses of, you know, good stretches that we've played, you know, I know gave me hope and probably gave everybody else hope. So, you know, you never want it to be that you're squeezing into the last spot of the play in the first place. So kind of expected at this point. Oh, a slow bleed out. Oh, my God. It's like watching one of those.
Those horror movies, a slow bleed out. Oh, hey, who gets traded Beal or Durant? Got to trade Durant, right? You have to because who's taking Beal? Nobody.
Nobody's thinking that guy. Especially just more injuries. And I don't even think you get a lot back for Durant.
I still can't believe in a basketball team. Doesn't own its first round pick until twenty thirty two, seven years out. Now, I know in the league you can alternate your picks like you can't trade the first rounders in consecutive years. You can have the option to do so is what the Suns did. I just. This is stupid. It's not enough money in the world for Matt Ishbia to clean this up. I feel bad for the Suns fans after I feel bad for the Mavs fans. What a world. And then James Jones, you'll probably get the boot. He never wanted to make the trade in the first place. And now he may pay for it with his job, the trade that his boss wanted him to make. What a world.
It's like telling somebody to push the button of the detonator and you take their hand and make them push it. I just what a world. We'll get into the disaster that it is, the Browns on the other side. It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show. The Infinity Sports Network. Happy Friday.
