It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm being joined by super producer and host Ryan Hickey.
He is in New York City. What a weekend. And we were waiting on one thing in particular. And yes, Chador Sanders, he got drafted.
It took a while, but he finally got drafted. We'll get into that, of course, trying to figure out what the Cleveland Browns are doing with all of these quarterbacks they have from Flacco to Sanders to Dylan Gabriel, who they selected above Chador Sanders. We'll get into that. You know, matter of fact, later on the show, we're going to have a chat with Mary Kay Cabot. She covers all things Cleveland Browns for Cleveland.com.
How about this? Next hour, we'll have a chat with Chad Reuter from the NFL. Yeah, NFL.com. Chad actually laid out draft grades for every single team. Apparently, there's some people in Buffalo not happy with what the Buffalo Bills did in their draft, not getting a wide receiver. Their GM, Brandon Bean, he lost his you-know-what earlier today.
And we also got confirmation. Speaking of losing, Milwaukee Bucks, they lose. Damian Lillard, he is out for the rest of the postseason. He's likely out for a good portion of next season.
And who knows even if he's going to be a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. So we got a lot to get into, a lot to discuss. Bill Belichick is being weird on television. That's what happens when you got a relationship with somebody that is 50 years younger than you.
Things can get very weird very quickly. Congratulations to the Washington commanders. Looks like they'll be moving out of the desert or the suburbs getting back into Washington, D.C. It's nice. Maybe I'll make a trip now. I was not going out into Maryland to go see them.
You could throw that out the window. And so we got a lot to discuss. It's April 28th.
It's been that way all day long. The year is 2025. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. And so we got a full show. We got some other NBA games that are going to pop up tonight. You got the Cavs and the Heat. Last night, I mean, yesterday, besides everything else going on, the Lakers, they look like they also cooked. The Detroit Pistons, they got screwed.
We got the Warriors and the Rockets later on tonight. So there's a lot to get into. You want to be a part of the show?
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That's X, Twitter, whatever the heck they're calling it. You can find me right on there at JR Sport Brief. Ryan Hickey, how was your weekend? You good? You done with Chidor watch? I am happy that it's over. I'm glad now the watch can finally be put to bed. Yeah.
Yeah. And with that, I feel like that was the entirety of the weekend. With all the action and other sports, there was one storyline everyone was talking about, everyone was focused on. Yo, they draft, they took, it took until the fifth round to draft that guy.
And I don't know, maybe it's a matter of rumors or true. So we, we all knew before Chidor got drafted that there was so much talk about, oh, Chidor is interviewed badly. You know, typical, you know, beat a guy down in case that he falls to you. But then it became apparent that this, this negativity come in his direction. It wasn't so much about, you know, putting out bad information, you know, putting some stink on his name and hoping that he falls to you so you can select him.
Apparently this, this stink was legitimate. He was selected in the fifth round. Pick number 144.
Okay. There were five quarterbacks that were selected before him. I feel like the Cleveland Browns must have passed on this guy about three or four different times. I mean, even selecting Dylan Gabriel out of Oregon.
And so Chidor Sanders expected to be the second quarterback taken in this draft. He had to wait until the fifth round. Maybe all of these, these rumors, maybe all of these things are true. Maybe he was absolutely terrible in the meetings.
Maybe he did go out and, you know, maybe it was a little you know, maybe it was a little too arrogant. And this much I know is fact. His dad is Dion, which certainly doesn't help matters when Dion is saying, my son is going to be a first round draft pick.
What is your son going to do? That didn't prove to be true. And maybe some of these, these stories are accurate.
How about this? Before we got to the draft, right before the draft, Todd McShea was on his show and he basically said, yeah, some of these meetings, they went into the toilet. Chidor's not in play at three. Chidor's not in play with the New York Giants, as far as I'm told. Chidor didn't have a great interview with Brian Dable in a private, private visit.
An install package came in. Preparation wasn't there for it. Got called out on it. Didn't like that.
Brian didn't appreciate him not liking it. I told you there were two personnel people that I spoke to who were in the room during interviews, which means they were, they're key parts of the organization. Let's leave it at that. Two teams drafting in the top 10 with quarterback needs where the interviews did not go well.
Wow. And Chidor had the fall, not round one, end of round one, not round two, not round three, not round four, round five. On the NFL network, Tom Pelosaro, he had a few more details as to why Chidor Sanders fell into the fifth round. Throughout the pre-draft process, Chidor Sanders very much proceeded as if he was dictating to clubs where he was going to go rather than how the draft works, which is the other way around.
And there were a bunch of opportunities missed at the various checkpoints through that pre-draft process. Go all the way back to All-Star season. Instead of going to the Senior Bowl, he went to the East-West Shrine Bowl in his backyard in Dallas. Despite an NFL memo saying if you go to these All-Star games you have to practice, Chidor chose not to. At the combine, it is now well documented some of his formal interviews did not go well.
One assistant coach told me in all his years it was the worst formal interview he'd ever been through. All of which is to say for a player who had a variety of questions both about the talent level, how he would fit into an NFL system, how he would adjust from his play style in college, but also about the potential culture shock of for the first time playing for someone who is not his father, there were opportunities that Chidor Sanders could have taken there. He seemed to feel as if he was in an elite category where he could choose the few teams he wanted to go to. Oh wow, well I mean that certainly falls in line with what we heard from Deion Sanders. At one point in time, Deion is just like, oh yeah, I'll pull an Eli. You know it's what Archie did with his son Eli where he did not go to the San Diego Chargers at the point in time. This man ended up on the New York Giants, although he was drafted by the Chargers and then immediately traded to the New York Giants. Deion then went back and and said he would never kind of steer and lead and dictate where his sons go, both of his sons actually, because they can't nobody call the shots, right?
Now we said this on on Thursday, we said this on Friday as he went undrafted in both round one, two, and three. Nobody wants no headaches at work. That's just a fact. I don't care who you are and then when you have the name Deion Sanders just kind of floating above everybody, nobody wants to deal with that. A novice coach doesn't want to do that, a novice GM, nobody wants to do that.
You want to be able to come through and do your job without having to worry about, you know, external sources and circumstances that kind of push your buttons. Who wants an added headache? I haven't met one human being ever who woke up today and said, you know what I need today? A problem. Well, nobody intentionally does that.
Some people are just walking problems. And so after having this draft experience with Chidor is taken in the fifth round, where he had five quarterbacks selected before him as he is now in a crowded quarterback room with Flacco and Pickett. I don't know if we should count Deshaun Watson, but he's there, Dylan Gable and Chidor. Does Chidor regret any of this? You listen to the rumors and the reports about his meetings and the dictating and this and that on Saturday. He was asked if he regrets any of this.
And this is what Chidor said. Do I have any regrets? I feel like in life, it's always the way I can improve. So it's always in different areas I'm able to improve.
And some things that, you know, I could have done at the time that seemed right at the time, I could have went about it a different way. And that does like more during the season and stuff like that. Oh, during the season? We're not talking, nobody asked you about during the season. Folks are asking about what took place during this draft process. And apparently he overplayed his hand and here's something else. If he was worth, quote unquote, the headache that teams thought he would be, if they thought he was that good, they draft him.
It's simple as that. Like we've had this is just a perfect storm of the teams and the league not feeling Chidor is good enough. He didn't prepare, which would lead me to feel that teams felt he had a sense of entitlement. And then the uncertainty as to what degree his dad would interject by the time we got to the season, by the time he got to a team. He has less leverage.
Chidor certainly has. He ain't no number one overall pick. They selected this guy in the fifth round. If they want to go ahead and give him the boot, they can do so.
Basically no strings attached, no headaches, no payouts, no cash outs, no giant price tag attached to the back of his neck where you could just dump him. The Browns have leverage here. We don't need you. You're not going to dictate to us what you want.
You work for us. And so, yeah, the Sanders family now has less leverage. Dion can't go around spouting off if he wanted to about what he thinks they should do, what they should have done. That's out the window. Otherwise, he could be on the unemployment line looking for a job, I don't know, in the XFL or UFL, whatever the hell they call it now.
I don't know. The NFL has employed some terrible human beings. Well, we got terrible human beings all over the place. But when it comes to getting a job done, NFL has made abusers. I mean, look at his teammate, the sexual abusers, Deshaun Watson. I mean, I can go down the list. I don't want to get too graphic about some of the terrible things that we've had players do in the NFL. I mean, I don't want to that we've had players do in the league. There's some active. They're still running around.
They still pop up on Sunday on your fantasy. So don't tell me that, oh, it's a matter of his person. I know they just don't think he's good enough. Because if he was undeniably good, if the tape popped and they saw Lamar Jackson mixed with with Patrick Mahomes, there'd be no doubt. He would have got drafted. He would have got selected. But because people are unsure, he is a cliche again.
Is the juice worth the squeeze? And we got a lot of teams that said absolutely not, including the Cleveland Browns, who decided to pick Dylan Gabriel before him. They got him out of the third or in the third round. Should door was taken almost 60 picks later.
Come on now. And social door says he doesn't regret anything. He just wants to improve in the season.
OK. With all these guys in the Browns quarterback room, Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, Deshaun Watson rehabbing, coming over that blown Achilles, Dylan Gabriel, all six or seven years in college. Should do or how are you going to get the starting job? Are you going to show up and be a good soldier? You're going to be quiet. You're going to earn your check.
Tell me, get there and handle my business. Do what I have to do with whatever role that is. You know, I'm just thankful for opportunity. So that's all I can ask for.
The rest is on me. How do you think you're going to fit in with this team and with this organization? I know I'm a fit in perfectly. I feel like it's first getting in, showing the respect to the vet, showing them, you know, I'm here, ready to work, show the coaches and have them understand, you know, I'm here, ready to work. So so they could actually understand the real me.
That's that's what I'm truly thankful to have is the opportunity for people to actually see the real me and not be able to see stuff that could be true or not. Hey, you don't hear a bad word about the guy personally. I don't. Never heard nothing bad. Never seen anything egregious, outrageous.
I've never seen that. Some of this other stuff that we got going on in the world. I don't hear a bad thing from Chidor. But I think he, they, his family, I think they might have overplayed their hand. And also think it's pretty clear teams just don't think his talent matches what the potential overall headache could be.
And so what did they say? No, thanks. It's as simple as that.
No, thanks. At least for Chidor, with those names I just mentioned to you in the Browns quarterback room. He could go out there and give them all the boot. He could. I'm not going to say he's going to wake up and boom, come September, Chidor Sanders is going to be the starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns.
That's not what I'm saying. There is a possibility at some point in time, he gets a stretch and he gets an opportunity to show what he can do. Dylan Gabriel, a contemporary.
OK. Deshaun Watson. I don't know what he's doing. I haven't seen one of his inspirational I'm coming back videos. I have something to prove.
It's been a it's been about a month. We know what Kenny Pickett is. Nobody wants to see Kenny Pickett. Joe Flacco is 40 years old. This Browns quarterback room is just a a collection at this point of misfit toys.
And Chidor. You would think if he can't climb his way out of this room, then he doesn't need to be a starter anywhere. Hey, man, you got the opportunity. You got the chance in front of you. Go play and take it.
That's it. Let your play do the talking and nothing else. Not you and your music, not your dad.
You go out there and stand on your own laws. A lot of people had an issue when LeBron James helped get his son on the Los Angeles Lakers. We knew his son. Most of us knew his son was not ready for the NBA. His dad got him on the team and he faced criticism for it. He got a guaranteed deal.
Bronny got a guaranteed seven million dollars to show up and play on the Los Angeles Lakers for the next four years. Chidor doesn't have that. Chidor has to now earn his keep, just like everybody else in the league.
And daddy cannot help you or save you at this point in time. I'm rooting for him. I hope it works out for him where he works his ass off to get the job done. I'm rooting for him. I hope it works out for him where he works his ass off to get the job. And I hope that maybe here or there, you know, we hear a little less from Deion.
Maybe they've all learned a lesson. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN.
A very simple question. Why do you feel that Chidor fell in the draft? You think it was him? Was it his dad? Was it his actions? Was it his play? Was it the conference? Was it the amount of wins, the victories, the non-victories?
Why do you believe Chidor fell to the fifth round of the NFL draft? 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. The phone lines are open if you want to give me a holler.
We come back from break. We're going to talk about someone who made a phone call earlier today and he was mad as all hell. His name?
Brandon Bean, the GM of the Buffalo Bills. You'll hear why he was mad on the other side. The phone lines are open. We're just getting started. It's the JR Sport Brief show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief.
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That's 888-710-4ISN. Yep, the NFL draft is done. I'm going to tell you about a general manager. As a matter of fact, you will hear a general manager defend his picks from over the weekend. It wasn't a happy fellow. I'll tell you who it is in a second.
Let's get to the phone lines. Right before we went to break, we were trying to put a bow on what took place with Jadore Sanders and why he slipped and fell. I think there's a variety of reasons here. A, he wasn't overwhelmingly good enough where teams wanted to draft a guy based on the baggage that he might carry. Apparently, all of these news and words that we got about his interviews going poorly, that doesn't appear to be fake rumors or what have you to cause him to drop for somebody else to pick him up.
That didn't happen at all. He fell to the fifth round. And so I think it's a variety of reasons. Let's hear from you. 888-710-4ISN. Let's go to Tampa, Florida, and talk to Thomas. Thomas, you're on the JR Sport Brief show. Hello, JR.
Longtime listener. I called basically in January, but I have an important play that led to his downfall. But before that, I think you owe me an apology because when I called up, I predicted his slide back in January. But you made a mockery of me for my nickname I gave him. I don't I don't recall.
I talk to a lot of people, Thomas. Go ahead. So the important play that I'm going to reference is in the Alamo Bowl. It was in the first quarter, 33 on BYU seven yard line.
Chidora takes a 23 yard sack, gets them out of field goal range, kicks no good. Right. That was my pinpoint. I knew right there he was not good. I knew he just wasn't.
He wasn't the guy. I'm so happy that the Jets did not draft him in the seventh pick because, man, they're already a Joker franchise. But that would have been the worst thing they could have done because nickname I gave him, which you made fun of me for, was Shadookee. And yeah, that yeah, that's that's a that's a pretty dumb nickname for anybody. And so, yeah, I would probably say that as a dumb nickname.
I still think that'd be true. But but JR, what's funny about it is he kind of slid to the fifth round, proving nickname to be true. And the best part about it is now he's on the Cleveland Browns.
So the nickname flies true even more now because he's playing for the Browns fans. OK. All right. Well, thank you, Thomas, for calling from Tampa. Appreciate it. Thank you.
You're welcome. Yeah. That would only be a hickey. That would only be amusing if I was, I don't know, talking to a third grader.
That does just me. Hey, I'm going to call the guy Shadookee Sanders. And he got drafted by the Browns who happened to be named after poop like that.
You'd have to be a third grader to make that correlation. So I still think the nickname is garbage. I don't think he he dropped because of some play in the Alamo Bowl and in San Antonio. I think he dropped because of the reasons that I laid out. He's not overwhelmingly good enough to be selected because we got plenty of you know what to get drafted higher than that.
And nobody wanted to deal with the unknown. I don't think he's good enough. I think it's as simple as that.
What say you? I think in the end, it comes down to just a lack of yeah, lack of belief, like if you think he can be an average quarterback at best, you know, the cop I've been saying is Geno Smith. If you think his ceiling is Geno Smith, well, then all the other baggage, the video, you know, stuff, having his dad, having the microphone that he has in college football, probably the biggest microphone in all of college football.
When he talks, everybody listens. That's a lot to deal with if we were talking about at best an average quarterback. Yeah, could be. Yeah, I think it's just when you put everything together and you mix it all up and you just go, I don't want it. Like it's there's nothing undeniable about it. And I think that's the realization that we all we all kind of faced unless you were Thomas from Tampa and you just absolutely, you know, predicted the future. There's a lot of people who don't who did not think, oh, he's good.
He's not good enough. It's not it's not overwhelming. Look, there was no conversation pretty much at all about who was going to go number one overall. Like, let's think about that for a second. There was no debate where he ranked and where Cam Ward ranked zero conversation. Now, him sliding behind, you know, shock and Gabriel, I think that's that's the Dionne factor.
That's the Dionne effect. That's the we don't know what we're going to get. And he ain't good enough for that. It's simple.
It can't be put in any other way. If they thought that he was a no brainer. Somebody would take the risk. They don't think he's worth the risk. I mean, look, we had Colin Kaepernick.
I mean, Steven A. Smith brought him up over the weekend. Oh, they're trying to keep him out in this and that. The idea. I'm not going to equate it to be in the same thing. But the idea of are you good enough to be a distraction? It's like putting together an algorithm.
It's like trying to solve a theory or prove a theory. If the NFL GMs and coaches think the answer is no, then they won't do it. OK, the New York Jets were desperate enough that they brought on a loud mouth, obnoxious into himself quarterback and said, we see what his track record is. Maybe we can get something, maybe one last drop out of them.
And if it doesn't work, then we just scratched the whole thing. The New York Jets at the time, two years ago, felt it was worth and worth it enough to bring on Aaron Rodgers. And it wasn't everybody got fired.
They blew it up. The brand new head coach says, I don't need you in the building because I don't need you undermining me. As simple as that. Ain't nobody doing that with Patrick Mahomes. OK, because you need him. He don't need you. Somebody else will go ahead and give him a job as simple as that. But not when you're finally getting your feet wet and getting into the league.
It's not worth it. Let's see what he does. I think he's going to get some starts and some opportunities with the Browns. I think the largest controversy is what took place here. Over the weekend. I hope things are just kind of even.
Dion will be asked about him every now and then when we get to the summer and whatnot, but I think it's going to be up to the door to prove his value to the Cleveland Browns and what he can do in the NFL. We're going to find out sooner than later. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. I did tell you right before we went to break. There was a general manager. We heard Andrew Berry. People like what the hell are you doing? Why you got all these quarterbacks? You took Dylan Gabriel and Chador Sanders.
Why? Like what was the point of all this? We still don't have a clear answer. Well, for a team that's actually competing for a championship, they just went to the AFC title game. It's the Buffalo Bills. A lot of their fans are starting to look and go, wait a minute. We lost Stefan Diggs. And yeah, we got Keon Coleman last year in the draft at a good, decent, good, good, the decent rookie year.
Like, why don't we get some more help? And so I don't want to say in hilarious fashion. Their general manager, Brandon Bean, he was on WGR. Shout out to all of our listeners in Western New York, up in Buffalo and Rochester. He was on Jeremy and Joe show. And he was basically asked a couple of questions that he wasn't in favor of, like why they didn't get a wide receiver, you know, why they decided to go defense.
Let's think about it this way. The Buffalo Bills had nine picks over the weekend in the draft. The first five picks were all defense. Seven out of the nine were defense. They picked up a tight end. They picked up a wide receiver.
They did not do it until late. Okay, Brandon Bean, first of all, he made it very clear. He said, this is not a video game. This is not fantasy football.
This is real life. Our job is to score points and win games. Where do we need to get better defense?
We did that. So I get it. You got to have a show and you got to have something to bitch about. But bitching about wide receiver is one of the dumbest arguments I've heard. Our job is not to have, it's not fantasy football, like to, to trot out the best receivers. You got Josh Allen.
First thing you got to do is protect him. You can't have everything. You can't have pro bowl wide receivers and have a pro bowl offensive line and an all pro quarterback and three great running backs. Like you gotta, you gotta pick. Sure. I'd love to play fantasy football, but there's one football, Jeremy, there's one ball.
Well, he continued on. He said, it's not fantasy football. He says, have you seen what we've done in the draft the past few years? I mean, leave me alone about the wide receivers.
Look at what we just did. Well, you guys were bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen. You guys wanted Josh Rosen. And now you guys are bitching that we don't have a receiver.
I don't get it. Like we just go, hold on, let me talk. We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games. We, a year ago, I get you guys asking why we didn't have receivers, but I don't understand it.
Now. You just saw us leave the league in points. When you add all the post-season, no one scored more points than the Buffalo bills, including the super bowl champions. So you just saw us do it without Stefan Diggs, same group. How is this group not better than last year's group?
Yeah. Well, I just told you these Buffalo bills, they just went to the AFC title game. They just lost to the Kansas city chiefs.
Final score there was 32 29. And there's no denying what he's saying about the offense and about the defense. The defense was ranked number 11 last year. Not the greatest, not the best.
If you ask me, that's closer to the middle of the pack than it is to the beginning. They weren't a great defensive team. Fine. Great.
Sure. When it comes to getting over the hump, like who's to say that if they didn't have a better wide receiver, that they wouldn't have success just a little bit more. I mean, we saw Dalton Kincaid drop a pass.
We know Keon Coleman is moving into his second year. They don't have that game-breaking wide receiver. I mean, if we take a look at a team like the Green Bay Packers, that Josh Jacobs, see, I'm not going to say he had a fit, but he actually vocalized after they lost in the postseason. He's like, yeah, we need a game-breaking wide receiver.
There's, there's a difference between, you know, killing them by committee and then having one guy who's out there, who's just a killer in the Buffalo bills. They, they don't have that. And maybe Josh Allen will get that into the future. I don't know. Maybe Keon Coleman will develop into that.
I'm not so sure. I think at best he'd be a wide receiver too. Maybe pick up a pro bowl here or there after a couple of guys dropped out if he continues to progress.
But you, you do want to have that one alpha that every team has to just kind of crap their pants over. The Buffalo bills don't have that. So I certainly understand that Brandon Bean's position about what they've been able to do, but you think about getting over the hump, which is something that Buffalo bills have been trying to do. You tried to hit the home run with Stefan Diggs and it worked until it did it until he complained until he got hurt until he won until you wanted to get rid of him.
You got to find another one of those guys. One of those dudes who doesn't complain until then, we know what the Buffalo bills are going to do again this year, barring some massive injury or catastrophic situation. Buffalo bills will win another, I don't know, 10 to 13 games, 10 at minimum. Maybe, maybe let's give them 12 and five this upcoming season.
They'll go to the postseason and all anybody wants to know. Did you guys get to the Super Bowl? Did you finally get out of the AFC championship game? Did you finally beat the Chiefs? That's it.
And maybe actually having a top of the heap, undisputable number one option at wide out. Maybe that'll get you over the hump, Brandon. Take it easy. Don't yell at the radio guys.
They're just out here giving their thoughts. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, you know, we know Stefan Diggs, man, the guy just tore apart his knee. I'm going to tell you about a basketball player. His season just ended. Damian Lillard with this torn Achilles. It's not just over for Damian Lillard. It's over for the Milwaukee Bucks and not just this season. These Bucks, they're done. Oh yeah, by the way, Derek Carr, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. He basically admitted that he's done, at least for right now.
We'll get into both on the other side of the break. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze.
It is the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Amongst all the Chador news, we did learn earlier today in the early afternoon that Damian Lillard is out for the season. This man tore his Achilles. And the Milwaukee Bucks, well, they're cooked.
They really are. I mean, that happened in the first quarter of their game yesterday against the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers beat them 129 to 103. The Bucks are now down 3-1 in this series. And there is no chance in hell that the Milwaukee Bucks bounced back from this one.
It's unfortunate. Damian Lillard, we know that he didn't play in about a month's time coming back from that blood clot in his leg. He comes back in three games. He's averaging 7 points, 3 rebounds, and 5 assists.
That includes, obviously, yesterday with the injury. And Damian Lillard, this sucks. I mean, the whole thought process and the idea was that he was going to add a clutch element, a shooting element, an elite guard to what the Milwaukee Bucks already had and thought that, hey, we could bring him on and win a championship.
Didn't happen that way. They lost some defense. They got some scoring, both he and Giannis trying to figure out how they can actually work together.
So this was just bad from the get-go. Damian Lillard wanted to be in Miami. He's going to be 35 years old come summertime. His contract, he has a player option that takes him until the year 2027. Giannis has a player option for 2028, 27, 28.
This is just an aging team, an aging roster. And there's really no way in hell you could trade anything to get anything back with Giannis. Like they just have to suck and go through the draft or they're going to have to make a decision as to, can we move off of Giannis and have a rebuild or do we have some garbage years? That's really what's facing the Milwaukee Bucks.
But this season has to end first. They're down 3-1. They're missing a dynamic player who's already been hurt.
This is a tough one. Giannis says, man, that guy, Damian Lillard, it sucks what happened to him. Being able to come back in game two, game three, help us win the game. But not just that, he's been so much vocal.
We watch film. He's putting everybody together. I always had respect for them before we became teammates. But now my respect level is much higher.
Yeah, it sucks. He's peaked. He's peaked as a player. Everybody always talked about his size and he's never a ridiculous athlete. He's just an amazing shooter.
Gets to where he wants to go. If you think about it, played 73 games last year for the Bucks. This season, he played 58. In Portland, his final years, he was hurt there. 58 games, 29 games, 67, 66. People are supposed to expect that this gets better as he ages after coming off of an Achilles, a guy who's 6'2".
He wasn't necessarily flying through the air all the damn time anyway. I think Damian Lillard has peaked. I think the Bucks, they've peaked. They're going to have they're going to have to really either be just horrifically garbage with Giannis on the roster, or they're going to have to move him. And I know Giannis has said a lot of times, hey, I'm not the type of guy to request a trade or ask to be moved.
They may ask him. I don't know if we're looking at a situation. You know, Giannis could be one of these guys who plays, you know, 20 years with one franchise. Or Giannis at the Kumpo, he could be moved.
I could see it. Most guys don't get that chance to finish their career with one team. And I think once they present him, if they do present him with an opportunity to move on, I think Giannis will go, yeah, I'm ready. He's also said, I want to stay here.
I'm not just going to pack up and go, but I do want to compete to win championships. And so I don't I don't think he's going to be in Milwaukee for the long haul. Doc Rivers, old scratchy voice after the loss. He talked about losing Damian Lillard as well. You want to talk about respect? Doc got some for him. Listen, they're going to do an image tomorrow. Obviously his lower leg.
And just being honest is not very promising. I knew it right away. Yeah. Yeah. I feel bad for him. You know, the guy tried to come back for his team. And, you know, I just feel bad for him. Yeah, well, we got the confirmation today. He tore his Achilles.
Done. Hickey, time to move Giannis? I think so. I'm not even sure if they're going to have a choice. I think Giannis is probably the one to say, I'm out of here. But either way, yes, I think he's on a new team next year. And it's for it's for the best for both sides. Yeah, they're going to stink.
I don't even know how many years are going to be asked. If they move him, they're destined to stink for what, three years, maybe minimum? It worked out. I mean, you got to get the picks right. It worked out for the Thunder, right? Oh, my God.
Yeah, but how often does that happen? It's tough. That's why you need a good GM. First and foremost, need the trade. They needed that trade as well.
Getting a shake. Yoges Alexander from L.A. Like it was a lot that went into it. You feel bad for the small market teams. They don't necessarily bring in free agents. Who would ever thought that Giannis, upon being drafted, that he would end up being an MVP, a finals MVP, being one of the top basketball players, top 75 players of all time.
And here is where he is. And so it's just tough when you draft somebody. You don't know. And maybe they can get some some decent talent to build around ultimately another rookie that maybe we've never heard of somebody in college right now, somebody who's still in high school.
We have no idea. But Damian Lillard, Giannis didn't work. Firing and going through different coaches didn't work.
I'm sure Doc Rivers sooner than later, he will also be given the boot. He should have stuck the TV. That's what he should have did. You're right. That did not work out for him.
But hey, you know what? Good for him. He's got an excuse built in as to why this one didn't work and why another team should give him a chance to win title number two. Everybody gives Doc Rivers a chance, huh?
Everyone loves to give him a chance and always get built an excuse. Ah, Dame got hurt. We never had a chance.
We couldn't see Giannis and Dame together too much. Did he did he ever call an NBA finals? He quit. He quit before he had a chance to write.
Yeah. I mean, that's last year, February, right? I think right before the All-Star break. So he quit last year, like four months, two, three months into the job. He quit to take the bucks job. At least JJ Reddick stayed through one year, you know. Oh, did JJ Reddick call the finals last year? He did.
Oh yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I'm sitting here.
How am I supposed to know? I don't know. Wait. What? Was it him or Richard Jefferson?
Maybe I'm wrong. JJ Reddick did do that. I think he did. It was either him or Richard Jefferson did the finals last year. I got to see when he was hired. I know he's doing playoff games as he's going through the process for the Lakers. I think though, when he was hired, I don't, I think he stopped, but maybe that was after the finals. Yeah. JJ Reddick got hired in the summertime, didn't he? Trying to see here. June 25th.
So I think it was actually right after the finals. Wow. How about that? Yeah. Yep. He was hired June 24th, June 25th. Yeah.
Four-year college. So yeah, it was in June also, I guess early June that we went through that whole, what's that, maniac head coach over at UConn. Hurley. Dan Hurley.
That's right. I forgot about that saga. We went through the whole Dan Hurley. Does he want the job? Does he not want the gig? And ultimately went to JJ Reddick.
Good for him. And speaking of being done, the Lakers are cooked too, man. And it down three, one to the Wolves.
Yeah. He had to play all of his starters yesterday, their lack of depth and size is really starting to, you know, play a factor with what goes down against the Minnesota Timberwolves. So yup, unfortunately it looks like the Bucks are done. It looks like the Lakers are done.
It's time for some more eliminations. It's the JR sport reshow on the Infinity Sports Network. We come back, we'll talk some more NBA. We got Chad Reuter joining us from NFL.com to discuss the draft. Abdul Carter, jersey obsession with Lawrence Taylor and more. It's the JR sport reshow, Infinity Sports Network.
