It is the JR Sport Brief 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. I hope you're well. I hope you're safe. I hope you're amazing.
I'll be hanging out with you for the next four hours. This is when the show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm in Atlanta. Thank you to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey. He is in New York City.
What a day. Here in Atlanta, somebody got in trouble big time at work because his son screwed him up. It's Jeff Olbrich.
His son is hanging out on his iPad. He's making prank calls and he cost them about a quarter million dollars. Damn.
Cost him a hundred thousand dollars. We'll get into that in a second. Giannis, last night we talked about this live on the air. Kind of crazy. Giannis Atetokounmpo getting into it with with Halliburton's dad. What? And then we found out what happened.
It's kind of crazy. Giannis Atetokounmpo, he was all well within his right to punch that guy's dad if he wanted to. He was in his right.
He shouldn't have done it and he didn't do it. So good for him. Hey, to talk about all things NBA because New York Knicks didn't close out the Pistons. We got the Lakers. Their season could be done today.
The Celtics got the magic the hell up on out of here. We got Jared Dubin joining us. This guy writes for CBS, NFL stuff. He covers basketball, double dribble podcast. We'll have a chat with Jared Dubin next hour.
And then, of course, it's Wednesday. Every single Wednesday, I bring you a new top six list. Giannis Atetokounmpo And in honor of a few individuals who are currently newsworthy in the world of sports. Giannis Atetokounmpo I'm gonna give you a top six list of the most annoying athletes. These guys are just unbearable.
OK, I'm sure you can think of a bunch off the top of your head right now, but we'll have that top six list for you. Giannis Atetokounmpo in about two hours from now. If you want to be a part of the show, you can do that. You can call up. The number is 888-710-4ISN.
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I don't know. I am also there at J.R. Sportbrief. I'm everywhere at J.R. Sportbrief. So we got a lot to get into on the NFL side with these prank phone calls. These the NBA playoffs continue on.
Giannis, what the hell is he going to do this summer? And poor guy has to deal with some belligerent dad all up in his face like this is middle school basketball. There's a lot to discuss.
And speaking of belligerent, Bill Belichick is out here defending the honor of his girlfriend. What a world. What a world. If you would have told me back in, I don't know, pick a year, 2015, 16, 17, 18, 2010, if you would have told me at any point over the past 25 years that Bill Belichick would out here be defending the honor of his girlfriend 50 years as junior, I'd have been like, what?
What are you talking about? But here we are in 2025. Here we are in the Twilight Zone. What a world. Hickey, how are you today? This beautiful Wednesday. Good. Considering my parents aren't making me look bad and trying to fight people almost twice their size, my Wednesday has been pretty good so far. That's good.
The same here as well. Nobody or none of my family, none of my parents out here trying to fight seven foot tall giants. So, yeah, I think pretty well. And nobody picked a fight with me on the way to work. That's good, too. Hickey, win, win, win, win. It's a real win, win on the way to work.
How about this, Hickey? They started the the Yoga Wednesdays here near the office. Oh, my goodness. Nice. It's back after our winter hiatus. Bruh, it is.
Man, you need to be lucky. I'm sitting here in this chair, OK, because it is it is one big yogi, huh? It is very I am. It is very distracting right outside the studio window.
It is very distracting on the way inside. And I'm like, where do all these people come from to do yoga? Like I can't even say random. Who's promoting this? Like a random Wednesday. It's not random.
It's every Wednesday. At the same time, Hickey, it's like one hundred and fifty women just like they pop up out the sewer and then in another hour they're all gone. And I'm like, where the hell are they all coming from? They come out of the parking lot. They got their mats. They they lay on the grass. They follow some instructor and then they just disappear off the face of the earth.
I'm like, where did they all go? Maybe you got to go to class and find out. Maybe we should do a live class from downstairs. I think that could be a lot of fun.
Expand Infinity Sports Network's horizons. We go into the yoga sphere. We should.
We should. And Hickey, I don't know. What's your favorite yoga pose? Child's pose?
Then we're dialing 02. Child's pose. I don't know what I've heard of that.
I don't know what that what do you have to do? You you crawl on your knees? Yeah, I think so. I think so. That and Downward Dog is the only two I got for you.
Downward Dog is his backside in the air, hands and feet, palms on the ground, right? No? Yes. No, yes. That's exactly what it is.
Look at you. You know your moves. Oh, I know yoga.
I don't know the names of them all. Like there's the one where you. Now, I can't. How do you even describe this? Like you got one leg back and you got one leg forward at like a 90 degree angle.
You lean forward. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Almost like a little hip flexor, groin stretch kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know. That's what they call it in yoga. I'm sure that's what I'm sure they call it.
But yeah, that too. Yeah, I do. I do yoga, Hickey. I just don't be knowing the names of this stuff, man. I don't know. That's all right.
It's good for you. Wait until I get Lululemon to sponsor the show. Oh, it's coming.
It's coming here in Atlanta, man. I'm like, well, Hickey, I'm a terrible person. I'm like, where are the ugly people at? Like nobody downstairs is ugly. Nobody. These are all attractive looking people.
Nobody's ugly. Until you show up. Oh, thanks. Thanks. Thanks, Hickey. Thanks. Well, I wouldn't mind.
It doesn't hurt me at all. That's true. You're in a good position. If you're the ugliest person there, you're in a great spot.
Yeah. I'm looking around. I'm like, where are the ugly people? There's no ugly people here.
Good for me. Atlanta, a city for the beautiful people. It's a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining. It's warm.
It's very nice. Everything is good in Atlanta, except for the Falcons. What a terrible situation they ended up in. They bring in Jeff Olbrich as their defensive coordinator. Jeff Olbrich, if you're not familiar and who gives a damn about some of these defensive coordinators, unless you're some real super football freak. I mean, who knows the defensive coordinator for every single team?
Nobody. This man was the defensive coordinator last year for the New York Jets. He did work for head coach Rob Salah until the New York Jets just said, let's plummet the whole situation into the depths of hell and let's just fire everybody. Rob Salah got fired. Ultimately, you know, Aaron Rodgers, he basically got the boot. And all the while, Jeff Olbrich took over as head coach in the New York Jets.
Their season plummeted into the toilet, especially their defense. Jeff Olbrich has a relationship with Rahi Morris and the Falcons here in Atlanta. And so he recently came back to be the new defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons. Great. Good. Right. Your defensive coordinator.
You got another job. Atlanta is a nice place. The weather's great.
People are beautiful doing yoga downstairs. It's awesome. Until your pain in the ass son gets you in trouble. And if you're a parent, there's nothing worse than being embarrassed by your own kid.
You hear the joke all the time. You know, man, if you got a son, you want him to be an upstanding individual. You don't want your son to be a jerk, right? You're raising a daughter. You want your daughter to be a classy young woman, right?
This is what we want. We don't want to have to sit around and talk about our kids and then your kid comes up and you got to roll your eyes. Well, my kid did this. My kid is on the honor roll and my kid is a nuclear scientist. And what does your kid do? Well, kids out here digging ditches. Oh, okay.
You might lie about it. In the case of Jeff Olbrich, this man got a job with the Atlanta Falcons. This is still the off season.
This is still April. They're thinking about the draft. The Falcons are thinking about how they're going to fix their poorest defense, especially up front.
Atlanta Falcons are thinking about bringing in Pierce and bringing in Walker and thinking about all the great talent they have and AJ Terrell and Jesse Bates. And they're interviewing individuals, right? They got a list of players all across the league that they can talk to. The NFL specifically gave players who were going to be attending the draft, they gave them new phones. Hey, this is your phone.
You're going to be at the NFL draft. This is your phone to use on TV for when you're drafted. We're not using your phone. We're the NFL. We got money. Use our phone.
The teams had these numbers. Unfortunately, the biggest dude who got pranked was Chador Sanders. We saw it online. Jeff Olbrich, who just got hired by the Falcons, his son was in his iPad, his work-related iPad and saw Chador Sanders number and took it down and decided to prank call him at one of his college buddies. His son, Jax, apologized. I'm sorry, Dad. What I did was stupid. I'm sorry, Chador.
What I did is stupid. Chador is out here suffering. This man had to fall into the fifth round of the draft. He thought he got a call from the New Orleans Saints and he's like, nope, you just got to wait some more.
Okay. Chador sucked it up. Everybody apologized on the Olbrich side. The Falcons preemptively apologized. Hey, we take these matters seriously.
We we got to watch our security, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, today the NFL got serious. I want you to take a listen to this news report from earlier today from CBS Sports HQ. Well, this just in from the NFL where the Atlanta Falcons have been fined two hundred fifty thousand dollars along with defensive coordinator Jeff Olbrich, another hundred thousand dollars for failing to prevent the disclosure of the confidential information distributed to the club in the advancement there of the NFL draft. This is all part of the fallout from a prank call that Olbrich's 21-year-old son, Jax, made to Chador Sanders there on the cell phone call to Colorado quarterback, of course, sliding in that draft. But the Falcons are releasing a statement saying, quote, we appreciate the NFL's swift and thorough review of last week's data exposure.
And then, of course, the event that transpired due to it, we were proactive in addressing the situation internally and cooperating fully with the league throughout the process and accept the discipline levy to coach Jeff Olbrich and the organization. Could you imagine you just hired a guy? And now you have to pay a quarter million dollars because he screwed up, because he left an iPad open, because he left a piece of paper with a telephone number on his desk. Could you imagine hiring a guy and now being punished two hundred and fifty million dollars because he didn't know how to protect sensitive information?
Now, come on, this happens in life a lot. How many emails do you get? It's just like, oh, you you might be victim of a data breach.
You might want to go ahead and change your password. Your Social Security number might be out there. Your address might be out there.
Yeah. Your birthday might be out there. You are about to be taken for a crook.
Crook might take you. I don't worry about it. Do you worry about that stuff when it happens? No, not too much. I try not to worry about a lot in general because in one of my minds, it's racing.
It's kind of chaotic. So no. OK, all right. Yeah, I don't care about it. If somebody wants to steal my identity, good luck. You can have it. OK, that's what I'm like.
Whatever. If you want to be bold enough to steal me and who I am, knock yourself out. It'll make my life easier, by the way. So go ahead, do it.
Really, if there's two J.R.s out there. Yeah, go listen. If you want to go ahead and take on all my life's problems, knock yourself out. OK, take me.
All right. Now, we know it is a bad thing, but this I feel like every day it's like, oh, I went to the supermarket. Well, by the way, all the email addresses associated with Kroger have been made public. And every now and then you hear about the data breaches and it's just like you might be entitled to a cash compensation.
This ain't no different. Like the NFL is punishing the Falcons because one of their employees didn't know how to lock his iPad and his dumb ass son went into the phone or the iPad or whatever and decided to just go to town and prank call Chidor Sanders. Now, let's also keep in mind there were other draftees who were prank called, not by this guy, though, not by Jax Obrick, like Kyle McCord. He said he got a prank call. Abdul Carter, Penn State, now a member of the New York Giants. He was the victim of a prank phone call. Somebody called him up and said, hey, man, you're going to the Jaguars at two.
Obviously, he went to the New York Giants at three. We got a bunch of dudes who were victims of prank phone calls, but nobody cost his team two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And nobody cost his dad one hundred thousand dollars. I don't know what his kid is in school for.
Hickey, I would make him pay that back. I'm like, bro, you're going to finish. And his dad is probably paying for school, too. It's like, listen, man, when you finish school, I don't give a damn what you do in life.
You might you might you go live in my house until you give me my one hundred thousand dollars back. I couldn't agree more. I saw people upset that the NFL didn't punish him. I promise you, I think, Jeff, whatever that punishment is going to be is going to be 10 times, 20, 30 times worse than anything. What the the NFL could love you down the sun. The NFL punished the sun. Oh, yes. People upset by that.
How the hell is the NFL? They can't punish the sun. They can only punish the dad.
I agree. I don't know how you can punish a non-employee like that. I just I was upset like Kroger all of a sudden wanted to punish you for what you're going to do to me. I do nothing to me. I work for you. That's crazy. Not man.
Oh, Hickey, what is that? I can imagine what the conversation. So Jeff Ulbricht spoke to the media today. He had a press conference. The Atlanta Falcons made this man stand up. And of course, I'm sure he wanted to do it, too. You got to at least pretend you're an upstanding individual, even if you are or are not.
I have no idea. Never met the man. But he had a press conference and he said, oh, yeah, I screwed up by allowing this. My son screwed up. I apologize to the Falcons. We have both apologized to the Sanders family and they were more gracious than they should have been given the circumstances.
So all is right in the world. That was today. That was post post costing three hundred and fifty thousand dollars because his son wanted to be a jackass. There was a conversation over the weekend, I'm sure. What the hell did you do? Do you understand you screwed this up? You understand you screwed me up.
You understand I might be punished. There was that conversation. Hickey, they may not have even had the discussion yet about the 100K. That may not come until tonight. It may not come until tomorrow.
It may not come until the weekend. He may try to have his son sleep with one eye open. Hickey, if I was just if I was dad, I'd be like, listen, man, I spoke to you over the weekend.
We're going to have another conversation at the end of the week. Hickey, I would make him sweat for days before I sat him down and told him what the punishment was going to be, how he was going to pay back the 100K, how he could have cost me my damn job, even though you're the dumb ass one who allowed your son to basically, you know, take you for a ride. Hickey, I'd make this kid sweat. If that was I agree with that, if that was my dad, I think I would rather be homeless than like, hey, when you come home, we're gonna have a talk. I think I would just I would run away. I'd never go back.
Running away, living on the streets for God knows how long is probably a better alternative than whatever hellstorm is waiting at Jeff Olbrook's front door. Oh, and Hickey, you know, all his his college friends and his friends text him about it today. You know, they did. They said, oh, man, wow.
Oh, your dad got a 100, wow. Hickey, I wouldn't say a word. Be like, hey, listen, man, finish your classes this week. You know, finish your exams or whatever, I don't know, get ready for finals. When you come home over the weekend, when you're back on Saturday, when you're back on Friday, we're gonna have a talk. We are gonna have a talk. Oh, yeah, you you gonna pay back this money. $100,000? I don't care.
You gonna get a job and if it takes you 10 years, you gonna pay back this money. Hey, let this be a lesson learned. Yeah, this is the NFL and it's a big deal. Ain't nobody trying to lose $100,000. By the way, Jeff Olbrich isn't somebody sitting around and they don't feel bad for the guy.
He's not one of these coaches making 10 mil a year. $100,000 is gonna hurt anybody. Damn it, it's gonna hurt that son.
It's gonna be hurting if it were me. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Do you agree with the NFL punishing the dad? Do you agree with the NFL punishing the Falcons?
I'm perfectly fine with it. Somebody gotta pay. Somebody got sensitive information.
Doesn't matter if it's a cell phone number, a birthday, an email address. Somebody gots to pay. And it is the dad, the father, and the son. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Speaking of a father and son, we gonna talk about the Halliburton's as well on the other side of the break. Yeah, how you got a father, an NBA dad, getting in the face of a future Hall of Famer after a game? You ain't got nothing better to do.
Classless. It's the JR Sport Reshow on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief.
It is the JR Sport Brief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Phone lines are open 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Shadore Sanders, amongst others, were pranked over the NFL draft weekend. He was obviously the biggest star, the biggest draftee to get pranked. Ultimately, we found out the reason why and who got a hold of his cell phone number. Atlanta Falcons new defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich left his iPad open.
His son, who's college aged, then took down the number and decided to prank call Shadore Sanders. And as a result of Jeff Ulbrich, who's employed by the Falcons, because he mishandled private information, the Falcons have been fined $250,000. Yes, they've been fined a quarter million dollars because one of the employees didn't know how to close his iPad. And also, as a result, the NFL has fined Jeff Ulbrich, the defensive coordinator, they fined him $100,000 for not handling this sensitive information correctly. And so as a result, well, let's just say we don't know what happens in the Ulbrich household, but I'm sure his son, Jax, I'm sure he is going to feel some type of punishment. I'd make him pay this money back. You don't see a penny or dollar of anything you make until I get paid my $100,000 back, even though it's his dad's fault. You got to make the kid pay, make the kid feel the pain, not just embarrassment. 888-710-4ISN, I agree with it.
You do the crime, you got to do the time, punish them. I'm fine with it. I'm A-OK, no problem. And by the way, all these other prank calls to guys like Mason Graham, Abdul Carter, apparently this was, those calls were unrelated. So I guess unless you can go ahead and find somebody, it's tough. And if this is just some classmate or some ex-girlfriend or some ex-friend, NFL doesn't have any jurisdiction against them. None. Good luck with that one. I'm not going to compare what happened with Chidor to other people because the NFL is investigating.
As of yet, there is no information. Speaking of family affairs, we're going to get into Giannis Etedecumpo, basically harassed by the dad of Tyrese Halliburton on the basketball court, like the Indiana Pacers just won a basketball game. And the first thing Tyrese Halliburton's dad wants to do is to taunt Giannis. Giannis was well within his right to cocking back that go-go gadget arm and punching him in the face. But Giannis is a nice guy. He wasn't going to do that.
And that's video game stuff. Anyway, 888-710-4ISN, 888-710-4ISN. Let's go to New Jersey and let's talk to Joey. Joey, you're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up? Hey, how are you doing? I'm very well.
What's on your mind? Well, here you're talking about, I think the league got it backwards. It's a family matter and as much as the Falcons are responsible, I think Ulbricht should be fine, the 250K, and the Falcons should be fine, the 100K. I mean, he's got to be able to control his device and his family. He's a leader.
And I think they just got that one backwards. Make the family pay. Okay. Well, unfortunately, and thank you, Joey, for calling from New Jersey, the NFL don't have a damn thing to do with the family. Nothing. NFL doesn't give a damn about the family. They care about the team. That's a part of their league. And the NFL cares about underneath that who the team then employs.
And so if somebody is going to get the brunt of the punishment, it's a totem pole. I mean, there's an order here. Okay. The Falcons aren't going to disappear off the face of the earth ever.
No time soon. The Falcons can just say, hey, we want to fire Jeff Ulbricht. Okay. So the NFL has to levy down punishment. There's a chain of command here.
All right. You have the owners, you have the commissioner. Obviously the commissioner works for the owners. He helps pretty much run the whole league on behalf of the owners as a collective. And it's a trickle down.
You punish the Falcons and then you punish the guy underneath them. It's simple as that. It's a family.
It's not a family affair. This is work equipment. Hey, guess what? I got work equipment. You have me, JR. I have work equipment. Let me tell you something. If I got my work equipment and I'm using it at home and somebody types some dumbass stuff or takes some sensitive information, man, I'm getting punished.
Okay. And the people above me, they're going to get, they're going to punish me because people are going to look at them and go, this is the guy you hired. Like, come on, man. Anybody who has a job understands the chain of command is smacking Jeff Olbrich with this money because he should control his son. Well, this is who the Falcons hired.
The Falcons got to feel the pain at the top of the totem pole there. Come on, man. Family affair. Is that what you want? You want, you want, you want leagues and corporations and businesses punishing your family? No, you don't want that. You want the business getting hit, man.
What do you want to get hit too? Come on, stop it. 888-710-4ISN. 888-710-4ISN. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport brief show on the infinity sports network. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. Continuing the theme of and family matters, getting into personal sports. Yes, not only did Jeff Olbrich get fined $100,000 for the prank his son played or pulled, not only did the Falcons get fined $250,000, we also learned today or via last night, we got apologies into the morning.
We actually talked about this on air. We didn't have clarity on what happened until we got to the postgame press conferences. We know the Milwaukee Bucks have been eliminated from the postseason by the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers beat them in overtime 119-108.
Tyrese Halliburton had a big dunk to send them into overtime. He had the game-winning layup. And then when the game concluded Giannis Atetokounmpo after now being, you know, the Bucks being bounced out of the postseason for the first in the first round for the past three years due to injuries to Giannis. And you think about Middleton, who's no longer there.
Now you got this injury to Damian Lillard. Giannis just kind of stood near the free throw line. You know, when the game concluded, he wasn't bothering anybody.
The whistle blew. Giannis just stood there. You know, the players are celebrating on the court. And then Tyrese Halliburton's dad decided to move from his baseline position, step on to the court, stand in front of Giannis Atetokounmpo with a big old flag with his son's face on it, and waving in front of Giannis. Giannis took issue with it.
Didn't initially realize that that was Tyrese Halliburton's dad, the superstar point guard for the Indiana Pacers. And Giannis was perturbed. And then he had to be separated from his dad. And then Giannis got into it with Ben Matherin. And then Giannis went back to his dad and then, you know, kind of went face to face with him again and then moved away, but looked like he mouthed, OK, I got you.
I love you. But Giannis was ticked off. And he was well within his right. Because when he was asked about this after the game, Giannis gave a reasonable explanation as to why the hell is a guy's dad on the basketball court. In my face, after we won, I don't even know who the hell you are.
Listen to Giannis afterwards. When we won the championship, I remember my mom, she was scared to cross. She was like, am I allowed to come and hug my son?
Losing the game, emotions run high, having a fan, which at the moment I thought it was fun. But then I realized it was Tyrese's son, which I love Tyrese. I think he's a great competitor. He was his dad. Sorry. Coming in the floor and showing me his son a towel with his face. This is what we do. This is what we effing do.
This is the eff we do. I feel like that's very, very disrespectful. I'm happy for him.
I'm happy for his son and I'm happy that he's happy for his son. That's how you're supposed to feel. But coming to me and disrespecting me and cursing at me, I think is totally unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. I'm not the guy that points fingers because in my neighborhood, snitches get stitches. So I don't want to say something, you know, for him to say to get fined or anything, but it's not respectful.
I talk with him at the end and to be, uh, I think we're in a good place. Yeah. It was disrespectful. Like you're a fan.
I mean, I get it. You, you, you, you might be the superstar's dad, but you're a fan. He didn't have any credentials on. I mean, this is a home arena. So everybody knows who he is.
I'm sure he's there at every single game. It's just, it's just classless. I'm not saying his dad is classless. Although we did get some reports earlier today that his dad has a, uh, a history of kind of antagonizing players in opposition that ain't saying nothing to him.
You know, it was what a week ago that we found out via an anonymous poll conducted by the New York times and the athletic. And it pretty much said that Tyrese Halliburton was the most overrated player in the NBA. Maybe his dad chirping from the sidelines adds to the thought of, man, this guy thinks he's better than what he is. Tell his dad to shut the hell up. But in this case, Tyrese Halliburton, when he spoke to the media as well, he said after the game, I had no idea what was going on. And then when I found out, I told my dad, I don't agree with him. Listen to this.
Me and my pops have talked about that. And I don't agree with, you know, what, what transpired there from him. Basketball is basketball and let's keep it on the court. And I think that he just, you know, got excited to us on make a game winner and came on the court.
The emotions of the game just got excited there. But I talked to him, I'll talk with Yannis eventually about it. Just, you know, I don't think that my pops was in the right at all there. And unfortunate, you know, what happened in the end there. Yeah, unfortunately what happened at the end is it's unfortunate and he can't be responsible for what his dad does. His dad is a grown man. The Indiana Pacers now know that we got to reign this guy in. You just can't be running up on the court, taunting the opposition.
Come on. And his dad isn't stupid. His dad, his name is John, by the way, he got a, he got a name. His name is John. I sincerely apologize to Yannis, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pacers organization for my actions following tonight's game.
He was smart enough to put out a statement that would certainly help. This was not a good reflection on our sport or my son. And I will not make that mistake again. You can't control yourself. Stay home. You can't control yourself. Stay home.
Sit upstairs in a suite. Chill out. Relax. I think it's pretty obvious now. I mean, if Tyrese Halliburton is anything or anyway like his dad, I don't think he is. Tyrese Halliburton, to me, comes across as a little aloof, a little goofy.
I mean, last night he's doing his press conference in his big old shades. Afterwards, early this morning, last night after the game, he was like, overrate that. I was like, man, get over yourself. How about you win something first? Not just a series against an injured Milwaukee Bucks team, but how about you go beat somebody?
Maybe you go win something legitimate first before you start reminding people that you're not overrated. Shut up. Hickey, I don't know his dad. If his dad walked by me right now, maybe I'd know him from last night. Maybe I wouldn't. Both of them appear to be a giant pain in the ass.
Yeah. I mean, Tyrese, I think I'll give him, you know, I liked what he said and I think it's very fair. I know it's tough to go kind of against your dad, especially publicly, but I give him credit for that. It's just so embarrassing. Like, I don't have any kids, JR, so I can't, I don't know what it's like to be a dad. I have no idea, let alone a dad of a superstar. But what are you doing? What possesses you to say, oh man, my son just made the winning shot.
Instead of going to run over there and celebrate with him and give him a hug, let me go and get in Giannis's face and taunt him? What are we doing? I don't know. Some people, what do they say? Don't be bigger than your britches or something like that? I don't know.
He's way outgrown his britches. Yeah, getting in Giannis's, Giannis could rip him limb from limb if he wanted to. But, you know, I guess like a lot of folks and like any fan, we get a lot of people who go to these games related to a player, not related to a player. They think because they're courtside or they have access or they have the ability to do this, that they can just go out there and say and do whatever the hell they want.
And that's not the case. As far as we know, right now, this minute, I think we would have heard so far today, there is no punishment from the NBA. NBA hasn't fined the Pacers, the NBA, you know, they haven't given Halliburton's dad the booty, hasn't been banned. But you can best believe like if this was Joe Schmoe, Pacers fan used to be that guy with the Pacers. I forgot. I don't know if he had a pot or a cowbell or. I think that's a Sacramento.
The Pacers used to have that guy with the cardboard sign. Maybe he's still there. Maybe he's not.
I don't know. But after a game, if that dude stepped foot onto a court, eh, they wouldn't allow him. They wouldn't allow him. He'd be tackled on his way to the court and then they'd ban him for life.
I think in the case here. I don't think that the Pacers should be fine. I don't think that dad should be fine. Who the hell is going to find him? He don't work for anybody.
Works for his son, Tyrese Halliburton. I think the league and I'm sure they have warning. That's it. Hey, let's just make it clear to you, the Pacers and every team in the league, knock it off. It's real simple. If individual X does not have a credential, they are not allowed onto the basketball court.
It's really that simple. I don't I don't think this is worthy of a fine. I think if it escalated further, if Giannis had to get into a pushing and shoving match, then I think at that point, I think everybody would kind of be punished. The Pacers would be punished for letting him on to the court. Giannis may get a warning or what have you.
I don't know. But I think the league is fine right now to not punish anybody. Hickey, do you agree or do you think the Pacers should face some type of penalty here? No, I don't think they should. I don't think Tyrese should. I think it's totally separate than obviously the Jeff Ulbrich situation. But you mentioning that this is, you know, he maybe has a reputation for antagonizing players and this is not the first time that he maybe has crossed some sort of line.
Yeah. Maybe I'd say move him forward for the next round, put him in a box. You put him upstairs? Keep him just away from the court, still welcome to the game, your own area, still nice. But maybe let's remove him from being five feet from Jason Tatum or I guess they're playing the Cavs, Donovan Mitchell or Evan Noble.
Oh man. Does that mean now we got to get shots of his dad as the playoffs continue on? Like is it we get a shot of his dad in just game one of the next series? Do we get continuous shots of his dad? Are we on a John Halliburton watch? Probably.
Is this going to be never ending? Where's his dad? At least in game three. I don't know if he travels. If he does, I don't, I doubt he's sitting courtside in Cleveland.
Yeah, I doubt that. So probably just home games to probably game three, but now he's a story. Now people know who he is, unfortunately. Where is he sitting? I mean, I feel like every time T Moran is, John Moran is playing a game, we get a shot of his dad sitting next to some celebrity, I guess. I mean, and then even go back to that, he almost fought Shannon Sharpe during the game.
That is, you're right, he did. Like, so it's like, what are we doing? What are some of these parents doing? They never grow up, Hickey. It's like. They don't grow up.
Some parents just don't grow up. Sad. You know what we should do? I don't know. Was it Barstool was trying to set up that fight between John Rocker and Mahomes' dad?
Yes. Why don't we just get a fight between fathers? How about that? Let's get T Moran versus John Halliburton. You know, a triple threat. Where is Carl Anthony Townes' dad? Let's put him in there, too, OK?
Down. He probably would win that. He's definitely the biggest of the three. He's the biggest of the three.
Let's get a triple threat and kind of go from there. Fathers acting crazy. Speaking of fathers acting crazy, I told you, Jeff Ulbricht from the Atlanta Falcons, he was fine today. One hundred thousand dollars because his son wanted to be a jerk and prank call Chidor Sanders. Jeff Ulbricht says, I got a lot of regrets for how that situation went.
Listen to this. Tremendous amount of regret for for what my son did and for what I allowed and being neglectful in that way. But it's another part of the regret is there's so many amazing people in this building that just that did an amazing job in this draft process and then to pull it off on draft weekend and do as well as they did.
It's just it's it just it's it's hard because those those people should be celebrated in these moments and they probably weren't as much as they should have been. Yeah, his son helped take away the attention of him. At least he's being accountable.
Now that's a stand up dad. And then when it comes to the other dad, Dion, he said the Sanders family, they accepted the apology. Obviously not not happy and shocked. So I made the Falcons aware of the situation and then our next course of action was to try to get a hold of the Sanders family so we could apologize in person, which we were able to do. And the great the Sanders family, Chidor and Coach Sanders were amazingly gracious, more gracious than they needed to be in a moment like this. Oh, how sweet of them. The Sanders family gracious. How about that?
That's nice. I guess they're very humbled as well. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show on the Infinity Sports Network. We come back. We're going to talk about somebody else that might have been humbled. Is it Belichick? And then speaking of Dion in Colorado, let's talk about Boulder. Well, let's talk about Denver fast. The Nuggets, the J.R. Sportbreeze show, the Infinity Sports Network.
