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I make, I would make him give me that money back, okay? Hey, how about this? Right now, this minute, it is a beat down in Houston, Texas. The Golden State Warriors entered into Houston with a chance to get rid of the Houston Rockets.
They walked in with a 3-1 series lead. It don't look like it's going to end tonight. Right now, Houston leads 86 to 56. It's about nine minutes to go left in the game.
83 to 56. Next up, we got the Los Angeles Lakers. They're down 3-1 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
They're trying to stave off elimination. And how about this? Just a few minutes ago, J.J. Redick just had a complete fit with a reporter who asked about his substitution patterns.
And, you know, does he need a little bit of help? Let me just tell you that did not go right. I want you to hear that. We're going to play it for you in a second. Thank you so much to Jared Dubin for joining us from the Double Dribble podcast.
Of course, we have more to do as the show continues on. We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. Bill Belichick, I gave you a top six list of annoying athletes. Bill Belichick, what else is new, seemingly annoyed. This time it has to deal with his girlfriend. What a world.
Bill Belichick is out here defending his girlfriend. Like, this is crazy right now. Anyway, we'll get into that. You want to be a part of the show?
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I am at JR Sport Brief. I gave you a top six list of annoying athletes because last night we saw what took place with Tyrese Halliburton's dad, John, getting in the face of Giannis Atteracumpo. Now, that was annoying as all hell because it was unprovoked. Giannis is minding his business.
He thought he was just just a fan being taunted by some random fan. And it happens to be the star player's dad from the other team. Tyrese Halliburton. I mean, there's a reason why this guy was called overrated by his peers. And maybe it's not just because of basketball. Maybe his dad is a pain in the ass.
Maybe Halliburton is a pain in the ass. I got Halliburton at number six on my top six list of annoying athletes. And number five, I gave you old grumpy Max Scherzer. And number four, I gave you a dirty delivery at number three. Draymond Green is really dirty.
He'll punch his own teammates. He's number three on the list. And number two, I gave you self-centered Aaron Rodgers. And at number one, you want to talk about annoying Tyree Kill is number one on my list. Tyree Kill is just it seems like an annoying, bad, immature, self-centered, terrible human. I got him at number one on my list. Whether he's threatening to quit on his team, you know, whether he's pleading guilty to domestic assault, whether they are allegations of child abuse, I can go on. Tyree Kill, he might be a Hall of Fame talent.
He is a Hall of Fame pain in the ass. I got him at number one on my list. 888-710-4ISN.
That's 888-710-4ISN. There's a lot of annoying athletes out here. Russell Wilson, you could put him on the list. There's more. Well, there's more. Put him on the list.
There's more. We'll get Hickey's thoughts in a second. Let's talk to JJ from Maryland. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show, JJ. Go ahead. What's up, JR, man? What's going on with you? Shoot.
All right. I got I got I thought of two more, but my first one, I don't even know how he not on your list. But LeBron, man, he he cried about everything. He got to be the most annoying athlete, annoying this athlete ever. Like. OK, I can certainly understand why you would have him on your list. I think I found people that tick me off a little bit more than him.
What else you got? All right, so is it is it kind of athletes or it could be anybody? What you mean anybody? Well, athlete?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't want to know about no old athlete. No, I don't want to know about no old athlete.
You gave me you gave me LeBron. He's active. That's OK, JJ. Thank you, man. OK. All right.
All right. Joe Barrow and I'm going to hang up. OK. Is there a reason why Joe Barrow?
I mean, the hair for one, and then he just I feel like he got his hair, man, like what made him do that? Of all things, what made you do that? Then you got all these athletes around you. Of course, you're going to be good. I mean, let's see you do that if you went to Cleveland. OK. All right.
Thank you, JJ, for calling from Maryland. I don't agree with you. Yeah, he's working one of the best wide receivers, someone that he was able to work with from college and Jamar Chasen and also T. Higgins. But I think anywhere that Joe Burrow goes, I think Joe Burrow would be one of the best quarterbacks in the game. I mean, you can look at talents.
I look at talent and I go, hmm, you know what? If this guy wasn't here, would he still be good? You know, Joe Burrow would be one of the few quarterbacks on that list. It's not just because he's throwing the ball to Jamar Chase. You know, if I put Sam Donald on that team, would you have as much confidence in him? You know, I mean, if I put Jamis Winston, if I gave him T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, would you trust him as much as Joe Burrow, given what you've seen? The answer is no. And so, yeah, OK, you don't like Joe Burrow because of his blonde hair.
OK. All right. Well, then, Hickey, before we listen to J.J. Redick be upset, but he's annoyed before we get to some of the calls as well. Is there an athlete that gets on your nerves?
There is, and I'm a little surprised he did not make the list. And that's Russell Wilson. Oh, yeah. He's kind of obvious there.
Right. Just cringey. I mean, he's on the, thankfully, not in the category of Tyre Kale, but he's just cringey. He's annoying. Everything he says is calculated. I feel like everything he says is also, he's like full bologna. You actually really can't take anything he says seriously. It's all an act.
Even the other day, he's at the Knicks game wearing the sunglasses. Brutal. Just brutal. There's nothing he does where I'm like, that's cool. It's all annoying. He's inauthentic. Yes. There's nothing that seems to be real or relatable.
At one point in time, it seemed to be the case. But, you know, Russell Wilson is he's going very Hollywood. Nothing wrong with that.
Take the Hollywood money, get all the money, get all the cash. It just. It's it's not inauthentic. It's it's not authentic. It just comes across as very plastic and scripted. And hey, are you a real person or are you doing what you think the public wants?
Like, how real are you? Where's where's the mistakes? And we've seen public mistakes from Russell Wilson, like when he wanted out of Seattle and had his agent try to pin. Oh, you know, if he were to leave, this is where he'd go.
And no, he doesn't want to leave. It's just. It's fake.
Doesn't come across as real. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. And we already got one beat down going on in the world of sports. Right now, the Houston Rockets are beating Golden State 93 to 64. Looks like the Houston Rockets will avoid elimination tonight. They're down in the series 3-1. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Lakers, they are down in their series against the Minnesota Timberwolves 3-1 as well. You might recall in the last game, the Timberwolves beat the Lakers 116 to 113. Head coach J.J. Redick had to play every one of his starters the entire second half.
Nobody got subbed out. And by the time they got to the end of the game, the Lakers, yeah, with 40-year-old LeBron James and hookah smoking beer, swigging Luka Doncic, they were tired at the end. And let's be real, they don't got enough depth as it is. And so the Timberwolves ran away with it at the end. And then J.J. Redick was was was criticized and asked about what took place in the last game. Well, just a few minutes ago, game five is going to be tonight.
If the Lakers lose, they're done. J.J. Redick just completed his his pregame media availability. And he was asked about his substitution patterns, specifically whether or not he was going to get some help from his assistants to try to measure the minutes and get guys in and out the game.
So they're rested. Let's just say J.J. Redick did not appreciate the line of questioning and walked out. As you watch the film, what do you recall about your thought process in the moment, sticking with the five percent look in the fourth quarter of the other day? Is there an assistant or someone maybe that you're leaning on tonight, maybe to try to get some other guys involved in that opportunity? Are you saying that because I may experience and that was an inexperienced decision that I made, you think I don't talk to my assistants about substitutions every single time?
No, I just think there's a lot of folks leaning on their systems in those situations. As do I, every single time. That's a weird subject. Man. He's basically, hey, man, why are you asking me that question? Because I'm inexperienced.
I talk to my assistants all the time. That's a weird question. And he left. He quit. Why can't you just say, hey, I communicate with my assistants all the time, Don?
Why you got to take why you got to make that so personal? Somebody told J.J. Redick to relax. I get it. Your back is up against the wall. You don't have a big man out there to help Luca and LeBron out.
You don't have too much depth when it comes to the bench. Why are you taking it out on the reporter? I think he asked. I think it's a legitimate question. It wasn't the worst thing in the world to ask. Like, why is the first thing you ask me that because I'm inexperienced? Maybe a lot of the questions you're being asked this year, J.J., are because you are inexperienced. Just come on now.
Hickey, I don't think that was necessary. No, especially when his response is exactly truthful. He's coached four playoff games in his life. Yeah, of course you're inexperienced.
Well, I don't understand that. Like he's. Yeah, the assumption is you're inexperienced because you literally are inexperienced. This is your first year coaching anything in the NBA. You're going into your fifth ever playoff game.
You are inexperienced. Yeah. And then the answer ultimately was yes. Yeah. The answer was, hey, are you relying on your assistants to help you out with the substitution? I always rely on them in the substitution patterns. Regular season playoffs, they're always there to help me. Done. You don't have to get so defend.
You ask me that question because I don't have experience. Well, what do you think? Of course, I always start like, man, get out, get over it.
And somebody peed in his coffee. What's his problem? Come on, man. Don't become one of those people that are easy to root against J.J. Redick.
OK, I think you did a great job. I think he's done a tremendous job with the Los Angeles Lakers this year. But the last thing that we need in the NBA is another curmudgeon as a as a head coach. You've had enough of that with Popovich.
Or maybe he'll take Popovich's place. Who knows? 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. David is calling from Los Angeles. You're on the J.R. Sportbreeze show. What's up, David? Hey, J.R., thanks for taking my call. I got two names here for annoying. I don't have a list like you.
I just thought about a couple of names here. Hold on, David. Give me give me one. Give me one. Go ahead. Give me a good one. Sure.
Sure. Let's start with one current athlete, Manny Machado. As a Dodgers fan, even in that half year that he was on the Dodgers, I found him a bit insufferable. You know, he was pretty classless. Some of the moves that he pulled off, like stepping on that first baseman's foot as he was running toward first base and then pretending like it was an accident. Dude, you knew exactly what you were doing.
And then, of course, slides to some hard slides. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Then he goes over the Padres and, you know, Dodgers fans will remember that clip of him at Dodger Stadium in a Padres uniform his first year talking to fans saying, I'm going to give you my whole salary if the Dodgers win a World Series before the Padres.
Well, news for you, Manning. You owe that fan two of your salaries now because the Dodgers won two and your Padres ever won diddly squat. You know? Yeah. Congratulations on knocking us out of the playoffs a couple of years ago. But where did that get you? I remember that.
Meanwhile, we got two rings. He was standing at the on deck circle when he said that, right? If I remember correctly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay.
So, Manny, you owe that fan two of your salaries now. Congratulations. Okay. The second name. Okay.
Go ahead. The second name and it's painful for me to say this because, you know, I was a fan of his when he played because I am also an Eagles fan. Wait, Donovan.
Yes. Not David. David. I don't want to talk about old guys.
I want to talk about active guys. Okay. Yeah, I understand that, JJ, but I just got to get this out there because, you know, it's sad because, you know, charge Jr. I'm sorry. I heard JJ Radek. I just thought that for a moment. I don't know why.
Sorry. So, Donovan McNabb, you know, when he played, I love him. He's an all time great Eagle. But since he retired, number one, dude got dismissed from NFL Network for, you know, allegedly sexually harassing an employee. He has multiple DUIs and then he can't let the TO feud go. Like, dude, come on. What are we talking about here?
What are you doing? I think that's that's both of them. I've never spoken to. Well, I don't recall speaking to Donovan McNabb. I've had plenty of interactions with Terrell Owens and I think that's both of them can't stand each other. So I wouldn't I wouldn't throw that one out there.
They equally can't stand each other. Hey, David, thank you for calling from L.A., man. Thanks, man.
No problem. No doubt about it. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. Reggie is calling from Louisiana. You're on the JR support show. Reggie, who's the annoying athlete that you cannot stand? JR, you want me to give you two or just one?
I want you to give me one and do it very quickly. Oh, OK, well, I was just going to say somebody call and be talking so fat. I can't even understand what they say. But JR, when you start talking, they need to shut the hell up. OK, well, give me your one athlete.
Thank you. My one athlete because I'm I'm down here and bad rude be up. I like your sick, JR, but I just add a Zion with you.
OK. And Zion is annoying to you because he's fat and out of shape in Louisiana. Well, what a man comes down here, he he want to eat that cage and that and that quimos of food. And you can't eat that all day long, JR. You got to go down because what that is, you got a lot of hot sauce in there. And he got the man there with a three hundred pound body and them little skinny old legs and them little skinny old ankles. He can't support all that weight the man be putting on.
OK. The man need to eat some more fruit and a little bit of vegetables so he can, you know, so he'd be all right. You can't eat that all day, man.
And also be held on you on ready hemorrhage. So you so you can't you can't play with that food that long. You got to eat that in small in small in small implement. Well, thank you, Reggie, the dietitian. Appreciate you, Reggie.
Thank you so much. And JR, do you have do you have the Friday funny? You got to let's get to let's get to Friday soon. We got two days, Reggie. Call back in two days, OK? I got I got a good one for you. All right.
Tell me Friday, Reggie. OK. Oh, OK. Thank you. So you too, Reggie.
Thank you. Hey, did you hear that? You heard the good advice for everybody, not just Zion.
You got to have the Cajun and the Creole food in small portions, especially if you got little ankles. You got to be careful because your fat ass can't support it. That's, I think, great advice. And like you said, that expands beyond just Zion. That expands to everybody listening. Yeah, yeah. Right. That's great advice that we all think got smarter because of.
Thank you. You got to have fruits and vegetables. That's it.
More fruits and more vegetables and less Cajun and less Creole food. OK. And somebody should have told Zion that when he got drafted. Too late.
Too late. 888-710-4-ISN. That's 888-710-4-ISN. Zach is calling from Tennessee. You're on the JR support show. What's up, Zach?
Hey, JR. A longtime listener. I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, and a lot of people like would say, oh, you must hate Nico or that must be the athlete that takes you off. But I don't think so, because I'm haunted by the 2016 game against Oklahoma, where we lost at home against Baker Mayfield. And a lot of people just love Baker Mayfield to death, you know, and he doesn't really seem like a I mean, I mean, a lot of people that I know, like I got relatives that live in Tampa and I love them. Well, he planted that flag.
I mean, what else did you want from him after that? A lot of people hated his guts. Yeah, I know.
I mean, he seems like he should be likable, but there's just something about him that that runs me the wrong way, like he was like really smug. Yeah. And he still is in the NFL. He still is. Yeah, he is. No, you can you can tell in his personality, he just goes through life like he has a super chip on his shoulder, arrogant, I mean, he's got a second lease in life as a starting quarterback with the Bucks. So God bless him on that. But, yeah, nobody's going to call him Mr.
Personality. Hey, thank you, Zach, for calling from Tennessee. Yeah, no problem, man. Appreciate you, man. Love your show, man. Thanks. Call anytime.
Ernest, go quickly from Birmingham. You're on the JR sport reshow. Hey, JR, I just want to say my personal athlete who annoys me the most is Lebron James. In my opinion, that man has destroyed the NBA. I mean, from the decision to his temper tantrums on the court, to his flopping all over the court like a dead fish, like that, like a like a fish that just pulled out of the ocean, not like a dead fish, like a fish you just pulled out of the ocean, you know, to his to his crying. I mean, I'm just I'm so sick of it. Okay.
I mean, he in my opinion, he in my opinion, he has he has ruined the NBA. All right. Thank you. Well, thank you, Ernest, for calling from Birmingham.
Appreciate you. I mean, I think since Lebron James has joined the NBA, the league's revenue over the past 20 years, it is now approaching like 15 billion dollars. I mean, if that's destroying the league, then I'd be happy to be destroyed as well. It's the JR sport reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, I'm going to tell you about someone his own reputation might be getting destroyed. His name is Bill Belichick, and this guy is fighting for his girl.
I'll explain. He is. It's the JR sport reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR sport brief.
It is the JR sport reshow on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, we just talked about a bunch of annoying athletes in the world of sports. Golden State Warriors fans annoyed right now. Houston Rockets are just about to wipe them out. Live to see another day. Or maybe not.
Probably. Houston is leading 107 to 80. It's the end of the third quarter. Houston wins this game. The series now goes to three and two. Right now, the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves, they're warming up in L.A. If they're going to win, L.A., if the Lakers lose, they are eliminated.
The Lakers are in a 3-1 hole. Pretty crazy. This is bad. You want to talk about annoying? This situation with Bill Belichick is getting weirder and weirder and weirder. We all heard his interview with CBS Sunday Morning. He's promoting his new book. He was asked about his relationship with his girlfriend. He didn't want to do it. She said, that's not what we're here to talk about. There were other reports from the filming about how she was very controlling over the course of the interview. And at one point in time, she walked out. We all know that she is now, you know, Bill Belichick wants her involved on all emails and all correspondence.
There was a report that North Carolina didn't do hard knocks because she wanted more production and put on the entire series. And so Bill Belichick actually put out a statement defending why he spoke to CBS, saying that they pretty much manipulated the footage and, you know, selectively edited what they wanted to do. And he was only there to focus on the book. And then they wanted to focus in on the relationship. Bill Belichick, he's just like, yeah, I'm standing up for my lady. And it's just like, in what world? Like Bill Belichick, he's really whipped.
He really is. Like everybody at North Carolina, North Carolina put out the statement. UNC put out the statement on behalf of Bill Belichick.
Bill Belichick's personal emails are going public about the book promotion. It's just whatever happens. Hickey, am I bad for wanting back the Bill Belichick that was just about football? Like, I want that guy back.
No, I think right now a lot of people in UNC would want that same thought back as well. Like, how did we get here? How do we get here? This this is like if Michael Jordan just all of a sudden started to concede everything competitive. OK, this is like Shaquille O'Neal admitting that he's wrong.
Like they're just certain things that you never expect to happen. And Bill Belichick, his personal life spilling into the public because he's allowed it to. And he's been very public about the relationship. It's just it's mind boggling. This is just out of this world, like even Charles Barkley is looking at this situation and going, what the hell is going on? He was talking to Dan Patrick and Charles Barkley said, Bill Belichick, I'm concerned about this guy. I'm not sure what's going on. You know, he's been a great friend for me for a long time.
A long time. We've been friends since he coached for the Browns. From what I'm hearing, it's starting to be a very slippery slope. And I never talk about people's personal relationship.
That's another rule I got. But I will admit I'm a little concerned with some of the stuff that's going on. And I might actually reach out to him and make sure everything's good. But I am concerned from what I'm hearing. Yeah, well, his situation is very public because he made it public and it's related and it's of public interest because he's still the head coach of UNC. It's not like Bill Belichick is, you know, sitting around on a farm somewhere like everything that he does is related to the program. And it's it's it's concerning. It's an odd situation. Let's see, maybe Charles Barkley will reach out to Belichick. I don't know.
See how that conversation goes. Speaking of just awful, terrible things, too. Not that not that Bill Belichick is in an awful, terrible situation.
We don't know. Earlier today, we learned that Jordan Travis, former quarterback from Florida State, you know, a team that didn't make it to the playoffs a couple of years ago because this guy broke his leg, broke his ankle. He was drafted by the New York Jets as like a project just last year. And it was a hope that, man, if he can rehab and get it together, he might be a candidate to ultimately be the New York Jets quarterback. And, yeah, we know they just brought in Justin Fields. But I was certainly hoping that maybe we could see Jordan Travis back on the football field. No, not for the New York Jets.
I guess maybe in the future, not for anybody. Today, Jordan Travis announced his retirement. He said that doctors says said his leg hasn't responded to the treatment. He thanked the Jets for the opportunity. And this isn't this isn't what he expected, obviously. And so we won't see Jordan Travis on the football field unless some things change.
I mean, just last year at the NFL combine, prior to being drafted by the Jets, Jordan Travis talked about his recovery. At this point, I'm thinking a day by day. I got out of my boot about a week ago, so I mean, it's pretty special. I'm so thankful. I wake up every single day like that in my shoes, and I'm so grateful. It's been a journey for sure.
My family's helped me get through it. He just turned 24 years old. So whatever he does, I wish him nothing but the best in life. This is certainly going to be an adjustment. You think about your life going one way and then it completely goes another. At least he has his life in front of him to try to make an adjustment.
And hopefully it's a smooth transition, never easy, regardless of how old you are and at what stage of life. It's the JR Sportbree Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. We'll take a break.
On the other side, of course, we'll go through a few things that took place this day in sports history. And then out in Utah, I think we finally found out the name. They a hockey club or they a hockey team? I believe, ooh. Does it matter at this point?
No. And they didn't pick the name that we thought. They have a hockey club. Okay. Sounds a little classier than team. The Utah Hockey Club?
Yeah, sounds good. I think they got a new name. Hey Marco, you excited for their new name?
I'll be fair and I'll be honest. I didn't see this. You're telling me they're going to call themselves the Utah Hockey Club? No, they are the Utah Hockey Club. Oh, okay. You scared me. You scared me. No, I'm excited to learn what the new name is. You know what?
Let's not waste time. Marco, I know you're here for the news update. But before you do the update, let's listen to this clip from Fox 13 News in Utah. The name apparently got leaked before it was supposed to. Listen to this.
Now to the juicy stuff. A big question this morning was what happened on the Utah Hockey Club YouTube page? A screenshot showed a name change showing Utah Mammoths. Now the Utah Hockey Club YouTube page cannot be found.
SCG officials were asked about it on the Zoom call this morning and this was the response. Progress continues on exploring all three of the name options that were chosen as finalists by our fans. We're fully on track to announce a permanent name and identity ahead of the 25-26 NHL season and look forward to sharing that with our fans when we do. Okay, but no explanation on why it was up for a time? We were fully on track to announce a permanent name and identity ahead of the 25-26 NHL season.
And so somebody screwed up. The name is probably going to be the Mammoth. I know we talked about this, I don't know, a couple months ago that the name is not the Yeti because Yeti coolers is like, hey, you got to pay us some money for that. Are y'all guys cool with Mammoth? I'm fine with the Utah Mammoth. I'm okay with it. I guess I'll learn to like it. I'm not going to like it as much as Yeti, but I'll get used to it, I guess. I hear you. Hickey, what do you think about the Mammoth? It's definitely the best option of the three. I think it was like Bandits or something like that.
Like it was definitely the best. Utah Bandits? Yeah, that's not good. Now I do have a question to clarify. Is it the Mammoth or is it the Mammoths? I think it would be the Utah Mammoth because the team in plural would be the Mammoths, right?
I don't know. I think I kind of like Utah Mammoth better than Utah Mammoths. I think it's Mammoth singular.
To me it sounds a little bit better. Now it's about the, I'm assuming the wooly Mammoth, right? So that's the only Mammoth I know. I guess it has to be plural, but I feel like they said Utah Mammoth. Yeah, Utah Mammoth. Yeah. Yeah. If it's singular, I like it better than plural. Either way, it's better than Utah Jazz ain't the Jazz's.
I mean, Mammoth. That's the only team that got out there, right? Jazz ain't got nothing else.
Got nothing else. But like any team that doesn't end in an S, the Heat, the Jazz, they like, it's because it's like singular. Nix, Nix. Nix is the only plural team, right? Pacers, Nix.
Every, wait, what? Every team's plural. Plural, I mean.
Singular, Heat, Heat Magic. And like the Jazz, that's it. Those are only singular teams. Looking sports, they're almost all plural. Yankees, Dodgers, Marlins. Are you Cardinals, Pirates, Reds, Nets? Right, right.
Orioles, Blue Jays. Yet Mammoth sounds more intimidating than Mammoths. It's just, and it rolls off the tongue a little bit easier. Mammoth. I also agree. That's why I'm asking because if it is like Mammoth, they would be like the only animal that's singular.
In hockey or period? Period. So that's what makes it good? Maybe. So you want to see like the Nashville Deer and that'll do something for you? No, no, I'm just, no. Maybe, maybe because Mammoths are dead.
I don't know. But Mammoth, just like the Utah Mammoth, I agree with you Jay. It just rolls off your tongue. Utah Mammoth versus Utah Mammoths. That's a mouthful. Maybe they realize that and say, okay, let's just go Utah Mammoth. But when you look around these professional sports team names, every animal, unless again, it's not an actual thing. It's all plural. All the other animals are alive though. Mammoths are dead. Maybe that's why.
I don't know. Right? Isn't everything else alive? I don't think it has to do with alive or dead. Well, I'm pretty sure they don't have any raptors running around. You're right about that. Good point. Just a hunch.
I mean, you never know. They've made like 19 movies on that though. You think about raptors. Oh, when you see a raptor, there's a lot of them in the movies. You never seen a singular- Smart as hell too.
Yeah, they open up doors and chase after children. I've seen that one before. You know what? That was ahead of, now that you really think about it, wasn't Jurassic Park ahead of its time? Yeah.
By a lot. Come on. Wow. You can watch that movie today and that movie came out what, 93, 94?
Yeah. Isn't that the first like CGI movie? Whatever the hell Steven Spielberg did, man. It was almost like they brought him CGI and he was like, I can make movies out of dinosaurs?
Listen, that movie was all, I need to go watch Jurassic Park. I wish she would have got them children though, but that's just me. That little girl got on my nerves. She did not shut up.
Like she's getting ready to be eaten by this dinosaur and she is screaming and yelling and fumbling. She made me nervous. I wanted her to get eaten.
Shut up. So you wanted the little kid to die when he got electrocuted off the fence? You were hoping that he wouldn't wake up? No. I wanted that girl to shut up or die.
Okay? I said what I said. It was a movie. I wanted her to shut up or die. It was too much. Was that a Steven Seagal movie? Shut up or die?
I don't know. I know Jurassic Park, the little girl almost got them killed like 20 million times. It's like shut up.
She was putting the, you remember she was flicking the flashlight and the dinosaur's eyeballs. Remember that? Yep. Yep.
Like why? What are you doing? And what's that? Her little brother, right? Yep.
He's looking at her like you're dumb. You know what? Stop it. You're going to get us killed out here.
What are you doing? I couldn't stand her. And then she got sneezed on, I think by a big giant brachiosaurus. Good. She should have got eaten off the toilet and not the other guy. Okay. It should have been her.
It should have been her. I said what I said and I stand by it. It's a movie. I don't care. All right. Anyway, good luck to the Utah Mammoth. Yes.
I said what I said. I don't care. It's the JR Sportbree Show on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, I'll tell you about a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR Sportbrief. It's time for this day in sports history.
You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sportbree Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It is April 30th. Oh man, it's almost May 1st, but it is April 30th, 2025. 1975, Larry O'Brien is named the third commissioner in NBA history. Now they named the trophy after him. Good for him.
Hey, how about this? April 30th, 1993, eight time Grand Slam champ Monica Sellers. She was 19 years old. She was at a tennis match in Hamburg, Germany.
Getting ready. Well, she was facing Magdalena Mileva and she got stabbed in the back by a crazed Steffi Graf fan. This guy had a nine inch knife and plunged it almost two inches into her back. God bless her. Didn't hit the spine.
No major organs. He wanted Steffi Graf to be world's number one. So he's trying to take out Monica Sellers. This is crazy. This is Monica Sellers talking about her initial reaction when she got stabbed. I remember sitting on the bench. I was just like thinking to myself, I should change.
I'm giving my opponent a little bit too much. Was she alive? And then suddenly I just feel like such a hard pain, like sharp pain in me.
It's like, oh, and then I wanted to touch what's in there and I just saw blood. Man, she was 19 years old at the time. She was gone for about two years after she got stabbed. And she was just never the same after that. Like she went to a US Open final, didn't win, you know, won the Canadian Open in 95. But she was she was never the same. And the guy who stabbed her, like they just said he was crazy.
You know, I don't I don't know what his deal is now. That was like 30 years ago. But a sad situation. And those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. I wish things were a little bit brighter, but we're at the end of the show.
Speaking of brighter, I don't know how bright this is. I told you Dylan Brooks is one of the most annoying guys in the league. He just got thrown to the ground, wasn't happy. This game is we're now in I don't want to call it bump mode because these players are beefing with each other. All the stars from the Warriors are out of the game. They've been able to close the gap to 114-101. It's four minutes left in a game in the Golden State Warriors. Scrubs have gotten chippy with the starters from the Rockets who are pretty much still in the game to try to, you know, close this one out.
You don't want to put the scrubs out there and just end up being eliminated. Doesn't matter what the score is at this point. And so they just getting to beefing with each other. They're figuring out what technical fouls they want to dole out.
And Dylan Brooks was in the middle of it as he got kind of tossed to the floor and par for the course. We'll see what the Golden State Warriors do in the next game. Even with four minutes left, I'd be surprised if they came back and won this one with the reserves. I mean, if the Rockets don't hold on to this one, they deserve to lose tonight. Coming up next, right after this game, we have the Golden State, excuse me, we have the Los Angeles Lakers and the Minnesota Timberwolves. If the Lakers do not win, the Lakers are cooked. JJ Redick already on edge pregame mad at a reporter for asking if he's going to consult with his, his assistants to try to measure the substitution. So we'll see if tonight is LeBron's final game of the season.
We'll be back tomorrow to have a chat with you and we'll know everything. Is LeBron and Luka, do they have another game? Is LeBron season over alongside Luka? Will Luka smoke a beer and have hookah?
We'll have that all covered for you tonight. Thank you to Jared Dubin for joining us from the Double Dribble podcast to talk some ball. If you missed a minute or a second of the show, talking about John Ulbricht getting fined $100,000 because his son is a nosy brat. We talked about Giannis and his future in Milwaukee. We talked about Jamal Murray and Belichick and there's so much more that we'll get into tomorrow.
If you missed a second of the show, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. You can find me online everywhere at JR Sportbrief. Hickey, where can I find you, man? Ryan underscore Hickey three on Twitter. We'll be back with you tomorrow at 6 PM Eastern three Pacific. The JR Sportbrief show is done on the infinity sports network. Do not move. Bart Winkler is coming up next. Thank you for listening.
