It is the JR Sportbrief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love to everybody tuned in all over North America. Hope you're having a tremendous Thursday.
I'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. This show gets started every weekday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm in Atlanta, super producer and host Ryan Hickey. He's in New York City.
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You could be in Washington, Washington State. I appreciate you for being here. I get started 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You can tune in on the free Odyssey app. You can hit rewind. You could start at the beginning of the show. But we talked about LeBron and Luca and J.J. Riddick basically saying, hey, Luca, you're too fat.
Get in shape. Hey, we talked about the New York Knicks. They are actually in action right now this second against the Pistons. The Knicks are trying to get them the hell up on out of here, trying to eliminate them. And the Pistons are just like, not so fast. The Pistons are playing on their home court.
The New York Knicks, they lead 71 to 67. Four minutes have gone by in the third. There's a lot more basketball to play.
How about this? In an hour from now, the Los Angeles Clippers, they're going to try to stave off elimination against the Denver Nuggets in L.A. So we got two teams that could bite the dust today.
Both the Pistons and the Clippers are trying to hold on for dear life. We just talked about some football. Jackson Dart. He's going to be holding on to the lowest end of the depth chart. Apparently, the New York Giants do not want to play him at all this season.
They want him to sit down, watch and learn. Yeah, just learn how to be a pro. Just have a better personality than Russell Wilson. I think he's already there. Speaking of personality, there's a lot of talk about Travis Hunter potentially winning both defensive player of the year, rookie of the year, offensive rookie of the year. Man, that's a lot of awards. He ain't winning all of that.
Come on, stop it. He ain't doing that. He's not going to play enough on both sides. I would say it's more likely that he wins offensive rookie of the year. But not defensive rookie of the year, like he can't win both.
I'd be shocked. I would agree, like there's a lot of talk him playing both. Like the reality is he's going to play one primarily, especially in year number one. The focus on that moonlight. The other one, I totally agree. Oh, defensive rookie, offensive rookie.
What are they trying to wiggle? Where the guy out? There's going to be guys that are strictly out there playing defense and defense only. You, you, he won't get enough defensive plays in Hickey unless he leads the world in interceptions as a rookie. Like, like you said, like I said, I don't see a way in which he ends up winning both, but people out here gambling and putting their money down on it. I would not, but I, Hey, it's a big bet to pay off. A matter of fact, forget winning rookie of the year on a defensive or offensive side of the ball.
A Booker McFarland was on Ryan Rosillo's podcast and a Booker McFarland. He's just like, man, I don't know if he's even going to be able to play both ways successfully. My one question against him or about him is the physicality in which he's going to receive. Can you, can you see him lining up at corner against chase Jefferson, uh, Nico Collins, like some of the top receivers in the league, it just seems like, right. Physically, he's got some, he's got some work to do physically. Not that he can't do it now with that being said, I think he's got every opportunity. I just need I just need to see it.
I don't think it's a home run as much as everybody does. Yeah. It's going to take time. The guy got to fill out. He got to eat a stack up on that protein, man. Have some salmon, have some avocado, have some sweet potatoes, have some chicken, have some fish. He has to put on some LBS, eat some elk. He, I think I had elk last week. You ever had an elk?
No, I was just about to say that's a random, random beef, or I guess piece of meat to throw in there. So that makes sense that you just had it. How was it? It was fine. It was whatever.
What does it taste like? Meat. Okay.
So there's no like discernible difference. Nah, bro. No, I'm like, you could have told, you could have been like, Hey man, this is some beefy.
I'd be like, all right, whatever. It was elk. Elk. Okay.
Close enough. What's what the hell is the difference? I don't know. Let's Google that.
Probably less fat would be my guess. Yes. What does this thing look like? Oh my God. Elk are huge. Oh my God. Oh, you know, it, it gotta be fattier than deer.
What do I know? People are listening. They eat this. Somebody's chopping up an elk right now.
They're like, this guy's an idiot. Definitely. Of course. They could say that without me talking about an elk. Like I've, I've had venison. I've eaten deer before and yeah, I don't know. The elk to me just tastes like beef.
What do I know? I'm not out here chopping up meat and you know, I don't know. Like really, like you truly are unable to taste the difference. It tastes like brisket to me, man. Okay. It's like beef. Like, I don't know. You want me to send you something from Georgia? Maybe I'm intrigued now.
Well, you know what? How about this? I was going to say meat in the middle.
This, I can actually get there in a drive. Let's go to South Carolina and let's hang out with Xavier Legette and then we can have raccoons. I don't know if I want to do that. No, I'm not that I'm, I'm trying to be more adventurous in terms of eating.
I don't know if I'm ready to get that adventurous to eat a scavenger animal. Oh my God. Wow.
Damn. He's smart. He's smart.
He's intelligent. I'm not saying they're stupid, but what do they eat? They break into people's trash cans. They eat your leftover scraps.
You know, it's basically they eat what possums eat. Do I want to eat a possum? Hell no. Do I want to eat what, do I want to eat something that's eating my trash? Hell no. You're thinking about, you're thinking about your local neighborhood swiping ass raccoon.
You're not thinking about the raccoon in the woods who's eating worms and rats and fruits. Go ahead. Really stupid question. Go ahead. I don't have an answer.
I'm going to give you a dumb one. Go ahead. Are there raccoons in the wild? Like in the woods? Yeah.
Where do you think they came from? I don't. Your ass would have been, a bunch of years ago, your ass would have been wild in the woods too. Okay. So we're on too much concrete here. I guess you're right. Yeah.
Your ass would have been wild in the woods too. All right. I'm like, man, what do these raccoons eat? That's not human food. I didn't think that they ate anything else.
The same thing that humans ate before they went inside and started to get stupid. Okay. So you're saying the raccoons Xavier LeGette is eating and the raccoons that I would be eating, let's say up here in New York City are different. Oh, yes. Okay.
I could buy that. The raccoon that you're eating in New York probably smoked a crack pipe. Okay. I've seen these things. I've seen what they eat. I don't want to be eating a raccoon that's eating a diaper. All right. Look, there ain't no crack pipes in the wild.
Okay. You've seen a raccoon? Did you just say you saw a raccoon eat a diaper? They eat anything. They are scavengers. Did you say you saw a raccoon eat a diaper?
You said they infested my neighborhood growing up. So like we bought a trash can bin. We just basically put the trash out. And we would try elastic bands. My dad would go through everything to get these things.
You got to have the heavy lids on the trash. Oh yeah. Yeah. Growing up, I saw one and I feel like he was threatening me. I'm walking up the block. He was sitting on a trash can and he lifted up the lid and was digging in. And then I was like, let me go across the street.
And then he looked up at me like, you better cross the street. I'm like, I don't want no beef with no raccoon. Okay. Those beady eyes. Yeah. There was some ugly looking things, man.
Wow. And then when the kids come out, I saw, look, I have another story. I got another raccoon story. I saw a raccoon walk across the fence and it was one. And then it was another smaller one. And then they were like three and four more of these stupid things crawling across the fence. And I'm like, you got to be kidding me right now. The whole family is back here. Waiting on a barbecue, man.
Maybe that's why Xavier Lake, maybe that's why they cooking them up. Why not? Population control. Come on. That's stay out of my trash.
Yeah. Get out of my trash. My trash. Raccoon family. Yuck.
It's disgusting. Anyway, speaking of families, I think you saw that. What's this guy's name? John Halliburton of Pacers told Tyrese Halliburton's dad to take a hike. Did you see that? I did. And thankfully, that's the case.
Smart. I was I could not believe that that same night that he got in front of Giannis's face, Tyrese Halliburton said he was wrong. His father, John, went on social media, I guess somebody wrote something for him and he put it online or they put it online from him. His apology went up. And then last night.
Last night, yesterday afternoon, it's Tyrese Halliburton's dad was on a local television station, WTMJ4. He was on TV, basically breaking down what didn't happen with Giannis. He actually said, like, I was standing through Giannis and I wasn't talking crap. So what, is Giannis a liar now? So what happens?
All of this video that exists? Why did you even apologize if you're going to go on TV and say trash like this? Listen to this. It might have seemed like I was looking at him, but I really was. I was looking through him. That's how I was in the moment. I know it looked like we were looking like I was staring him down, you know, but it wasn't like that. It was in the moment as if I was looking right through him.
And yes, I had the banner in my hand going and I was yelling, yay, yay, yay. Giannis never said anything to me. I never said anything to Giannis. There was no, no back and forth.
But that changed when Giannis went face to face with John near his baseline seats a few moments later. He grabbed my hands. He put his forehead on my forehead and he said, don't disrespect me. Don't effing disrespect me.
Okay. And I said to him, I was not trying to disrespect you, which I wasn't. I'm telling you, I did not do that on purpose.
I really did not. And then I said to him, I love you. He said back to me, I love you.
We padded chest. He gave us a thumbs up and he walked away. Man, why are you out here? It looked like I was talking to Giannis, but I, in the moment I was looking through him. What are you an X man? Like, I don't know what X man looks through a professor X who the hell is looking through walls.
You ain't looking through nobody. You are taunting the man. You were waving at dumb ass flag with your son's face on it in front of Giannis. Like why double down on being a jackass? Why did he take advice from Shaquille O'Neal?
Cause I still can't, well, I can't believe it. Shaquille O'Neal will die on any Hill. He makes a point on, regardless of how ridiculous it is that same night. I feel like Shaquille O'Neal was one of the few people, I guess maybe three out of a hundred, three out of 100 people would agree with, with what this guy did, that there was nothing wrong with it. Did he take advice from Shaq?
This is what they were talking about on the NBA on TNT. Listen to this guy, bro. You already said something to him. No, he did not. No, he not. What is his dad doing on the court?
His dad is not supposed to be on the court. He's an idiot. If you think that's why you're an idiot too.
No, no, that's not true. No, I'm just telling you that dad is an idiot. And if you think you're an idiot, you're an idiot too.
Yeah. Everybody knows you even Tyrese Halliburton the same night Tyrese Halliburton was like, my dad was wrong. And then today, as the Indiana Pacers are getting ready to take on the Cavs, instead of talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers, people still want to ask about his dad because he did this stupid interview yesterday after he apologized. Like what it's Tyrese Halliburton's dad is rogue.
Tyrese Halliburton was on Pat McAfee show earlier today. And he basically said, listen, my dad is a dad. He's acting crazy. He got wound up.
Listen to this. I think he just got caught up in the moment. You know, I think my dad is obviously a big personality. And I think after the game, he came on the floor to, to celebrate. And I think that, you know, obviously his, his actions were, you know, out of line and my apologize to be honest, he apologized to be honest. He put out a statement apologizing yesterday. I addressed it in media yesterday. It's unfortunate, you know, what happened and there's no, no excuses and no place for that. And I think that he understands that. I think he just got caught up in the moment, but you know, I, it's, it's, you know, I understand that a lot of the dialogue has been about that, you know, coming into today, but it was a big win for us as a group.
And, you know, that's really where, where my focus is on. Oh, tell your dad, why, why is your dad doing interviews? He has to have gone rogue. Like his dad, the TV guys are reaching out to his dad cause they got his number like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do this. His dad knows how to do zooms.
His dad is doing it by himself. Come on now. This is terrible. You want to know who's sick of this? The Indiana Pacers because they're banning him from future games.
At least the rest of this season. Oh, it's, it's not a banning. That sounds too strong. We can't ban the star players, the dad from coming to the game.
That's, that's harsh, right? Well, the NBA could, they could too, but they're not going to do that. They want to keep their star happy.
Sean Sharania reports after conversations with Tyrese Halliburton's father, John, John will not attend the team's home and road games for the foreseeable future of Pacers spokesperson told ESPN. They basically gave the dad the boot and you know what? I think he would have been perfectly fine if he put out the apology, his son apologized and it just stopped there. But the fact that you're breathing more life into the situation by going on TV and now basically taking a massive dump on your own apology and now making up crap about what did not take place. You look silly.
You look stupid. I'm sure the Indiana Pacers front office and even probably his son Tyrese, he's probably sitting around with his hand on his forehead going, he's probably sitting around with his hand on his forehead going, Oh my God, you gotta be kidding me. And the Pacers front office is just like, Hey, we want this to go away. We don't want the NBA, you know, bothering us. And we, we just want to focus in on the Cavs and we got to talk about the star players dad. I think that stupid interview was the final straw. I think at that point, the Pacers front office said, Oh no, no, no, no, no.
It's probably in the best interest for you to just watch at home. I don't know. Maybe Tyrese gave him a home. Maybe he lives in his house.
I don't know how, maybe he does. Hickey, the last time I think I ever saw Tyrese Halliburton's home, he was hanging out with like, uh, like five blonde women and he posted a video at like 5 AM. You think his dad stays there too? Uh, for him, I hope not.
Oh yeah. Well, he getting more trouble watching the game at Tyrese Halliburton's house, huh? Whoever this man lives. Oh, I hope he's good. Okay. Just, just stay home.
I'm pretty sure he lives in a nice place. Just, just stay at home. That's what you get. Hickey you act like a jackass.
You got to pay the consequences. Come on. I agree. And I agree with what you said. If he, if he just left the apology alone, didn't go back on TV, maybe I get, I don't think he'd be sitting court side, but in a suite, maybe just even 10 rows back, whatever.
I think he'd still be in the arena for at least the home games. I, when you talk like the way you are, it wasn't me. I was talking through him, whatever that means.
You full of crap. He didn't say nothing to me. I didn't say nothing. Like we got video, man.
What are you talking about? You literally turned onto the court. You walk and directly stood in front of Giannis.
You could have kept going. You turned around, walked past him, stood in front of him, waved the stupid towel with your kids. Why are we lying? He's too old to be lying. How old is this guy? Hickey?
I don't know. He's 60, 70 something years old. I was going to say 55, 60. Too old to be lying out here. Hickey, you could pull up everybody's age on Google, except for his dad's age.
That's actually surprising. I figured that, you know, now that he's a big celebrity going on TV all the time, figured, you know, we'd know everything about him. All about, okay, here we go. People magazine, people.com.
Of course. I Googled his age. Nobody has it for me. All about his dad, John Hallibur. Let's learn some things. Hickey, you ready? Oh, I'm ready.
Let's hear it. Okay. He was previously a basketball coach. Okay.
He instilled the love of basketball into his son. Okay. All right. All right. Okay, fine. He apologized. Okay.
He's a former basketball coach who taught him how to play. What a shock. Okay. All right. I guess there's not a lot here.
I should have said cheese. People's, they dug in high and couldn't find anything. People magazine, pretty stupid. Here's another headline that we should know.
You ready for this one, Hickey? Mind blowing. John frequently attends Pacers games. Okay. And Tyrese thanked John for always pushing him in basketball. John apologized for taunting Giannis. Okay.
People magazine doesn't need to do sports. And those are all the things we need to know about John. There we have it. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay.
That's not their forte. Yeah. Stay out of sports.
If it's not OJ Simpson, you know, stay away. All right. That's a bad idea. Anyway. Helicopter parents.
It doesn't matter what level, what age. I'm pretty sure Patrick Mahomes senior called him up to, you know, give him some advice. I hope not. I hope not.
Just, is dad messed up? What are you going to do? It's the JR sport pre-show here with you on the infinity sports network. I don't blame the Pacers. They don't want to deal with this guy. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN.
Do you think the Pacers are right by telling him to stay at home? Call me up. 888-710-4ISN. And then I got to answer a call. I got to respond to a call that we had from Michigan.
I think Tom, he asked about multi-sports and what the kids should do. I'm going to give you an answer on the other side of the break. I'm going to get to your calls. We'll find out what's going on with the Knicks and the Pistons. And then we got another basketball game starting in about 40 minutes as the Clippers try to stave off elimination against the Nuggets.
We got a lot to do before we roll out. It's the JR sport pre-show the infinity sports network. You're listening to the JR sport brief.
It is the JR sport pre-show on the infinity sports network. Right now, the New York Knicks lead the Pistons 91 to 79. It's about two minutes to go in the the third quarter.
So we still got about, you know, about 14-15 minutes left in this game overall. The Pistons are trying to avoid elimination. In about another 35 minutes or so, we're going to have another basketball team on home court.
On their home court, the Los Angeles Clippers, they will be in LA trying to avoid the end of their season against the Nuggets. The last game that they played, Nuggets beat them 131 to 115. We had Jamal Murray who lost his mind in that game, 43 points. Nikola Jokic didn't have a great game. Had a triple-double, 13 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds, but didn't have a top notch. And the Nuggets still won. Kawhi Leonard only had 20 points.
Zubach had 27. James Harden had a rough night, 11 points, 3 of 9 from the field. And if the Clippers lose tonight, they're done.
The series over. And another year of Kawhi. I mean, at least Kawhi is healthy and playing right now. I don't want to say wasted, but you want to win while this guy can still actually step out onto the basketball court. And in the most Kawhi way possible. He was asked what the Clippers need to do to win. He was asked what's going to change from the last game until tonight, an elimination game. Listen to Kawhi's answer. We got to keep, you know, playing the same way.
If we want to keep going, everybody has to contribute, which they are doing. And yeah, just keep, keep playing the same game. If they play this, Hickey, am I wrong? If they play the same game, they lose. Am I missing something? Uh, you're correct because they played the same game five times and they lost three so far.
So yeah, not, not a great strategy. I don't, does Kawhi know how any of this works? I don't know. Maybe he wasn't, his, his programming was malfunctioning that.
I don't know what the hell's going on, man. I think Michael Porter Jr. of the Nuggets, he's another, well, I was going to say he's another bum, but he's here. He's there. Sometimes he plays, sometimes he doesn't. He had 14 points in the last game. Listen to him.
I think he understands how this works. How important this next game is. I think last year when we lost, we were up 3-2 with a chance to close it out at the, in Minnesota and we got blown out. So we know how important it is to go to LA and have our focus at an all time high to try to close out the series. Yeah. Wow.
It's just, I don't know. I hope the Clippers win tonight. I want seven games. I want seven games. I think at this point, Jokic will just bully everybody around. I wouldn't be shocked if the Nuggets ended them tonight. I want seven games.
That's it. I want to see who's going to take on the thunder. That's going to be interesting as well. The Nuggets have enough depth. This is, I think they're just not evenly matched. I'd give the, the Nuggets a slight edge, given what we've seen so far. We'll see what happens. 8, 8, 8, 7, 10, 4 ISN. That's 8, 8, 8, 7, 10, 4 ISN.
Now, Hickey, I need to do this before we run out of time. We did get this call from Tom in Michigan. He asked about his son.
He's playing lacrosse. It was Tom, right? That's the gentleman's name. Tony. Tony. Tony in Michigan. My apologies, Tony.
Tony asked about his son. He's playing lacrosse. He's playing basketball. He's 12 years old.
You're 100% correct. And I don't know. I don't know all the details in the particulars. How tall are you? How tall is your son? How athletic is he? I don't know. Your son might be one of the best basketball players, 12 year olds in Michigan.
I don't know. He might have a future. Or he could ball out in lacrosse.
You know, I would say in most cases, you want to have a well-rounded kid. You know, play multiple sports. The top, top kids typically specialize in one particular sport. I mean, if you don't feel, or you don't feel your son is going to be one of these kids that's just going to blow people away, let them play both sports and choose later. I would think if he was good enough in one particular area, then he would just strictly focusing on that one. So I'd let it play out because to be honest, I feel a lot of these kids who are, you know, already great or good, they've been focusing in on a singular sport. Since they were walking, like basketball only, baseball only, you know, football only, I don't think we get too much of a mix.
It seems like that bar gets dropped later and later and younger and younger. So if there's an opportunity to pay for school, pay for college, take it as far as you can in high school and then let whatever is driving the education bus, let it go. If you feel that he can go pro, you know, basketball is tough. I know we have professional lacrosse here in this country. I don't know if that pays as much as going outside and getting a job. Although playing professional lacrosse is a job, not as much.
It doesn't pay as much. Let them play both. Hickey, you don't got a kid, but what do you think?
I think that you should let them play multiple sports for as long as possible. Yeah. Like, I mean, he's 12 years old, right? So what is that? It's about eighth grade, seventh grade, like a step away.
What is that? One more step away from high school. Yeah. It's a step or two. Maybe figured out by sophomore year of high school, junior year, like, I don't think, I think the longer you can play, and I think a lot of athletes now talk about playing multiple sports, that being good because you work different muscles, you know, you can become maybe a better overall athlete because you're doing different movements during the different seasons. There's less of a chance of burnout happening.
Maybe you stay fresher because you're not just doing the same motion over and over and over again all year round, whether it's shooting a basketball, shooting lacrosse ball. I'm of the belief that if you can play as many sports for as long as possible, do so. If you're good enough to go, you know, not pro, but at least to play in college somewhere, I think you'll be fine if you're not playing it 24-7, all of high school at least. And I just think if you're good enough, you just, you're just going to go do it. If you got to think about it, you're not good enough.
Is that, is that too simple? And you'll learn, like, especially the high school level, right? It takes a jump from middle school. You'll see quickly where your son fits in with basketball competition, lacrosse competition, like, right. I think he'll tell you, and the competition will tell you pretty quickly whether he can make it or not.
Yeah, man. Listen, I'm ready to tell my kid he sucks at everything he does. If he sucks at it, I'm ready. Okay. I'm ready.
Well, let's do that quick hook. Oh, yeah. All he does is run around like a nut. I'm about, listen, we got a, what do you call this thing? This thing called a marathon. I'm not going to make him run 26 miles.
That'd be child abuse. But we have, we got like a mini marathon. I'm about to go out there and run it with him on 4th of July, man. Just so he likes to run. So, man, you're going to start running today, okay? Gets to running.
Easy. Are you saying, wow, what you, what you saying? How long is that mini marathon? It's like, I don't know.
How many are we talking? One side of the park to the other? No, not far. Okay.
So it's actual, okay. He's not going 26 miles. He's not going 13 miles. We're not doing a half. Well, I wasn't, I mean, when they say mini marathon, I don't know. I wasn't sure how literal the term was. It's for kids.
It's for little kids. Okay. That'd be fun.
That's a nice father-son bonding experience. Yeah. And when he falls down, I get to drag him. Get up. Get up. I'm not stopping. You better run faster. Yeah. Get up.
Catch up. All he does is run. Hickey, I realized this. Another parent said, Hey, your son is fast. I go, is he? Oh, good. I know exactly where we need to go then to the track.
You started sounding Joe Mazzola now. What? I don't know. When he falls down, get up. So I'm like parent goes, help him. Nope. Don't, don't you dare help him up.
He can get up. Do you see bone? You see, are you hurt son?
Or are you injured? Oh yeah. Right. Kid will look at me like, what? What?
I'm five. I don't know. Yeah. You know what I'm going to, I'm going to ask him that the next time he comes crying at me, are you hurt? Are you injured?
I want to look, I should record the look on his face. Are you hurt or are you injured? He may just go, yeah. Yeah. Injured daddy. Injured. Okay, son. Okay. You're injured. You're not hurt.
You're just injured. Okay. In due time.
Hey Marco, what do you think about this? You got kids out here. You know, it's 12 year old.
You let them play for as long as they can, whatever they got. Right. A hundred percent. My feeling is it'll choose you. You don't choose it.
Yeah. You'll know. The sport will tell you.
Other people will tell you. Your competition will tell you. And I'm sure if you're that good, you're going to have a lot of people in your ear that are going to come tell you that you need to focus now because you're this good.
Before you hear that, don't make that decision because good chance, you're not that good. Yeah. I don't think Kevin Durant was out there swinging a baseball bat. You know what I'm saying? Well, but I'm pretty sure everybody around the block and I'm sure every coach that could get anywhere with an earshot was letting them know you're really good.
You might want to just play a lot of basketball. Yeah. It's simple. Yeah. I feel like, you know, I don't think Kevin Duran was looking around going, am I decent at this? Like talking to his friends.
Like I got a decent jumper, right? Ah, everybody knew. Yeah. He should go play hockey instead. Yeah.
What a world. Hey, uh, Hickey's Tony, right? Tony in Michigan. Tony in Michigan. Hey Tony, good luck. Tony, if your kid gets rich, give us some money for the advice. Okay. Just do that on the side. Can I add in one thing before you hit break?
Yeah, go ahead. You guys did hurt and injured. I did that to my son numerous times. What'd your kid say? And I've still yet to get a real answer, but what I does do is it stops some deadness tracks when they're younger.
Now my oldest is almost 11, so it's not quite, but when he was like six or seven, five, I did that a few times. He's crying, looking at me, going, what, what's the difference? I don't know. Are you hurt or are you injured? And by the time we started to explain, he wasn't hurt no more.
Okay. He just, he was, he was flummoxed. He was perplexed.
He didn't know how to respond. If you're injured, believe me, you don't care about that question. If you're hurt, now all of a sudden you're trying to figure it out. Yeah.
And we move forward. I'm going to, I'm going to ask him, I'm going to ask him that. See, I'm not concerned about his injury. I'm concerned about, you know, messing with his head a little bit.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I don't care. I know if you're hurt or injured.
I just need you to understand that you're okay. It chooses you just like the sport. We know. The pain chooses which one?
I think the parent, we know, we know the difference between hurt and injured. Just like people around the block know whether you're good enough or you're going to play one sport or two. Everybody knows. Oh yeah.
You're the last one to figure it out. Yeah. That's easy. Yeah.
I met my kid. He slipped one time and he slipped. I heard his head hit the floor.
I'm like, Oh, this guy hurts. Okay. All right. Not feeling good. Get up. Come here.
Let me help you. Come on. I heard his head. I heard it. I heard it. I know it hurt.
So which one is that? Is that hurt or injured? That's hurt. That's hurt. That's hurt. Yeah. Hurt is temporary. If he's injured, we got to go to the ER, right?
Yeah. Then you need help. So you can't handle injured. Injured. We need help.
We need to go see somebody. Yeah. I'm trying to avoid injured at every cost. Okay. Like let's go run in the park and just let's, let's not get injured.
We don't, we don't. I don't got patience for injuries. Okay. Now you can go run in the park. I'd be injured.
Who him or me? Me. If I'm running in the park, I'm injured. There's a good chance a sniper got me in both hamstrings. Yeah.
Listen, I tried to run after him in the park. I pulled my hamstring for the first time ever. I'm like, okay. Like this is a new feeling.
This is new. Maybe his hamstrings are better than mine. I can't have it that way. Can't have it that way. My son is not gonna, you're not going to be out running me. Nope. No, sirree.
I'll just try not to be like this idiot. What's the, Hickey, what's the guy's name? The dad. We don't know how old he is. John Halliburton.
John Halliburton. Yeah. I'm not going to be stupid like him though. I like this guy. I got banned from basketball games.
What a genius that guy is. Anyway, is this, are the Knicks winning? They still winning? Still winning. Up 11. Oh boy.
Here we go. I was rooting for them to lose, Marko. You won game seven, eh?
Hey, I've given in my New York Knicks card. I quit. I quit. I quit. I quit. I'm proclaiming it. I'm done. So what in the 20 years of disaster and the Isaiah Thomas and Larry Brown and all that?
Nuka Brown, Nuka Brown Sanders. Nah, that didn't do it for you? No, I've been here too long. I've been here too long now. I don't care about the Knicks. I don't feel the same. Don't feel the same. I don't care.
I want them to actually lose. I got to tell you, I feel sorry for you. Why? Because you've gotten that far that they've taken it away from you completely. I feel bad for you.
Oh, don't feel bad for me. I feel bad for Knicks fans. One day they'll win by accident. Just like the Hawks. Maybe one day I'll go back to, when the Knicks come and play here, you know who I root for?
You for the Hawks? I feel like a turncoat. You are. Yeah, it's okay. Again, it shows you. Are you injured?
Are you hurt? I've learned a lot here. Good stuff. It's the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, we'll talk about a few things that happened this day in sports history.
There were some big ones. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. 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 Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Hey, you need a reminder? It's not April anymore. It's May 1st. The year is 2025.
How about this? May 1st in 1920, Babe Ruth, he hit his first home run for the New York Yankees. The Red Sox beat the Yankees 4-2.
He did it against his old team. Matter of fact, Babe Ruth, who cares? He had 54 home runs that year.
What else is new? Like, Babe Ruth hit home runs. Eating the hot dogs and hit home runs. Hey, May 1st, 1981. Billie Jean King. She came out as the first prominent lesbian in sports.
It's crazy to say this. She was married to Larry King. She had an affair with the assistant. The assistant then wanted to basically sue her for money. What else is new? People suing people for money. And it basically forced Billie Jean King to come out.
Take a listen to this via makers. Billie Jean King looks back at the press conference that basically put a life on Front Street. I was outed and I would never out anybody on anything. And I'd grown up in a homophobic environment. So it was really something.
This is the biggest struggle I've ever had in my life. And I told my PR person and I told my lawyer I want to have a press conference. I'm going to tell the truth. They said, you cannot do that.
No one's ever done that. I said, I don't care what people have done before me. I am telling you, I have to tell the truth. I told the truth at this press conference. Of course, you could have heard a pin drop because I said, yes, I did have an affair with Marilyn Barnett.
And I went, you'd hear me go like that. The truth always sets you free eventually. I did lose all my money overnight in 24 hours. Every single endorsement I had, I lost it all in 24 hours. But it's OK.
It's like you just start over. Yeah. Nowadays, most people do not care. I do not care what you do in your house. That's your business.
As long as you don't hurt nobody. I do not care. Anyway, that was 1981. May 1st, 1991.
Ricky Henderson. He broke Lou Brock's stolen base record. He got his nine hundred and thirty ninth stolen base. It was a new record.
He stole third in the bottom of the fourth against the New York Yankees. Listen to Ricky Henderson. Get the job done. Courtesy MLB a three at one.
Nothing deficit. Ricky goes a pitch ticket. He's going to have it.
No contest deals. Third base jerks the bag from its moorings and holds it aloft. Representing number nine hundred and thirty nine. Ricky pounds it with his left fist, hands it to equipment manager Frank Cincheck, who gives him a big hug and ultimately the A's beat the Yankees for excuse me, seven to four in Oakland that day. That was stolen base. Nine hundred and thirty nine. Ricky Henderson said I'm going to end my career with one thousand four hundred and six stolen bases.
Yeah. Ain't nobody stealing bases like that no more. I mean, these guys used to get one hundred plus.
One hundred twenty a year, man. We can kiss them days. Goodbye.
Run, Ricky, run. Anyway. Yeah, those are a few things that happened this day in sports history. Hickey, did he ever retire? Never. Right. He never retired, huh? No, he's always had the ability to get one more base stolen in him.
I still can't believe he's gone. Right. Crazy. Unbelievable. He's stealing bases somewhere. I don't know where, but he's stealing bases somewhere.
That guy never retired. Yeah, a few things. Hickey, what an interesting show today was, right? I would.
Yeah, I would agree from life advice for a teenage or close to teenage kids to talk about how long you've been on this earth for. Three billion. Well, no, not us. Is it the dirt or the no, is it the Mars? Mars didn't have Earth. Wait, what are we talking about?
Mars didn't have water for about three billion years. Right. Yeah. Wow. Insane.
Yeah, it's crazy, bro. I don't even know what three billion years is. How long am I going to be here? Another 40, 50 years, maybe. I don't know.
Maybe 60. Listen, the way technology, the way technology, Hickey, we got the driverless cars everywhere now. OK, so if the car can drive itself one day, they're going to rip my head off and they're going to put it on top of a robot like Futurama. OK, anyway, New York nicks over Detroit 103 to 98 right now. We're waiting to see what the Clippers do if they can stay alive against the Nuggets. Thank you to Anthony Irwin for coming by and talking about the Los Angeles Lakers. We will be back tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. You missed a minute of the show.
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