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Is it? What's the guy's name? Who calls?
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Hey, we've got a full show, even though we've been here for an hour. We have talked about Planet of the Apes and robots and the Los Angeles Lakers being eliminated from the postseason. JJ Riddick basically indirectly telling Luca Doncic he's fat. We talked about Steph Curry. This guy has a major injury on his hand and he won't admit it. Of course he won't.
What is he going to say? And as we continue on with the show. Well, talk some more basketball. Why? Because the Detroit Pistons are trying to force a Game 7 tonight against the New York Knicks.
They get underway in about 30 minutes. The New York Knicks. You're trying to close out this series, but Jalen Brunson is running around with a bum leg. It stinks for him.
Also, Tyrese Halliburton. Speaking of a bum. Sorry. Anyway, his dad is not he's not going to any more basketball games this year.
I guess running up to a seven foot tall freak and yelling in his face and apologizing and then lying about it. I think that prompted the Indiana Pacers to just say don't don't come back. Like stay stay at home. We don't need you right now at all. Hey, we got another great basketball game later tonight. We have the Nuggets and the Clippers going at it. Nuggets trying to eliminate the Clippers from the postseason. That's cool.
A Travis Hunter. If you want to go to Vegas, you could lay down a wager as to whether or not he's going to be both offensive and defensive player of the year. We got Anthony Irwin coming through to talk Los Angeles Lakers.
There's a lot to get into. And I did mention the New York Giants. I said they got a plan for Jackson Dart.
We'll talk about that. Apparently, the Falcons who never have a plan for anything. They got a plan for Kirk Cousins. So everybody has a plan. Rockets got a plan to hurt Steph Curry. Lakers are trying to plan to put Luka Doncic on the treadmill. Everybody has a plan. Hey, if you want to call up, you can eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN.
You know, I was going down memory lane. We talk about the Lakers and people being in shape. We talk about yoga and people outside here in Atlanta doing yoga every day.
It feels like when I come to work, it's great. And I said, hey, I ran Tough Mudder. No, no experience. Never ran a thing in my life. I ran up that hill. Hickey, I did this 11 years. I watched the video here in the break. It was 11 years ago that I did this.
And I was as much of a jerk then as I am now. It's great. It's great.
Like there's you know, this is all recorded and shout outs to degree and now Hickey, I remembered it. I went from India in my stomach. You know, I came home. I can't do nothing.
I can't eat. And so I go to India and I stop in New York and then I go out to Lake Tahoe and I run this race. And how I did this, I don't know. I should have I should have been you know, the people I go up that mountain. What's that mountain that the dead people up on? Which one is that?
What? Come on. They try to climb the highest. What's the highest mountain on earth? Everest. Everest. Oh, yeah.
And they just get frozen and they get stuck up there. That's yes. Yes. You're right.
Yeah. It could have should have been me on this mountain. Not high enough. I'm not going to freeze to death. It was cold, but not high enough. But there's no way in hell I should have did what I did.
None. But I did it. And I was I did go under. I think it was barbed wire. Yeah. Went under barbed wire.
OK. I was engulfed, if that's the right word. I was engulfed in mud. I did decline, you know, going into the dumpster full of icy mud water.
That's just stupid to me. I also said no to the the electrocution hangy thing at the end. I did not do that. And then I encouraged other people to I told somebody get lower to avoid the barbed wire. I say, hey, get to get lower. You got to do better.
Get lower. I did. This is just an everyday coach. I mean, you're a player coach out there, huh? I am. Listen, I did it. So I'm now trying to help you out.
There's a lot of fun. This is going to be no surprise. The same people that sat my ass in that bowl of Cheetos hickey. Oh, not Cheetos. Oh, boy. Oh, I'm going to dump that. Oh, I screwed up. Oh, boy.
No more cheese deal for me. Oh, boy. Hey, my boy. Shout out to my man, Paul Eighty.
There we go. My man Paul Eighty was there. Shout out to Paul. He's listening.
Shout out to my mom. Not after that. Well, no, my friend Paul Paul, he just messaged me. He just said, hey, man, that was 12 years ago. He ran it with me. Oh, OK. Different guy than the Cheez-Its. No, no, no. He ran he ran the race. He said 12 years.
The barbed wire also shocked you. You are correct, Paul. Hey, Paul, if you want to call up, Paul, let's talk about it. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN.
That's eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. My man Paul Eighty. Paul, call up here on the station and we'll tell everybody about this Tough Mudder experience.
And thank you, Hickey. The Cheez-Its will no longer do anything with me. Yeah, the same people that sent me in that bowl of Cheez-Its and the same people that sent me out here and to run that thing, man. What's next? They're going to put me in a bowl of sharks?
Right? Hey, we tortured J.R. Tough Mudder. We conned him into sitting on a bowl of Cheez-Its.
Let's just throw him in a shark tank next. Maybe J.R. could be, you know, J.R. versus one gorilla. Possibly. I don't know. Hey, you know, maybe I've been trying to send me. Maybe they've been trying to end me for like 12 years and I haven't noticed it yet.
I will say that she is sitting in a bowl of Cheez-Its at a college football bowl game near the end zone. Yeah. I would say they're treating you pretty well. OK. You're on TV. I think you are the talk of the town.
Definitely the star of the game. Yeah, I came I came back to Atlanta and everybody's like, hey, I saw you the other day in a bowl of Cheez-Its and now you're in front of me. I'm like, what do you want from me? What was I supposed to do? Tell everybody, hey, listen, on New Year's Eve, make sure you turn on ABC. You will see me in a bowl of Cheez-Its on ESPN.
What am I supposed to do? But now you are a local legend, local legend. J.R. I didn't know J.R. you. I knew you did sports.
I didn't know. I didn't expect to see you in a bowl of cheese. What do you want from me?
You start charging for appearances like, yeah, I'll come to your birthday party. Just give me a bowl of Cheez-Its. I'll sit in there for two hours and give me a thousand bucks. Nice.
Is DTM doing too much? No, thank you. That's a that's enough. I don't have to do all of that. I'm not LeBron James. I'm not I'm not legendary. Hey, I'm YouTube legendary.
Let me get that right. I am YouTube legendary. One of the first people to really take YouTube and sports and do what the hell I'm doing now. Anyway, LeBron James is legendary. He's also a loser. From last night, at least he plays basketball.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, just like life. So LeBron James is done. LeBron James is sitting around asking this guy about his future. And in the most LeBron James way ever, after losing to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the future 41 year old basketball player. LeBron was asked about his future. He was asked how many more years he will play.
And LeBron James made it sound like this was such a difficult choice. Listen to this. I don't know. I don't have the answer to that.
Something I sit down with my family, my wife and my support group and kind of just talk through it and see what happens. And then just have a conversation with myself on how long I want to continue to play. I don't know the answer to that right now, to be honest. Oh, yes, he does that. We know LeBron James is not retired. Where's he going? He's just going to quit like that. Hey, I lost to Anthony Davis.
I had like five points in the last game in the fourth quarter. I'm just going to he needs the attention. He needs the validation. Come on now. He says, I have no idea what my future holds.
I think it holds a fifty two million dollar option. I think you're going to take that money and play. Come on. I agree. I did not know you talked to me. My apologies.
Oh, it's OK. I think he's he's making. What is he making?
Fifty two million dollars. I believe that's the number for next year. Yeah. Well, you think he's retired? He's not retired. He needs the attention. He needs the validation and he can still play. He ain't quitting. He ain't going nowhere. Is this the third year now in a row he's ended the season like this? It feels like he's ended the season like this since he was in Cleveland.
Now it's like, what, six, seven years ago now already. Come on. I don't know if I'm gonna keep playing. I don't know what I'm going to do.
Come on, bro. Remember, he did this whole thing at the Espy Awards. He's like, I'm not done yet.
I'm coming back. It's like, man, nobody nobody thought you would just stop, man. I just hope he doesn't turn into Aaron. He's not going to turn into Aaron Rodgers, right? Ah, no, no.
Because he has a family that loves him. Yeah. Yeah, you got so holy. I'm sorry. I'm not sorry.
Like, hey, I'm gloves off. I don't care. No, I don't. That's it.
You were bare knuckle fighting at this. Yeah, I don't. I don't care. I don't care. You're not wrong. I mean, that's part of it. He plays with his son.
Come on now. Ain't going anywhere. I mean, it's going to make his 50 mil. He's going to play basketball. He's going to wait until his other son gets into the league. He's going to play basketball with both of his sons. And then he will retire when Luca Doncic helps get him a new championship done. LeBron James might as well try to end on a high.
Why not? And we know he's not like I'm watching that game last night and I'm like, yeah, if this guy was 30 years old, he would be out there busting ass like that. He wouldn't have to worry about the guys around him. Give LeBron the ball. And he's just getting every bucket, going to the basket, going to the free throw line. He can't do it anymore. He can't maintain it.
He's still one of the best players in the league. But to ask him to just take it to 10, them days are over. He's going to do it in spurts, but he just can't take over at will. It's done. LeBron James quitting. Yeah, right.
Sure. They're going to get him some help. I think he's going to play for the next two years at minimum. LeBron James is tough as nails. One thing you can't take away.
We talked about this about a month ago, Hickey. This man just finished his 22nd basketball season. When you go ahead and add in postseason games, he's played another three and a half seasons.
LeBron James is 40 years old and he has played just about the equivalent of twenty five and a half seasons. Shoot me. Like what? How? Who plays 26? I forget. I'm estimating who plays 26 seasons of basketball. Who?
And then says, let me go for a twenty seventh. Crazy. He's nuts. He didn't run soft mother though. Hickey never ran it.
No, he did not. That's one thing you can always hold against them. Yeah.
LeBron did run soft mother like me. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISL. How about this? My main man, Paul. Paul is here from Nebraska. Do I got to introduce him? This is my friend. Hey, Paul, you're on the J.R. sport show. Say hi to America, man. Hey, what's going on, Jared? Great.
Great to hear the words tough mother come out of your mouth. How about that? Yeah. Every now and then I got to prove I can do something athletic, you know, you do every once in a while.
You know, and to think that was 12 years ago, is your athleticism increased like LeBron? You know, Hickey or I'm not Hickey, Paul, Hickey, Paul, too many people here. Paul, let me tell you something.
The answer is yes. Like I am. I am. No, no, I'm in I'm in better shape. It's 12 years after the fact than I was then, because now I actually you know, I worked out. But now I do more because Paul, I'm trying to stay alive, bro. You know, I'm trying to stay alive. I'm in the same boat.
I just turned 45 and I'm in the best shape I've ever been. So nothing but love from LeBron. But quick, quick trivia questions. He just talked about all the years he's played all the games he's played in the regular season. How many times has he fouled out? How many times has LeBron James fouled out of a basketball game?
Yeah, there is pro career is regular season NBA pro career. How many times has LeBron? I want to say no more than I don't know, no more than five. Let Hickey get a chance. Hickey, how many times you think LeBron fouled out of a game?
I'm going to say zero. What's the answer, Paul? Five on the nose, Holmes.
You nailed it. OK, wow. Five times. Yeah. Well, I mean, not recently.
He ain't chasing after anybody. Can we talk about Luca being fat for a second? I heard what you said about what JJ said. Yeah. Did you hear what JJ said himself, though? No, I didn't. Hold on. Hold on, Paul.
Let's let's take a listen. JJ Reddick from earlier today. It was like one of these blanket statements where you call out the whole class.
Hey, we all have to do better at, you know, handing in our homework on time. And we all know who the hell he's talking about. Listen to JJ Reddick earlier today about all of the Lakers getting in shape.
If you get my drift. Listen, Paul, the work that's required in an off season to be in championship shape. And, you know, we have a ways to go as a roster. And certainly there are individuals that were in phenomenal shape. There's certainly other ones that could have been in better shape.
That's where my mind goes immediately, is, you know, we have to get in championship shape. Yeah, Paul. And then he ain't talking about LeBron James. He's talking about Luca. He calling him fat.
Well, it's like you said, it's like you're in school and the teacher's saying to the whole class that she's looking directly at you while she's saying it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I had a bad ex. Paul, I get I get in trouble more than ever.
Think about it. There was that one time last year I got in big trouble. Paul, you're not familiar with this.
I last year I said something about being disrespectful. So no, I said I said to a professor one time I didn't do my classwork. And I said that, you know, the professor like I pay your bills like you need to give me a break. Paul, do you Paul, do you understand?
I'm sitting on the air telling a joke. Do you know that a professor basically a real professor wrote me a thesis and response the next day, basically being insulted that I said that? Can you believe that, Paul? I can't believe it.
They're very studious. How many pages was the thesis? This thing was like I felt like it was two pages in an email and I looked at it and it was just like, hey, I really love and listen to your show. But I did not appreciate what you said yesterday about paying professors salaries. And I, Paul, I stopped. I quit. I didn't read that thing.
I'm like, oh, come on. I'm not doing this crap. Get out of my face. You didn't even reply. You just put it.
You said it's a spam. Oh, I mean, I've talked about it about two or three times over the past year. That's enough. That's like that's more than enough. And that's what JJ just like you said.
That's what JJ Reddick just did to Luca. He indirectly called them fat. But you have more to say about it. Go ahead. Yeah, I did. I did call him fat.
It's pretty, pretty sad, actually. That guy's a beast. But it could be a beast. I mean, think about what he's doing now at his current body fat percentage. And the thing that makes me wonder and I'll throw this back to you is Nico suddenly the GM is just like a fox. Is he that sly where he's like, hey, I can see where this is going.
I don't know. He's not the GM. Nico is stupid. OK, you know, he's dumb. He's dumb. He's either dumb or he was he was either forced to do this or he's just like, man, I'm gonna get fired anyway.
Let me just collect this check. No, it's nothing. Last night, nothing that took place is indicative of Nico Harrison being smart. I mean, Luca, like two things could be true. Nico could be stupid and Luca could be overweight. I mean, do you think he's over the BMI? What is he, 25, 26? You think he's over his BMI?
Oh, big time. He's at least 30 BMI, no doubt. Just by those measurements alone, because it's a flawed calculation. Yeah. But body mass index body. Was there body mass index in like the 70s or 80s or some smart person make this up to hustle people? No, everybody just smoking cigarettes and drinking their life.
Nobody cared about BMI. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. Now look at us.
Yeah, go ahead. On the on the on the Tough Mudder tip, like we got to let the we got to let the audience know you were getting shocked. You were getting electrocuted. No, no, I didn't do it. I went around.
I went around, bro. I didn't do that. Go watch the video. The video. I just watched it. I didn't do that.
No. Yeah, it was like the voltage of 100 ex girlfriends. It was rough. Oh, man.
Why? Why are you why are you traumatized me with ex girlfriends? I don't want to think about it.
You took me right there. And that's the only pain I can really compare it to. And that's just the shock.
That's not the endurance part. Yeah, I don't I don't know how I did it, but I made it. Let's go do it again.
Paul, you ready? You want to do it again? I would absolutely do it again.
And I'd absolutely crush it again. Yeah, I'd go and stay at the hotel next time. OK, I wouldn't go outside.
I'll meet you at the hotel, Paul. OK, not that way. All right, bro. Take it easy. Bye. Thank you.
Take it easy. Later. See you later. Bye.
Here you go. It is fun when your friend when your real friends actually call and kind of crazy. I totally agree. That was a nice, fun conversation. Some good insight about the old Tough Mudder experience.
Yeah. Why don't you come run it next time? You come. Come on. I don't want to be a bad guy here. I don't know if I can technically say I ran the Tough Mudder if I do it the way you do it. You being disrespectful to me. You don't got to do anything the way I do it. You can run Tough Mudder.
You can come along and participate. Do you still have the finisher T-shirt that they give you? Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere there is a bag.
That I need to frame that has my Tough Mudder shirt. The headband. I had to get rid of the shoes. I couldn't even bring the shoes back with those one of my favorite pair of shoes.
I had to leave them in in Nevada. But I got the shirt somewhere in a bag that needs to be framed. I do. Tough Mudder finisher. Yeah.
Badass shirt. Thank you for avoiding the question. Thank you.
Avoiding. I am good at this point in my life. I don't need to prove toughness to myself. OK. All right.
I'll give you credit. You actually tried it. I will not even try it. I tried it. I did it. You did it.
Yes. Did it. What a way to insult me.
Damn, brah. You go do what I did and let me know how you feel. I told you I'm not tough enough to do it. I'm not even going to attempt. I'm giving you credit. You are. You are. You are. You are. You're being modest. It's OK. No. Not run up a mountain.
I've done a Spartan race, which again, the junior version of Tough Mudder, and that's all I'll do. I'm good. When me and Paul go back, I'll invite you. OK?
You can stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. We'll wait for you on the way up. OK? We'll hang out. We'll get a drink at the bar. Have Paul enjoy the race. Oh, OK.
It's the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to talk about somebody else. I think he's in shape. It's Giannis Atetokounmpo. Is he staying in Milwaukee?
I think he could run a Tough Mudder. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. It's the JR Sport Brief Show, Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief.
I'm just trying to stay alive. OK? That's it. I'm not running no Tough Mudder again either.
You can throw it out the window. That is not happening. OK? I'll take a golf cart. I'll help coach. I'll go up. I'll go down. Who am I? Who am I for?
I would do it again. Selectively. Hey, this portion of the show is sponsored by Hyundai. The Hyundai getaway sales event is going on now.
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It's 888-710-4ISN. I'm just thinking about the toys for my kids. OK?
Think about everybody's kids. All right. And you're being very smart. I am. You better go toy shopping today.
OK? Get your Christmas lists done now. Write those letters to Santa right now.
Yeah, you better do it. Santa about to get taxed. I mean, once what is that?
I don't even know what it is. Once Santa crosses the international date line, it's OK. It's about to be done. Not even Santa is exempt from the tax, man. You know, everybody.
He's not even gonna get hit. All them gifts coming over from the Pacific. Once he crosses that line, it's over, man. Santa is going to have to retire the up his prices to man.
What a world. Speaking of having to up their prices. Oh, man, the bucks are priced out. We talked about the Los Angeles Lakers. LeBron James ain't going nowhere. OK, he's going to take his 50 plus mill. He's going to give some to his son. He's going to play with his other son in another year. LeBron James is out here living the life. I think eventually if the Lakers do it right, I wouldn't be surprised if LeBron James, before he quits, you know, hoists another title.
And at that point, quit. Go away. I don't know what LeBron is going to do. He'll sit around and make barbershop shows and stuff.
I don't know. There's another guy, one of the greatest players ever, top 75. He ain't Michael Jordan. He's not LeBron, but his name is Giannis Atteracumpo, multiple time MVP. And unfortunately, he just bit the dust this season as well. Damien Lillard goes down.
Everybody on the team is old. And it's not looking good for Giannis in Milwaukee, man. If I'm Giannis, I'm just like. He probably wants to stay is a good chance. I think it's a 50 50 that he stays or that he goes on.
It's just. How are you going to make that team better? Got no draft picks. You gave up for gave it up for Lillard. You got Bobby Portis who can opt out. You got Brook Lopez was old. Now, no bench.
It's tough out here for Giannis. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. Rex is here from Wisconsin. You're on the J.R. sport. We show us that Rex. Hey, Rex, you're live on the radio. So actually, this is Fred, if you can hear me. Not Rex. This is Fred.
Oh, Dan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. How did you how did you go from being Rex to Fred? How'd that happen? I think he made me Rex, but I was Fred and I am Fred. You're not a shape shift. You're not a shape shift or something.
I don't know. No, no, no. OK, go ahead.
OK, so J.R., you are an exceptionally friendly mood today. It's hard to match, but I'm going to try my best. OK. OK. And you just mentioned Giannis Atatakumpo. I hope I can pronounce that him from Milwaukee, but I can't pronounce the name. It's OK. I want to talk about Milwaukee Bucks.
Go for it. So I just want to state this, that the ultimate regular season game where Bucks, well, most teams were resting their starters. So were Bucks. So there's a guy named Pat Connaughton from Milwaukee Bucks. Yeah, he has a he's on a player option, too.
Go ahead. Yeah. So they put him at the starter and he scored 43 points.
What? In the ultimate regular season game, Pat Connaughton scored 43 points against Detroit Pistons. And if you look, if you check that the records, yeah, Pistons had all their players except Cunningham, Kate Cunningham. All the rest of the players were there.
What's what's the question? Forty three points. Milwaukee won. Fred, this distance are in the still there battling New York, New York Knicks. Yeah.
And Milwaukee Bucks are Vanquish. Pat Connaughton didn't get one minute to play. That's what I want to ask you.
What is your opinion? Why a guy who scored forty three points in the in the ultimate regular season game didn't get one minute to play? Because Pat Connaughton ain't getting buckets like that throughout the course of the season, bro. Come on, Fred. It's not who he is.
I mean, I can find. There's a guy with salt and pepper hair who played in the G League and he got one chance to play with the Los Angeles Lakers in the bigs. He dropped like twenty something points like every now.
There's a guy named Jeremy Lin who went on a stretch. He's not in the NBA anymore. And so I mean, you asked me about Pat Connaughton going off. You want to know how many points he averaged this season?
Well, we're not going for that. The average season is OK, but the last season, last game of the season, if somebody nobody, nobody cares about the last game of the season. OK, the guy averages five points for this season. Like, what do you think? What do you think is more likely the law of averages or what he did in one game? Well, here's my question to you.
I answered it. They they lost. They were down by like 15, 20 points each of the first two games.
You think he had that in a situation like this, they wouldn't give a chance to anybody else? Fred, if they thought that he could help, they would put him out there. You're telling me about a guy who has averaged a whopping six points for his career. OK, that's that's how much basketball do you watch, Fred? Well, I'm not too much. Oh, well, I can tell. But not too much. But I'm pretty knowledgeable about basketball.
No, not not not with Pat Coniston. There's better hills to die on than why didn't he get more minutes? That's that's not a good one. He doesn't play defense. How about that?
OK. So in your opinion, it was it was nothing exceptional, not just he is not to play him even a minute. He him as a player, he is not an exceptional player. He plays no defense.
And Pat Coniston, let me tell you, he ain't ending his career with Milwaukee. Let's just put it that way. He's probably closer to the end than he is to the beginning.
All right. I heard he does great in real estate, though. That's not a joke. He's actually heavily invested in real estate.
And it's probably a good idea because his career is probably going to be over sooner than later. OK, Fred. OK, I appreciate it. Oh, thank you. Friendly from Wisconsin. Thank you, Fred.
It's the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports. This is like asking me, hey, why you why don't you use that butter knife to eat your steak? Because it's not going to do the job. It's not going to do well. It did the job last time.
It took me a long time once. I'm not going to eat my steak with a butter knife. Come on. Anyway, it's the JR Sportbree show on the Infinity Sports Network. Fred did say something that was important. He mentioned the fact that the New York Knicks are getting ready to take on the Detroit Pistons.
You want to talk about people that are hurt? Jalen Brunson looks kind of busted up as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the Pistons took this game tonight. I'll give you a preview of this matchup that's getting ready to start. You are listening to the JR Sportbree. It is the JR Sportbree show on the Infinity Sports Network. 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN.
That's 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN. Right before we went to break. I was asked by Fred from Wisconsin about Giannis, the Milwaukee Bucks, and they're not playing. Pat Condon wasn't going to save them.
Nobody was going to save them. Meanwhile, right now in downtown Detroit. Thank God it's not Auburn Hills anymore. That was too far.
I wasn't going. The Knicks, they're currently leading the Pistons 12 to 8. Four minutes have gone by here in the first quarter. The New York Knicks lead this series 3 to 2.
They are trying to get the Pistons the hell up on out of here. OK, Jalen Brunson already has four points. We saw him go out there and sprain his ankle the other day. He's moving around so far.
So good. We'll see what happens if he has any issues. The Knicks are cooked. Let's just be clear. The last time they played, it was in Madison Square Garden. The Detroit Pistons ended up getting a road victory 106 to 103. Cade Cunningham had 24 points and eight rebounds in that last game.
And as I told you, Jalen Brunson sprained his ankle. Karl-Anthony Towns has to just go to work as well. Sometimes he's just he's just too chill, too relaxed. He doesn't he's not aggressive enough out there offensively.
Sometimes he's just out there missing in action. And Tom Thibodeau, well, another grumpy head coach in the NBA. He said, if we want to win, we just have to act like the last game doesn't exist.
The challenge is to reset every game is different and take a look at the film, see what we could do better and be ready to go next game. Oh, man. Hickey, I wonder what his hobbies are besides basketball. What do you think Tom Thibodeau does? Anything?
Nothing. I think he watches film the offseason. That's what he does. He's one of those. Is he he's a maniac. He's a maniac, right? Maniac. I think so. Like a lazy Sunday in July. He's definitely in a basement.
Lights off grinding film on like trap defenses in the corner with two minutes to go. Do you think Tom Thibodeau, you think one day he'll have a relationship like Belichick? No, I don't think he'll follow Bill's road, but I will say I didn't envision Bill following his own road. He's paid for himself is a chance for anybody to find love. I guess that is true.
There's someone out there for everyone. Don't ever keep searching. What?
What? You said don't keep searching. You said don't ever keep searching. Don't ever. Don't. Oh, I screwed that up. Don't ever stop searching.
Thank you for correcting me. Don't stop searching. There is someone out there for you. Keep turning over every rock and leaf that you would. Just turning things to hell for people like me.
I'm like, damn, Hickey. No, I want the best for you. Tell me there's no hope out here for me without telling me Bill Belichick is telling you there's true love to be found. And every nook and cranny of this planet, the Magic City that looks at many, many people have gone there and have proclaimed their love. So absolutely.
You mean been robbed by the strippers? Well, that's one way to look at it. Other ways is just showing how much they love somebody that they met an hour ago. But hey, OK, yeah, people like to express love in different ways. You know, some people are outwardly PDA.
Other people, you know, showed in different ways. I've heard about this love languages. Some people like acts of service and gifts and some people like physical touch.
Right. Some people like money thrown at them. It's whatever you know, whatever you like. Well, listen, man, that's my love language. And nobody loves me.
What's your love language? You know, people throwing money. Yeah. Come on now. You go to Vegas.
I'll join. Is it Magic Mike? Is that a movie or show? A movie. Oh, it's a movie.
Isn't it based off something real? Sure. Yeah, let's go.
Let's just keep the optimism flowing. Yes. I'm I'm going to Vegas and I'm just going to figure out how I can have money thrown at me. OK, I'll figure it out.
There's definitely a woman out there right now, hopefully listening that her dream is just to throw money at a man and you just got to connect to their me. No, me, me specifically. Right. Right. Yes. Hold on. Hold on. This is my call to action. If you are a woman and you want to throw money at me, you reach out to me at J.R. sport brief.
OK, you find me online. I throw money at me. I will take the money. Is that fine? Is that OK?
We got that out the way. I love it. You want you want you want percentage? You want a percentage?
No, no. You keep it all. OK. Hey, when some rich cougars throw me a couple of mil. Don't be mad that I can give you 200. OK, I'll be very happy for you. OK, well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Just invite me to the wedding. That's all I ask. You got it. Let's go. You got it.
No problem. Meanwhile, the New York Knicks, they're they're married to a victory right now. They're trying 20 to eight. They lead the Detroit Detroit Pistons. We just heard from miserable Tom Thibodeau. Ain't no woman throwing him anything. Meanwhile, the other coach, J.B. Bickerstaff of the Detroit Pistons, he likes his young guy, Cade Cunningham. And he's like, yeah, the guy can rebound. He could shoot.
He could pass the ball. He's like the world's worst kept secret. He is our safety blanket. He's reliable. He's dependable. You know, he understands what needs to happen in the moment. He's an unbelievable human being, an unbelievable teammate. He's a fierce competitor. It's nice to hear him before a game. You hear that man after a game? Oh, my goodness.
It's like nails on a chalkboard. Doing all that yelling and screaming and stand here, go there, cursing out referees. You talked about how nice of a guy Cade Cunningham is. Well, he's at the free throw line right now, playing in Detroit. And this is an organization, a team they've been starving for a legitimate contender. Looks like they'll have one over the next few seasons with Cade Cunningham as he continues to grow. But Cade Cunningham, he's trying to win right now. He's trying to do it for the fans in Detroit.
Listen to this. We're hungry, man. We gave both games away at the crib. Our fans did a great job coming out, giving us a lot of energy.
We dropped both of those games. So we're all excited to be able to get back home and to finish it. Oh, boy, whatever.
Hickey, I want. I think I said this. I think I want the Knicks to lose. Did I say that? You did say that?
Yes. I think I want them to lose. Do they deserve to win? I'm disappointed in the Knicks. I am.
Do they deserve to win? I feel Karl Anthony Towns is exactly what he is, is advertised for years and years and years. There were rumors about Karl Anthony Towns going from Minnesota and going to New York.
He grew up in New Jersey, New York City metropolitan area. It's like one day he's going to be a Nick. One day he's going to be a Nick. Well, damn, they pull the trigger right before the season started. Now he's finally a Nick.
The M.O. on Karl Anthony Towns has always been like he's soft, like he's not always aggressive. He doesn't play defense. He's an offensive weapon.
He can wake up one day in a game and say he is 50 or 60 or damn near 70. And he's just missing an action sometimes. I just. I don't feel and maybe it's easy playing next to Jalen Brunson, but he would alleviate some of the pressure on Jalen Brunson if he was aggressive and he can score everywhere on a basketball court. He's just he's just meh. He doesn't do it for me. I couldn't agree more.
That's why when they made the trade last year, I was against it because I'm with I'm not a cat guy. He has so much talent, so much size, and it feels like he definitely gets scared of the moment, gets scared to be physical. He can have like one game of series that he's great in a playoff series, but then five or six games where he's just invisible, leaves you wanting more. It's it's maddening.
It really is. Well, look at where they are without him in Minnesota, huh? In the same damn in the same damn place with Julius Randle.
You're right. Come on now. Right now, Jalen Brunson, I guess that ankle is fine. He has gone off 11 points for Jalen Brunson.
There's still four minutes to go here in the first quarter. He's five of seven from the field. He just knocked down a three. He has three assists.
He made bigger staff just call a time out. Jalen Brunson is hot. But this is the Knicks shouldn't have.
And I get it. He's the best player on the team. He shouldn't have to be hot all the time for them to win. Are you going to tell me that the Detroit Pistons are not going to go on a run on their own court? Like, of course, they're going to go on a run. We'll see what they do, man.
This is just real, real ridiculous. I want to see the Pistons have some success. I want to see a game seven. We got the Knicks and Pistons underway. The Knicks are leading twenty eight to fifteen. And later on tonight, Knicks are trying to eliminate the Pistons right now. We'll see whether or not the Nuggets eliminate the Clippers. That'll be the second game of the evening. It's the J.R. sport re-show on the Infinity Sports Network.
Eight eight eight seven ten for ISN. Speaking of New York. Let's talk some quarterbacks of New York. Let's talk about the New York Giants and their quarterbacks. And trying to work things out with Dart. Let's talk about the Falcons. They're trying to work things out with Kirk Cousins. And then we're going to have a chat with Anthony Irwin, Lakers insider. It's the J.R. support re-show Infinity Sports Network.
