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Ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. What a day. I mean, what a past 24 hours, right? New York Knicks beat the Celtics again. Man, in a couple of hours, we're going to have the Golden State Warriors looking to steal another one from the Timberwolves with no Steph Curry. George Pickens introduced today to the Dallas Cowboys media.
Good for him. The Thunder. They lit it up last night against the Denver Nuggets.
They lit them up. Tyrese Halliburton almost getting in trouble. Not only is he overrated, he got a warning from the NBA.
I will tell you why. Nick Saban might be off the sidelines as a college coach. He might be on TV.
He's also has a very important seat in the the world of public service. Nick Saban is going to D.C. to try to fix football, college football. We'll talk about that. Hey, we got Christian Winfield joining us next hour from the New York Daily News. Paul Pierce went on a long walk today, apparently. We got some big time athletes in the world of sports. It was a big time lawsuit and Tom Brady and Steph Curry. There's a bunch of people that got off.
I'll tell you about that later on in the show. Ja'Davion Clowney. Ever since that hit in South Carolina.
Man, that's been the peak of his career now, hasn't it? OK, this man got cut. I'll talk about that. Pittsburgh Pirates are cutting the manager.
Cam Rising is retiring. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. If you want to be a part of the show, you can.
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I'm all the places at JR Sport Brief. Speaking of pleasant, Ryan Bacha, how are you? Feeling pleasant? I'm feeling good. Actually, really happy today. Good mood.
Oh, that's good. What happened? Nothing much.
Just normal. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Justin, is the sun shining? A little bit. It's going to rain tonight, so does that count? Yeah, the rain helps the next day for the plants to grow.
Yeah, and that's horrible. Too much pollen. If there's no plants, we're dead. That's true, but most of the plants are in the water.
We're good. Most of the plants are in the water? Yeah, the more that most of the oxygen on the earth comes from the ocean. Oh, get out of here. What? What, Bob? How much of the ocean is earth? What, 75%?
Something like that. Now, how the hell did you notice about the plants? Did you study marine biology? How the hell do you know this? No, I think it's one of those like dumb Snapple facts you get where it's like most of the oxygen comes from the ocean. You saw this from the bottom of a bottle? Per chance, I don't know.
Not 100%. I thought you were going to surprise me and tell me you were some type of marine biologist studying animals and things in the ocean, but you read it on a Snapple bottle. Okay.
It's okay. I have Google. I think I know how to Google things a little bit. We're going to find this out in the break. That's kind of crazy. Wow.
So what happens? The bubbles just float to the top of the water and then it just pops and there's the oxygen? Yeah, the plankton plants, algae, and bacteria create half the oxygen on earth.
You know it's bad. There was a point in time where I thought about plankton and I'm like, okay, that's some sea stuff in the water, right? That was like a long, long, long, long, long time ago. But I'd say over the past, I don't know, 20, 25, how old is SpongeBob? Is SpongeBob 25 years old yet?
Yeah, I think it's like 26 years, 27 years. Right. And so for the past 25, 26 years, I hear plankton. I think about that little guy on SpongeBob. You know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah. The main villain.
Best top 10 villain of all time. He's a villain? Yeah. He's trying to steal the crab and patty for me. Oh, that's him? That's him? Yeah.
Oh, for Mr. Krabs. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I knew who he was. I didn't know he was a bad guy. Okay. He's up there with some of the best, like the Joker. He's up there with him? Well, not like that, but he's just an entertaining villain to say the least. All right.
Yeah. Anybody who's a thief, some great cartoon thieves, Mr. What's his name? Plankton?
Is he out of, is he Mr. or what is he? He's Mr. Plankton. Sheldon Plankton, I think his name is. Oh, he got a, he got a first-hand, Sheldon Plankton top cartoon villain. I think that's what it is.
Okay. Who else? What's that swiper from Dora the Explorer? That's another, he's a thief. The Hamburgler. Does he count from McDonald's?
That's like more of a commercial brand one. He's a cartoon on the side of the box. He's a cartoon, cartoon thief. Anybody else we're missing that great thief scar from Lion King, great villain, right? He's a good villain.
There's a ton of villains. Killed his brother. He killed, he pushed, did he, did he let him go? He didn't push him off. He swiped him.
He swiped his hand. Cause he wanted to be king. Yep. And how did he die again?
I think Simba. Oh damn. His nephew killed him? I think so. I don't, I don't remember that Lion King. There's been like three adaptations going on right now.
I don't know about these. I know the one Lion King that came out in what, 93, 94, something like that. Yeah, the original. Wow. These Disney movies were rough. And no wonder this, every generation of kids who watched Disney, we're all screwed.
I mean, Snow White and whatever the first Disney, Fantasia, whatever it was, I don't know. This is bad, man. Wow.
Got nephews killing their uncles and just trying to be king. What a world. What a way to start the show. Hey, that's a good conversation, Ryan. I learned some things.
I got to look up the ocean and the break. Okay. Got it.
I'll get there. Speaking of Kings, the New York Knicks, no, they're not Kings. The Kings in Sacramento, they suck. They don't know what the playoffs are.
Sorry. Jalen Brunson is the King of New York. The New York Knicks are about to be treated like Kings.
We were live on the air last night when the New York Knicks overcame another, another 20 point deficit to come back and beat the Boston Celtics. And unless you've been living underneath a rock and this probably has, this is probably all sports related. It's rooted in sports for the most part. People in New York can't stand folks in Boston. People in Boston can't stand folks in New York.
It's it's a beef. It doesn't matter if it's Red Sox, Yankees, or we can go down to the New York Knicks and the Celtics and the proximity of, I don't know what, three hours. I haven't done the drive in a while. I used to just drive up the Henry Hudson Turnpike, not Turnpike, Henry, the Hutchinson River Parkway. And it turns it to Connecticut. Anyway, it's real close.
Okay. And then you got Connecticut just kind of sitting in the middle between both of them. The fact that New York is doing this against Boston for New York Knicks fans, it's satisfactory. Feels good to knock off a Boston team.
You want to know how good it feels? I want you to take a listen right now to the final call last night when Mikhail Bridges just swarmed Jason Tatum, preventing a shot, preventing a pass, smacking a pass out of his hands. This is from Knicks radio. Tatum across mid-court with 10, top of the key with 8, defended by Robinson with 7, right wing 3, crossover foul line with 4, left block, step back, stolen by Bridges.
Bridges drops it down court. They've done it again. They've done it again. The New York Knicks take both in Boston and a 2-0 lead headed back to the backup.
Yeah, it's crazy. You might recall the first game, the Boston Celtics blew a 20 point lead because they shot 60 damn threes and they missed 45 of them. Last night, eh, let's scale it down just a little bit, but might as well be the same. They shot 43s.
They only knocked down 10. What are we doing here? Let's, let's do some quick math. All my mathematicians out there.
Okay. Let's see a 40 plus 60 is 100. The 10 plus 15 is 25.
Hey, this is simple math. They have only hit the Celtics 25 out of 100 threes. That is 75 misses.
That is a 25% percentage from downtown. Any coach, if you were a singular player and you were shooting 25% from three, the coach would tell you, stop. They've missed 75 of these suckers. Jason Tatum had a crap night. He was one of five from deep. He only had 13 points on five of 19 shooting. And Jason Tatum is looking like, looking like crap right now. You know, I made the joke a couple of days ago that Steve Kerr, remember Steve Kerr sat his behind down in the Olympics.
It's like, yeah, you're going to come all the way to Paris and you're going to have the best seat in the house. You and Tyrese Halliburton, at least Tyrese Halliburton is dragging his team around on his back right now against the Cleveland Cavaliers, even though they're hurt. Jason Tatum, he is stinking a joint up. Looks like he's out to lunch. Looks like he needs to work on his confidence. It's not working for him. He's getting a lot of the blame as he should. And he spoke, Tatum did. He accepted the blame. Yeah. I just kind of made the wrong read, went into crowded area.
And, you know, obviously if I had that, I would sue me again or the next time it presented itself, you know, just have a different outcome. But, you know, I'd take responsibility for us not at least getting a shot up at the end of the game. Ah, no, no, no. The whole team sucked.
Okay. They couldn't find, he couldn't find anybody to get the ball to. The New York Knicks were all able to collapse upon him. He was surrounded by Robinson. Mitchell Robinson was the first guy there.
And then you got OGN and OBE on one side. You got Mikael Bridges on the other. This is why they brought these two guys in to be a pain in the ass to both Tatum and Brown. But it's not just about last night's game, Jason Tatum. It's not just about you, but he was asked about his play in both games.
And let's just say that he was playing in both games. And let's just say he knows he sucks. I mean, I said it earlier, you know, I take full ownership on the way that I've played in this series. And, you know, can't sugarcoat anything. I need to be better. And, you know, I expect to be a lot better.
All right. Enough of him. He sounds like a normal, somber human being. Enough of him.
He sounds like an NBA player making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars that he's thinking to join up. But his pillow is real good at night. I'm sure he has a fancy pillow. Hey, Batra, what's a fancy pillow made out of? I don't know.
I don't have one. Feathers? Like what type of feathers? From like a goose or a duck? I would say, like, I don't know, like a peacock. Those are colorful. Peacock feathers. OK. Are they soft? I'd hope so.
I would think of how many times you got a folded in half. Those are some big ass feathers, right? No. Yeah.
So I'd say, like, I don't know, just a bunch of them throw them in a bag. That's basically a pillow. Yeah. Jason Tatum. He's sleeping in the best pillow possible, possibly peacock. Someone who sleeps on a bed of nails, probably in a separate room from his wife, maybe in a basement, sleeping on some milk crates, watching NBA film is Joe Mazzola.
Always miserable. Maybe if he moved to the bed, he'd sound a little bit more normal. He's the head coach. Isn't he the guy leading the charge on why they're shooting all these threes?
Is it not his game plan? And, yeah, the Celtics live by the three and die by the three. They're down 0-2 right now.
They dying. This is what Joe Mazzola, miserable ass coach, had to say about going to New York down 0-2. We're holier than now that we're not allowed to be down 0-2. This is the situation that we're in. So we have to have an understanding of why we're in it, and we've got to fix it. And we have an opportunity to fix that. So, yeah, I do relish that because these moments are all forgotten if you transition them into taking advantage of the opportunity that you have. If you don't, then you have to use it as an opportunity for the journey that you're on. But we have to go into Saturday's game and win the game.
That's just the way it is. We have to win. We have to win. We have to do what it takes to win. And we have to put ourselves in a position to do that. And it's going to be a tall task, but we're ready for it. And there's no better people I'd rather do it with than the guys in the locker room and our staff. You don't say, brother. You don't say.
Damn. Well, I mean, that's what he sounds like when they win. So forget being down 0-2. He's just miserable all the time. And speaking of miserable all the time, Tom Thibodeau heading into New York, who would have thought the New York Knicks would be heading back with a chance to go up 3-0 on Saturday afternoon in New York City? If you thought that that was the case, you lying.
Or you're delusional. That's just it. And if you know a New Yorker, I'm sure if it's about the Knicks, they're pretty obnoxious right now. Batra, what's the vibe in New York? People are being obnoxious?
Not obnoxious. They're just confident and happy. There's a shine to the city right now. Oh, wow. A shine to New York? That's possible? Yeah, it's not.
It's not very bright, but it's there. It's a little bit. I was thinking about actually cleaning that play. How much bleach would it take to clean New York? Sea much? A lot of sea? A lot of it? I don't know. Way too much that we can even afford. Okay. A lot of bleach. Touche.
Mr. Miserable, Tom Thibodeau says, yeah, we're up 2-0, but we got to be miserable about it. It's a series, but you have to focus on the game that you're playing. What is it going to take to win that game? So we know each game, right? There's going to be more force and more aggression in it, and we have to be ready for that.
And so all we have to do is make sure that we're focusing on what it's going to take to win game three. Okay. Now here we go.
As a Nick fan slashed a semi-reform Nick fan. I'm not drinking a Kool-Aid. I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm not doing it.
Like I put it to you this way. I will be and feel excited about the New York Knicks if they get past the Boston Celtics. I'm not there yet. I'm not. If they go up 3-0 on Saturday, I will still have mild trepidation about them moving on. And I get it. 3-0 is just like, oh, y'all going to get the job done until the New York Knicks get past the Celtics.
I'm kind of like, yeah, whatever. Everything after that is a pipe dream because if the New York Knicks can beat the Celtics, I know they can beat anybody else in the East. I think I think Oklahoma City would run them out of the building. I'm at the point of life where I'm not thinking about just being competitive. I want to see a team. I want to see a squad that can just win the damn thing. And if the New York Knicks can knock off the Celtics, oh, that's that's a good indicator. I only see the Oklahoma City Thunder as being a team that I'd say, oh, yeah, they'll knock them off. And we know injuries are part of the situation as well.
I lost Steph Curry sucks for him. Strain in his hamstring. I've just seen this story before, not this story specifically. Overcoming two 20-point deficits.
Having a superstar in the crunch time or crunch time like Jalen Brunson. I've just heard it all before, like Sunshine Anderson, if you know who the hell I'm talking about. Heard it all before. I've seen it before.
I've seen it before. I want to be happy and I am. But I'm like, eh. Because if you're a team that can go down 20 points in two consecutive games, there's two things about that. A, the other team is more talented than you. They are. But who's going to look at the Celtics and not say they're more talented than the Knicks?
Come on now, stop it. But then on the other hand, the New York Knicks about overcoming these 20-point deficits, the New York Knicks are showing you that they got heart. They actually do have heart. They got Josh Hart on the team, who, by the way, had 23 points last night.
Good for him. But the whole team has heart. They got guts. They not quitting. They don't give up.
They're coming for your jugular. I appreciate that. But at what point in time does that wear off? Because if Tatum is going to be in a slump all season, yeah, New York Knicks will win this. But I think anybody's ever watched him play knows that he's capable of just waking up one day and just going off. For a day or a game or two games or three games or four to get to four games to win. I picked the Boston Celtics to win this series. I am not changing my mind. Not.
I still think the Boston Celtics will pick up the other four games. I hope I'm wrong. I'm here for upsetting the apple cart. I'm here for a little bit of an upset. I'm here for a different story. I'm here for, I don't know, chaos. Could you imagine a Boston Celtics lose to the New York Knicks? They are ripping that team up.
I'm not saying that a brown or Tatum is going to go, maybe, but somebody is gone. It's a matter of who? I'm here for chaos. I'm here for chaos as long as it doesn't have anything to do with me. Sign me up.
They get paid enough, they can deal with it. It's the JR Sportbreeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm bringing you organized chaos for the next three hours and 40 minutes.
OK, we have so much more to get into next hour. Speaking of the Knicks, we'll have a conversation with Christian Winfield of the New York Daily News. Paul Pierce. This man said if the Celtics did not win yesterday, he would walk 20 miles to work. Did he really walk 20?
I don't believe so, but he took some photos and videos of him just walking around L.A. I'm sure the Warriors are playing the wolves tonight with no Steph Curry. We'll get into that. George Pickens speaks today to the Dallas media. We'll talk about that today.
Vian Clowney is getting the boot, has gotten the boot and some NFL team will pick him up. Hey, we're just getting started. We got a lot to get into. A matter of fact, when we come back on the other side of the break, hey, let's quickly talk about the other team that won last night. They didn't give up their lead. They just smoked the Nuggets. That's the Oklahoma City Thunder. We'll get into their historic performance on the other side.
So much to do. It's the J.R. Sport Brief show. The Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief. It is the J.R.
Sport Brief show on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, the New York Knicks, they handled business first last night. And then after that, I don't know what the Oklahoma City Thunder did. They didn't. They didn't handle business.
They just they set up shop, closed down shop and left. They beat the living hell out of the Nuggets, 149 or 106. The Nuggets with a little bit of a surprise in Game 1. They end up winning the game 121 to 119. Aaron Gordon came on through, hit that big old three to ultimately win the game. Chet Holmgren missed some big free throws at the end and it took it took them the end of the game. It took Nicola Jokic coming through with 42 points and 22 rebounds to win Game 1. Not last night. They sucked last night.
149 to 106 was the final score. Let me put it to you this way. When I left the studio, by the time I got home and I turned the game on, I looked at the score and I said, no, thanks. I'm not watching this crap. I'm like, there's a point of every basketball game. Well, not every game, but there comes a point in time where the whooping is so bad.
You reach the point where you just, who the hell are these guys? That's what we were last night. I just looked at the score. I didn't even look at who was playing.
I just said, I ain't watching this crap. At halftime, it was 87-56. That is an NBA playoff record for scoring in the first half of any game. Golden State Warriors had 86 last night. The last night, the Thunder said here, we got 87 for you.
That's dumb. Nicola Jokic had 17 points before fouling out. Shay Gilgus Alexander. He's been hot. This man had 33 points in that first game loss or Game 1 loss. And last night he had 34 points. And let's just say he ain't miss. He's not like Tatum, who's missing everything under the sun. Shay Gilgus Alexander last night shot 11 of 13 from the field. Come on, man.
He's unconscious out there. And so the Thunder bounced back. The series is now 1-1 before they head out to Denver.
And let's just say the new head coach of the Nuggets, David Adelman, son of Rick. David basically said, yeah, we got our asses kicked. We were pushed around. We got punked and we didn't play well enough. And they came out with the right intensity and we didn't. I thought we let some open shots early in the game affect us how we play defensively. We got, he said it more aggressive than I did.
We got punked. Ouch. You don't want to hear that from anybody. I was going to say you don't want to hear that from a grown man. But realistically, you don't want to hear that from a kid. Imagine your kid coming home from school. Hey, how was your day at school? Oh, daddy, I got punked. That's not good. I don't care what age you are, what your profession is, getting punked. It's not on the list. Okay. I don't think Nikola Jokic would say such a thing about being punked, but he said that you can't forget the loss.
This is what he said. I think we should not forget about it. I think we should learn from it and be much better. And where we made mistakes, we were not being aggressive. What we did in the first game, what we did not in the second game. So, you know, so just we need to learn from it. Just learn.
Everything's a learning experience. And they were sitting on the sidelines just going, man, can we get back on the plane? Like, why are we still sitting here? Can I get on a first plane?
Can I get on the first plane out of here? Let's go back to Denver and shake Gilgus Alexander, who's, like I said, hot. Thirty four points last night.
Thirty three points in game one. This dude is he's moving. He is shaking. He says, hey, we only won one game. Relax. Just like we couldn't relish on the loss, we can't relish on the win. We got to move forward, take the good things from tonight and scratch the bad things and be a better team come the next game.
And that's what we're focused on. He's Canadian, so he's practical, I guess, right? He's not going to get too high.
He's not going to get too low. He's going to be polite. Canadians are polite people. Batra, you ever met an angry Canadian? Only when you insult their beer.
You've insulted the Canadians. That was that was a bit in a movie. I'm forgetting it. Oh, OK. Sorry. Uh, what is there?
Is it Molson, Olson? I don't know. No idea. You have no idea. OK. By the way, I didn't get a chance to Google the stuff in the plants in the ocean yet, but I'm gonna look that up. I wouldn't lie about that one. OK.
I want to see it myself. You said plankton. What else? Sea moss, plankton, algae, the coral reef. They're not they're not plants. They're just kind of riffraff. Kind of the thing the plants grow in there.
Yeah, you're right. Coral reefs are alive. Why the hell are they alive? They're just like fancy, colorful rocks. They living they're like colorful plant bacteria things. What makes a coral reef alive? It's living like the cells.
Oh, come on. Yeah, there's it's living. It's not there's there's rocks. There's rocks. And then on top of that, there's the other stuff like bacteria.
And then there's energy made and stuff is growing inside of it. There's rocks. Every time I hear about a coral reef, I hear because it's dying all over the place, like it's getting bleached out and the colors are dying and the plants and all of that stuff.
It's. There's fancy rocks in the ocean. That's why I live on the land. OK, everything that happens in the ocean, I got nothing to do with me.
I'm good here. Hey, Rich Ackerman, did you know the coral reef is it's a living thing? I did not know that. I thought it was just.
Those fancy rocks with holes in it were colors, you know, I thought the fish go through the hole, he comes out the hole, the plants, the plants live on it. Yeah. The more the more you learn, I also know that they dump the subway cars in the ocean to hunt to help build coral reef. How about that? I did not know that either.
Boy, I'm learning something new, not only every day, but enough for this week. How about that? Well, that's two things they bought. We got something else we could share with that. Give me a few minutes. Do we got Snapple? Do we got a Snapple bottle in the what's that thing called the break room?
I don't think so. I'm a Google random Snapple fact right now. Wait, hold on a second. Is it just me or Snapple less pot?
There's so many options. Snapple has declined in popularity. No, it has. I still think Arizona has maintained its top of the top of the Arizona ice tea in New York, at least. It's still up there. Didn't it used to cost like a quarter? It's a dollar still or a dollar. I heard that Arizona ice tea is is like one of the few things in America.
The price has not jumped through the roof intentionally. And that's good. Oh, Snapple fact. Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day. Act. Did you know that? I did not know that. That's that's three.
You know, usually it's three strikes and you're out three and I'm and I'm rolling in it here. And here's a here's a better question. Where the hell is the elephant swimming? You know, they they swim in bathtubs, you know, when they bathtubs when they're big enough.
I just saw something on Twitter about it. It was a baby elephant in like one of those kiddie pools rolling in the water, a kitty, a baby elephant in a kiddie pool. Yeah. You know, like it's, you know, not one of like not like two by two. It was a little bigger than that. Not something I put in my backyard, though. I know.
Yeah, you could do that. Yeah. But doesn't a baby elephant come out the size of like a car? You know, it looks smaller. So maybe it was a baby, baby.
I don't know. They're mammals, too. And at a live birth. Oh, my God.
Imagine being that big, giving birth to something that big, too. Just saying happy, happy Mother's Day to everybody out there. We're a couple of days away.
Make sure you get mama a gift. Yeah. What a transition.
It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. Speaking of celebrating Mother's Day shots to the moms out there. I love mothers.
I love all the mothers. I'm going to tell you about someone who he needs to be celebrating, too, and not just because he had a big shot. Tyrese Halliburton has another reason to celebrate, and it involves not being punished. I'll tell you what happened. We'll get into it. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show on the Infinity Sports Network. And right now it's time for a news flash. Rich Ackerman. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbreeze.
It is the J.R. Sportbreeze show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, far north, I like the far north. I like the north. I like the south.
I'm in the south. I like the west. I like the east.
I like it all. I like the Midwest. Except for in the wintertime. And I like winter. I like cold.
I don't care. It could be 100 degrees outside. I love it. It could be 15 degrees outside. Zero. It could be negative 10 outside.
20. I love it. I love variety when it comes to the weather. But that Midwest cold, man, it hits you in your spine. Hits you in your back. You feel it just getting through every nerve in your central nervous system.
All of them. Somebody who's not feeling well, he might have ice in his veins. It's Tyrese Halliburton. We've seen the shots that this guy has made throughout the course of the playoffs. So, hey, you want an up and under layup? I got you. You want a three point shot?
I got us, by the way. I still don't understand. How the Cleveland Cavaliers just let Tyrese Halliburton. Take a free throw. Miss a free throw. Get his own rebound under the basket. He did this one far rebounds that bounced off the front of the rim and bounced right back to him. He had to get the ball from the rim, got his own rebound, was allowed and able to dribble out past the three point line to reset. Jab step, step back three knocks it down. Yeah, that's never been done in the playoffs over the last 20 years.
Who's doing that? In the NBA period, forget the playoffs. Like getting your own rebound at the free throw line is a sin. Like this is one of the first things you learn playing basketball. Thou shalt not let the guy shooting a rock get his own rebound at the free throw line.
You can't do that. Cavaliers should be ashamed of themselves. I don't care who wasn't playing. Seven foot plus Evan Mobley, the guy with the muscles, DeAndre Hunter.
The small, shifty Darius Garland. I don't care who wasn't playing. Letting that dude get a rebound was terrible. And so Tyrese Halliburton did something quite profound after knocking down that game winning three. I guess between him and his dad, they sure know how to celebrate. Dad celebrates a little too much.
Ask Giannis. His dad's waving a flag with his face on it. And what did Tyrese Halliburton do after he knocked down that big old three? He decided to do a dance. I'm not going to repeat the name of the dance here. Let's just call it the the Big Cajones Dance. Popularized by one Sam Cassell, who's now an assistant head coach with the Boston Celtics. If you need a description of this dance, think about your Cajones, OK? And how big they might be if you made a shot.
You know, if you needed to carry him around, because they're so big. And Halliburton did this. And I feel like Sam Cassell did this like 20 years ago. Sam Cassell got fined. Come on now. This is a professional sports league. It's not your local park. It's not your local vagrants playing a basketball game. It's not your YMCA.
Guys playing for money. Come on. It's the NBA. You can't pantomime, you know, how big your stuff is. You can't do that.
It's inappropriate. And so Sam Cassell did it. He was fined $25,000. David Stern, God rest his soul, is like, man, you can't do that. You got kids watching. You can't do that.
Kids are here. LeBron James did it. LeBron James, he was fined $15,000. Come on, LeBron. He was on the Lakers by then, too. This wasn't young LeBron. This was old LeBron.
And when LeBron was on the Lakers, he was always old. And so when Tyrese Halliburton did this big Cahones dance, I'm like, the NBA is going to slap him with a fine. They're going to hit him with 15. Was it egregious enough to get hit with 25?
Whatever it is, I wish I had it. Look, Tyrese Halliburton, after the game, he was pretty much talking about his big Cahones dance. And Tyrese Halliburton said, I'm expecting a fine.
Listen to this. I've been waiting for that. I've been waiting for that, man. It was just right in the moment. It was right in the moment.
Yeah, man, I've been waiting for that. I'll take that fine, gladly. The NBA didn't fine him. The NBA warned him.
That's it. There was no $15,000 fine. There was no $20,000 fine.
There was no $25,000 fine. NBA said you got big Cahones next time. Don't carry him around, OK? Hit your big shot and walk down the basketball court like you got a little bit of sense. And the NBA, I don't know, maybe this a first time offender. Maybe the NBA said, hey, it's Tyrese Halliburton. He's taken and caught enough flak. Got players calling him overrated. You got fans yelling at him that he's overrated.
Maybe he's he's been through enough. I'm a little surprised he didn't get popped for a fine. How many times do you have to do the celebration before you get fine? I don't think LeBron ever did it. And boom, 25 K or excuse me, 15 K. There's I'm sure LeBron James has in his back pocket might have fallen out and he wouldn't even notice it was gone. Surprise, my surprise NBA just to kind of go out there and do what they want to do. I know one celebration we won't see for a while from Tyrese Halliburton, the big Cahones dance.
We will not see that, man. We've had some wild celebrations, even if you think about sports. Batra, do you remember? And I think this happened to both Grammatica kickers. Do you remember when I think both of them, they celebrated by pulling their hamstring? I remember that. I don't remember. Yeah, I remember. Did he jump or just ran and he pulled it?
I think he jumped in the air like soccer style or he kind of jumped, punched his hand in the air and he came down and his leg was curtains. Oof. Yeah.
What a way to celebrate, huh? It's happened a couple of times. Edwin Diaz, didn't he tear his meniscus? With the Mets, right? He was playing for Puerto Rico? One jump and it's over. He jumped in the air or they threw him in the air?
He jumped and landed and tore his, I think it was patellar tendon. Oh my God. Yeah.
Right before the New York Mets season for the world baseball classic of all things. Let's see what else. Celebrate. I remember, remember Joe Horn took that cell phone out from underneath the pylon, made that phone call. Yep. Wait, was it Joe Horn? I don't know. Yes. That was Joe Horn down in New Orleans. Yeah. That cost him $30,000.
I loved it. That he had, it was a flip phone. The man had a flip phone under the, uh, the upright. It wasn't the pylon. It was the upright. He scored a touchdown. He immediately went to that phone and he flipped that sucker open and he, uh, I don't know who he dialed, but he was letting the world know that I just burned his ass. Okay. Call your mama. Yeah. We got some wild celebrate a celebration.
Shouldn't cost you, uh, money. Remember Joel Embiid. He did the, uh, the crotch shop of degeneration X.
This was back when Joel Embiid, uh, actually played basketball. Hey Batra, what do you think he's doing right now? Uh, rehabbing his knee hopefully. It's almost, it's almost seven o'clock. Uh, well right now then I, I don't know. Sitting down, watching soccer, eating dinner. Yeah. How much dinner do you think he's eating?
One, one plate of dinner or two or three? Good question. Does he want out of Philly? I don't know. What's this? Breaking news with Manny Pacquiao.
What is this? Is he fighting again? Oh my God. Manny Pacquiao to end four year retirement. Fight Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight title in July in Las Vegas. Oh my God.
Speaking of celebrate, what are we doing here? Manny Pacquiao is coming back to fight without me Googling it. Manny Pacquiao has to be, let me see. Okay. I'm doing my own mental. This guy, he gotta be like 46, seven.
What are we? Mario Barrios is going to beat his ass. Oh my God. Yeah, he's 46.
He's 46. What are we doing, Manny? Oh man. I haven't watched the Manny Pacquiao fight and I don't even know how long.
We need a governor, senator, something out in the Philippines. Now he's out here getting ready to get his ass whooped. Oh man. Let's see. This is guy's last fight. I'm sure he lost the past couple of fights. Poor Manny.
Come on, man. I like Manny. I was talking to somebody on Manny Pacquiao earlier today.
One of my first, actually my first big interview. Manny Pacquiao. Let's see. Manny Pacquiao record.
Half of his damn Wikipedia is about his work in the government. Do not care. Let's see. Damn, there's a lot of fights.
His record gotta be 50 years, 60 something. Wow. He last fought in 2021, lost to Ugas. Damn it. I was, Oh my God. I was there for his last one. I watched him beat Keith Thurman. Damn. That was in 2019.
I remember being there. Manny Pacquiao with a fight record of 62 and eight is coming back for another beating. Oh my God.
When is enough enough? Good luck to Manny Pacquiao. Good luck to his brain, man.
Just 46 years old. Good luck, Manny. It's the JR sport show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network and in boxing, you could celebrate however you want.
It's not going to cost you a thing. Hopefully you're a, you're standing up to celebrate. Uh, anyway, good for Tyrese Halliburton, no fun for his big cajones dance. Uh, we're going to take a break and when we come back, speaking of politics, Manny Pacquiao might be coming back for another fight. Nick Saban, he's staying retired, but Nick Saban, he's getting involved in politics just a little bit. I'll explain on the other side of the break. Christian Winfield is going to join us to talk next from the New York daily news. Paul Pierce, he had a long walk today and the pirates, they fired their manager. I wish they could fire their owners.
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