Warriors Under Siege (Hour 4)

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You know where you live, I hope. You can tune in on Sirius XM375. If you have a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. We've had a busy show. Thank you so much to Christian Winfield for coming through to talk about the New York Knicks and their 2-0 series lead against the Boston Celtics. Right now, this minute, this second, we've got a basketball game going on in Minneapolis, Minnesota, right downtown. And the Timberwolves? Well, they are smacking around the Golden State Warriors. 25-7. It's about two and a half minutes to go here in the first quarter.

This is, this is ugly, okay? Draymond Green, 0 points. Jimmy Butler has 5 of the 7 points. Jonathan Komanga has the other two.

So I think you might be able to figure this out. But he healed, 0 points. Pajemski, 0 points. Quentin Post, 0 points. Kevon Looney played, 0 points. Moses Moody, 0 points.

Everybody has 0 points. Yeah, this is not good. A shout-out to our producer in New York holding it down, Ryan Bottcher.

I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, minding my business, hanging out here in the studio, watching basketball, having fun, and just all of the things. Bottcher, am I a bad guy if I just hope that this is a blowout so I don't gotta watch the end? No.

Okay. I don't think anyone has expectations of the Warriors winning without Curry anyway. The game or the series?

The series, the championship. Oh yeah, we can throw that out there. Yeah, way out.

Yeah, you're correct about that. Hey, Steph Curry actually spoke to the media earlier today before the game. He gave an update on his condition. Are we going to see Steph Curry the rest of this series? Here's Steph Curry with a timetable?

Not a timetable. Listen to this. From all that I'm learning about how quickly you can get back, there has to be a healing process. The way the body works, you can't accelerate it more than what it's telling you.

It'll be one of those, after a week, really reevaluating every day to kind of understand when it's safe, just to even think about playing, let alone how much can you push it. Okay. That means we ain't going to see this guy. And if we do see him again, he's going to be compromised. And if Steph Curry is compromised, then why even bring him back? The series might already be over by the time he's ready to go as Anthony Edwards flies in for a slam dunk. At least Golden State has more than seven points.

They've now graduated to 12. Hey, they'll put some points up on the board. Is it going to be enough to stop Minnesota?

I think the hell not. And Minnesota, just get the series over with so we can keep things moving. And speaking of series moving along, I guess you got injuries. The Cleveland Cavaliers certainly got a few of them. Last game, no Mobley. There's no Garland.

There was no Hunter. And they were able to go up or go down to the Indiana Pacers. Some good news for Tyrese Halliburton today. I don't know if I want to call this some of the biggest news of the day, but Tyrese Halliburton. He was not fine for his big cojones celebration.

Tyrese Halliburton said he was willing to pay the fine, but the NBA said we won't find you. Don't worry about it. 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. Yeah, NBA didn't find him. He gets to keep some of that money that's coming his way. His contract has to be in the 200 plus million dollar range, so I think he'll be okay to not lose 15K. This is crazy.

I'm trying to understand this. The newsflash came off the screen here in the studio and it said Manny Pacquiao is coming back to fight. He's 46 years old. He's going to be in action in July against Mario Barrios. Manny Pacquiao hasn't fought in four years. How the hell could he not go out there and be a pinata?

Like, we've seen this before. Old veteran fighter, typically a heavyweight. You know, somebody bigger. I mean, even Bernard Hopkins.

They call this guy an alien. He was still a bigger dude. To have a welterweight go out there and fight against a younger guy? I want to say Mario Barrios isn't older than 27.

Let's see how much I know about what the hell I'm doing. He's 29 years old. Yeah, I'm close. He'll be 30 actually.

Looks like next week. Good for him. We got a... Well, I know the answer. How the heck does a boxing commission allow a 30 year old to fight a 46 year old who hasn't fought in four years? They give, I don't know, 15%, 20% to the boxing commission? Yeah, there you go. There you go.

Because God knows we don't need this. I mean, I assume Manny Pacquiao is going to pass a fitness test, a fitness examination unless, you know, those guys are paid off too, which a lot of them are, quite frankly. Wow, now that I think about it, Manny Pacquiao is just as old as Paul Pierce. Paul Pierce can't go back in time and play his sport. Paul Pierce had quite a day. He decided to walk to work today. Well, he made a bet.

He actually lived up to it. Paul Pierce said that if the Boston Celtics lost game two, that he would walk to work today in Los Angeles to the Fox Sports Studio. And so from his house to the studio is a 20 minute walk. It would take him more than eight hours. Paul Pierce actually did it. At least he's in shape. He walked.

Nobody punched him in the head. That's a possibility. Walking in L.A., apparently he made it to the studio and he decided to document his trip. Paul Pierce left his house at the crack of dawn and he said he's living up to his word to walk in his bathrobe all the way to the studio. Listen to this. This is crazy, dawg.

I can't believe this. See, he's got me out here like this. I'm sweating. So I'm about like four miles in right now. So I think I got like another 16 miles.

I think I'm up about an hour and a half right now. All right, I'll keep going, baby. I'm a man of my word, though.

All right, I'll holler at you. Wow. Batra, how many videos did he make? 10, 15 videos on the way? I think he posted a ton of stories. And then on top of that, he had live streams, too.

So a little bit like everything. How does a six foot seven man walk down the street in a, well, I guess this is Los Angeles. Like every five minutes, every three minutes, somebody must have shouted, hey, Paul Pierce, right? How do you walk down the street and nobody know who you are? Disguise. It's the robe. They think you're just a random man. Just a random. This is the most L.A. thing ever, huh?

Six foot seven man in a robe walking supposedly barefoot. Yeah, it's not surprising. Yeah, it sounds very L.A., apparently because it's a surprise. And, you know, Kevin Garnett just happened to be driving by. I don't know, maybe he's going to the beach. Kevin Garnett ended up seeing him outside.

Listen to Paul Pierce when he saw who it was. Oh hell, they got a ticket right there. I had to leave the studio. Man. I'm out, Lord. I'm out. I'm out.

I'm halfway there. Man, you be careful out here, man. Where's your seat belt, man? Alright, dawg.

Man, it's great. Yeah, where's your seat belt? Why you, uh, why you walk to work? That's something that Kevin Garnett would say. Very funny guy. Paul Pierce apparently did walk 20 miles. Good for him. He looked like he was walking slow.

No, is it just me? He was walking pretty slow. That's why I'm like at some point in time he had to get in an Uber, I don't know. The pace he was walking, it didn't seem like it was taking him eight hours.

Look longer than that. If it's like, okay, so 20 miles, right? What's a fast walking pace? Like four miles an hour? I don't know. Three? So it's like five hours?

He got thrown like eight? The guy's strolling, I guess? Alright, I couldn't, I wouldn't have the patience. I would start jogging.

I would do a little speed walk. I ain't walking that long. It's basically a marathon. Eh, six hours, six hours short, right? Yeah, 20 miles to, what is it, 24 or 26 for a marathon? 26.

26-2 I think it is. Yeah, so it's, he basically did a marathon. Have you ever run a marathon?

Nope. What's the longest you've walked? I've walked 13 miles before. You've walked, what is that, Manhattan? No, I walked from Queens to Manhattan. That was about 13 and I just did it one random day. Just walked 13 miles in general.

What'd you do? Walk over what bridge? Williamsburg. Oh, you walked over to Williamsburg? Yeah. So you went down from Queens through Brooklyn and went over the bridge?

Yep. And then you just stopped in Manhattan and turned around? It was for like a charity walk for the, we went to the World Trade Center. So it was like, it was right there and we came home by train. There was no way I was walking the 13 miles back. You would have done a marathon right there. Yeah, would have been tired though.

It would have been like, I don't know, 7 o'clock at night and we started like 8 in the morning, 10 in the morning. Yeah, I've walked, I've walked from World Trade Center, I want to say up to Yonkers. Did I do it? Yeah, I think I did. Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm nuts. I don't even know how many miles. That's, I don't even know.

This has got to be more than 13, 13, 14, 15. Nuts, yeah. I will walk, I will run. At this point in life, if I'm really, really going somewhere, it will be out of necessity. Them days are over. I considered running marathons years ago, but I'm not doing that crap. You throw that out the window.

No marathon for me. Paul Pierce, he ended up, I guess, really walking because by the time he got to the studio, they had some fun about it. And Paul Pierce, he entered into the studio in a wheelchair just the way he exited that playoff game.

Get back into the studio in style. Let's give it up for Paul Pierce, a man of his word. Paul Pierce, a man of his word. Paul Pierce, a man of his word.

Paul Pierce, a man of his word. The Timberwolves still lead 31 to 17. About three minutes have gone by here in the second quarter.

Yeah, it's still nothing spectacular for them. Anthony Edwards with seven points. Julius Randall with seven.

Jaden McDaniels with five. Rudy Gobert has five rebounds because Golden State been missing a crap ton of shots. And so we'll see what happens in this game. Still not expecting a victory for the Golden State Warriors, but you never know. Steve Kerr, he spoke earlier today before the game, and he said what only a coach could say, that you have to take this one day and one game at a time, especially with an O'Curry. I think you just, you literally just take it a game at a time and we can't, you know, I know there's, there's a break between five and six and everyone's saying, you know, maybe those three days, we can't afford to think about that.

I mean, Steph will be back when he's back. We just focus on tomorrow's game and then we go from there. Yeah, wow.

Yeah, good luck. They're done. I'm sorry. They're, they're cooked. Bad stuff.

Anyway, it's the JR Sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. And speaking of being cooked, oh man, should Davion Clowney, is he cooked in the NFL?

No. But he's cooked from the last team that he played for. And Rafael Devers of the Boston Red Sox. He's not cooked. This guy's getting paid for the next forever. He just, does he hate his employee? Does he hate the Red Sox? This guy will not concede or give in to anything that will help them. He feels like he's getting jerked around. Does he know this is sports?

Does he know he's not owed anything besides that check? I'll tell you the latest on Rafael Devers on the other side of the break. I'll tell you what happened with Davion Clowney. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. Oh man, there's so much going on.

A lot of bad things in Boston. Well, for the Celtics right now, Red Sox with their star, we'll get into it on the other side of the break. Anyway, the JR Sport Brief Show, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN.

That's 888-710-4ISN. Minnesota leads the Golden State Warriors right now, 36 to 19. Draymond Green just called for a flagrant and a tech hitting Nas Reed in the head, trying to clear out some space near the three-point line, elbowed him in the side of the head. It was a flagrant. I don't think it was anything that was just overly aggressive. I mean, by Draymond standards, these guys stepping on people, punching them in the head, punching them in the groin.

I think this is normal, but this is one of those, hey man, your reputation precedes you. And Nas Reed certainly sold it, but it was a flagrant. Draymond was not happy. They had to pull Draymond out of the game because he was this close to getting another tech. Steph Curry had to walk from the bench to the other side of the court to kind of talk to Draymond and get him to chill the hell out. Jerry Stackhouse tried to get him to chill the hell out. Ultimately, Steve Kerr tried to get him to chill out. His own teammates were trying to tell Draymond to chill out, and then Steve Kerr would just go sit on the bench.

They had to save him from himself. And I'm not a lip reader. Draymond wasn't a fan of the call, and he just said the call was a lot of bullcrap repeatedly. And you know that's bullcrap, says Draymond about 20 million times.

So a Draymond Green in full form. Hey, Batra, I was waiting on him to get tossed. Did you see the fans and the fans were calling the ref? Hey, give him another tech. Throw him out. He's cursing like a sailor.

I didn't see that, but at the same time, I'm not surprised, but I think the refs just kind of tune him out now that they don't care what he says, and he's gotten the reputation where just ignore him. He's going to keep yelling the entire time. Well, I'm not going to say it'd be fun.

Wouldn't it be the most Draymond thing ever, though, if he did get tossed early in this game? Honestly, for him, it's probably better. An extra day of rest. Oh, man. Why not? Go back to Golden State. You feel good heading in.

Film a podcast. Oh, that's right. Do they do that once a week with Baron Davis? I'm not sure. I think if I was him, I would stop during the playoffs.

That's just me. I don't know if he does. Remember in the last playoffs that they actually won? They won the finals. Remember he was assing at that postseason and he was actually doing podcasts during the finals. I'm like, what world are we living in right now? Draymond's world. That's what he does. Could you imagine Derek Jeter doing podcasts at the end of a Yankees loss?

Oh, no, not all. The last podcast, I think, came out yesterday. Two days ago. Who was he dissing? Was it not Rudy Gobert? No, it was Brooks. Dylan Brooks. Oh, I don't know. I see something about Popovich here.

Him making three-pointers. Wow. Wow. Whoa. So it must have been after Game 1. Wow. They brought up an old clip that says, he said, I know come playoff time I'm going to have to score the basketball, he said. So then they pulled a clip next to it. Oh, wow.

So his PR people are really pulling back old clips. Draymond Green. What a guy. I hope he gets ejected today.

It had a little bit of spice to the series. Give us another story. Give us another story about how much Draymond Green basically has no self-control.

I'm here for it all. Let him punch somebody in the head. Let him do it. Just so he can get the boot. 888-710-4ISN is the number.

That's 888-710-4ISN. And speaking of just people cursing people out, Draymond is certainly hard-headed. I think we got another hard-headed individual in the world of sports. This time we have to go to Boston because Rafael Devers. Oh, my goodness.

What a world. This man is basically at the beginning of a 10 year, $313 million contract. This man has been a multiple time All-Star here for the Boston Red Sox. You might recall they bring in Alex Bregman. They sign him to a three year deal and he's a better defensive shortstop or excuse me, third baseman. So they tell Rafael Devers, hey, man, we want to move you. And Rafael Devers is just like, I get the new guy is here, but I don't want to move anywhere.

And so he wants complaints. He ultimately sucks at the beginning of the season. But today he actually did some help, actually did some work, hit a home run, drove in two runs.

The Red Sox beat Texas five to nothing. Now, the Red Sox normal first baseman Tristan Casas. You might have saw last weekend this guy blew out his knee, had to be wheeled and stretchered off of the field.

And so naturally you bring in Bregman. He's playing third base. Rafael Devers has been playing DH. And the first baseman, typically they stick you there because it's not the hot corner.

All you got to do is stand there and try to receive the put outs. Rafael Devers in a natural way was asked, hey, dude, can you play first base? It would help us out.

We'd get more production. We have you at first base. We'd still have Bregman at third. And, you know, we'd rotate the DH spot. Rafael Devers said no.

He said they came to me and talked to me about it. He says, I know I'm a ballplayer, but at the same time, they can't expect me to play every single position out there. Come on. In spring training, they talked to me and basically told me to put away my glove. I wasn't going to play another position other than DH. Right now, I don't think it would be an appropriate decision by them to ask me to play another position.

Come on. He talked about their president who played baseball, Craig Breslow, the former reliever for the Sox. He said he played ball. I would like to think that he knows that changing positions isn't easy.

He was a pitcher. He said they put me in this situation. They told me they didn't want me to play any other position. Wow.

And this is the cherry on top. Now they should do their jobs essentially and hit the market and look for another player. I'm not sure why they want me to be an in-between. Next thing you know, somebody in the outfield gets hurt and they want me to play the outfield.

I know the kind of player that I am. And that is where I stand. He admitted and said, they told me that I'm a little hardheaded, but they already asked me to change positions once. This time, I don't think I can be as flexible.

I don't feel they stay true to their word. They told me I was going to play this position. DH.

Now they're going back on that. Oh, my God. Does Rafael Devers know how baseball works? Like, does he know that things change, that things are malleable? Like, hey, we want you to be a DH. But of course, man, this is sports.

Things change. You were asked to play DH. They didn't ask you to go play the outfield. Your big ass ain't playing in center. Come on.

And what's so difficult? You play third base. Going to play first base, as far as I'm concerned, is going to be a little bit easier. You're not corralling the baseballs and trying to get them over to first.

You're just going to be standing there stretching to get the ball. Rafael Devers is a jackass. The Boston Red Sox gave this guy a commitment of three hundred and thirteen million dollars. And they told him, all you have to do is hit. And now he's refusing to pick up a glove and go stand there at first base. Come on, man. And just over time, we've seen some first baseman that just stand there and mash the ball.

Don't do nothing else. And some of these guys suck. They ended up being DHs or were DHs.

The Jim Tomes of the world, the Jason Giambi. So these guys play first base. Rafael Devers is a jerk. How do Red Sox deal with this guy?

I have no idea. And then if Bregman ever leaves, what are they going to do? What's Devers going to do? They just got to keep him at DH forever. And then he's going to get fat and unmotivated.

And then he's going to complain. Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox. You played yourselves. Oh, yeah. By the way, unfortunately, Jadeveon Clonie got cut today by the Panthers. Here's some news for you.

I feel like his biggest play was back when he was out South Carolina and blew the living hell out of that guy. 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN. That's 8 8 8 7 10 4 ISN. Damn, he's been around for 11 years already.

Houston, Seattle, Tennessee, Cleveland, Baltimore, Carolina. Damn. Jadeveon Clonie. What's left? A lot, I guess. He's only 31. Dave is calling from Portland.

I assume Oregon and not Maine. Dave, you're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up? Hey, JR. Love the show.

I'm glad I finally got to speak with you. Can I get some love for my Pacers? All I hear is everybody talking about the Celtics and the Timberwolves and the Warriors. Nobody says anything about the Pacers. And there was one I think he was on ESPN. All he kept saying was the Pacers were going to get swept by Cleveland.

He didn't think they had a chance. And here we are up to the zero. So I love your show. I just wanted to call in.

Thank you so much, Dave, for calling from Portland. Oh, boy. Here we go. Another injury.

Sorry. He's like, nobody talks about the Pacers. Plenty of people talk about the Pacers.

Meanwhile, he says that. Anthony Edwards limps to the back. Come on now. What are we doing here? Anthony, what is this? But did you see what was this problem? Looked like an ankle sprain. I didn't see what happened, but I don't think it was the same ankle that LeBron rolled up on.

OK, so we don't know if it's serious. Nothing. He walked off. He didn't have help. He didn't have support.

He was able to walk under his own power towards the back. This isn't I don't know. This isn't God evening the odds. I mean, with a sprained ankle, he ain't going to be going for a week. It's Golden State.

I don't know. Maybe Golden State could get another game if Anthony Edwards ain't playing right. See, now Draymond is happy he didn't get ejected.

Right. Anthony Edwards will be back. You think he'll return? I think he will. Second half, maybe. Depends how strong the medication they can give him.

Medicaid. You think they're going to shoot him up? Maybe. Wrap it up.

A little numbing spray. Yeah, wrap it up. Yeah, right.

Oh, they're going to shoot him up. Yeah, this this stinks, man. All these injuries. This is the time of the postseason where the injuries are kind of taking hold. We got the Cleveland Cavaliers dealing with injuries. Golden State Warriors got no Steph Curry. Anthony Edwards just walked off the court to the locker room with apparently a sprained ankle.

Boston Celtics. They got injuries. Bruised pride.

Am I missing anybody? Anybody else hurt? Halliburton's wrist is messed up.

Halliburton, the guy with the big. He's left. His left wrist is cooked. His left wrist is cooked because he has big cojones.

I don't think that's correlated. OK. All right. And then Brunson. He has a bunch of ankle sprains. Oh, come on. We're talking about ankle sprains.

I'm talking about guys who can't play. Ankle sprains are serious. What's the last time you sprained an ankle?

A long time ago. But when it when you do sprain your ankle, it hurts. Yeah, I know. I've been there, but I'm not talking about no guys with no sprain. Everybody in the NBA running around on sprained ankles.

OK. I feel like Jalen Brunson every other quarter rolls his ankle and is laying on the floor for a couple of minutes. Oh, he's slow. Tell him be faster.

Lose some weight to while he's at it. No. Would that help? I don't know. Maybe shoes.

Maybe they need to wear high, higher high tops. You know, I don't notice. What does he wear? Do you know?

I don't know. A lot of maybe Anthony Edwards needs to stop wearing his own shoes. The Adidas don't work for him. He's got the Adidas, I think, low versions of his own shoes.

And it's not helping him. Every basketball player wears low low cut now. I mean, whatever.

I don't get it. I I thought mids were where it was for basketball. But everybody's wearing lows. I feel like since Kobe came out with his whatever the heck they were called, Kobe's, everybody just went to low. Kevin Durant's shoes are low. Kyrie when he was on Nike before he started saying crazy stuff. Kyrie was wearing lows. You just talked about Anthony Edwards wearing lows. I just I don't know.

I thought, Marco, I thought I thought mid cut was good for your ankles and good for ankle protection. I don't know. What were the starberries? Were those low? Were those mid? Were those high?

What are those? Those were not those. Starberries were mid. You had starberries. I didn't have them. No, no.

I hear they're coming back, though. Oh, she got myself a pair. Where do you get them? You got to call him up specifically.

You got to call stuff on Marbury. It shouldn't be too hard to find them, though. Starberries? I think he's bringing them back. I don't think you can get the original. I mean, you might have to hit eBay for that. Might be a little busted, but I don't know.

I don't I think he's supposed to bring back the Starberry. I think I can buy Shaq shoes. Can I buy Shaq? Kmart or Walmart, right? Kmart still exists? Oh, boy. I said Kmart.

What year is this? Oh, my God. I said Kmart. Did they close all of them down and there's like one left in America? I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know if there's still one left is like a blockbuster, but I'm sure there's still plenty of, you know, enormous spaces where you're like, what was here? It's got to be a Kmart that was here, all barren, messed up. Oh, my God.

Come on, man. It has to be one Kmart left in America. Is Sears still exists? I think it's almost gone.

Softer side of Sears. Is that still there? I don't know.

I don't know. Kmart is gone. Sears is the Sizzler. There's a couple of Sizzlers left. I think there's still a few Sizzlers.

I feel like I've seen one somewhat recently. Hey, man. Hey, Kmart. There's a Kmart down in Miami, Florida.

How about that? Damn. What a shock. There's only eight Sears. There's only eight Sears in America. Eight Sears left in America.

This makes me want to move. This is not America anymore. It's not America. There's no Sears. There's no Kmart. There's no Sizzler. And everybody's wearing low top shoes.

What the hell is going on? Low top shoes. We got one blockbuster. Where is it?

Like Oregon or something like that? Yeah, I don't. Is it still there? I feel like Oregon was holding on to their fingernails, but I don't know if that thing's still there.

What a disaster. Does Payless still exist? Payless shoe store stay still exist? Damn, Payless.

Yeah, I don't know. Oh, my God. That was definitely there because I definitely caught some heat back in the day when I had the pro wings.

It's tough to walk around with pro wings when you're a kid, man. Oh, yeah. I have Payless, I know. Yeah.

We got Payless. We got here in Georgia permanently closed. OK. All right. OK, I guess. I guess. I guess not. Damn, it's not enough to say closed.

Permanently closed. Yeah, Google. Google. Google lets you know. And they're all they're all within like miles with one, two, three, four. I like that.

No chance in hell this thing comes back. Not only is it closed, it is permanently closed. There are about 12 Payless the stores in the Atlanta metro area, maybe 12 to 15. It all says permanently closed. That's angry, man. This is sad. Did Toys R Us open back up? I think they were supposed to get a couple.

I don't know. Right. You know, there's one in the American Dream Mall in Jersey. They're just very, very. Get out. There is.

There is. Hey, I can hit that. I thought they were supposed to have a small presence in Macy's and Macy's is closing down, too. Come on. We said we still got Macy's now. I mean, geez, they didn't go out with Sears. I'm scared, man.

This is scary. What are we going to do with all these malls? What are we going to do with these malls in America?

Like all this space. What are you going to turn into apartments? No, then nobody wants people to actually be able to afford where they live.

So that's not going to happen. But they they ripped down the malls and they put people to live there. Now they have gimmick stores.

I don't know. There's like escape rooms you can make escape. Are we just going to have a bunch of Starbucks and a bunch of weed stores like in that basically what America's become? This is this is scary stuff.

I'm really I'm more scared of this than the robots that drive the cars by themselves, man. Like I can't go. I don't I hate shopping.

I hate it. But these stores aren't closing because of people like me. It's just people are just buying stuff online. Like the mall. Remember the mall? Marco, you the mall used to be cool, Marco.

Yeah, that used to be a destination. Yes, the mall on the weekend. You go to a movie, you find some girls, you know, you find something to eat.

You go on a date, hang out with your friends. You kids even do that anymore? No, they go to the food courts.

I don't even know. Oh, man. The food, the samples, the chicken from the Chinese restaurant. But I mean, like that's where you spent half the day there. You know, you wind up at the food court. Like I said, you you bounce all over the place. You don't actually really buy anything.

You don't have any money. Oh, my God. And there's sightseeing, you know? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That's where you need to go. That's where you need to be. You sight if you if you're young, you look in if you're old, you look into, you know, I don't know, man. I don't I don't know where kids are supposed to go. I've been saying that for a long time.

Like I get I'm almost glad I'm old. I had to go into a target. No, forget the library, man. Come on. That's not we're not there. They are the Dewey Decimal System. I remember that.

Yeah, everything's on the card. I went into a target. There were like four teenagers sitting in empty shelves on their phones hanging out.

It was like 10 o'clock at night because I had to go pick something up, of course, because I was late to pick up something for like the kids or something. They're going to rob the place. That was their hangout. Oh, crap.

OK. They're not even outside like at a 7-Eleven, you know, getting coffee by the mall. Asking for booze. They're sitting in the back of an empty, I don't know, area for Target. What the hell have we come to? Like this is where 17 year olds got to go.

That's my life. Oh, it's sitting on the free patios and stuff they have inside. It was on the shelves like in the back, in the back where there's like three or four shelves that are just empty that they put up the shelf, but they haven't actually put any product on it.

The bottom shelf. There were four, like, you know, 15, 16, 17 year old kids on their phones, not talking to each other, sitting on the shelves. All we have to do is destroy the phones and maybe everybody will go back outside and have fun. This is scary. I'm going to move to a country. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna leave.

I'm gonna get emails now. Then leave, JR. I'll leave America. Good.

I think I came right there. Well, I'm going to find some place where people actually talk to each other and go outside and interact. Let me tell you, every chance and opportunity I get outside to socialize like street fairs, festivals, farmers markets, I do it because these things are, you know, maybe these maybe some of these things are replacements.

I don't know how prevalent they were, you know, 20 and 30 years ago, but I don't know. I'm looking for social interaction. I'm not trying to dumb it down by just hanging out online all the time. It's just I got to tell you, I'm sad about all this for all of us, but at the same time, I hate everyone, so I can't really see myself interacting. So I'm kind of caught in between here.

I'm in a very difficult spot. I see you. I have a good conversations when I see you in person. Yeah, I like you. Yeah, the feel is mutual. Yeah. Other people I don't like.

Anyway, screw everybody. It's the JR sport show on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, we'll talk about a few things that happened this day in sports history right now. Newsflash. He hates everybody.

Marco Belletti. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Hey, it's the end of the show.

You know what that means? It's time to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. 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. 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.

May 8th, 1967, Muhammad Ali. He was indicted for draft dodging. You might recall he had his license suspended and he told everybody why he didn't plan on going and participating in the war. I'm saying you talking about me about some draft and all of you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London. I'm not going to help nobody get something my ass is going to have. I'm going to die. I'll die now right here fighting you. If I'm going to die, you my enemy.

My name is a white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs.

And you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home. It took years for Muhammad Ali to be lauded and recognized for standing up in what he believed in. May 8th, 1970, the New York Knicks beat the Lakers. Game seven. You got Willis Reed walking out the tunnel, but Walt Clyde Frazier said, I got thirty six point seven rebounds and 19 assists for you. Listen to this from the NBA.

Stolen by Frazier, down the line with the photo, but it's West across the net, loses to Frazier, drives ahead of the field, down the line, layup is good. And Walt Clyde Frazier, living legend, May 8th, 2001, Randy Johnson, he becomes the third guy in Major League Baseball history. Kerry Wood did it. Roger Clemens did it. He struck out 20 people. Well, the deep backs, it took him 11 innings. It wasn't a complete game. Listen to Randy Johnson.

But none would be bigger. The number 20 here tonight. 2-2 to Castro. Randy Johnson has tied the Major League record for strikeouts in a nine-in-a-game.

20 for the big unit. Yeah, that was courtesy of Major League Baseball. This isn't good news. Ja'Davion Clowney, who was cut today by the Panthers, he has an anniversary in 2014. He was drafted number one out of South Carolina by Houston.

Listen to this. With the first pick in the 2014 NFL draft, the Houston Texans select Ja'Davion Clowney, defensive end, South Carolina. Of course, that was from the NFL. What a day. He's like, hey, May 8th, I got drafted. May 8th, I got cut today by the Panthers.

OK, hey, 2018, May 8th. James Paxton, a Canadian, threw a no-hitter in Canada versus the Blue Jays. He struck out seven.

He walked three. The Mariners won five to nothing. Listen to this, courtesy of Root Sports. Donaldson, a couple of feet in the grave already. To Seager, the pick, the throw, Paxton has done it. It's a no-hitter. The left-hander from Laddish, British Columbia has just no-hit the Blue Jays on his native soil. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, right?

A Canadian, Canadian, Canadian cron in Toronto. Yeah, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. Hey, in recent history, we just had a great show. Thank you so much to Christian Winfield for coming through to talk to us about the New York Knicks.

He covers the New York, excuse me, the New York Knicks for the New York Daily News. And right now at halftime, our only NBA game of the night, the Minnesota Timberwolves lead the Golden State Warriors 56 to 39. Anthony Edwards had to exit the game due to some type of ankle injury. OK, it's too many injuries.

Steph Curry is already out. We don't need any more. A big shout out and thank you to Ryan Botcher. Amazing job. And thank you so much for listening. You missed a minute or a second.

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