Hour 4 | This Day In Sports History | NFL Players In The Olympics? | Is Flag Football Viable?

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Go ahead ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. The NBA Western Conference Finals are underway. Minnesota Timberwolves lead here in the first quarter 16 to 14. They started off on an 8 to nothing run but the Oklahoma City Thunder.

They have gone out here and they have caught up. Julius Randall leading the way for Minnesota with 6 points. Anthony Edwards and Jayden McDaniels with 5.

Meanwhile for the Oklahoma City Thunder, what a shock. Shay Gilgus Alexander already with 9 points here in the first quarter. About 5 minutes to go here in the first. We'll keep you up to date on this game as we continue on. I think by the time we get to the end of this show, we should be maybe possibly at or around or coming out of halftime. So we'll keep you up to date on Game 1 as things continue. And we've had a full show.

Thank you so much to our guests last hour. Jonathan Von Tobel came through from Vison to talk some basketball. He thinks that we'll see an Oklahoma City and New York Knicks NBA Finals. We talked about the Knicks and Pacers rivalry.

The NFL revealed earlier today they're going to allow their players, professional football players, to participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. In a good old competition of flag football. We'll find out about the tush push tomorrow. We got Joe Burrow sticking up for Trey Hendrickson.

We got Dwyane Wade going after Jimmy Butler and Ryan Clark and RG3. They're going at each other about Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese. Ray, here's a simple question. Where's the love? I mean, I just detailed a lot of hate and anger. I mean, where's the love? I don't know, man. Love don't pay the bills these days.

It seems like everyone is like marinating in negativity, trying to get the clicks, trying to say the most salacious eyebrow raising thing because that's that's the currency these days. Oh, man. There's no niceties, there's no compliments, man. They said the nice guys finish last, right? So here we are.

We are in the maxed out form of that theory. Nice guys finish last. Steph Curry's a nice guy, right?

He's he's good. Well, you know, a broken clock. Twice is a once a day. Once a day. Well, you know, Curry's worth two. So we'll say it's twice. Okay. Hey, what do you think this is?

This is completely just unrelated. What do you think Klay Thompson is doing? I think he's in like the Virgin Islands.

His dad from the Virgin Islands, right? Well, Klay Thompson is on the on the cusp of midlife crisis. He's officially cut his hair. I don't know if you saw that last week.

Excuse me. The fro, the fro is gone. He caught himself for those that know. He took it back to like his rookie year. This is 2011 Klay.

He got the dark season with the little taper on there. He's he's he's close to midlife crisis. You know how that goes already. Once you cut your hair off, you change the look and you try to look younger. You're in danger. Oh, wow. I see that. Oh, Klay Thompson, a fresh haircut reaction. Oh, my goodness.

Okay. Well, I guess going to Dallas screwed him up. I mean, you think he's having any regrets based on what has taken place over the past year? I think he has a poster on one of those yachts. One of his ships of Draymond Green. And he throw darts at it because Draymond took his money. Oh, my God. Once they pay Draymond, they couldn't pay Klay.

Oh, man. Well, he should have taken a discount and just stuck around. Right. Like how much how much more money does he got? I know he's playing in California, but how much more money did he need? Well, he was he was operating based on principle. He felt like because he's just as important a part of the dynasty as a staff or Draymond that he deserved to cash out as well.

He took a backseat when Katie got there. He was a good soldier when Jordan Poole came back, although he sold quite a few times, but he dug it out and won a championship. So I guess he felt like I've done all of these things you asked me to do. You've paid Dray. You've paid stuff a few times. You paid Jordan Poole. Give him that four year one hundred and thirty million. I believe it was deal.

Where's my money? And that's why he left. Here's a good thing for for Klay Thompson. Whenever he's done. Whenever that is, he's going to go back to Golden State and he'll be treated like nothing ever happened.

Absolutely. That's there's no hurt energy there. When he came back, they gave all the fans to the shipping captain had in a great video package.

It's all love. There might be some some salt on clay side, but Golden State will absolutely embrace him with open arms. He'll he'll he'll go back.

He'll he'll be back. I wonder I wonder if he's watching basketball that we have no idea. Minnesota Timberwolves currently lead the Thunder 19 to 17. I told you about Shea Gilgus Alexander leading the way with nine points. You know what?

Let's go around the world with with things that we've discussed and that took place today. Let's take a listen to Shea Gilgus Alexander. This is, of course, way before the game. He talks about the Oklahoma City Thunder's mindset heading into what is now started the Western Conference finals. Listen to this. Just trying to be where our feet are in the moment and see what's in front of us and try to attack it.

Come out on the right end of it. That's why we've gotten this far in the season and we're going to continue to do so. Yeah. Well, let's see what they keep on doing. Maybe throughout the course of this game, they'll get a little bit more help from people not named Shea Gilgus Alexander. But let's be real. This man is going to win the MVP award. He is the primary and focal reason as to why they're here. And, you know, speaking of the Golden State Warriors and well, we know that Klay Thompson did get paid by the words he had to go to Dallas. We know that Jimmy Butler, he finally got his money from the Golden State Warriors after a trade couldn't be consummated between the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns. And today on his own podcast, Dwayne Wade, NBA Hall of Famer, he decided to put in his two cents about Jimmy Butler. He basically said that, yeah, I don't I don't blame Pat Riley for not paying this guy because Jimmy Butler has to show up in important moments.

Listen to this. I think the thing with Jimmy is I just I didn't like I didn't like his the way he just approached the game. Like I know Jimmy is a pass first guy. I know he's about getting his teammates to ball and want to see them shine. But it's a point where you get 60. This ain't working.

You got to go. He won't look at the basket. And I've seen this before. I've seen it in a heat jersey. And so, you know, in a sense, like when Pat come out past, say, we want to get your attention is not always because of injury.

Sometimes I need to see what you're going to do in every moment, not just in one moment. We saw Jimmy in a in a bubble. He was off. He was a dog. I saw Jimmy in another finals, too, against Denver Nuggets. And he did the exact same thing he did the other night.

He did not look at the basket. Man. They used to be teammates. I'm now Dwayne Wade is not telling any lies right there. I guess he's like, man, I'm retired. I say, what the hell? I want to say I got my championships.

By the way, right. I saw Dwayne Wade. He got all of his accomplishments tattooed on his chest.

Did you see that? I didn't see that, but it doesn't surprise me because, again, that clip that we played, he's sitting with his NBA Finals MVP trophy nestled like a newborn as he talks about Jimmy Butler. So, of course, he has his accomplishments tatted.

Why wouldn't he? Yeah, his whole his whole chest. He has like the Hall of Fame, him going in the Hall of Fame, him, you know, standing at the table with that.

You know, this is my house. He has his own. So he has to wake up in the morning and look at his basketball accomplishments on his chest. Good for him.

I guess. Does he have a tattoo of LeBron because half of those are thanks to that guy. Oh, man, he should have. Well, that is not there. He should what he should be throwing him the alley oop that should be on his chest.

Absolutely. Maybe he doesn't want to wake up and look at LeBron. I don't know.

Because LeBron had a lot of it wasn't it wasn't D Wade's house and Bron was there. That's all I'm saying. He'll take a back seat. I guess Gabrielle Union is fine with this, right?

I just roll over and look at the championships on his chest, I guess. I don't know. Based on the things we've heard about their relationship in the past, just add this to the list, OK? Oh, man, you making them sound like it's Will Smith and Jada here, right?

On the same block, if you ask me. Oh, boy. You never know.

You never know. Anyway, Jimmy Butler showed a lot of love to. Well, not really. He's trying to set Jimmy Butler straight as somebody who did show love to an active teammate. Surprisingly, Joe Burrow just basically being an advocate for Trey Hendrickson to go ahead and get paid to get his money, to get his cash. In a lot of cases, NFL players are like they're like hands off laissez faire. They're not getting involved in anybody else's contractual dispute.

They're not saying anything. But when your name is Joe Burrow, you're making fifty five million dollars a year. You're one of the highest paid guys in the entire NFL period. Bengals ain't punishing that guy.

There's no there's no ramifications. And Trey Hendrickson doesn't have a problem with him either. Sticking up and listen to what Joe Burrow had to say about Trey Hendrickson and his contract disputes.

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens with that. You know, you guys all know how I feel about Trey's a great player. I love Trey as a guy. He goes on plays well every single Sunday. He's very productive. He's a guy that deserves to to get paid and get paid what he wants and what the market is. So, you know, like I said, we'll see what happens with that. But, you know, I love Trey and hope he's with us. Wow.

I think he'll be back. The Bengals are just being the same cheap old jerks that they've been forever. Making guys share jockstraps or reusing them, making them buy water at the facility. Hey, you want two, three meals a day. Too bad. Tough. We'll feed you breakfast.

You figure it out for the rest of the day. Like this is this is the Cincinnati Bengals. Tell us how you really feel, Joe. Oh, this is all facts. This fact this came out of the mouth for T's who's men's Zara and other players who've been there. This is like you heard the story about ice tea. If you go to ice tea's house, like if you want snacks, you got he has vending machines in his house.

Come on, man. Vending machines. You haven't you never heard that before?

I've never heard that one before. Ice tea has vending machines in his house. That's a level of cheap that I almost respect. Even if you don't you got to you got to pay to stock the vending machine. Right.

I guess. But if you have people over, you're supposed to just, you know, give them some ice tea, some lemonade, some chips. Why do we have to pay to get some snacks at Icee's house?

Because he doesn't. Hey, listen, I'm not I'm not serving you. Go serve yourself, I guess. Come on. All right.

All right. I guess I'm not doing that. I think that's abhorrent. Like, I don't want to be in nobody's house. So it's just like, hey, you know, can I have some water? Hey, there's the Aquafina machine right over there. Go figure it out. I got to come with a bunch of coins like we're at an arcade when I go to Icee's house.

Come on, man. Well, now you could tap the pay on the vending machines. How do we know he got those? He might have the coin joint. You're right. He might be trying to deter people from coming in this house in the first place.

Oh, that's an angle that that might be it at number one there. But that that ain't no different than the Cincinnati Bengals. Bunch of cheapskates there making Trey Hendrickson just just have to sweat. How many more sacks does a guy have to have in the season? He's go out there and get 30.

What are we doing? And let's see when that news breaks between him and Michael Parsons. I don't know. Maybe the Bengals are like, let's see what Micah gets. That may take to the final minute the way the Dallas Cowboys work. And they go, well, we'll pay him less.

I have no idea. And then we found out today that Shamar Stewart isn't signing his rookie deal for the Bengals as of yet. And this is supposed to be the dude who's either A, going to replace Trey Hendrickson or B, line up on the other side of him. The Bengals are just what else is new into some funny business. Speaking of funny business, this is not funny.

This is actually not a joke either. Tomorrow the NFL owners are going to vote on the tush push. But today the NFL owners voted to allow NFL players to participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. And no, this is not going to be beat the living hell out of you football.

I mean, the United States is not going to beat the living hell out of, I don't know, Canada. But we're going to play flag football. And we'll see NFL players out there on the field as a result.

Roger Goodell, he decided to make the announcement earlier today in speaking to the media. This is what he had to say about the NFL players becoming Olympians. I think this news represents a great opportunity for the sport, for the NFL. It's truly the next step in making NFL football and football a global sport.

For men and women of all ages and all opportunities across the globe, we think that's the right thing to do. And this is a big step in accomplishing that. For our players, we think it's a tremendous opportunity for them to represent their country, to compete for a gold medal, which is the pinnacle of global sports. Man, they're thinking about the players and the marketing of them. The last thing they're worried about is their players getting gold medals.

They don't care about that. And I don't want to say this is going to be a massive sham. And we discussed this earlier. Like, who's the competition? New Zealand, England, Australia, places that play rugby, South Africa, maybe? I don't know.

Like, what are we doing here? How many teams are going to be in this thing? They've got to have, what, like eight to ten teams minimum, correct? No.

What did you think so? I think you're cutting it a little too short to say eight. This might be at least a 12 to 16 situation. It's the Olympics. You've got to have groups. You've got to have the group stage, the knockout rounds.

This is going to be a lot of bad flag football before we get to some good stuff. Once we get outside of South Africa, rugby country, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia. That's four countries. Germany will have a team, right? Germany will have a team. I mean, they have some tough guys in Germany. Maybe they can figure some things out. Maybe, maybe, maybe what they'll do is if you were a college player and you had a grandfather who's from Germany or one of these other countries, you get a passport and you go play over there.

So we'll have, we'll basically have a bunch of Americans representing different, we'll have like Joel and be playing for the United States of America. Precisely. Okay. All right. I see how it goes.

All right. This is going, I don't even want to say this is going to be fun in 2028. This is kind of disinterested Jay, I can't lie to you.

This is going to be an annihilation. Like this is, I can't even say this is going to be Dream Team 1992 because like people all over the world were fawning over guys like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. And these dudes are just, they were global celebrities. Like nobody, let me not say that. The NFL has done a good job growing the game, but not to the level of like, ain't nobody think about Jalen Hurts in China. Like nobody think about Jalen Hurts in Australia. And so we got a bunch of Australian guys who come over and they play against Jalen Hurts and Jalen Hurts wipes the floor with them. What who's who's raising an eyebrow? Where's where's the excitement there?

OK, they're going to carve them up. Jalen Hurts or Kyler Murray or Lamar Jackson. And we're going to have one guy. Oh, this is that Anthony Edwards is walking off of the court. Are you kidding me?

Ray, am I looking at the right thing? He kind of tweaked his ankle on a drive where Caruso attempted to take a charge. And he's already twisted both angles at several points throughout this season. He probably just needs to get it retaped. Oh, my God. Oh, he was limping, man. I don't know if they're going to retape him or shoot him up with something. Oh, my God.

Just what the world wanted to see. Anthony Edwards walking to the back. He was walking on his own power.

So God bless him there. And at the end of the first quarter, the Minnesota Timberwolves lead the Thunder 23 to 20. Edwards has seven points. Julius Randall has six for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Shay Gilgas Alexander, not the best shooting performance here, getting all of his points pretty much at the free throw line. He has nine points, two of eight from the field. OKC is shooting six of 17 from the field.

Connor, wild and crazy. We just spoke to Jonathan Von Tobel last hour and he's just like, hey, Oklahoma City. They have they've shot the ball like crap so far here this postseason. They got to knock down shots. And here they are in this game. Twenty three twenty and just getting ready to start the second quarter underway. But man, they are shooting like garbage. Let's see when Anthony Edwards gets back out onto the court and then ultimately what he looks like. We don't need any more injuries.

Let's keep the teams healthy the rest of the way here in the postseason. It's the J.R. sport show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight eight eight seven ten for ISN. That's eight eight eight seven ten for ISN. And we'll take a break when we come back.

I want to talk to somebody. You know, I may not sound happy about flag football in the Olympics because it's going to be a bloodbath. We got a player. This man is one of the highest paid athletes on earth. He's making seven hundred and sixty five million dollars in his current contract. And he's not happy. Apparently that's the case when we come back on the other side.

I'm going to talk to you about Juan Soto. It's the J.R. sport show on the Infinity Sports Network. It is the J.R. sport show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight eight eight seven ten for ISN.

That's eight eight eight seven ten for ISN. Meanwhile. Well, right now in Oklahoma City. Timberwolves leading the Thunder 33 to 29.

About seven minutes or so left here in the first half of the game. This is also a great opportunity, a great time to tell you about this. The defensive player of the week is sponsored by the Navy Federal Credit Union, proudly celebrating all who go above and beyond during Military Appreciation Month. Learn more at Navy federal dot org slash celebrate.

Our members are the mission. And I just talked about him. I'm going to call this guy the defensive player of the week. Well, it's it's Joe Burrow. And what the hell does he have to do with defense? The guy plays offense. Well, Joe Burrow.

And we heard the clip just last break. He's really defending Trey Hendrickson in regards to him getting his hands on a brand new contract. Trey Hendrickson said he is not showing up to play on the final year of his deal unless he receives a contract extension. He's slated to make approximately 15 million dollars for work this upcoming season. The past two seasons, he's gotten 17 and a half sacks each of the last two seasons, I should say. And you think about some of the highest paid players producing about the same amount as Trey Hendrickson. Myles Garrett making about more than 40 mil a year. And you think about Max Crosby of the Raiders. He just got himself a new contract extension that's paying him about thirty five million dollars a year. So you look at the top guys and what they're getting paid. It is a big difference between getting 40 mil 35 mil and 15 mil and Joe Burrow credit to him. He decided to go to bat, you know, for his own teammate. It's very rare that you you hear or see that in the NFL or professional sports in general.

And so kudos to Joe Burrow for defending and sticking up for his guy. Eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, ten for ISN. Hey, we got Sean calling up for more again. Sean, you're on the JR sport show.

What's going on? Hey, JR, I just wanted to touch base with you on this Olympic. Summertime flag football that's going to have very little similarities compared to wintertime American football we know here in the States. And I think this is all just a big ploy for the NFL to just like broaden their horizons and and keep selling football. Otherwise, I mean, wait, wait, wait, wait, Sean, what do you mean ploy? Like Roger Goodell said as much as this is this is not like this is some covert mission that's undercover. Like this is the whole point. Everybody knows that.

Big time, brother. And that's what I is. I just I just think, you know, I don't watch flag football. I don't even watch like preseason football.

So I mean, I'm just not going to this isn't something I even and I don't even look at football as even a summertime sport. Just like basketball. See, basketball and football should be the Winter Olympics. Have a great day.

OK. OK, Sean, that's a hard point to make. Basketball should be in the winter. They play in the winter, bro. A lot of people play basketball outside, too, by the way.

I think the only reason why these games take place in arenas indoors in the wintertime is just so they can make money. OK. I don't know.

And I was kind of aggressive there at the end, Ray. I don't know. He has a hard point to make. You know, it's very confounding for me to see people be surprised when big corporation wants to make money and expand their organization. Duh. What do you think this is all about? It's about making money. Yeah. Yeah. Roger Goodell said it.

I know it was never a secret surprise. I mean, they've been sending teams overseas to Europe and now South America for forever. And he apparently are some some details as it relates to this flag football stuff. The twenty twenty eight Olympics flag football will be a five on five non-contact sport.

OK. That's why they have flags. So consisting of 10 players, you have five on five. The games will be played on a smaller field, 70 by 25 yards with two 20 minute halves. The team will have four downs to reach midfield and then four more downs to score a touchdown. So it's faster pace.

The goal is to score by advancing the ball. We know this. OK, whatever. All right.

Yeah. As to the last guy, Sean from Oregon, just said, man, I don't watch no flag football. Who sits down and watches flag football? Like, I wouldn't know where to find it.

I guess maybe you find some clips on YouTube. I don't. Is it on ESPN eight?

Is it on the ultra? Like, who's looking for flag football? Not me. In the great words of Keith Sweat, nobody.

Nobody's looking for flag football. Nobody. Except for that guy who won the American championship that thinks he should be on a team above Patrick Mahomes. Right. That guy. Yes, him. The greatest flag football player of all time. Yeah.

That guy from. Louisiana shots, Louisiana, they got some things to worry about down in Louisiana, eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, four ISN. That's eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, four ISN. How many prisoners have they caught for?

I think so. Yeah, man, that's bad. I hope they catch him, man. And then I heard today the guy they arrested, the guy who helped them get out. And the guy then said that they basically threatened him to help him and he had to help them out because they threatened him. Oh, well, you know, somebody is always going to tell. That's how this movie plays out. Yeah, I'm Gaza. I guess they eating the good food while they out, I guess.

Either that or starving on the street. I don't know. I saw a guy look like he got out of a time machine with his fashion choices. I think he went and got some Bape gear and I'm like, Bape hasn't been in since like 07.

Where did you find these clothes? He's sleeping outside on the bench. No idea. Yeah, well, it's a tough life when you're locked up and now you you broke out and.

I don't know, is a couple of hours of freedom worth it? I don't know. Eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, four ISN.

That's eight, eight, eight, seven, seven, four ISN. Robert is calling from Wisconsin. You're in the general sport.

We show some Robert. Hey, are you at the factory? What's up? Yeah, I'm at work right now. I'm sitting on break. All right, go ahead. Quickly. It's very loud.

Go ahead. Yeah, I should have won MVP last year if he had a defense. Yeah, well, what a what a could have should have. They they barely beat 500. He had to throw around all the time. He didn't win MVP. What are we going to do?

Yeah, I'll do releases. If they would have had a defense, they have a great defensive end. Yeah, well, I agree with you, Robert. But did you hear you keep up with basketball? You know, Jokic? Oh, no.

Yeah. Well, did you hear you? Thank you, Robert. Did you hear Jokic the other day?

Jokic says, I don't deal in ifs, ifs, ifs and ifs. And that would have been Robert is a little is a little too. It is May. It's May, Robert. What happened?

What happened, Robert? Have you ever heard defense win championships? Yeah, I have also know it's May. I know the MVP was given away months ago and I know that Joe Burrow didn't have a defense, so he didn't win it. Robert, the award goes to a team that's typically a winner. And if he had one, he would have. And he doesn't. It's May.

Like Joe Burrow is already preparing for next season. You know what? And if I if I were I don't know if I were seven feet tall, I think I would be in the NBA. But ain't no if that doesn't matter. We can if things to death. Hey, Marco Balletti, a little too late for that, huh? You think we do the vote? No, no. You want to redo the vote, Joe Burrow?

You think you'd get more this time? Did they still not make the playoffs? Did I miss something? Oh, well, Robert says if they had a defense, the bank. Did the Chiefs win that last game? Did they knock the Broncos out? No. Did I miss that?

Oh, well, he has to have a defense, maybe in a time machine. Hey, Robert, thank you for calling from Wisconsin. Hey, Marco, you excited for flag football in twenty twenty eight? No. OK, not a little bit.

And look, obviously, Justin Jefferson's all fired up about this and good for him. I'm not going to if that's really something that you want to do. Great. Go ahead.

He gets an Olympic gold medal. Dad, again, whatever you want to do. I'm big on that. You want to do you do you.

That's fine. I struggle, though. You're telling me all the NFL players are going to line up to go do this. Why? Well, you only get one from each team because they want to gold medal.

Don't you want to gold medal? I don't know, man. I don't know if that means anything to a lot of guys. But the idea that you can get embarrassed or you can get hurt, I think that means a hell of a lot more. Oh, yeah. Being injured is certainly a there's somebody you don't there's no guarantee.

But if they do this every four years and I don't think they will. Yeah. There's always a possibility of a guy getting hurt, which is something that that nobody wants.

They're really the only risk, I think. See, to me, there's a little bit more. There's the hurt thing is the most. And that's obviously something because you're also I mean, you're playing this is not like you're playing in the yard. This is not like even when they mess around the Pro Bowl with the flag stuff, like if you're competing and these are competitors, like they're going to go full bore.

So the the risk of the injury is definitely there. The other two things that, again, maybe I'm crazy, maybe embarrassment, because if you look silly, it's still memes are there. And guys don't like to look silly. Go look at the slam dunk contest and nobody actually wants to do it. You look silly and all you're doing is dunking a basketball, which you've been doing since you were what, nine?

You think you think Japan is going to beat us and flag football? No, no, that's not my point. But you can look dumb on any given play. And guys don't like to put themselves out there. These are not NBA players. These guys hit each other for a living. I think they're a little tougher. Well, the guys that hit each other a lot are not going to be playing flag football.

These are going to be more of the skilled. Don't like to get hit. Don't like to get embarrassed type players. Let's put Tyreek Hill out there.

Keep him out of trouble for some. OK. And the other part of it is right there this summer. How many guys want to give up their vacation to be messing around playing flag football? I'm just curious. This this might be better than going to training camp, right?

Please. How how many how what how many kids is Tyreek Hill making at the Olympic Village? Over under, I want to say three or four years, like three or four kids that pop out in what would that be? You go July. We're going over.

Didn't you have like six this year? That's why I'm going under, because he he's he knows that he's probably already emptied the clip one too many times. So he might want to consider scaling it back a bit. Yeah.

Tyreek Hill in the Olympic Village just sounds dangerous. Yeah. I mean, I don't know why receiver money is good enough for that for that much procreation.

Well, what is he how many kids? He's not up to Cromartie or Philip Rivers yet, is he? No, no, no, no. I think he passed him. No. Wait, from what? He has like ten at least.

He has a full career. I like 11. Yeah. The river's got like 10 kids. Yeah, I know. And I don't know the count. I'll be fair. But didn't Tyreek Hill have like six this year?

Like, I'm not I'm not being facetious like six this year alone. I don't think so. No. He quit Google. Seven seven kids.

How many were this year? The possibility of more. I don't know. I can't keep up.

Then his wife just divorce him. I don't know. I don't know.

It wasn't his wife, Kenny Vakaros. Yes. OK. All right.

Well, I'm just anybody got the Google now. Now I need to know how many do you have this year alone? I don't know. Like four kids in like one year.

Three kids. I mean, think about that. His wife didn't have all of them. Right.

No one. Yeah. That's that's a crazy that that's tough, man.

Four in one year. Damn. Yeah.

That means he has options, guys. Damn. In twenty twenty four, he had four children. Yes.

In twenty twenty five. So you weren't exaggerating. That's what I'm saying.

Five kids in one year. I mean, he's got to be passing Cromartie and Rivers. I mean, if he goes to the Olympic village, at least he knows he's making the next generation of athlete. Right. He might want to get into reality TV because he's going to need a lot more checks once his NFL playing career is done.

He might want to put a helmet on that soldier is what he might want to do. And speaking of that, I saw Brock. This is completely off the thing. Speaking of kids, I saw Brock Lesnar's daughter is she looks just like her father, by the way. Is she is she is one of Mountain West title like Colorado State for the shot. But she is the number one shot putter in the nation. Yeah. Random fact. Yeah.

Brock Lesnar's daughter. What a surprise. Right.

Genetics are crazy. Yeah. I'm not saying anything. That's Brock Lesnar. Was he going to beat you up? He might suplex me.

You never know. You think he what is he's probably eating meat right now, killing animals. He might be listening to the radio. He might be. He's killing animals. Quality genes from a good old Brock.

What is it? I heard he lives in Canada now, right? I think North Dakota, if I'm not mistaken. Close enough. Right. All of them.

Maybe you got enough money is killing animals and skinning them and cooking them and lifting stuff. You're going to get us in trouble with Peter again. Peter wrote a nice message to me because I defended the Tiger at LSU. Peter likes me.

Come on. We didn't get in trouble with Peter. They sent a nice note. You're right. You're right.

I'm one day they're going to send me a nasty note. But as of right now, I'm on Peter's good side because having Mike the tiger in a cage in Louisiana is a bad idea. OK, shout outs to Peter.

I mean, to be fair, you were wrong. He does have, I think, an area where he does does what he does, what he does with these animals, the bisons and things of that nature. He just sits around just eating raw meat. Probably got diverticulitis because he didn't eat enough vegetables. He said he doesn't eat vegetables. Come on. Well, neither does Al Michaels.

That doesn't mean that you're going to sit around, you know, eating rabbits without skinning them. I mean, that there's does Brock Lesnar. Does he look like he has the same diet as Al Michaels?

Yeah, probably not. This rail, we have gone so far off the rails at this point. Brock Lesnar looks like he eats humans. Carnivore diet straight up. He's eating he's eating bison. What do you eat? Eggs and bison for breakfast. What do you have for lunch? A bison.

Spaghetti and bison for dinner. This man is not messing around. He's not eating kale. OK, God bless him. OK, maybe not. I don't know. He's I heard he was in a lot of trouble with these W.W. allegations, but a conversation for another day.

People can use Google. And by the way, Juan Soto, I guess we'll get into that tomorrow. Not happy about apparently where he's playing, but we'll talk about Juan Soto. New York Mets lost again tonight. But anyway, you want more scores?

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It's a newsflash. We're Marco Balletti. It is the JR Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're at halftime of game one of the Western Conference finals at Timberwolves lead the Thunder 48 to 44.

This is the end of this show. So it means it's time for 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. Back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything. And it was primitive and lousy.

We like the JR Sportbree show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It is May 20th, 2025. If we go back in time to May 20th, 1972, how about this? The Indiana Pacers. They won a championship. It wasn't an NBA championship. It was an ABA championship. They beat the Nets. They went out and beat them four games to two. The MVP was Freddie Lewis. The Pacers went ahead and joined the NBA in 1976.

Take a listen to this. This is when they won the title. The Nets have one last desperation try on the inbounds play. Bill Melchioni heaves a 40-footer and it falls short. The Indiana Pacers capture the ABA championship four games to two over the New York Nets, clinching it with a dramatic 108-105 win on the Nets home court.

Everything in the ABA sounded like fun, huh? Freddie Lewis was the MVP. May 20th. Maybe the Pacers will win an NBA championship this year.

I don't think so. May 20th, 1991. Michael Jordan won his second MVP. And then he also went out there and beat the Lakers for a championship. Let's listen to MJ get his award. Chicago Bulls fans everywhere know this year's most valuable player award as an heir apparent. This heir led the scoring in the NBA for the fifth consecutive time. And led your very own Chicago Bulls to the best record they've ever had in their franchise history. On behalf of S.C. Johnson Wax, makers of Ed Shave Gel, America's number one shaving preparation, it's my pleasure to present the 1991 EDGE most valuable player award to Michael Jordan. And then Michael Jordan went on to continue to win just about everything imaginable. OK, that was May 20th, 1991.

May 20th, 2018. Shout out to the Vegas Golden Knights. I mean, this was a expansion franchise. They beat the Winnipeg Jets two to one in Game five of the Western Conference Finals.

This is a team in its inaugural season who went on to the finals. People like, how? What?

Listen to this. Here's Stastny hit by Marcia, so slightly to the puck. Time winding down. A crazy situation, unfortunately for them in their first year, they lost to the Washington Capitals four games to one, but they did go out there and beat the Florida Panthers a couple of seasons ago. I think about, yeah, two years ago, the Golden Knights picking up a victory. That's still a hell of a turnaround for an expansion franchise.

And those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. Hey, as it stands right now, I told you the Timberwolves lead the Thunder 48 to 44. J. Gilgas Alexander leading the way for OKC with 11 points, but just on a terrible shooting performance, two of 13 from the field. Isaiah Hartenstein has 10 and Anthony Edwards, who looked like he had some ankle issues and ran back out 13 points.

He is three or seven from shooting. So the two stars with a few issues that they need and want to correct, whether it's injury or shooting as we move here in the second half are definitely needed for both of these superstars. Julius Randle really leading the way, picking up the slack from Minnesota.

Randle with 20 points here in the first half. We got plenty to discuss tomorrow, especially with a new top six list. I want to give a big thank you to our guests who joined us last hour. Jonathan Von Tobel, host of Prime Time on Vison, for coming through to talk some hoops with us. You can find me online everywhere at JR Sport Brief. Thank you so much to our producer, Ray Jarvis. Ray, where can people find you, man? You guys can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at JarvTGA, J-A-R-V-T-G-A.

Follow me there. We could tap out. Hey, Jarvis, appreciate you coming through to hold things down. Uh, man, Ray, you kicking me off already? Hey, man, it is what it is. They got too much Sports Brief in their system.

You got to give them a break. All right, I got to leave now. Don't worry. The JR Sport Brief show is done. Be back tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Don't move here on the Infinity Sports Network. Bart Winkler coming up next. Thank you for listening. Be safe, be well, be cool, be smooth.