The Best Words in Sports "“ GAME SEVEN (Hour 1)

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It's a ninety one. Hey, that game seven is going to take place on Sunday. Sunday, the Florida Panthers have their parade. And speaking of uh the Stanley Cup finals, the ratings when were not good. Not at all.

Kevin Durant is online fighting with Boogie Cousins. The Padres and Dodgers, they've been fighting, it seems like, all week. Sammy Salsa no longer fighting with the Cubs. They have kissed and made up. Big Poppy might be fighting with Rafael Devers?

What? Shador Sanders is fighting to save his reputation. Caitlin Clark, it seems like everybody wants to fight her. Angel Reese is making money off of the term mebounds. We got the Friday funny at the end of the show.

We got a few things that took place this day in sports history at the end of the show. We got a lot to get into. If you want to be a part of the show, it's simple. 888-710-45. 4ISN is the number.

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Sport Brief. Yeah, find me online at Share Sport Break. Uh Our producer, Ryan Botcher. How the hell you doing on this Friday? You good?

I'm doing great actually. It's very f very rare that I get out of the subway and not have to sprint to watch the ending of a finals game. And this one was. Crazy as a blowout. You feel great because you saw the end of a blowout yesterday?

No, I feel great because usually it's like I run out of the subway looking like an idiot with my phone and my earbuds in trying to watch it on ESPN or whatever it is. and it's just not loading and I look crazy when it's me getting frustrated. Oh, okay.

Alright. Uh It's been a while. Doesn't Subway have... Isn't it connected where you can watch things the whole way? No, there's still very, very bad signal.

Oh, in the tunnel, right? In the tunnel. Going from Manhattan to Queens is not good.

Okay. You only can have the uh only at the stops you have service. Yep.

Okay. What a world. It's that New York City life, no thanks. But I'm happy that you're great. That's all that matters to me.

I know everybody in Indiana feels great. Walked out of the studio yesterday, and it was an ass whooping last night. Shake Yogis Alexander, 21 points, 8 turnovers. Tyrese Halliburton did play 14 points, 5 assists. He didn't need to go out there and score.

Obi Toppin led the Pacers with 20 points. Nemhard woke up and had 17. Siakam had 16. Pacers just move the rock around. This is really one of those games where everybody just woke up, at least from the Oklahoma City Thunderside, and just said.

You know what? Yeah. Let's just let let's just try to win, kinda. Like, we got our backs aren't up against the wall. We got two chances to do this.

And if we lose, we just go back home and try to finish them off there. I think that was the approach of OKC. They Sucked. The game. Yeah.

Sitting here in the studio watching it sucked. Leaving after the end, just thinking about what we saw was garbage. And I was like, okay. But this is what we wanted, right? I didn't expect.

Three games. I did not expect. seven games, I thought that we would be done. And six Macs. I thought that OKC was gonna handle the pacers yesterday.

and just send em packing. But it's human nature. He's just like, oh, well, I think we got it in the bag, and you're a little relaxed, and you don't take advantage of what you need to. And the next thing you know, you lose. That's just What it Is Cher Gilgis Alexander knows they suck.

Mark Dagno knows they sunk. Jalen Williams, he sucked. They all sucked. Listen, Jalen Williams, tell me what we don't already know. He said our defense stock.

Yeah, I know. Our defense wasn't very good. And when you're constantly taking the ball out and you're playing against a set defense over and over again. That's part of it, other part. We didn't do a good job trusting each other to make the next play.

Um like we did game five, so we'll look at some things. Obviously they made a couple adjustments, so we'll look at that too, but. A lot of it was, yeah, just not trusting each other to make the right plays, and that starts with me. Being better.

Well, he went from a playoff career, high 40 points. He had 16 points last night. O of four. From downtown. Hey, let's continue on before we talk about some positive things.

Let's listen to more people who say that they suck. Mark Dagnall. The head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder said, Yeah, I know. We suck. The offense was terrible.

Obviously it was a very poor performance by us, but there's two teams up there. I want to give Indiana credit for the way they defended, the way they competed in the game, the way they played all the way around. They had a lot to do with it. And there was stuff that I thought we could have controlled that could have been better.

So we have to own that. We'll look at it. We'll learn from it like we always do. And then we've got to obviously be much better going into game seven. Uh huh, game seven.

Yeah they they can't be as bad as they were yesterday, right? Like, there's no way in hell they're going to enter into the game, a game seven, on their home court. Down by like 20 points at halftime. Like, that ain't happening. But you know, let's let's complete The trifecta.

We heard from Jalen Williams, we heard from Mark Dagnalt.

Now, let's listen to the MVP of the team. Let's listen to the MVP of the NBA. Let's listen to Mr. 8 turnovers himself. Sheikh Gilgis Alexander tell us what we already know.

They sucked. The way I see it is We suck tonight with the learner lessons. Um and we have one game. for everything, for everything we've worked for. And so do they, and uh the better team Sunday will win.

Yeah, the better team sign well, yeah, we they will. I'm not going to keep anybody in suspense. I've been saying it before the series started. I think the Oklahoma City Thunder are going to win the NBA Finals, okay? And if the pacers went, and God bless Tyrese Halliburton running around on that bum leg, where he found some juice in it.

Whatever treatment they gave him worked, You know, I don't know, five people rubbing on his leg. Maybe they gave him a shot. Here's a pill. They strapped him up to Normatec. I don't know what they did for this guy.

probably got round the clock treatment. Like feels good. And now he's going to have a couple of days, Friday and Saturday. to recuperate. This should Be fun Well, for him at least.

He turned things around. He wasn't thought to have been playing in this game. And he showed up. Tyrese Halliburton, 14.5 assists, he said Yeah, if I think that I was gonna suck and I couldn't play, I would have sat my behind on the bench. Had to have honest conversation with uh coach that you know, if I didn't look like myself and you know was hurting the team, like Sit me down.

Like, that's obviously, I want to be on the floor, but I want to win, you know, more than anything.

So I just had to have an honest conversation with coach. But yeah, I just I want to be on the floor and i if I uh have the ability to, if I can like I said, if I can walk, then I want to be out there. If I can walk out, I didn't doubt that the guy was going to play. I think most people felt that he was going to go out there and at least try. And he did.

He played 14.5 assists. It's not no, you know, 18, 10 type game. This is not. Looking at his season averages, he didn't have to knock down a ridiculous game winner like he's done all throughout the NBA playoffs. But you got to give Tyrese Halliburton credit.

And I don't think there are going to be any issues with him physically by the time we get. That's a Sunday. 888-710-4ISN is the number. That's 888-710-4. 4ISN.

Willie is calling from Arizona. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Willie?

Okay. Now doing, JR? First time caller, baby. Thank you so much. What's up with you?

What's on your mind? You know what? Um I called yesterday at two point fourteen in the morning To Mr. Pat Boyle and And I told him. If Mr.

Nemhard turns it on and defense, as well as I. Offense that they were going to. They're gonna game win it and they're getting the momentum. For game seven to win it all.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to disagree with that. Of course, you need other guys to step up when your star player Halliburton is hurt. Momentum, I'm not so sure. I mean, when you go into a winner-take-all, it's not like the Pacers were down 3-0 and now they've won three straight games.

I don't know if the momentum is on anybody's side. I would just say that at this point, the Oklahoma City Thunder, they're the ones who have. They got they got Home court advantage right now, Willie.

So I'm going to lean towards the thunder. You telling me you think the pacers are going to win? Do you know why? To me, momentum is everything. Uh I have played soccer.

And plays basketball, and you know what? Momentum can take you. As far as uh and then it's a Yeah.

So momentum plus that, I get it, I think so.

Okay, all right. That was a long way to tell me the Pacers are going to win.

Well, hey, Willie, either way. Either way, let's have a talk about it on Monday, okay? Hey you Got it. All right, where you going? You s I all I hear is wind.

Where are you going? Oh my god. Yeah, that's my AC, man. Right now it's like one hundred and 15 out here. I gotta have my AC in my car.

Yeah, it sounds sounds normal, Willie.

Well, you stay hydrated, okay? You you getting hydrated with agua or cervesas? Uh you know what Uh actually a diet. A diet.

Okay, I diet. I'm in I'm inside my car, so I'm good. Oh, no, I'm not. I don't. I hope you're not drinking a beer while you're driving.

I'm not advocating for that. But whatever you do this weekend, enjoy the game, okay? Hey, buddy. Thank you. Great calling.

Great. Hey, call call back on Monday, Willie. Thank you for calling from Arizona. Thank you so much. Willie from Arizona.

Yeah, I wasn't I wasn't advocating that the guy, uh You know, drink beer while he's driving his vehicle. I'm not doing that. Wherever you park your car at when you get out, are you having beer or are you having water? You got to be refreshed. It's a hundred and fifteen degrees outside, right?

That's nothing. That one fifteen is nothing. Wait until we get to I don't know. 130 degree temperatures on earth. Let me know how people feel about that one, okay?

Bacha, how much time we got on Earth before it's like 1:30 somewhere, huh? Let's say a couple thousand years. A couple thousand, you think? Consistently?

Well, not every day, bro.

Well, 130 happens sometimes, doesn't it? Yeah, like, yeah, like Death Valley in the middle of nowhere. I mean, where you can walk outside in Phoenix and it's just like, hey, bro, it's a heat wave.

Well, what is it? Like, it's just 130 for three days. I could say, like. Three weeks, four weeks for them. Because the summer just started today, technically.

No, it's not. You're saying three weeks from now? I'm just saying there's a heat wave coming next week for the Northeast. Oh my goodness. Don't worry about it.

Don't worry. We're going to hit that 97 next week. I I was asking when are we going to get 100? How many more years before we? It was not even a joke.

It was just an ass statement to say it's hot outside. The world is getting hotter. Imagine one day it's 130 degrees every day in a place like Phoenix, you know, for like three days in a row. Is it going to take five years, 10 years, 20 years, 100 years? Botcha.

You're thinking too hard.

Okay, fine. I think it's fine. It gets hot all over the place, Bach, okay? Got it, got it. It gets hot, it does.

It doesn't get one hundred and thirty degrees hot, okay? Most places. I'm not going into Death Valley. You know anybody who lives out there? Nope.

Not at all. And I don't think anyone wants to live out there. Do you know anybody who just lives like flat in the Sahara? I had to think about that one, no. Yeah, so here we go.

Let me know if you ever find anybody that just lives consistently in a hundred and thirty degree temps. And let me know what they look like, probably a raisin. It'd probably look like a raisin. Anyway, shout outs to everybody out there dealing with the heat. It's about to get hotter, I think, in a lot of places all over the country.

And so, yeah, go ahead. Get hydrated. Drink some water. Drink, I don't know, a Diet Coke. I'm not drinking a Diet Coke.

For all of that, just give me a beer. All right? 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. I'm looking forward to this.

Hey, Bacha, who do you think is winning? I got the thunder on Sunday at home. Wh who you roll 'em with? I would traditionally say the Thunder, but every time I think there's going to be a blowout and the Thunder are going to finish them off, the Pacers win.

So I'm going to ride the hot hand and go with the pacers.

Okay, all right, well we'll see what they do come Sunday. Whether or not all of these dudes who stepped up big time, TJ McConnell off the bench last night. with 12 points, OB topping with 20. Are they going to replicate the same production? On the road.

In a game seven. When the shots aren't falling. You gonna rebound? If you can't rebound, are you going to dive onto the floor? If you can't do that, are you going to get a necessary foul?

There's so many things down the line that you have to do. if you want to walk away with a victory. There is only one more game here. And Tyrese Halliburton? The Pacers forcing a game seven.

He says, You know what? Yeah, we won game six. yet we extended our season. None of it matters. if we don't get the job done.

What's happened in the past doesn't matter. What happened today doesn't matter. It's all about one game and approaching that the right way.

So everybody's got to take care of their bodies. Good couple of film sessions, you know, good preparation, you know, to get ready for that and let the cards fall where they may. Yeah, this is this is gonna be fun. We haven't had like a a game seven since I believe twenty sixteen. It's been a while.

been about a decade. Game seven, Sunday night. I'm looking I'm mad, I gotta wait until Sunday night. Screw me. I'm like, I want to watch the basketball game at 4:30, get it over with, and go to sleep.

I want to be sitting around on Sunday night late at night watchin' end of the game and Think it about Monday? Just give me basketball in the afternoon. Bring it back that way. The Florida Panthers can have a stupid parade on Sunday at noon, and we're going to have a basketball game. In the afternoon, we certainly can't.

It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We got so much to get into, so much to discuss. We got Andrew Schlecht, who's going to join us to talk some NBA hoops. We'll take a look at this series as Andrew will join us in about two hours from now. We'll talk about Caitlin Clark since we are on the subject of.

Indianapolis. I don't know if Caitlin Clark is on like a little bit of a heel turn, but People are getting fired for supporting her. Things are wild out there. Sammy Sulsa is back with the Cubs, the Dodgers, and the Padres, they hate each other. Angel Reese is criticized, and she's like, screw y'all, I'm going to make my money.

We're going to do the Friday funny. We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. Raphael Devers. He's going to be taking on the Red Sox this weekend. Starting tonight, sounds like a lot of fun.

The number, again, 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. When we come back on the other side, I'm going to tell you about the Stanley Cup finals. Oh yeah, it's done, it's over. The Florida Panthers won.

They beat Edmondson again. I just told you about the parade. But I got to tell you that uh unfortunately it appears that not a lot of people watched. We'll talk about that on the other side. We got so much to do here on the Infinity Sports Network's, the JR Sport Brief Show.

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That's 888. Seven ten. Four I S N Right before we went to break, we talked about the NBA Finals. We got our game seven. It's kind of crazy.

We got the NBA Finals going longer than the NHL Stanley Cup. I thought that that was going to go seven games, and here we got. of the NBA, they're the ones that are stretching things out. Finals won't be done until Sunday. It was two nights ago already on Wednesday.

That we had the Florida Panthers go out there and defeat the Edmonds and Oilers for the second consecutive season. But this is the uh This was the uh I don't want to say the bad part about things. This is the unfortunate aspect. There weren't a lot of people who watched the Stanley Cup finals. Let me not even say that.

There were less people. who watched the Stanley Cup finals this year, than in years past, a matter of fact. The ratings were down thirty three percent. From last year.

So just the the clin the game clincher this past Wednesday It was the lowest. Game Six rating Since 1994 when we had the Canucks. and arrangers. I mean for the entire series. It averaged 2.8 million.

Viewers. And you would think with all the scoring That there'd be a lot of excitement surrounding the Stanley Cup, that people would be tuning in casually. because it's the championship. This is a rematch from last year. You thought that more people would be interested.

But the answer is Is is no. And I guess we can pretty much apply the same theory against across the board for everybody and everything except for the NFL. Including the NBA in this. People always want to bemoan the NBA and its ratings. It's just like, well, there's a crap ton of people online.

who are consuming basketball that don't necessarily have to watch forty eight minutes of the game, you know, on a a cable box or streaming. I guess those people don't matter. I digress. I think the NHL is fine, right? Right?

I mean, everybody is watching things in a different way. I don't think the the NHL has the the same You know, social media power or reach of the NBA, or not, certainly not. of the NFL But I would assume that their audience is pretty fragmented between digital usage and traditional television and streaming. Just as well. It just sucks because some of the scores that we had and the Stanley Cup were were amazing.

Like, you couldn't, you can't make.

Some of this stuff is like every match, every score was just like: here's six goals, here's six goals. And so if we go back. Just to game one. We got seven goals in overtime. The next game, we had nine goals.

After that, seven. Nine. Yeah. And I said two days ago is when things ended. No.

It was Tuesday. Time flies when you're having fun. The Panthers beat the Oilers five to one. He's some good matchups to watch. Botcher, why do you think these ratings are lower than last year?

You would think people would be interested in seeing a rematch. I think, isn't this the first year it's on TNT? For the final? I think that might have been an issue, just like trying to find the games for certain people. And I don't know, tha maybe people don't want to see back to back rematches for for hockey compared to other sports.

Why would that be? Why would that fail? To be fair, the casual hockey fans are not going to know off the top of their head the storylines that are going on in the NHL. They're not going to know that Ta-Chuck was playing through injury. They're not going to know all of that.

So, how are they going to remember that? It was them last year and it was a three-year comeback that they almost won the Oilers. Oh, yeah, I mean a a casual fan, you're right about that, but A rematch? The storyline kind of writes itself. I don't what What would have been, is there any matchup that was sucking a casual fan?

What would be the most intriguing matchup? I couldn't even say one exists. I would have said the maple leaves would probably rally the entirety of Canada. Very sure. I don't know, a vetchkin?

That would have probably been, but that's the same conference, so I think that would have worked, but still. Oh, the East? You're right about that. Yeah. But it'd have to be the Maple Leaves versus what?

The Knights or something like that? Probably. Los Angeles, uh, maybe. I guess I guess I don't know. I I I find hockey to be in the same space as baseball.

Very Very Regional. It's that like you care about the team that's in your area. Uh we we had Gary Bettman, who is the commissioner of the NHL. He pretty much said that we, as the NHL, probably need to do a better job. when we negotiate our television contracts in in trying to be More of a national brand, and what that means is highlighting a lot of your stars consistently.

all over the country. Yeah, I Yeah. Baseball is spread so damn thin. They're everywhere. They're like crap that you threw against the wall, it's just all over the place.

The NHL is no different. It's like, where the hell am I watching hockey? I mean, they complain, and now they're no longer there. They're like, oh, well, we're not even on ESPN. Oh, now we're on TNT.

Well, where can we find you? Ain't no damn there is I no disrespect. We got spring football. On national television. I could turn on a T V in in April.

On a Saturday afternoon, I don't know, at 1 p.m. And there's a bunch of guys running around in an empty stadium playing football that I've never seen in my life before. There's no damn hockey. Bacha, they don't, I hate, and this is, I do hate this. I hate the fact.

And this is what it is. It's where we live. And if there was an interest there, it would certainly be nationally televised. It sucks. That you ought to pay to watch the Stanley Cup finals.

Like, what are we doing? Yeah. that's I guess it's not a big enough sport, so you can't really Blame them where they're getting their money. But it of course you want to see the most on non-cable. What do you mean, can't blame them for where they're getting their money?

Yeah, they're signed the contract. They want to make the money with the deal with TNT and Turner. Don't blame them. Yeah, I don't I don't blame him either. But it it stinks That but that's a part of you have to have a lead up to marketing.

You know, you have to actually market the stars. I think it's terrible. I can understand anybody. taking money, but you have to be strategic about it. You know, Major League Baseball is just like, we'll take money from Roku.

Let Roku play our game.

Well, that might be smart in one degree. Because Roku is certainly in a lot of households now. People got Roku boxes instead of cable boxes. I get and understand that. Uh but Major League Baseball will take money from Roku.

And then they'll take money from Apple for a Friday night. And then they'll be like, Yeah, let's keep the Saturday afternoon on Fox. And it's just. It's too much. There comes a point in time where you you gotta be smart and and consolidate.

Like everybody knows the world is going towards streaming. And so just you're just taking money is nuts. And yeah, you got to pay for that. I gotta pay for electricity to watch TV. I gotta pay for a cable box.

I gotta pay for this. I gotta pay for this subscription. I I just think hockey can They could do a better job marketing their stars. But hey, hockey in America. It's a it's a niche sport.

It is. You got to be a diehard. You really got to be interested. Nobody's just going to wake up and go, hey, you know, oh. I got hockey tickets, I'm just gonna show up.

It's not like, hey, um come to the NFL game or just come hang out at a basketball game. But there's just there's so much More entertainment. Let's listen to Gary Bettman. This is a couple of weeks ago, a huge chat with Bloomberg about the playoff viewership that now we know has declined, like everything in the world. Actually, on a North American basis, which is how we look at these things, because we're a little bit different than baseball, basketball, and football, because seven of our 32 teams are in Canada and they don't show up in U.S.

ratings. But when you look at North America as a whole, we're about flat. And you have to take into account that this may be the first time in the history of the NHL. where none of the four original six US teams were in the playoffs.

So it's a little bit of apples and oranges, but when you look at it on a North American basis, it's fine. When you look at, for example, Game Seven in last year's Stanley Cup final, which was, this is a redo this year, Edmonton and Florida, I think we drew 16 or 17 million fans. North American wide, and I think we had about 9 million Uh in the United States and the final game of Four Nations was at about the same level. And so our our ratings are strong. We tend to be a little bit variable.

But don't just look at the US. Man, when you gotta talk that much, you just explaining away nothing. Like, man, they started. Marco, you heard that? They started cutting him off.

They're like, man, we got to get out of here, man. Stop rambling. He got the Oscar music. That's what he got. He's being a lawyer.

Like, the ratings are down, the ratings are down. It's a lawyer and being having the art of saying nothing. That's what he was doing there. And that's basically what it is. When you have no answer, you ramble and you go all over the place, and that's what everybody does because they don't want to answer the straight question, which is, you're right, it is down.

Yeah, and then those six original NHL teams that Gary Bettman mentioned. You got the Boston Bruins, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens. The New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. This is my thoughts. I don't think any of those teams would have made a difference when it came down to the ratings.

I mean, outside of looking at the market size. Whatever, okay? It's uh everything is down. Ratings are down. Looking at television ratings, uh to calculate this or that and throwing in streaming.

It's a complex art right now. I wouldn't want to be anybody measuring anybody's viewing habits. I mean, What are we going to do? Look at, we're going to throw in TikTok? What are we doing here?

Look, all this stuff is getting more and more confusing, but didn't they kind of like add in the streaming with Nielsen to try to be able to figure out some of the ratings? Because they, look, the ratings itself were complicated before. When you had six channels, it made no sense how the Nielsen kind of did what they did. But they're adding in the streaming now. They're trying to figure out what the hell people are watching.

And it's still, it's just a convoluted system, but it's what we have. And You have to rate. Like, that's just, that's what it is. We have to figure it out. Wouldn't you say?

And uh now in streaming. How many people are stealing the content?

So view it. Half. Let's think about this. Exactly. If we think about game seven on Sunday night.

And granted, it's it's nationally televised. How many people don't even have a traditional antenna in their house just to get over the air? I don't know. Almost 50% now, it feels like, right? Right?

Like, you don't, and I don't even know our TVs, do they have antennas built in to catch over the air? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't think so either, but I don't know that. Let me tell you, man, I got a T V in my house with a small antenna in the back.

And it was by luck that I had it. Marco, you love this. This is from the 80s, Marco. It's an RF UHF adapter. that I have plugged into a a fancy T V in my house.

And by that, it catches the over-the-air signal. It's almost like an accident, yes. That is an accident, I think, because there's no more antennas on houses or roofs or anywhere. Like, you're not supposed to get it. But we still have signal via antenna, yes, that exists.

And so my old adapter. From our old bots T V Is in the back to the screwed into the coax and it catches over-the-air signal. Damn, you got the Nintendo hooked up in there too, or no? I know that's in another room. The cartridges don't work anymore.

No, I blow on them. No, no, they're done. They you know, the cartridges have batteries in there. They got batteries. They do.

Is that what that thing was? A shelf life, bro. Is that what we were blowing on? The batteries? No.

You blew the dust off of the cartridge, but the cartridge has. The cartridge has a battery in it. And so you can play the game. But the memory in the actual cartridge is done. Oh, okay.

So you can't save your progress, but you can play the game itself. No, you can't.

So if you're playing Mario Brothers. Forget about it. You're starting on level one, world one, every single time. You know what? Put a day aside.

A day unstopped. A day?

Well, Bacha, how long would that you played Mario 1, Bacha? The original? Yes. On like a computer, yeah. Not on like a traditional.

Come on. Yeah. Come on. Like 20 years before he was born. That was when Super Mario Bros.

for the DS came out in the Wii, and that was huge. Oh, man. I don't know. The DS was their handheld one, right? That was huge.

Was that 20 years ago? It's got to be close to it. Yeah, no, I'm talking about 45 years ago.

Okay. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Um Marco Man. A day, you could do it in a day.

Like non-stop consecutive from 6 a.m. to 6 a.m. the next day, you could do Mario. I might. Yeah.

I might damn I might I don't know Damn. My my playing days, I don't know if I I don't know if my hands would be able to handle that That square. Yeah, I don't know. I think my hands would give out after a while. I think my brain would go to motion.

You think about how they took those controllers, those things with perfect squares, all of a sudden now they were ergonomically fit for your hand. Like, look at that controller and look at the controller from a PlayStation, right? Yeah, they didn't care if we were okay or not. No, everybody just had carpal tunnel. Yeah, you got carpal tunnel, not my problem.

There's two buttons. Figure it out. Yeah, I appreciated that. A whole lot easier to go A and B versus all this crap that we got now. No thanks.

Decline. Anyway, it's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN. There you go. The NHL, they can improve ratings by.

Throwing it on the new Nintendo system that just came out, that I only found out about. Uh last week. What am I on? It's the JR Sport reshow. We come back.

We'll talk about Kevin Durant. We'll get into the Dodgers and Padres. They hate each other's guts. Sammy Sulsa, no longer hating Chicago and the Cubs, they love him. But right now, it's time for a news flash with Marco Belletti.

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And before we went to break we talked business, we talked numbers, we talked money. And talk marketing. We talked about these uh these ratings for the NHL Stanley Cup finals that That fell They averaged about two and a half to three million viewers each game. It's like, hey, they want to grow. They got to start marketing their players.

You got to get them out front. And I get it, a lot of hockey players are like, hey, I play hockey, I'm not out here. Or trying to be a fashion icon, a A business tycoon and whatnot, but you have to identify the stars and the individuals that do have personalities, and you have to sell them. to the country, if you want to continue to grow and not be considered a niche or A local sport. And so, anyway, we'll see what happens during the parade on Sunday.

A lot of people will be tuned in and locked into that, probably just only down. In South Florida. But speaking of money, Well, this is big money. This is Oil Money. Kevin Durant is investing.

and out has a portion of Paris Saint German. And that's P S G. all my soccer fans and football fans out there. And so Kevin Durant already had a piece of the Philadelphia Union. And now he's picking up There's some out in this big team in Paris.

And if you're not familiar, this is like. At PSG not too long ago they had uh They had akin to what Kevin Durand is going through right now. They slapped together three stars: Mbappe and. And Namar And then also Messi. before he came here to the States to play for Miami, And they stomped.

They were all hurt and busted up and old. When Bape's not old, Neymar busted up, messy old. But anyway, it didn't work out. And PSG is doing better now. And so Kevin Durant is now going to have a stake.

NPSG, which is owned by Qatar Sports Investments. They've had the team for about 15 years.

Something that the NBA and NFL are all trying to avoid. is outside oil money coming in to just snatch up. All of our local teams.

So, good luck to Kevin Durant. And this venture, this man is continuing to go out there and get him some money. At the same time, Kevin Durant is also very, very active. On social media. And why is he active again?

He's responding to some comments made. By DeMarcus Cousins. Like, you can't find anything better to respond to. Isn't it the same guy that was fighting a guy in Puerto Rico trying to beat up all the fans last week? Anyway, DeMarcus Cousins was on the Run It Back podcast because he wasn't beating up fans at a basketball game.

And he said that the Phoenix Suns The super team that I just told you stunk last year with Beale and Booker and Durant. He said that they were actually having physical fist fights in the locker room. Like I said, it just was never meant. success.

So even through all the chaos that happened in Phoenix, and it was a lot of things that happened, it was a lot of things that haven't been reported. I don't want to be the guy to report it, but I've definitely heard of some of the negative things in the locker room. It was a couple of fist fights. It was a lot going on that obviously carries over into the court.

So uh You know, for him to be the, you know, the so-called blame of the negative seasons they've had, I think it's completely unfair. Hold on, hold on. Roogie, are you saying there were fist fights in the Suns locker room amongst the Suns? Absolutely. Not a myth.

I don't want to have to be the guy to report this. But I'm gonna say this anyway. Why you open up your mouth? And of course Kevin Durant responded where else on Twitter on X. He says I have to contest this ninety four footer.

Yeah, he'll marry. This is some BS to throw on us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were trash this year. Ha ha ha.

But we never got close to this. Never. Kevin Durant says, We weren't fighting in the locker room. And I think if they were fighting in the locker room, we would have heard about this. a long time ago, I gotta be honest.

DeMarcus Cousins replied. Of course. The source Was one of your teammates? And I wasn't referring to you. Save this crap for the others.

Oh, here we go. What is the Boncha's DeMarcus Cousins ever happy? He just wants to fight everybody? Uh that's that's always been him though.

So I feel like if he's not fighting, there's an issue. You got he wants to fight Kevin Durant now?

Well, they were teammates.

So maybe they they had some beef in twenty nineteen? Oh my god. Oh. Just Uh well what The guy wants to fight people in Puerto Rico, wants to fight people back in the NBA. You want to do everything yourself or lose weight.

Anyway, uh Kevin Durant responded because that's what you do on the internet, right? He says Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa I don't want no problems with you or anybody on earth. I promise. All I'm saying is your source is lying. And there we have it.

And I got to be honest, Demarcus Cousins. I don't want to be the one to report this, but I'm going to report this and say this. Why open up your mouth anyway? We know the Phoenix Suns suck. They only won 36 games this season.

Thirty six games. You would have told me a team with Devon, Booker, Bradley Beale and Durant won thirty six games. I go, Who got hurt? And what was around him? Probably bums 'cause you gotta pay to three of these guys.

Kevin Durant doesn't have to worry about it. He's going to be out the door and gone.

sooner than later. Apparently Kevin Durant might get moved as soon as as next week. And I mean, in his world, I guess it'd be a possibility. Maybe one day he goes and he won't. He plays basketball in Paris.

Want to go meddle in Paris, now owns a part of a Parisian football club, one of the biggest soccer clubs on planet Earth, PSG. Yeah, Kevin Durant is just he's just winning. This week is PSG.

Next week it could be the Rockets, it could be the heat. I don't know, maybe he changes his mind and says it could be Minnesota. But I I commend Kevin Durant. A lot of times he's talking crap to people online. Today, Kevin Durant was just like, I'm gonna show love.

Well to at least let DeMarcus Cousins know that I don't I don't want to fight you. DeMarcus Cousins wants to fight everybody. He should just. Go learn how to be an MMA fighter. Go learn that instead.

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There's gonna be a lot of fighting. We've seen a lot of fighting. The Dodgers and the Padres. Hate each other. They were trying to hurt the Shohei Otani.

They were trying to hurt Tatisse. Baseball needs more fighting, I said it. The JR Sport reshow on the Infinity Sports Network Dumbo.