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Eastern 3 Pacific. We've already been hanging out for an hour. Where have you been? We talked about the New York Knicks actually holding a press conference. They don't do these things.
Why? I don't know. Because they're paranoid.
Well, I guess I do know. They held a press conference or their new head coach. Mike Brown. We had a press conference, a lot of them today, Big Twelve Media Day. We heard from the Commissioner of the Big Twelve Brett Yermark as he is still pushing.
It's five and eleven. Proposal for the college football playoff. This man He wants to see the best conference champions moving forward in the playoff. And then the next 11 best ranked teams. No special treatment for the Big Ten and the SEC.
We heard from Urban Meyer. I guess he wanted a pat on the back. He said, Yeah, people offered me a job to be a general manager. I'm like, Who are you lying about?
Okay. Anyway, we got so much more to get into. I just told you about the New York Knicks. Christian Winfield covers the New York Knicks for the New York Daily News. He'll be here with us in about 20 minutes.
And we also have a lot going on. in London.
Okay, we have Wimbledon. The tennis tournament is still going on. And we got Gil Gross, who's going to join us from the tennis channel. And then we have um We have an American. who's active on the men's side.
And he has a famous girlfriend who's not happy with some of the coverage. Her name is Trinity Rodman. Yeah.
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Now I told you that we have some angry quarterbacks in the world. I'll get into that. in the second. I told you that we have someone who's being very smart. and not to the surprise of anybody, It's Nikola Jokic.
She is being very, very smart. We got news about thirty minutes ago. that Nikola Yokich is eligible to sign a contract extension with the Denver Nuggets. We've seen the Denver Nuggets make some solid moves this off season, bettering the team. Bringing in guys like Bruce Brown, who Helped win a championship with the Denver Nuggets, swapping out Cam Johnson.
And for Michael Porter Jr. Maybe Jonas Valentunis will actually show up to work. He actually spoke to the media today. In Lithuania, gave some vague answers. We don't know what the heck this guy is going to do.
But we do have an answer, apparently, from Jokic. He's not going to sign a contract extension in 2025. He is going to wait until it is 2026. If he signs an extension this year, He can get a $212 million contract over three years. If he waits until next year, He can sign a deal.
Worth two hundred and ninety two million dollars.
Now Let's do some simple math here. Doesn't take a rocket scientist. two nine B two Seems rather simple of a decision to make. And there'll be people running around going, Oh, well, he's not committed to the team. Oh, Jokic is not, man.
This is not Jonas Valentunis. Jokic is going to play basketball in the USA. Until he's done. It might be his last contract. I I don't see him as a guy sticking around you know, for the until he's forty years old.
About 30 years old right now. I think Jokic is gonna try to win a few more championships and then just leave. We will probably never hear from this guy again. Hall of Fame's speech will be all of five minutes. And he's gonna say, I'm going back home to be with my damn horses.
So, uh Nikola Jokic, a smart man. What else is new there? Uh now I did tell you about some miserable men. Why they are miserable I have no idea. Maybe they're missing how the real world works.
Maybe they're insulated being in the NFL world. It still strikes me. That here we are in 2025. And we still have some players, we still have athletes, we have individuals in the world of sports. who think loyalty exists somewhere.
Wh where the heck are they? And so we have this series. It's the second season of quarterback on Netflix. And so it actually debuted early this morning, today, And so as a result, we've gotten a few more clips out of the show. And a few of the quarterbacks who are highlighted Kirk Cousins, you got Jared Goff, and then you have Joe Burrow.
Now, in seeing some of these clips, I haven't watched the full episode today as of yet. I'll probably try and watch it. Uh later on today. We knew some of the storylines as cameras followed these guys around. all of last season.
We know how Kirk Cousins' season ended.
Well, he got benched. He's then told everybody he was hurt. We also know prior to the season even starting, Well, Michael Pennix Jr. was drafted right after he received a four-year $180 million contract. Jared Goff, Well, we know how his season ended.
Well, the Detroit Lions got smoked by Washington 45-31. And then he had the temerity to go out there. and throw three interceptions in addition to a fumble. And so now that we have this series out, Kirk Cousins tells everybody that he felt misled when he signed his contract with Atlanta. And Jared Goff, it's already been a few years since he's been a Detroit line.
It's basically rejuvenated his career. Jared Goff says he feels betrayed. And and both of these these concepts and ideas are just Ridiculous to me.
So we know Kirk Cousins. Like I just said, four-year, $180 million contract. He said the only reason why he left Minnesota is basically they offered him a deal, that was just going to be, you know, kind of one-year contracts. As they tried to move on from him, they brought in ultimately they were going to get J.J. McCarthy.
And so that's why he went to Atlanta. He wanted security, he wanted to be the starter. And then he told Netflix, he's like, listen. I would have never left if I knew they were going to treat me like this. Listen to Kirk Cousins.
And I'm signing with Atlanta and was pretty excited about the chance to get down there and start fresh. And then, you know, was pretty surprised when the NFL draft happened. With the eighth pick. In the 2024 NFL draft. The Atlanta Falcons select Michael Fowle Jr.
Well, there it is. Why? That is the first surprise of the NFL draft to say the least. And he is going to the place that just made a very expensive investment in a veteran quarterback. Wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback so high.
At the time, it felt like I had been a little bit misled, or certainly if I had the information around free agency, it certainly would have affected my decision. I had no reason to leave Minnesota. with how much we loved it there, if both teams are going to be drafting a quarterback high. But I've also learned in twelve years in this league that you're not entitled to anything. It's all about being able to earn your spot and prove yourself.
Ah, man He felt he felt misled. At least he said at the end, if I learned anything in this league. If there's something else that Kirk Cousins has learned in the league, it's It's how to make money, okay? He might be sitting on a four-year, $180 million contract now. He might very well be the highest paid backup quarterback ever.
in a few months, or unless he gets offloaded, sent somewhere else. Kirk Cousins has made almost $300 million.
Now, the Falcons, I still think they're dumb for bringing both of these guys on. Why create the controversy? You bring on a cheaper veteran? But look, it's not my money, it's Arthur Blank's money. I still think the decision was pretty ridiculous.
I think the Falcons overplayed their hand and Now they got to pay two quarterbacks. Let's see if they can offload. Kirk Cousins. But, man, you getting. one hundred and eighty mel.
I wouldn't feel misled about nothing. This is the nature of the beast. This is the nature of the business. Ain't nobody your friend. Nobody owes you a pat on the back and tells you anything.
The Falcons are going to pay you. Don't feel misled. The check still shows up throughout the course of the season, and Kirk Cousins isn't the only guy. Who felt bamboozled, misled, led astray, Jardgoff felt the same way when the The Rams shipped him out to the Lions. And yeah, we knew that this wasn't necessarily going to be the greatest thing for him.
I thought he was being shipped. It's a quarterback Siberia. And this was a great culmination of many things. You got Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator. You got old Gambling Dan as the head coach.
If things have worked out for him in a good way, But thinking about the move from the Rams to the Lions, Even Jared Goff, he was feeling kind of hurt. Listen to this.
So 2020 season happens. Three weeks after the last game of the season, get a call from Sean. And really did not expect anything. He lets me know, you know, they're trading me to Detroit, and I'm kind of like, oh, whoa, okay, all right. what the hell, you know, what what what's happening?
I would say about Okay. 30 seconds after that phone call, uh it was on Twitter. It is monster news, a blockbuster trade in the NFL. Lions have traded quarterback Matthew Stafford to the Rams. I don't know if Jared Goff going to the Lions is going to make him better.
In fact, the Lions aren't very good. And compared to the Rams, it's not even close. You feel like you've been betrayed or like you're not wanted. And I think for me, ultimately, it was the fact that there wasn't a conversation had and that there wasn't like a Hey, we're thinking about moving on, type of thing. There was nothing.
You know, you wish that it wasn't such a blind side, and you wish that there was some sort of. Um Maturity, I guess, to have that conversation and to be able to. Let me know what's going on and how things went down and why this is happening. Betrayed? Betrayed?
This man has made about a quarter billion dollars. In the NFL. since he was selected number one overall. in twenty sixteen. Like, go talk to Sean McVay.
Why didn't you ask him when he said you were traded? Did you have no further word with him? I'm sure Sean McVay kept it short. But I know he was also sick of your turnovers. Maybe that's why.
I think it's kinda clear. This is the nature of sports. You sign a contract, unless you have an O-trade clause, you know you can be moved. As simple as that. Like, it's kind of crazy.
You got these dudes that are making all this damn money. There's no loyalty. These teams don't owe you anything except for what is on the piece of paper. That's it.
So to hear Jared Goff, who's made a quarter billion dollars, Say that he felt betrayed from the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams didn't owe you nothing. You were there with them when y'all went to the Super Bowl, and eventually we saw Sean McVay was sick of you. They didn't owe you nothing but what they paid you. And in Kirk Cousins' case, Yeah, highly unusual for the Falcons to do what they did.
But you've been paid more money. than just about anybody who's ever played the damn game. Kirk Cousins has to be at or around top five. When it comes to a cumulative paychecks and money that they have earned. as a member of the NFL.
Kirk Cousins feels misled. Jared Goff feels betrayed. Those bank accounts. Don't show betrayal or being misled. And then we got another quarterback.
He might have a reason to be angry.
Okay. He's not mad about anything. Yeah He plays for the Bengals. He has plenty of reason to be mad. It's Joe Burrow.
We actually had a cool clip just of him being mad as a bangle, and I'm pretty sure this was quite frequent last year. as Joe Burrow would have been an MVP candidate or real one. If his team actually played some defense, 43 touchdowns last year, first in yards with 4,900. They played the Titans towards the end of the season. Playoff hopes were pretty thin.
The Bengals beat the Titans thirty seven to twenty seven. But if you want to hear someone who has a legit reason to be angry, It's Joe Burrow. Listen to this.
What the f ⁇ are we doing, man? Wake the f up! Fing metal mistakes all fing day! Way to finish the day. That's a great drive to finishing.
I know it's a frustrating, embarrassing performance by us. Embarrassment. Listen, we'll dress it. We'll dress it at the same time. Let's enjoy some f that.
F that. We sucked today. That was embarrassing. We jumped off sides f eight times. I know that.
I know that. He said we suck today. And Joe Burrow continued on. He's like, listen, man, if we suck, we suck. I'm not going to say anything different.
And yeah, that defense stunk last year. If they had a defense worth a damn. They be back in the playoffs, making some noise. I don't think things are going to change this upcoming season. For this team as well.
They still have to figure out what the heck is going on with Trey Hendrickson.
So, if you want to figure out a guy who should be mad and upset. It's Joke Burrow. This guy is going to a Super Bowl once. Hopefully he doesn't end up on the Dan Marino path and never goes again. And the ownership group is is cheap.
Well, the owner is cheap. He'll make you buy water he'll make your family buy water if you show up to his house. That's how cheap he is. And Joe Burrow also, poor guy, had to deal with getting robbed last year. I think he has more reason to be upset than both Kirk Cousins and Jared Goff.
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We are going to take a break when we come back on the other side. You want to talk about someone with a right to be angry? No. I don't think he's angry. We're going to have a chat with Christian Winfield.
He covers the New York Knicks. For the New York Daily News, Mike Brown was introduced as their new head coach today. What did Christian hear? What did he notice? And are we going to see a change or an improvement?
With the next high expectations, we'll have that chat with Christian on the other side. You're listening to the JR Sport Reef Show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, coast to coast. on the Infinity Sports Network.
We talked about some of the press conferences that took place earlier today. Big Twelve Media Day down in Texas, and then the New York Knicks holding a press conference to introduce their new head coach, Mike Brown. You know, Mike Brown has taken over for Tom Thibodeau, who helped lead the New York Knicks to the most success they've had in about twenty five years.
So Mike Brown, he spoke to the media. We heard some of his comments. But now we're going to speak to someone who was Right there as he was introduced. Joining us right now is someone who covers the New York Knicks. For the New York Daily News, it's Christian Winfield.
Christian, welcome back, man. How are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I just touched back down at the house after a long trek back from Tarrytown.
So. uh finally uh got back to to home base after And a uh an interesting press conference we'll we'll say. uh with the new Nick Seg coach.
So excited to uh to join you to talk about it.
Well, thank you. You say it was interesting. I had a chance to see it. There were some things that were said. There was praise of Tom Thibodeau from Mike Brown.
What were your impressions on what you heard today? You know, when I say interesting, I think more so interesting because of the things that were left unsaid. you know, especially when you're dealing with a team. last season that reached, you know, an Eastern Conference finals that won 50 plus games for the for the second year in a row. Uh, for a team that has so many pieces, so many interesting pieces on both ends, and the job of Mike Brown is to come in and find ways to maximize those pieces.
On both sides of the floor, around all questions regarding how he was going to do that, he didn't necessarily give a straightforward answer, which I thought. Was the most interesting part of the entire day.
Now, some of that he said. Was left to be worked on because he still has to put together his coaching staff, which is something that he said he's going to work. that he's excited to work and collaborate with Team President Leon Rose on But in terms of actually what he's going to do, what the offense is going to look like, what the defense is going to look like. You know, areas he thought that the team could improve from last year. Anything that, you know, could be tangible in terms of.
What to expect on the court from a product standpoint? We're very many answers, you know, which leaves you with more questions as you go into this offseason. We're really into training camp soon, and they've got time really to formulate a plan. You know, I believe that he has a play. He mentioned his vision multiple times.
He mentioned how excited he is for the challenge. And he also mentioned that, you know. The team is already and this is part of the allure and part of why there's so much pressure on this job as head coach of the Knicks. The team is already in a really good spot just based on the results that we saw on the floor yesterday. It's really just how do you optimize this group How do you get all your pieces to play to their best level on both ends of the floor?
And how do you make a deeper playoff run when you already reached heights that you haven't seen in the last quarter century, right?
So I think from an enthusiasm standpoint, from a basketball history standpoint, Mike Brown is a guy who's won everywhere. He's gone, and he's excited to do the same thing here in New York. But in terms of actual what it's going to look like, X's and O's. you know we we really don't have very many answers yet and uh i'm looking forward to the next time be it to be training camp be it preseason we actually see what it looks like because we know this team is going to play well we saw them play well with tom tibodeau we know that they're going to have more firepower off the bench which was a big issue for them last year uh but it's really how do you maximize these guys and how do you get them to kind of Play to a better level. We know what we saw last year.
We saw a lot of lack of ball movement on one end, we saw defensive. Miscues on the other end. And some of those miscues, we're not sure how you're going to cover for because some of those miscues have been player specific, right?
So, what's Mike Brown's approach going to be to fixing this defense? And what's his approach going to be to optimizing this offense? Those are the big questions. And unfortunately, even after a press conference where we asked them questions like this, We don't have answers for the big questions coming into this offseason.
Well, Christian, given the New York Knicks' history, I'm s overall I'm surprised you guys were even able to ask questions the way the Knicks behave.
Now, it has been said by the Knicks that they hired Mike Brown after a thorough search. We saw them fire Tom Thibodeau. And at that point, it was out there that they were trying to take other coaches from other teams, and then they landed on Mike Brown. Who ultimately was just let go by the Sacramento Kings? I know that he didn't want to discuss the past.
He wants to look forward to the future, but apparently he wasn't even their first choice, was he? Couldn't have been.
Well, I mean Great. I think everyone, just to use a practical example, everyone's first choice. uh at a at a significant other, it might be Rihanna. Right, but So that's just not possible sometimes.
Some people sometimes what you want is not It's not a tenable. Situations, right? You can't actually get it.
So you had to work within the bounds of what you could actually do, which is why the search was thorough because they went. Looking at other franchises and trying to poach those coaches, but obviously, when you have a good coach, you're gonna do whatever it is that you can to retain them, right? Once they get past that part of the search and you start to look at the names that are on the board. And you start to look at a guy like Mike Brown and his resume and the accolades and just what he's been able to accomplish over an extremely long body of work. He's been in the NBA.
For a very, very long time. And I asked them just about. You know, just how his views on basketball have evolved as the game has evolved. And he mentioned that, you know, when earlier in his career, he was coaching Tim Duncan and David Robinson when. All of basketball is kind of an inside-out game.
And then you fast forward a few years, and now he's with Steph and Clay and Kevin Durant and Draymond. You're playing five-out. And then a couple of years after that, he's got one of the fastest, most efficient offenses in all of basketball. with the Sacramento Kings. Then when you think about his championship run with the Cleveland Cavaliers, yes, you have LeBron, but that team was predicated largely on defense.
So this is a guy whose view of basketball has kind of evolved with the time. And this is also a guy who's just well accomplished in the league. We're talking about another two-time coach of the year. Talking about a guy who's made six NBA Finals appearances. He's either as an assistant or that one year when he took LeBron.
And a team, if we really think about that LeBron J's Cavaliers team, you had LeBron and you had a bunch of other guys who were really just feeding off of LeBron. There was Mike. Mike Brown's job to make that situation work and He turns that into an NBA Finals team. Obviously, LeBron, you could say he carried that team, but the coach plays a long role. a big role, excuse me, in in how far a team can go.
So Mike has proven a different stop that he can win. He's proven also at different stops that he's going to find ways to maximize the pieces that you give him. And the Knicks have given him more pieces now in terms of Jordan Clarkson and and Gershard Yabusele, but The pieces that are already there, the pieces that made up the core of this team, it's really, as I mentioned, even though we don't really have answers as to how he's going to do it, it's about maximizing the options that he has in front of him. He seemed real excited about. The idea of doing that in the weeks to come, of figuring out, and I guess getting to the drawing board and figuring out what it's gonna look like on the court.
In terms of on paper, and we were talking about the different candidates that were available. I know a lot of people were talking about Mike Malone because he won the title and there wasn't any real traction there. We saw the other guys that they were interviewing in terms of Taylor Jenkins and you see the Braun Stanley reports as well. When you're in a situation like this, And you're taking a 50-plus win team that just got to the conference finals, you want to get a sure thing. And just based on his track record, based on his history, McBran is as close as you're going to get to a short thing that's available on the market right now.
And to my understanding, that's why they made this decision. Nick's Beat Rider for the New York Daily News, Christian Winfield, is here with us on the JR Sport Re Show Coast to Coast. You talk about the coaching staff. We know that Rick Brunson was the associate coach right next to Tom Thibodeau. Is he going to be moved further down the bench?
And have we heard from any of the players as of yet?
Now that Mike Brown has officially been hired, we know Jalen was certainly a fan on keeping Tips. Yeah, uh no news on players in terms of You know how they've Where there, I guess, are in terms of Mike Brown being hired. But we know that Mike Brown has already started reaching out to some of the guys. We know Carl Anthony Towns was laughing at a post about Mike Brown on Twitter in terms of what it's going to be like when he's. He's coaching the Knicks.
So it appears that there's good vibes around the hire. In terms of the coaching staff, we know that that's something that's a work in progress. Not sure whether or not Rick Brunson is going to have as much, I guess we'll call it pull as he did with Tom Thibodeau, but he's still another guy who's going to be on this bench whose insight and just expertise is going to be valuable. Especially we talk about just connection and and Whoops. Comfort with the players that are returning from last year and from over the years.
But we also know that Mike Brown is going to want to bring his own guys into his staff, right? This is a guy who. has such extensive coaching history and has made so many Different, I guess, relationships over his career. Why not try, if you can, to go get a guy, James Borrego, that we've seen him reportedly trying to grab from New Orleans, right? Dames Borrego is a guy who's been on a head coach in Charlotte, but also comes from the San Antonio Spurs tree, right?
So I expect Mike Brown to try to find ways to get some of the guys that he likes onto this coaching staff. What it means for the guys who are already part or who were part of the coaching staff last year remains to be seen. We'll see who's back with the staff for next year. But I think that we can fully expect Mike Brown to get at least one of his guys in here sometime soon. Christian, you talk about the additions that the Knicks have made.
Jordan Clarkson, a former sixth man of the year, Yabusele, who's who turned his performance last year into a trip back into the NBA. We've seen kind of a slow drip here with free agency with some of the moves and trades. As it relates to the Knicks. This is pretty much, you can presume, going to be the roster come October, no? Yeah, and you know this is kind of the expect the approach that I expected them to have.
With the exception of if Giannis Anna de Kumpo becomes available of one of those big names, if the Joker would have somehow become available for trade, right, maybe you take a home run swing for one of those guys. But really, we know what this team's problems were from last year. It was a lack of depth, and it was a lack of using the available depth. And if we're talking ball movement, X's and O's, that's a different conversation. But from a roster standpoint, you had.
the worst scoring bench. The bench only averaged about 22 points per game in the regular season, which was the worst out of all 30, I think, by a three or four point margin. And then the playoffs, your bench is only giving you 16 points. And we're just seeing from what Indiana and what Oklahoma City did in terms of getting to the NBA Finals based on their depth, you don't have that. You're not going to be able to compete, right?
Depth is kind of the new meta right now.
So what do the Knicks do? They go out and get Jordan Clarkson, a guy who you just do the math. He's outscored everyone in terms of bench points over the last five years. And that's including him starting a year, right?
So in four years off the bench, he's outscored everyone over the last five years as a former sixth man of the year. And then you also, as you mentioned, go get Gershar Nyabusele, who really had that breakout game or that breakout series in the Olympics, right, where he's just going off for team friends. Sides with the Sixers and kind of revitalize uses that Olympic appearance to revitalize his career, goes to Philly and becomes a fill-in center because Joel Lindbede's now played, played about 80% of his minutes at the center spot last year and also shot at 39%.
So you're giving the Knicks some more versatility. In the front court, some more size in the front court, which was something they desperately needed. And then, on top of that, you're getting a guy who can really outscore the Knicks bench by himself in Drawing Clarkson. And he's also a guy who averages a sneaky number of assists. This is a whole, I think, 3.74 and 5 assists over the last three years.
Jordan Clarkson is going to be really just an injection of productivity for this bench. And what that's going to do is not let you have to rely on your starters so much. Even though I think even if you weren't able to improve your bench this much, I think Mike Brown is the guy who would just read the room and realize we're going to have to play some of these eighth, ninth, and 10th screeners a little bit more just to preserve our starters. For the playoff run. But now that you've bolstered this bench and you've given them this many options, you're looking at a team that's really set up to be fresh in April, as long as everyone's healthy.
And if this Knicks team can be fresh in April and you're still playing a deep rotation, I think you're in a good spot.
So, kudos to the front office for going out and improving the bench. I didn't think they needed too much more. And they've still got another roster spot left. We'll see what happens. They've got another spot, minimum salary spot under the second apron.
So we'll see how they use that, who they target. Do they go for a guy who's bought out or is a free agent that was cut from another team? Or do they maybe re-sign one of their own guys? You can look at there's a case study made for Del Andright and Andrew Shammond to return to this team.
So we'll see what it looks like with how they use that spot. Uh but This team has depth now, and that was really the big question mark. Were they going to be able to address it with such little flexibility salary cap-wise? They went out and did that. I think the Knicks had you can look at the Houston Rockets, who had probably the best offseason out of any NBA team.
But in terms of other than them, I think you can put the Knicks in terms of addressing needs up there with anybody else in the NBA. Optimis optimism for the New York Next. Hey, Christian, thank you so much for the time. Please tell everybody where they could follow you, all your works, all your writings with the New York Daily News. Absolutely.
Well, in the first place, if you if you wake up tomorrow morning and you go to your local store, Have a New York daily newspaper, go to that sports section. You're gonna see me covering the Knicks for the daily news. But if you're online, like me, Hop on Twitter, go to New YorkDailyNews.com, Twitter at Chris Flash. If you're just looking up Nick stuff, I'm all over it.
So appreciate you for having me on the show. No doubt about it, Christian. We'll catch you down the line. I'm there. Thanks for having me.
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Network. Thank you so much to Christian Winfield for joining us from the New York Daily News. New York next Got a new head coach in Mike Brown, introduced earlier to day. And damn it? We just gotta wait and see what happens and In May, really, that's it.
I I just really feel strongly. For all the moves that they made, if Mitchell Robinson, who does not have a history of staying healthy, if he ain't out there. They're cocked. Same space, same level, same move. about everything.
And Bacha, what are your thoughts on what Christian had to say about everything the Knicks have done? I think the Knicks fans are expecting way too much, way too early with Mike Brown because there is going to be. A process where he has to get integrated with the team, build chemistry, implement his system.
So. I'm not really worried about how Christian said there was no real answers on how to fix their defense, fix their offense. That that can build and groove throughout the regular season.
So I'm not really worried about that, but Some of the other things, well, like you said, not mentioning his past in Sacramento, that's a little suspicious. Just there's small things that pop up as red flags, but they're not major yet. Yes, it's It's not like they made some gigantic jump. I think the biggest moves that the New York Knicks have made have to deal with the roster. and and less about the head coach.
But this is why they play the games. Tom will certainly uh go ahead and and tell us What the heck is going on? Speaking of what's going on, I am going to get to. a story between mixed in tennis and basketball and a rodman. But I saw this story as well in the break, and I'm like, what the heck is this?
Speaking about big money and. People complaining. Botcher, there's a woman from Florida. Typically Florida man, but no, this is a woman. She worked as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, okay?
She was to make sixty thousand dollars for a year. There was a payroll error. that instead of paying her sixty thousand dollars, She got paid More than $400,000. For the entire year. She did not go to accounting.
She did not go to her boss and go, Hey, I think I've been getting paid a whole hell of a lot more than what I'm used to getting. She took the money. And she transferred a big portion of it. to Venezuela.
So some her family could buy a house. She sent $80,000 so somebody could put together a food truck. And now she's been arrested. And she's being held for theft and and money laundering. and she says that she thought it was a bonus and a gift from God.
I Honestly, I know deep down you need to report that there's a mistake with your salary. But If that issue ever happens It shouldn't be put on the person who gets the money. You can't always be 100% honest. I don't blame her for what she did. You would have stole the money?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would have had a deep. moral thought with myself. Saying, should I take some of the money? Not all of the money.
Yeah, you wouldn't take 80 and send it to a food truck. You wouldn't take a couple of hundred and build a house. Uh you would you would buy some shoes and then give the money back? You have a level of theft. Yeah, I have class.
AKA, not really, but I wouldn't take all of it because that's obvious. If you if you give back. A majority of it. but take take a little bit, you know, a couple a couple of thousand, they they would not notice. Here we go.
when confronted by the clinic's lead veterinarian. Who reportedly didn't notice the issue until her own paycheck failed to arrive? and her credit cards were declined. This woman, Jessica, broke down and confess'd She eventually returned 200,000.
Okay, all right. in the form of a cashier's check. but claimed she couldn't repay the remaining because her mother had already sent one hundred thousand dollars overseas, believing it to be a gift From God. She is currently being held at Palm Beach County Main Detention Center.
Okay. So, what I'm hearing is that this one woman got. everybody else's paycheck. As well. The doctor, the lead doctor, has asked that both Jessica and the payroll company.
be held responsible For the financial mishap. This is like you're a thief, and then you screwed up the books.
Well, yeah. I'd be I'd be Looking for everybody who's involved with this mistake. This is like Shad Khan letting his uh You know, one of his accountants rob him and go crypto shopping, you know, as just just a There's certain things you can't make up, man. Wow. How do you not know my only thing is how do you not notice you're not getting paid?
Like, you just don't check? No, I mean, if it's one time, you know, it may not be a big deal. If you're the lead vet and it's like you go out on a Friday and now, all of a sudden. your credit card doesn't work, I I maybe it takes some time, I don't know. That's people.
It's Florida.
Something about Florida where the people don't check their accounts or don't think straight. I don't get it.
Well, look, Shohi Otani got robbed for how much money? 17 mil? Yeah.
But that that Yeah, that's bad also. He's an idiot for that.
Well, if you got, let's put it, if you have a lot of money. Let's just say you may not be worried. And I'm not saying a veterinary people got $17 million sitting in their account like Otani, plus that. But if you got a lot of money and you don't have to live check to check, maybe you're not sitting around worrying about that money coming in. Maybe it's going to take a while for you to realize.
Yeah, it's a lot of money though that was missing. It's not like who are you you are you talking about them or Shohei? Oh, show it.
Well, both. It's both. $400,000 doesn't just pop out of nowhere. Yeah, if you are missing a check and you have money. You may not be worried about it, Bacha, okay?
I can't remember.
Well, okay, all right, you say that now. You start making short hey Otani money. I don't think you're going to be checking your account every Friday. I don't know. I do This whole story is a mess.
Because then too... They have to know something else is wrong. Like nobody. Because it's the lead vet. That was missing checks, right?
But nobody else was. And nobody else noticed something was off, like this person has, you know, a brand new food truck sitting outside. Oh no, she got s she sent the food truck she gave the money to somebody for a food truck, not her food truck.
Now, it's one thing she goes from a Toyota Corolla, and now she showed up in a Lamborghini. You know, I mean, there's some things here, but I don't think she. She kept, she sent $200,000 back, right?
So. Yeah, that's nice. At least half of it. One bag. But even still, it's just so she could have she could have got a brand new car from whatever she was driving.
She didn't. She didn't show up with jewelry on, she didn't show up looking like, I don't know, um Kodak black or something like that.
So she Apparently, she kept things modest. She sent money to Venezuela, she sent money to somebody to get a food truck. and they thought it was a bonus and a gift from God. At that point she shouldn't be arrested, because The fact you didn't try to spend it all Is a good thing. And she may not be.
But as it stands right now, she is. And I'm pretty sure they're going to be looking for restitution. She's going to have to find a way. maybe to get that money back. Palm Beach workers accidentally paid four hundred thousand dollars by employer But she is now the one in big trouble.
Here we go. She's 29 years old. She should know better, right? You don't just get that much money. All of a sudden, your job just bumps you up without you knowing that much.
Is she that? kinda out the lunch. I I don't know. It's a gift from God. Yeah.
and nothing wrong with that. Good luck to her. If she's a good person, I don't know her. Anyway, it's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you, coast to coast, on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, I told you.
There's uh an issue. Oh, goodness I was distracted for a minute. Uh Anyway. Who's that? Las Vegas Aces?
Okay. Um Hey, we're going to take a break. When we come back, I'm going to tie together a soccer. Tennis. Basketball?
And the last name Rodman. You know, we got a lot to get into. And then we're going to talk to Gil Gross. He covers all things tennis. For the tennis channel.
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