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It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody locked in all over North America. I hope you're having a great Friday night. I hope you have a great Saturday, a Sunday, a Monday.

I hope you have a terrific Memorial Day weekend. I'm being joined by super producer and host Dave Shepherd. He's joining us, you live from New York City. And so you, yeah, you listening, you could be anywhere. You could be hanging out, going to a party, going to a club. You'll be in the backyard. You could be smoking a stick.

You could be having a drink. You could be going to see grandma. I don't know. You go see grandma on Memorial Day weekend.

I don't know. Do that for the holidays. Wherever the hell you going, I'm here. I'm only going to be here for one more hour and I will not be here on Monday because I'm going to be minding my business. So let's just have some fun here for the final hour. Of course, we're all waiting on, you know, just the heat, the Celtics game six. Jimmy Butler basically guaranteed a victory. Celtics have won the last two. Nobody's ever come back down from 03.

150 teams all failed. All my folks out in Dallas. What's up, Dallas?

One of my boys is in Dallas right now, the Metroplex. Stars going to take on the Knights tomorrow. I'm not thinking about them too much. It'll be the Golden Knights and the Florida Panthers and the Stanley Cup finals. At least we'll have one team from South Florida. Maybe we have two if Jimmy Butler lives up to what he says. We talked about DeAndre Hopkins tonight being released from Arizona. Talked about LSU going to the White House. We talked about bitter old Scottie Pippen. Said Michael Jordan was horrible before he got there and he got there. They started to win. Nobody cared about MJ because it's a team game. I'm like, Scottie Pippen is delusional now. We talked about the NFL flexing games.

And then we'll hear from the Kelsey brothers momentarily. Because I don't know about the whole flexing thing. Is it good for fans who buy tickets?

Hell no, it's not. Kelsey's actually say that any NFL player complaining about games late moving late in the season from a Sunday to a Thursday, they say the players are crazy. We'll hear from them momentarily. But we got a lot of callers here on the line and we've talked about a lot. Even Russell Wilson got a comment tonight. His old teammate KJ writes just like, I don't know if you'll be able to deal with Sean Payton and his bluntness. But let's get to your calls and then we'll hear from the Kelsey's. And then I also want to share with you some words from Aaron Boone.

Angry New York Yankees manager. 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. You can always listen on the free Odyssey app, Sirius XM 158 and your local affiliate. Let's go to Miss Ann. Miss Ann is just somewhere driving around in a car somewhere.

You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Miss Ann? Hey, evening, evening. Do I have it too loud? Can you hear me OK?

No, you are perfect, Miss Ann. What part of the country are you driving around in, if you don't mind me asking? Right now, I'm just outside of Springfield, Illinois. OK, well drive safe. What's on your mind? OK, first, I really like Russell Wilson. When he went to Denver, I wasn't upset about that.

I just felt he was very, very detached. It was like as a quarterback, either he wasn't communicating or they weren't communicating. And even on the sidelines for a quarterback, right now I live in the KC metro, so you know our our quarterback is bossy. OK, so I didn't know about the separate office and all this other stuff that disappoints me because even though the locker room, well, it's pro, so it's a lot nicer, you know, than just a locker room. But you should be in with your team, right? You know you should be communicating his new his new head coach is saying that ain't nobody going to have a separate office and he will be back and I am so glad I've always liked saints and their coach.

OK, moving on. I used to live in the Oakland Bay area, right? Went to Raiders games when they were there. Went to AIDS.

I still got AIDS stuff. Kind of scared to wear Raiders stuff in the, you know, in the KC metro. Yeah, because somebody did get beat up. So I know it happens quite frequently. I was just there. Yes, yes, and see being in the Bay area. I already can tell you that's the way it is.

I mean they would throw stuff at the buses and stuff leaving the A stadium and it was just terrible. Do I want them to go to Vegas? No, I don't. I don't.

Do I want them to go to Vegas? No. No, I mean I get it. I get the sports thing. I love all sports.

I mean bull riding. I like it. Oh wow. Oh yeah, well let me ask you this. OK, Miss Ann hold on a second.

I gotta I gotta I gotta get to a whole lot of callers here. How do you feel about the A's taking the athletics name? No. So to keep it or what do you think? No. Deny it.

No. New name. I think if they're gonna go there they need a new name just like the Oilers did when they came up. I think the A's need to do the same thing.

OK. They should totally detach and I think they deserve a new stadium of any sport on the East Bay because the peninsula, right? 49ers, Warriors, everybody's over there.

San Francisco. Yeah, well Miss Ann. OK. That ship might have. Well thank you Miss Ann.

Drive safe. OK, thank you. I think that ship might have sailed. I don't know. Maybe these are some last ditch threats.

Possibly. Charlie calling up from New York. You're on CBS Sports Radio.

JR, happy Memorial Day from Orchard Park. How are you? Well thanks man, yeah.

Hello? Yeah, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can we talk about DeAndre Hopkins? I missed the call earlier if you already spoke about it.

My apologies for that. As we break ground for our new stadium up here we're thinking we might have another wide receiver. What are your thoughts on that? Yeah, we did talk about it earlier.

Why not? We know that he would certainly help them out. One of the first quarterbacks that he mentioned that he would love to play with earlier this week would be Josh Allen. He said he's similar to a new age Andrew Luck. I don't know if he means by some of Andrew Luck's recklessness. I think that's about the only thing, but does Buffalo have the cap space to go ahead and bring him on?

Do they have to do some maneuvering or adjusting? That would be my question, but yeah, why not? It would make sense. Well I think we're just one or two players short of bringing that Super Bowl to Buffalo and being a longtime fan I guess and frankly I don't know the salary cap issue. I know we didn't seem to be able to get him during the trade negotiations, but neither did any other team.

Who knows why that didn't happen. Having said that, if he's out there and available and we can afford him, I think we should go after him. I think we really lost last year to Cincinnati because of our O-line and our D-line, but maybe Josh with an extra weapon or two and some quick release to our new tight end and a new wide receiver going with Stefan Diggs. We might just have it this year. We'll see. No doubt.

Well, we know he also dealt, he being Josh Allen, also dealt with injury last year and I think he's approaching the portion of his career where he goes, man if I continue playing the way that I am right now, I'm going to get hurt and so we'll see. Hey Charlie, thank you for calling from New York. Go Bills! Thank you, sir.

Uh-oh, sorry, my bad. Go Bills! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Terrence is here from Atlanta. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Terrence? Hey, how you doing?

Hi. I was wondering, did you pay attention to any of the outcasts from Atlanta yesterday and, you know, and how the impact of the total turnout yesterday, like from 43,000, the third highest, you know, ever? Yeah, all my friends were there.

I wasn't there. All my friends were there, yeah. Yeah, but, you know, the thing about it, like, they gave out 15,000 bobbleheads and they got rid of all of them before the game even started. And, you know, and I think that the impact of, do you think more baseball players probably try to do more bobblehead promotions, like, towards the African American hip-hop teams and representing their city?

Or what are your thoughts on that? Because I know that everybody who actually went, like, there's a lot of people wearing, like, ATLian jerseys yesterday and everybody was dressed up. I know, I actually know the guy who spearheads, well, he's running the show over there from the marketing side in that space. And so I cannot speak to what happens in other cities, but we know Atlanta certainly has a different flavor and vibrancy. And over the past several years, for a bunch of years, and just historically, Atlanta is huge. And so the arts and hip-hop and music, it's ridiculously influential. It's one of the most culturally influential cities in the entire country, especially when it comes down to African American culture. I think that that goes without saying.

And so I think you can, I don't, I'm not even going to say think because I actually know. You can expect to see a whole lot more when it comes down to the Atlanta Braves and fully embracing the entire city. So stay tuned. Shout out to my man Eugene. It was a great thing to see. I remember, I mean, I know a lot of people didn't get the bobblehead because it's like 43,000 people showed up and they gave out 15. I mean, I was there two hours ahead of time and it was sold out right when we got there. But it was a great thing. I was trying to see if they're going to do it again. Hopefully they'll do it again by the end of the year.

Get used to some more. And everything isn't going to be a bobblehead. If you go ahead and take a look at the Braves opening video to announce the season and their jerseys, I mean, look who was in it.

It was highlighted by Ludacris. And so just be prepared. They're going to be more great and fun promotions coming on down the pipe.

The Atlanta Braves, I know there are a lot of people not happy that they moved from downtown and moved up into Cobb, but they're trying to be more all-encompassing about the entire community. So just stay tuned. There'll be more coming, Terrence. Good on you for checking it out and just stay tuned, okay?

FYI, since you're in Atlanta this weekend, we do have the Piedmont Park Jazz Festival, so just check it out while you're still here. Still here? What do you mean, still here? Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What do you mean, still here? Hey, it's the best thing to be in Atlanta, you know. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Where do you think I'm going? What are you talking about? Hey, Atlanta seems Monday, man. Hey, I'm already playing.

Since I missed some of my bobbleheads, I was like, man. Terrence, Terrence, Terrence, I live here. All right. I live here.

The studio is across the street from Piedmont Park. I've also gone to Jazz Fest. I've attended, Terrence. All right, man.

Hey, welcome, man. Do you want me to tell you everything that's going? Why don't you go to Carnival tomorrow? Go where? Carnival.

Go to Central Park. I got you, man. I got you. Okay. Thank you, Terrence. I know what's going on out here.

Do you want me to tell you more, Terrence? Relax. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Hey, you're here for me again, man. Appreciate it. Thank you, Terrence.

He's like, hey, why don't you go here while you're here? Like, bro, I know what's going on in the city, man. I know what's going on. I know what's going on all over the place.

Some things I wish I did not know. Anyway, I do know this. The Kelsey brothers, I told you that they are actually, they know what's going on, too.

Maybe. They said that they're happy with the NFL flexing games, and they're saying that NFL players who are actually bitching and complaining about it, they need to stop. I want you to take a listen. This is from their own podcast. Hey, Shep, what do these brothers call their silly... Well, I don't want to call it silly. It's very popular. What do they call it?

I'm almost... The Heights podcast, right? Yeah, between, it's Jason and Travis. Correct.

One who will keep saying he's going to retire and then doesn't. Yes. Yeah, the Eagle Center that goes nowhere. Okay.

And then one of the greatest tight ends ever. Let's hear what they said about flexing the schedule. Listen, I am all for games being played on Thursdays, because that means we have walkthroughs during the middle of the week, and we don't practice.

And then we get three days off after the game. You're so fricking lazy, dude. Well, it's not about laziness.

It's about helping my legs recover and getting fresh. That's fair. Players that are anti-Thursday night games are just looking to make headlines. There's no fricking chance anybody with half a brain cell is against Thursday night games. I heard some quarterbacks say that they don't like them because of the game prep and they have to stay up later and they have to work harder mentally. Yeah, but the other team's doing the same thing. But yeah, I get that. I mean, quarterbacks do have to put in more work. I could see that, I guess, but I like it.

I like having less mental reps because I feel like I'm kind of old and have seen more, so I'm good on that. Y'all get paid anyway. Y'all get paid.

You get money. Who cares how y'all feel if you like it? And sure, you're talking from a player's perspective to other players, but who cares? The fans are the ones that miss out when y'all switch up these damn games. But we know they don't care.

They really don't. 8-5-5-2-1-2-4 CBS. Wes is calling from Atlanta. What's up, Wes? Hey, JR. How you doing?

I'm okay. So I just want to jump in on the Hopkins. I think that I've been thinking about two teams. I'm a Falcons fan, so I sit here and I immediately go to the Saints and think, you know, they just went and got Derek Carr. Alave is good, but we don't know what they're ever going to get out of Michael Thomas and he's on that one-year deal. I'd be shocked if he went there. They're teams that are legitimately competing for championships. I don't think he'd just be like, hey, I'm gonna go to the Saints, but keep going.

Yeah, I mean, I agree with that. They got an open spot with the division, but the other place that I was thinking is Jordan Love may need some help up there. He's got two young, good wide receivers, and that's a little bit more spotlight, I think, in Green Bay. Well, Wes, from his own mouth, I want you to hear from DeAndre Hopkins right now being asked by Brandon Marshall what quarterbacks he likes, and I don't think Derek Carr or Love are on that list.

Take a listen to this. Josh Schallen, he reminds me of an old school or of a new school, Andrew Luck. He knows I love Josh Schallen. Jalen Hurts, you know, man, he's Houston kid, your dog Jalen. Number three, who I would love to have a ball thrown by, man, Patrick Mahomes, obviously. Number four, I'm gonna have to go with, I gotta go with the underdog, man, the people. Not a lot of people respect this guy, but as a throwing quarterback, Lamar Jackson, obviously.

Number five, man, I'm gonna have to go with my dude in San Diego. Herbert. Justin Herbert.

Justin Herbert. Okay, now, Wes, we know all of those teams that he pretty much mentioned are competing for championships. Maybe the Chargers one day can string together a consistent team to do so, but it's not about, hey, you know, I want to go somewhere to play with a good young QB.

You want to win, man. He's 31 years old. He does. I hope they get the money worked out, and I hope he does get to go somewhere, because I'd like to see him in the opportunity.

I'd love to see him in Baltimore, because for years, it's, oh, you know, Lamar, everybody gets hurt, nobody gonna have nobody like Mahomes, so we'll see. Hey, Wes, let's stay tuned. What happens, okay?

We will, man. I think last thing, and I'll jump off, I think Aaron, I think Boom's feeling the pressure eight games back, and after what happened last postseason, he's stressing up there, man. Uh, I don't think so. I think Aaron Boone is used to getting kicked, and I think that's part of the gig with being the Yankees manager. Matter of fact, and thank you, Wes, for calling from Atlanta, on the other side of the break, we're gonna hear from Aaron Boone, because he's just an angry dude right now. He's just angry. He's just cursing out umpires, and, ooh, a couple of the F-bombs went over the air, and he's a real nice guy. He's a sweetheart of a human.

Until he gets angry, he's like the Incredible Hulk. Dave, let's call him from Georgia. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, Dave? Hey, uh, great show tonight. I'm driving, uh, from Florida all the way to New York. Probably gonna make it about halfway tonight. Uh, I'm driving exactly by Brunswick, Georgia.

It's a swamp. You, you, I rarely laugh out loud when I'm listening to the radio. You crack me up, man. So I just wanted to say, your show is great. The miles are flying by listening to you and how nice and respectful you are to the fans, and it's just a great show, and, uh, just want to say I appreciate you, man. Well, thank you, Dave.

I would say 99% of people feel that way, and the other 1% are complete jerks. Hey, safe driving. What, where the hell are you driving to in New York? Where you going?

Well, I'm going to Long Island, New York, home of the New York Islanders and the Mets. Yeah, I know. I'm familiar. Well, you're gonna drive by more swamps on the way there.

Queens might as well be one, too, okay? I know. Thanks for a great radio show, man. Well, thank you, Dave. Drive safe. Okay, have a good night. Thank you.

You, too. Hey, Shup, there's so many people on the road, man. This is the holiday weekend.

People are driving. You're gonna miss not being on Monday? No. No?

Okay. This man is driving from, he's driving, Shup, that's like 12 hours, man. Well, fortunately, there's still good radio. Everyone wants to say radio's a dying medium. That's what people say nowadays.

I don't think so. Well, I'm not dying. I'm alive, man. Well, I understand that, but it just goes to show you. Well, you do. Everybody gets a little bit closer to going, right? Well, it depends on what you believe is the ending of the natural occurrence of our existence on planet Earth, right? Some people believe that's it. You're kaput.

You're finished. You're in the ground. You're telling me I'm gonna be a butterfly? Well, that's reincarnation. People believe in that. I believe that there's a greater power. I can't put my finger on it, but I'd like to believe that our souls and our spirit and our energy, it lasts permanently. Basically, I'm gonna turn to dust and then I'm gonna feed a plant and then I'll be a tree. I'm here for it. I believe your spirit lives on forever. I believe that of every human being. I feel like Highlander.

That's what I am. She don't know what that is. Google Highlander.

Deal. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. When we come back from break, we're gonna talk about a guy who some people, he feels like he just lives on forever, forever, forever as the Yankees manager. His name is Aaron Boone. He's an angry man here on CBS Sports Radio.

Don't move. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. I wanna just thank you for all you do to the nation. I've been very analytical and just looking at you, I can always say one thing.

When you say, I don't disagree with what you're saying, I think that's the biggest compliment that you give to people and your marketing edge is that you're doing it on the radio, which is like the telephone versus being in front of the camera. And you know your stuff, man. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. Hey, listen, folks. If you didn't know, I'm JR. That'd be me. It's Memorial Day weekend, right? You know, we're just people, people put some drinks in them and tensions can get high. We've had some unfortunate historical events take place over the past couple of years during this holiday weekend.

And so things, things can be a little dicey. And I know it's not, well, this didn't happen today, happened on Wednesday, but this might happen to you this week and I hope not. Somebody tried to steal Kenny Pickett's car. They actually stole this man's car and they got it right after he took it. Kenny Pickett was doing a promotional appearance at a car dealership and a 60-year-old man, yes, 60-year-old man, he decided to steal his Genesis SUV.

He had his playbook in there. I don't know if you touch pad, touch the open, but the police were able to recover it not too long after it was stolen. And the man who stole it, 60 years old, was charged and arrested with theft, receiving stolen property and unlawful use of a motor vehicle. Here's some JR wisdom. Don't take no stuff that, that don't belong to you. Leave it alone.

And if you have something, be careful, lock your doors, okay? 855-2124 CBS, that's 855-2124 CBS. Also, before we went to break, I told you about Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees. The Yankees played the San Diego Padres at home tonight in the Boogie Down Bronx and the Yankees lost.

The Padres beat them 5-1. The Yankees record now stands or falls to 30 and 22 and someone who was not available for the game was their manager, Aaron Boone, because Aaron Boone will go to bat for his players, in particular, Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is big as hell.

This man is 6'7". He was standing next to 7' tall Carl Anthony Towns, who happens to be from New Jersey, the New York metropolitan area, is a Yankee fan. And it was like Aaron Judge was looking Carl Anthony Towns in the face. And so, because Aaron Judge is a giant, his strike zone sometimes can get a little dicey.

Sometimes the umpires, they'll say that it's a strike, but it'll be a ball. And so Aaron Boone is never shy in defending Aaron Judge. And more recently, Aaron Boone, he was thrown out the other night. He's been thrown out four times.

It feels like just this season alone. He's getting thrown out all the damn time. And so Major League Baseball suspended Aaron Boone. So he wasn't there to see the Yankees lose tonight. He was there before the game.

He was there last night, but he wasn't working today. And Aaron Boone pretty much said, look, I'm not going out here trying to get thrown out. That's not the plan. He said most of the umpires are good.

Some of them are crap. And oh yeah, by the way, I don't want no robotic umpires. That's what Aaron Boone had to say. He shouldn't have had to throw almost 30 pitches in that first inning, you know, I mean, so, but no, I'm not, I'm not advocating for the robo.

You know, I think these guys do, for the most part, a great job and work really hard at it. He was talking about his starting pitcher that night, Clark Schmidt, who went out and he was throwing strikes and umpire was like, ball, ball, ball. And so Aaron Boone, man, he just can't catch a break. And he's such a nice guy, really nice guy.

One of the nicest people I'll ever meet. But when the game is on, oh man, he's ready to cuss some people out. 8-5-5, 2-1-2 for CBS. Frankie calling for Minneapolis. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show.

Hey brother, big fan of yours. I first of all want to swing back, ask you a question about Aaron Boone. Does he win baseball games, JR? Does he what? Does he win baseball games? Is he a winning manager?

I think so, yes. I don't know how we can pretty much dispute that when the Yankees year to year win 90. It's not like he's taking away a couple of games.

It's not like he's taking away 10 victories every year. Well, I want to switch back to you. I had a conversation with you a few months ago where I talked about the game of soccer. And my question was, do you remember that conversation where I said I do not enjoy soccer? Frankie, to be... That's the one.

No, no, no, I don't remember. No, here's the deal. Well, we had a good conversation...

Hold on, hold on, Frankie. Wait, can I answer? You asked me, can I answer? I'd be honored. Well, thank you. Hold on.

I am here five nights a week for four hours. I know this for a fact. I take more calls and listen to more people all over North America, I'd say more than anyone else on any radio station.

And that actually might extend past sports talk radio. And so to be clear, Frankie, that night in Portland, Oregon, I think when I had the conversation... That's it? Yes, that was during the World... During the World... Stop, Frankie. That was during the World Cup last year. That was in like, I don't know, November, December. Correct.

I spoke to maybe 50 people that night. Correct. I am not going to remember you specifically. Sorry.

Oh, well, thank you for that. I thought you were going a different direction, but I just wanted to let you know that nobody possibly could hate myself more than I hate myself. And I think that that would be something that I would want to portray on you. You called me to tell me that you hate yourself. Yes, sir, I did.

But you don't hate yourself anymore? No, I still do, brother. Okay. Well, just stay alive, okay, Frankie? All right, have a great day, man. Okay, thank you for calling from... Shep, anything? No, just... Jared, when you asked me how I was doing a couple months ago, and I don't mean to put you on the spot, but do you remember what I said? When?

Yeah, it was a couple months ago. Well, do I move? Do I just move?

Do I move? Do I act like I never spoke to that guy? No, but that's the point. No, but do I act like I don't... Do I act like that conversation just never happened? Oh, you know, I thought he was trying to make a joke. Like, I didn't think that was like a Ja Morant situation when he was like crying out for help. The answer is no. Right.

We act like, well, we acknowledge we just had the conversation. I'm trying to forget it. Hey, where's Pete McCarthy? Is Pete McCarthy around? He is around, but just very quickly, I think he was trying to be lighthearted, and he just fell flat with the joke.

I don't think he was really in trouble. No, I don't think so either. He just says he hates himself. Ain't got nothing to do with me. Yeah.

Hey, Pete McCarthy, do you love or hate yourself? That's a good question. I understand where that last caller's coming from. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, I should have forgot I had the conversation, but go ahead and expand on it.

Go ahead, expand. Yeah, I've been there. I've been there. You hate yourself? There are times?

No? Listen, I spoke to that man in November. It's about to be June, and he still hates himself. Like, what are we doing here? Do I need to go to Minneapolis and send him like a care package?

Like, what do I need to do here? That would be nice. Yeah, well. Show a little love. Yeah, I don't care that much. I'm just happy that he's here. Listen, man, you can hate yourself for as long as you want.

Just stay alive. What was amazing about that conversation, JR, what was amazing about that conversation, it was so obvious you were setting it up to where you were not going to remember him, because you made it clear you take more calls than pretty much anyone that does what you do for a living on a daily basis, and he still thought you were going to remember him. Like, so for a guy that hates himself, the level of optimism was completely incongruous with how much he despises himself. That didn't make any sense to me either. Just thought I'd point that out. You just did, you just did math for a guy who hates himself.

Like, it's a math equator. Well, if he hates himself from, you know, November to December. It's a long time to hate yourself.

And then he loves himself for five days over Christmas. Right. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. JR, it's always a pleasure to hear you, because you know your product, and you really do a great job by not distorting what the cars are saying. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS.

It's the JR Sport Brief Show on CBS Sports Radio. I've had a fun night tonight. Until I got, well, I'm still having fun. We did have a guy just call up and say he hates himself. I'm like, whoa. I know John Moran had a wellness check earlier this week, and Scottie Pippen is saying crazy things. Go check on that guy from Minneapolis.

He's kind of out there as well. Jimmy Butler got that guarantee going for tomorrow. You're like, yeah, we're going to win. We're going to get the Celtics out of here.

OK, let's see what happens, man. You know, just because I need another laugh, and I guess it's also dark, let's listen to a sad Scottie Pippen again. Hey, let's listen to him be sad about Michael Jordan. LeBron will be the greatest statistical guy to ever play the game of basketball, and there's no comparison to him.

None. So does that make him the greatest player to ever play the game? I'll leave that out for debating, because I don't believe that there's a great player, because our game is a team game, and one player can't do it.

I seen Michael Jordan play before I came to play with the Bulls. You guys seen him play. He's a horrible player. He was horrible to play with. He was all one on one. He's shooting bad shots. And all of a sudden, we become a team and we start winning.

Everybody forgot who he was. Oh, man. Hey, if you if you just like tuned into the show now or this hour and you want even deeper of a laugh.

Like, listen on the Odyssey app, you can hit rewind on the show and just. One of the reasons he's mad, I think, is because his ex-wife is dating Michael Jordan's son. Ouch. Ouch. She was on Tamron Hall. She was on a talk show talking about it.

Listen to this. Dating rumors started in September. At the time, you said you guys were just friends, and then it was revealed when you said on Valentine's Day that he was your forever Valentine. Are you guys in love? I think so. We're in a really good place.

How do you describe it? I feel like a lot of people think that we've known each other our whole lives, which we have. Well, he's 16 years younger, so that's not possible. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel like we literally just met at a party four years ago. Oh, really? And we were just friends.

Because we all lived in Chicago. Yeah. When did you meet him? Four years ago.

Four years? Where? At a party. At a party.

Like an L.A. party. Did you know who he was at the time? Well, yeah. We have a lot of mutual friends, and so we're kind of in the same circle. So we've been around each other for like the last four years. Yeah, she knew exactly who he was.

She's like, I'm gonna get back at Scotty by getting with Michael's kid. Damn. If I'm Scotty Pippen, and I'm sure you can visualize this in your heads because this is radio. You can't see me, and I can't visualize anything. I could paint a picture, though. If I'm Scotty Pippen, you know, I hear that, and I'm raising two hands over my head, two fists over my head, and I'm banging down on the table.

Everybody forgot who he was. Yeah. Somebody take the phone away from Scotty. Please. 855-212-4CBS. Let's get to some of your calls before I got to roll out. Timmy's calling from Jersey. You're on CBS Sports Radio, not the fan. What's up, Timmy?

Hey, there. Biggest fan you ever had. Biggest NBA fan I think ever. Biggest Yankee fan I think ever.

And Scotty Pippen, man. Man, that guy's gone dark on us, and that last caller you had, man, I'm worried about him. What's that story about? Things getting dark out there, brah. Well, he's hated himself for about six months now, so, I mean, I guess he's okay, but go ahead.

What else you got? So, six months, so we're not worried about his mental health, Scotty Pippen's mental health, or we're gonna roll past that, correct? Now, I can only do what I can do, and I'm only here for three more minutes. Please, go ahead. Well, good. In that three minutes, maybe you can step up and speak out on mental health, or do something positive, because that would be good for the country, the universe, and use your platform to do something positive, mate.

Is that fair? Because I'm a big man. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What I would tell you didn't do. Well, I'm woeing you.

I'm woeing your ass right to the hold. What you can do is listen to my Agents of Inclusion podcast that is brought to you by Special Olympics and Odyssey, which gets dropped every single Wednesday, where every week I talk to a different Special Olympics athlete to highlight inclusion. So you can go ahead and listen to that. And I can do a podcast with Special Olympics and Odyssey, and I can still call you a jackass, you dumbass. Hey, by the way, folks, the busy, busy weekend, lots of crazy things happen over holidays.

This is the unofficial start to summer. And be safe outside. Be cool.

And do that. 855-212-4CBS. Jason is calling from Mississippi. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Jason? Man, what's going on, JR?

And as usual, boy, you like the light bill. Your show don't never change, and it always come around. It's the same thing every time I get to talk to you, man.

But just got a few things for you, man. Just want to see what your thoughts are on Boston and Miami. I haven't really been tuning in lately.

Worked and had a little schedule change. But what's your outlook on it? And to me, I think Boston will win at seven. If they quit crying about fouls, man, what do they not realize? This is the playoffs.

You're not going to get them calls. Quit asking for it and get your behind down the court and get back on defense. Well, I think it's going to be a ridiculously close game tomorrow.

I think it's a Pickham-type game. If you want to give anybody the edge, you go for the heat at home. But we know the Celtics have so many dynamic players, primarily Jason Tatum at the top. I don't think anybody would be shocked with any result tomorrow. I just think that it'll be a close one. And just as a basketball fan and because I want to sit down and watch it in some capacity somewhere on Monday, I want a game seven.

Let's see if it happens. Hey, Jason, thank you for calling from Mississippi, man. I got to go. My man. Appreciate it.

Appreciate you. Jason said, I'm always on. I'm always here like the light bill. But I mean, who wants a light bill? Like, I don't want no light bill. Some of these, all bills are terrible.

All of them, you got to pay them. But all bills are terrible. I don't want to be the light bill. Just call me the light.

I'll stick with that. Hey, you've been listening to the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio. Whatever you're doing, wherever you're at, if you're driving, be safe, be well, get to your destination safely. If you want to listen to the show from the beginning, you can listen on the free Odyssey app. I'm going to be back, not on Monday, but I'll be here on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday when the NBA Finals start and next Friday too.

I get started 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific. If you miss me in the meantime, you can find me everywhere at JR Sport Brief. And like I said, if you want to listen to me some more, go ahead, get the podcast, Agents of Inclusion, myself, Special Olympics International and Odyssey. Hey, Shep, thank you so much for an amazing night. Thank you, JR, as always, man. Y'all be safe, be well, be cool.

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