JR SportBrief Hour 3

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He's coming to us live from New York City. And we've already had a busy night. It's Friday night. And so I guess that means we got a few people who are just... How can I say this? They've been served. Let's put it that way. They've had their share. Maybe one or two or three.

Regardless of where you're at and what you're doing, I certainly hope that it's all happening safely. And it doesn't always have to just deal with drinking. And so we've talked about Michael Jordan selling his majority ownership of the Charlotte Hornets for $3 billion. Good for him. Unfortunately, we talked about Deion Sanders still having and dealing with issues with his foot, which hopefully doesn't have to be amputated. He's already lost two toes. Mike Dunleavy, the new general manager of the Golden State Warriors. He's really been upping it and taking it to another level in management with the Golden State Warriors next to Bob Meyers. So he's been prepped for this opportunity. And Bob Meyers is gone.

And then we also talked about Ja Morant's suspension. I gave you a heads up that Live golf leader, Greg Norman, he and his wife are being sued, unfortunately, by a young lady who says she was sexually assaulted at his home. Like their daughter was having a party.

And they're saying that they were serving alcohol to all the minors. So that's just everything coming out of Live and PGA. It's terrible. Monahan is having health issues and Greg Norman is being sued.

It's just bad all the way around. And so I'm going to be here with you for the next two hours. If you missed the first two hours of the show, you can always hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. And I do want to eventually share some good news with you tonight involving Tony Snell, someone who was a role player in the NBA.

And he shared with the world a diagnosis that I think is going to help a whole lot of other people. We'll get into that, as well as the NFL hard knocks. It's the middle of June.

We're moving towards the back end of June. We still have no idea who's going to be on HBO hard knocks. And sooner than later, the NFL is just going to force somebody to be on hard knocks. But we got a lot of callers on the line right now with thoughts on Ja Morant, his 25 game suspension.

If you want to hear my full thoughts and commentary, go to last hour. He got slapped with a 25 game suspension. I think that's on the lower end for what he could have gotten. So I think it's a slap on the wrist. Am I up in arms about it? No, I would have given him half a season. And I hope that he can go out and learn his lesson. I really do. Because you screw up one time, OK, you screw up.

You screw up again right after? You really showed everybody how deep your problems are. And then to go along with his 25 game suspension, the NBA wants him to participate in some undisclosed program before he gets back out onto the court. And the NBA Players Association, the union says, all of this is not fair, it's excessive. It's like, yo, y'all sit down over there. I get it. You're here to protect the players and have their backs, yada, yada, yada.

Sit this one out. Ja Morant put out another apology, basically telling everybody, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hope to show everybody, man, whatever. 855-2124 CBS. Dale, he's calling from Birmingham in Alabama. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. What's up, Dale? Hey, Jay. How you doing? I'm good, man. What's on your mind? Look, none of us are perfect.

And probably all of us have. So when they come to the forefront, something has to be done about it. Like you said, the first thing was the rap, slap on the wrist.

The second one, he's showing you being loud. So he really got a year, the whole season, hit him in his pocketbook. And for these guys who's talking, if you get suspended for the year and you don't get a class or some kind of reform, how you doing?

How the problem going to get started? Yeah. Well, thank you, Dale, for calling from Birmingham.

Appreciate you, man. Yeah, I don't know if I'd go for a year. At that point, they'd be taking away his whole $33 million salary, but that might have to be the thing that helps him learn. Look, John Moran ain't going broke.

All right? Even with the $7 to $8 million he will be missing, he still is sitting on a five-year, $200 million deal. This is the first year of that. And so if you want to go ahead and count in taxes and then you want to count in his punishment, he's already lost $30 million for not really, you know, making an all NBA team this year because of the last suspension. But he's still making money. So he ain't going poor. He ain't going broke. Is he having his professional future flash before his eyes? Yeah.

I mean, if there is another screw up, you don't think that they're going to look to terminate his contract? Like that's the thing that should scare him. But I guess he feels he's on the straight and narrow.

I mean, people who have issues typically fool themselves. 855-212-4CBS. Dan is here from Wisconsin.

Hey, Jar. Thank you very much for taking my call. I agree with you that you should have been suspended a half season. But when I look at and listen to what everybody else says, I kind of come up with the thinking that this is how he was brought up.

I mean, a dog is no smarter than his master. If you brought up where you don't respect people, you don't respect other people, you think you can do what you want, when you want. This is what you get. And hopefully get his act together. I find it kind of hard that he could turn himself around like that because I just think he's destined. So that's all I have to say, Jar. Thank you.

I hope not. Thank you, Dan, for calling from Wisconsin. And I'm not prepared to, and I know folks have done this over the past several months and just, you know, lay the blame at his dad's feet in his hands.

Dad is partying with him and going to the games and having the time of his life and needs to be adapted. Yeah, sure. Fine.

That's great. I don't know what outside influences have affected what's taking place. I know people who've had amazing lives growing up, who have been taught and have amazing values, but have become adults and have just gone off of everything that they've learned. And so I'm not going to say that this was how he was brought up. All things considered, he had a modest and decent living in a two-parent home and had a decent upbringing. So I'm not going to go ahead and pin that on his family.

He's 24 years old. I mean, you got the world at your fingertips. You have access to more than what the majority of the world will see.

Utilize it. The hell you running around doing and being something that you're not. You know, we had this conversation a few weeks ago with Andre Ward, one of the greatest boxers that boxing has seen. And Andre Ward has a documentary out.

And you know what? We're going to play that for you next segment. Andre Ward basically said, man, you can't go out and be something that you aren't. And he certainly hopes that he could learn from it.

And if you haven't seen Andre Ward's documentary, go do it. This is someone whose family, his parents, his parents were unfortunately like a lot of people, not everybody. But it's not uncommon for a lot of folks to say, oh man, we had folks who had substance abuse issues. We got a lot of folks who have overcome a whole lot.

So I'm not going to slap, you know, something on him or his parents because that's not always a real indicator. A lot of people can be a product of their environment. Most of us are. We are all products of our environment.

But there comes a point in time where you, if you learn or you're exposed or you see enough, the decision is up to you. And for Ja Marant, the world is at his fingertips. Information is at his fingertips. Resources are at his fingertips.

And these are decisions that he's made. 855-212-4CBS. Let's go to Canada, Ontario and talk to Trevor. Okay. Trevor's not here.

You got a bite. Oh, well, he was somewhere. Try again, Trevor.

Sorry. The lines are full. Rocky is calling from North Carolina. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show.

Hey JR, this is Rocky. You know, when you talk about Ja not needing the money or worrying about that stuff, it makes me think of Antone Walker or Dennis Rodman, who's bankrupt. Allen Iverson has gone bankrupt. Would you have said maybe 20 years ago Allen Iverson doesn't have to worry about money? Or Latrell Sprewill or Kenny Anderson or Vin Baker or Scottie Pippen or Derek Coleman or as the great Howard Cassell would say, Sean Camp, broke. Not a dime.

Bankruptcy. Jason Kelce. Rick Mahorn, broke.

Done in a different voice. Darius Miles. Larry Johnson. David Harrison.

All these people. Is this where Ja Marant is headed? Your thoughts? Well, in regards to Allen Iverson, Allen Iverson, the last time I checked, he wasn't necessarily bankrupt. He had money coming in. My overall point is that financially, Ja Marant isn't looking at what he can lose. I think that's pretty obvious because he knows if he stays on the straight and narrow and doesn't have another mistake, this money's coming in. I mean we can go down a whole list of professional athletes who have gone bankrupt. You just did it.

You did an excellent job going on Google. We're not talking about someone who's going to a gambling table in Atlantic City or Vegas or someone who thinks that they can gamble with Michael Jordan. We're talking about an individual who unfortunately right now is just strictly gambling with his life. Devin is calling from Toronto. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. JR, what's going on, brother?

I'll just give you a shout out from Yonge Street over here. Thank you, man. I just want to say I agree with you, man. This kid is 24 years old. I think he's old enough to know that he's a man and he's got to make and stand behind the decisions that he takes. I'm with you.

I think 25 games is way too light considering the timeline that he's committed these two, I guess you could call them offenses per se. I think he's got this little window of opportunity here to make it right. Otherwise, he's going to throw his career away if he doesn't act straight. You would think that after one time it would be enough, but I guess it's not, right? Yeah, man. It's just unfortunate. He's a good kid and he's a great hooper, but he doesn't come back from that kind of lifestyle. I don't understand the need to want to be that guy.

Choose your friends and the people that you surround yourself with. I don't understand the need to want that kind of attention. It's not a good look on the league either. Fame is not exclusive just to basketball players. It can chew anybody up and spit you out. Fame, unfortunately, can be suffocating. When you have the world at your fingertips and you don't have a structure to actually hold it, it can tear you apart.

This is unfortunately, and thank you Devon for calling from Toronto, we can look at some of the most famous individuals on earth that have just been suffocated due to just you lose yourself. You don't know who you are. You don't know where you come from. You have no sense of what being relatable is. You have no sense of reality. You can get lost in it. What is normal? Is Ja Morant living a normal life?

The answer is no. His finances, his access don't afford him to do that. This is the part that sucks in his brain. It's like, man, what are you doing? Living in a fantasy? You live in a video game? Where are you? Jim is calling from here in Georgia.

You're on the JR Sport Brief Show. Well, it comes all down to at age 18, you're legal to do certain things. At 21, you're legal to do certain things.

Now, the NBA needs to have rules that strike and get everyone's attention like those who may be coming into the league that won't be 21 and the whole scape of the gun issue thing the way it is today with different types of people. You got extreme gun owners, people. You got what they call a new group that they call themselves liberal gun owners.

Then you got the ones against all guns and everything. But how do you compare a Ja Morant with a Brandon Miller? Ja Morant only had pictures of a gun only. Brandon Miller actually brought a gun to the scene of a crime which is a chargeable offense, which I saw was in the local or the nation news where a guy got charged for bringing a gun to the crime.

Stop for a minute. He was not charged with a crime because he reportedly was not aware of what he had. Ignorance of the law, huh? independent, listen to me very carefully, independent of anything that has taken place with Brandon Miller, you explain to me what that has to do with Ja Morant and help me out with a summation. What is your overall point?

Well, Brandon Miller is expected to be a lottery pick and come into the NBA. Okay, well, well, I just, okay. Hold on, wait, let's slow down. What is your overall point?

You've got to have punishment that really attribute to the crime, but it's got to get everybody's attention on the scope of and you can't say ignorance of the NBA rule or the law or anything. Jim, no one from everything that's been investigated, and let's stick to Ja Morant specifically, he did not commit a crime. Well, that's what I'm saying. He just posted with pictures. No, he did not just...

I saw in the national news or the local news here... Stop, no, be quiet. He didn't just post pictures, okay? He put images up on a thing called Instagram of which I'm sure you probably have never used or familiar with in your life. And that's not just the problem of him posting pictures versus another guy carrying a gun.

Listen to me very carefully, Jim. He's an NBA player. It doesn't matter if he just posted a photo of him holding a gun, if he's pointing a gun and puts it on Instagram, it doesn't matter. Part of his job as an NBA player, part of what he agreed to when he put his name on the dotted line is that he wouldn't make decisions like that. He wouldn't be reckless like that.

He wouldn't cause harm to anyone like that. I would hope that makes sense. I would hope so. I understand.

That's a difficult thing for some people to understand. He didn't just post photos, okay? I don't know what you do for a living.

I don't know what anybody... You know, we got a lot of people listening all over North America. I don't know what you do for a living. What Ja Morant does for a living is public, okay? It's publicly consumed. He plays basketball.

Biggest, best league on planet Earth. It's a celebrity, okay? To protect the league and their teams, they don't want the representatives doing ridiculous things, being reckless in public, where it could be found to be offensive. I'm sorry. Waving a gun around in public anywhere can be offensive. And if you don't know, it can also be quite dangerous. Now, I guess the closest way you might be able to apply this to your gig or your job, and we've seen this quite a bit. People who get caught up outside, get recorded, you know, being ignorant, yelling things, saying things, being hateful, being mean, being evil, posting photos. This happens to folks who work in the private sector.

And a lot of times what happens is, these people get terminated for their actions outside of work because you can't bring the company down. Okay? There was a lawyer in New York City two weeks ago, a lawyer, who walked down the street and pulled the wig off of a woman's head. On a drunken Friday, Saturday night, a lawyer went down the street, unprovoked, and pulled a wig off of a woman's head.

This video went viral, okay? The young man was told, hey, apologize to the lady. He's being recorded. Hey, why did you violate her?

Why did you rip off her wig? You want to know what happened to that young man who worked at the law firm, who was shown to just be a drunken jerk out on the street? He got fired.

He got the boot. Now you can go ahead and tell me, oh, that was just a mistake. Hey, welcome to the world, man. That's the cost of doing business. That's it.

You can work in a private world, or you can be John Moran. If you make mistakes, if you are a jackass, you can be punished for it. What's so difficult to understand about that? It's not about gun ownership, it's not about a second amendment, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, it doesn't matter.

What matters is, if you're getting a paycheck from somebody, and they're paying you, they expect you to behave in a certain manner. That's it. T-H-A-T apostrophe S space I-T period. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. I'll get to more of your calls. I told you about one of the greatest boxers, and he came from hard circumstances. And he's absolutely doing an amazing job at life. His name is Andre Ward. We're going to hear from him on the other side of the break. He just joined us two weeks ago, and he had some words on John Moran.

We'll hear from him. I'll get to more of your calls on CBS Sports Radio, the JR Sport Brief Show. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio.

Hey, what's up, JR? I agree with you. I like your show because I tend to disagree, but tonight I agree.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. That's cool. We can all agree, disagree. Listen, if people agree with me all the time, I'd have to question them. I would say that's a terrible thing to do.

I think that's one of the problems that we have is that people tend to get sucked into group think instead of thinking for themselves. 855-212-4CBS. That's 855-212-4CBS. We've been talking about everything going on with John Moran, and one of our callers brought up that, oh man, it has to be his family and how he brought up, and we don't know that. Everything that I've seen, he's had a decent childhood, a decent life, and sure, nobody has a perfect life growing up. I don't know anybody who has. I don't care where you're from or what your economic means are, but I don't think that's true. We have a lot of people who have great lives and have the world at their fingertips as kids, as people, young folks, and they become adults and they just lose their you-know-what.

And so I don't think that's fair or that's accurate. And I think someone who's a great example of, and we've got plenty of people who overcome where they start to have amazing lives. A few weeks ago, we spoke to Hall of Fame boxer Andre Ward, who decided to step away at 33 years old. He was undefeated.

Man, he's beating the hell out of Kovalev on the way out the door, and he just said, I'm done. And he has a new documentary that's out now on Showtime, and he pretty much documents and opens up the door more on his life and where he came from and some of the issues with his parents being on drugs. At one point in time, Andre Ward told a graphic story about him selling drugs and how at one point he had to hide drugs by ingesting it and needed to basically try to get it out, and he realized, you know what, this is not the life for me. Crazy stories. Crazy stories. And now he's a minister, and he's sharing his story to help out other folks. And when he joined us a few weeks ago, I asked Andre Ward, I said, bruh, what advice would you give to John Marin?

This is what Andre Ward told me. Man, it's a lot, and I don't know John's situation in detail, obviously, but it's tough when a young man gets thrust on the world stage like that and gets that kind of money tossed to him relatively overnight, considering a person's lifespan and how long it takes for some people to build a fortune, even though I know he's been working since a kid, but to be able to get that kind of stuff overnight, it's tough. Man, people don't understand it. It doesn't justify what he's done or how he's moving, but it does give some perspective and some understanding. I think a couple of things, John just needs to be honest with himself. How did I get here? Why did I do this? Am I trying to portray an image?

Am I looking at, is the money gassing me up to make me feel like I'm somebody that I'm not? And from there, John just has to hopefully get to a place where he understands he's not, you know, he ain't no street thug. He ain't no street dude.

You know what I mean? John's a guy that, he's a basketball player. And for most elite athletes, they didn't have time to be in the streets and to really be out there like that. So he needs to really accept that and embrace that and be comfortable in his own skin. He's in a tremendous position, not just financially, but from an influence standpoint.

Like it's real kids that are looking to him and that hinge on his every word. That's a big responsibility, man. And to whom much is given, much is required. So just understand the blessing that you have in your hand.

Yeah. Well, thank you, Andre Ward for the note. That's what he shared with us a few weeks ago. And now we learned on Friday that John Moran is going to be gone for 25 games.

855-212-4CBS. I'm going to get to more of your calls here. And then I actually want to share with you some great news, some excellent news from Tony Snell.

Yeah, the role player in the NBA. We'll get into that. We need to flip the script and share some positivity. 855-212-4CBS. Matt is here from Cleveland. You're on the Gerald Sport Brief Show. Hey, man, I appreciate you taking my call. Look, I'm going to start this off by saying one thing. And I'm going to be very careful by saying this. You could take the man out the hood.

You can't take the hood out the man. Now, I just listened to what you just played. And he's projecting multiple images. One, about himself. Two, about responsible gun owners. And three, the third one, he's projecting an image about the people who in this country already hate guns. And he's not only done it once, but he's done it twice. Now hold on one second.

No, it's not hold on one second. When the first thing that comes out of your mouth is about where he's from, we need to be accurate there. That's the first thing. I have no problem with holding or having a conversation with you about your thoughts and your opinions. But if you're going to say something like that on this platform, you've got to be very, very clear.

The first thing you said was you want to be cognizant and careful about the statement and what you were going to say. And so do you understand what I'm saying, Matt? No, I get it. So wait, wait, wait, wait.

If you get it, you have to be very careful about what you're going to say. And I was. No, no, I'm going to ask you this. Are you familiar with where John Moran is from?

It doesn't matter where he's from. So no, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wrong is wrong. No, no, it's not wrong is wrong. Wait, stop, stop, pause.

You just said in in relation to John Moran, you can take the man out the hood, but you can't take the hood out the man. That's what you said, right? Well, look at what you're doing. Wait, wait, wait. Slow down. I didn't hang up on him.

Are you going to go for three strikes? No, no, I'm going to. I didn't hang up on him because I want him to slow down and listen. I asked him a very simple question. Let's try again. Let's bring him back. Matt, are you here?

Yeah, I'm here. Okay. I asked you a very simple question.

Let's do this simply. Is that not the statement that you said? Yes or no? Look at the subject. Shep, do I try again? Yeah, only because only because I think Matt needs to learn something tonight.

Okay. Now, I don't know if I, I don't know if he's going to learn anything because, you know, he was asked, Matt seems like someone who was in school and they had, you know, remember they gave you multiple choice. He got A, B, C or D. Yeah. And Matt wrote F because he can't, he can't follow directions.

Or wrote multiple sentences, which is what he's doing right now. And you're asking him a simple yes or no question. So let Matt hint. Let's, let's try this again, Matt.

It's a simple yes or no question. Hey, Matt, you back? Yeah, I'm here. Okay. Did you not say, wait, wait a minute. I'm asking the questions here. Did you not say yes or no?

Don't give me extra. Did you not say you can take the man out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the man? You said that. Yes or no? Yes, I did. Okay.

So stop, stop, stop. Here's my next question. Do you know yes or no? Do you know where John Moran is from? Yes or no?

He could be in Beverly Hills. I don't care. So I'm going to say this, Matt, so you can hear me.

Listen to me very carefully, Matt. You're ignorant. And what I want you to do, if you don't know how to use Google, I want you to pick up a dictionary and I want you to Google what the word ignorant is.

Because that's what the hell you just were here on CBS Sports Radio. To come and talk about someone and not have an idea where they're from or their background and to make an automatic assumption that he is from the hood, which all indications are he's not, is ignorant. Go ahead and educate yourself, man. Go learn something. You don't care if he's from Beverly Hills or your backyard. I can tell where you're from.

Someplace that you don't, you don't, you're not exposed to nothing. Go learn something, Matt. Why is John Moran from the hood? Why? Help me out. Help me understand.

Do you know? Ignorant. Google it. Look it up.

Dictionary. Go to the library. If they still have it open, go find it. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio 855-212-4CBS.

That's 855-212-4CBS. I got some good news on the other side of the break. Tony Snell is doing something to help change the lives of others.

And it's one of the bravest things I think I've ever seen an athlete do. I'm going to share it with you on the other side of the break. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio.

Hey JR, listen man. I love the show and really appreciate your candor, man. It's refreshing. First time listening to your show. I very much enjoy it. I just wanted to say real fast though, I just found you on the radio the other day and you've been a God since. You've got a long time listening for me.

Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. You know with all the wild and awful terrible things going on in the world of sports. We learned obviously John Marrant 25 game suspension. We talked about Deion Sanders possibly facing an amputation of his foot last year.

Last year it was almost a threat of amputating his leg from the knee down and toes are gone. It's time for some good news. Inspirational news.

If you're not familiar and not for any personal reason outside of hating the idea of people being mistreated, not treated correctly. I've been working with Special Olympics for years and shout outs to Special Olympics. They're having their World Games take place in Berlin, Germany.

It gets going on Saturday. Even outside of that I've been on tour with Special Olympics for the past two years talking to colleges and universities about inclusion and how to just be more open minded to people who don't look like you or think like you or aren't you. I think it's a beautiful thing. Unfortunately the idea of learning about other folks and inclusion has been politicized for gain which I think is absolutely disgusting. I think human beings can better themselves by going through different experiences and learning. I think it's good.

It's core. It shouldn't be political but we have some idiots who have gone out and done so. And so having done this work with Special Olympics it's not just going to Notre Dame or going to Tallahassee, Florida State, Gatorland, UCLA. It doesn't matter where I've gone. All over the country.

50 schools all over America in every corner. I've met so many amazing humans who have amazing stories who have been told they can't do this and they can't do that. And so in February we, myself, JR Sport Brief Productions, Odyssey, obviously here with CBS Sports Radio, and then Special Olympics launched a podcast called Agents of Inclusion.

If you Google Agents of Inclusion we have new episodes that drop every week and if you feel that you get up in the morning and you can't do something, or if you go to sleep at night and you feel like you have no motivation, you should listen to some of these athletes and individuals who have stories which make you go, well Dan, what excuse do I have not to get up and try to make the most out of my life? We can all look at heroes and stars. We can look at big heroes. Nicola Yokiches and Lebron James and Tom Brady. We can idolize individuals.

But we have so many heroes in our neighborhoods and our society who battle with things that you will never, ever know about. And so in this regard, we learned today via NBC who did a piece on the Today Show with a former NBA player. He didn't play in the league last year. He's 31 right now. He played for almost 10 years now in the NBA as a role player. I'm talking about Tony Snell.

No, not the biggest name in the world. This man basically put up some simple shots, played defense, almost 40% 3-point shooter. He was, hey, he can get us a shot, he can fill some minutes, he can play some defense and Tony Snell had himself a nice 10-year career coming out of California, going to school in New Mexico and we don't know if he's going to make it back to the NBA. Now having said that, the piece tonight revealed to the world that Tony Snell has been diagnosed with autism.

He has two sons. One of his sons was recently diagnosed with autism which led Tony Snell to go, well, you know what? There's some things about me that I feel are different. How I communicate with people, how I've been able to open up to folks. He said, you know what?

I'm going to go ahead and take the test as well. And so Tony Snell was tested and he was diagnosed on the spectrum, on the autism spectrum at 31 years old. He's lived a full life.

He has a beautiful wife, he has two kids, he played in the NBA. You would consider him to be a success and he's passing this on to other people. And so one of the things that Tony Snell said earlier this morning, Friday morning on the Today Show, was that being diagnosed with autism at 31 years old, he probably wouldn't have gotten the same opportunities.

He might have been put into a box. This is what Snell had to say on the Today Show. How do you think your life might have been different had you been diagnosed when you were Carter's age? I think I would have probably been limited with the stuff I could probably do. I don't think I would have been in the NBA if I was diagnosed with autism. Because back then, what is autism? They would probably put a limit or cap on my abilities.

And unfortunately, it's true. We shouldn't have ceilings on what people can do based on preconceived notions. I know folks who happen to be on the autism spectrum who are absolutely brilliant. Who can hold a conversation better than someone who isn't on the spectrum. Who can solve a problem. Who can be empathetic. Who can be relatable.

Who can open up and connect with people. And that's one thing that we shouldn't have to do is put folks in a box because they're different. You know, we had a caller last segment who said something just disgustingly ignorant about Ja Morant.

Oh, you take the hood out the this or can't take the hood. Ignorance. We can say the same thing about someone like Tony Snow. He is 100% accurate.

He's like, hey, I probably wouldn't be in the NBA. I wouldn't have the life I live if I was diagnosed and put on the spectrum. And that's not fair. It's real simple. People should be judged on who they are and what they're capable of doing.

And not what a label tells them to or what a label dictates to them. And so I commend Tony Snell for sharing that with folks because he's going to inspire tons of people. All not even in America, all over the world who are going to look at him and go, wait a minute, he was able to do that?

Man, I got a friend in Baltimore right now. He has his own problems. He has water on the brain. Has his own house. Has his own car.

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