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It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Monday to you. I hope you're well. I hope you had a good weekend. I hope you had a great Monday and if you didn't too bad.

There got to be something wrong with you because we had a great weekend of sports and that's exactly what we're going to talk about here over the next four hours. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you so much to our super producer and host Ryan Hickey holding it down for us in New York City. You can always listen to the show on the free Odyssey app.

A U D A C Y. Everybody likes free. You can always tune in on your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. You can lock in on Sirius XM channel 158 and if you got a smart speaker just ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. I told you we had a busy weekend. Okay, NHL playoffs are underway.

NBA playoffs are underway. Only a few days away from the NFL draft. We've already had some trades. We had a retirement today and we gonna talk about it all. Matt Ryan officially done in the NFL. Matt Ryan signing a contract to finish up his career as a falcon later on in the show. We're going to take a look at his career. Matt Ryan hasn't always gotten the respect that he deserves but is Matt Ryan going into the Hall of Fame?

We're going to talk about it. We know he got close to a Super Bowl. We know he got an MVP but unfortunately for Matt Ryan he did not get over the hump. Zach Wilson no longer a member of the New York Jets. Zach Wilson has been traded out to Denver. He's now a member of the Broncos and an era is done. His time with the Jets is over and so we will see what happens with Zach Wilson in Denver.

Is he going to get an opportunity and a chance to start? We'll get into that later on in the show and about 20 minutes from now we'll have a conversation with Trevor Lang from Lakers Nation. The Los Angeles Lakers they're going to be in action again tonight against those Nuggets. The Nuggets took game one on Saturday night 114 to 103 and the Lakers are trying to even things up. We also have some other matchups. The Magic and Cavs are going to get underway in about an hour and then the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers they get underway in about 90 minutes and if you watch the game on Saturday you know that Joel Embiid went down he left the game looked like he stuck his leg and then he came back. Unfortunately today Tyrese Maxey questionable with an illness.

I don't know maybe the Philadelphia 76ers are just one walking illness themselves they can they can barely ever stay healthy. So we got a lot to get into a lot to talk about a lot to discuss and then also the New York Yankees played a baseball game at Monday or on Monday today at one o'clock. Why the hell they decided to choose this awkward time for a game I have no idea. They ended up losing two to nothing to those athletics that are going to be moving to I don't know Sacramento and then Vegas but Aaron Boone was ejected for doing absolutely nothing because an umpire is stupid. A fan yelled from the stands he thought it was Aaron Boone.

Aaron Boone said it wasn't me the umpire said I don't care and he still gave him the boot one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life and of course I'll give you a couple of things that took place this day April 22nd in sports history. We got a lot to do if you want to holler at me here on the infinity sports network the phone number is 855-212-4227. It's 855-212-4227. You can find me online. I am everywhere where people waste their time and their productivity. I am at JR Sport Brief. Ryan Hickey how the hell you doing? You good man? I'm actually doing great JR. The weekend was very productive Mets two out of three against the Dodgers Rangers big game one win Knicks big game one win actually went to the game on Saturday night it was unbelievable so we're doing great on this Monday. Lovely you was in the garden huh?

In the building. When Joel Embiid went down what was it feeling like in there? I hate to say it there's a lot of excitement not for me not for I'm not gonna you know I don't root for injuries.

No I don't think anybody roots for the injuries but yeah it's good that he's not in the game but you don't want to root for an injury. There was yeah there's a lot of it was an interesting reaction I'll say there was a reaction at least in the section I was in I was not expecting and followed them by a shock by everybody that he walked out and played the entire second half basically that was I still know how that happened that feels like I know it wasn't very good but it still feels like a miracle he's even able to just walk after he fell. Wow that's that's Joel Embiid I mean it's a miracle that he can run up and down a basketball court I think that in and of itself now Nick fans are wild as hell especially after the game outside the garden upstairs outside of Penn Station on 7th Avenue were you a part of that crowd losing their minds?

I was not no saw that and they were like on the left side of me I steered clear went to the right. Okay all right good man all right well I'm glad you had a great weekend while you were at Madison Square Garden I was on the air in New York on WFAN so I had to talk to the people about John Sterling's retirement and then I talked about the New York Knicks and then about I would say maybe in less than an hour we're going to find out whether or not Tyrese Maxey is going to be playing for the Philadelphia 76ers this team is just the the walking wounded I picked the Sixers to win in seven if if if they were healthy and right now they ain't looking healthy and for Maxey to be sick what are you going to do people quote unquote get sick that's just this life and it's also a busy weekend we had some other amazing performances amazing games think about this yesterday Celtics beat the Heat what a shock there right 114-94 the most interesting thing about that game was when Caleb Martin decided to kind of push Jason Tatum out of the air I think he meant to foul him didn't think he meant to like destroy the guy out of out of the air on purpose also we saw the Clippers and the Mavs Clippers win 109-97 great performance by Damian Lillard. Giannis Antetokounmpo did not play yesterday the Bucks beat the Pacers 109-94 Damian Lillard decided to wake up and give you 35 points right out of the gate in the first half couldn't stop Pascal Siakam he had 36 points but with no Giannis Damian Lillard basically screamed to the crowd after he hit six three-pointers he told everybody this is why you brought me here and after them crap years with the Blazers Damian Lillard is glad to be back in the playoffs and not at Coachella listen to this man the last two years not being in the playoffs it was um you know it sucked I was um early vacations last year I was I went to Coachella like I ain't never been able to go to Coachella like it's just playing in the playoffs every year um so just having that that long summer it was like man I was I was over that um but being able to be in a playoff series on a you know a championship team and a championship organization um knowing that we got an opportunity for it you know I think that was the thing that I was looking forward to most okay that's fine well let's see how long he'll be in the playoffs because we have no idea what's going on with Giannis Ettorecumpo yeah all those superhuman powers and abilities didn't necessarily help him come back from that strain uh calf but we'll certainly see what happens with Giannis uh Damian Lillard holding it down last night somebody else who had an amazing performance we got to go back to Saturday this was probably the best matchup to open up the playoffs because who cares about Orlando and Cleveland I'm just being honest how about Anthony Edwards going at it with Kevin Durant Anthony Edwards finished with 33 points was like 14 of 24 from the field Kevin Durant had 31 Minnesota Timberwolves they come out on top this is supposed to be the big three from Phoenix that helps them win a championship and they've taken losses and so pretty amazing to to look at Anthony Edwards talk crap to the Suns after 33 points he's like man I talk all that trash talk personally these guys came in here and whooped us um in our home court the last game of the season and was was giggling laughing you know I mean like Bill said he he told our coach that he don't think we play hard enough and he was right you know I mean like uh Finchey didn't like that he came in um the next day and was like man you got guys on the other team telling me that y'all don't play hard enough for me and he was totally right oh listen not a game out here Timberwolves beat the Suns 120 to 95 and yeah they got to go out there and win three more but we all gotta take a little bit of time ain't no fun and games and how about games and how about this the late game tonight the Los Angeles Lakers and the Nuggets one of the Lakers gonna wake up they got swept in the Western Conference Finals last year against the Nuggets they lose game one 114 or 103 over the weekend Jokic just does whatever he wants 32 points 12 rebounds 7 assists Anthony Davis he showed up and had 32 but they gotta stop Jokic everybody knows what he's gonna do and nobody can ever stop him I think this is even outside of the Western Conference Finals there's got to be about 10 straight victories now that the Nuggets have just taken the lunch money from these Los Angeles Lakers that is not a joke Darwin Ham he looks at the third quarter and says yeah that's when they started whooping our ass well I think it started at the end of the second at the end of the first half and so uh them going on at 22 to 11 round whatever it was um it was I mean it's it's tough uh the championship team is not gonna beat themselves oh Hickey he said it was crap right is that what he said yes yes okay just took a precaution you know family from the show yeah I wasn't I wasn't sure just making sure yeah well Los Angeles Lakers have played like crap and Anthony Davis we'll talk more about him later on in the show not happy that he's not up for consideration for defensive player of the year and if he wants to make a statement Anthony Davis is going to have to stare into the face of Nikola Jokic and basically say hey yeah I'm the best defender in the league and uh you ain't doing nothing I don't know if that's in Darwin Ham's strategy but Darwin Ham was correct they played like crap in a different word and so we'll see what happens with these Los Angeles Lakers tonight everybody wants to see if they go down 0-2 if they go down 0-2 uh is it a wrap for the Lakers uh no it's not but if they go down 0-2 yeah people are gonna start panicking and so we'll talk to Trevor Lane about that in about 10 minutes but speaking of playing like crap Zach Wilson is done we'll get into this more later on in the show no longer a member of the New York Jets Zach Wilson traded out the door to the Denver Broncos for a bag of chips and some old bubble gum a sixth round pick a seventh round pick the Zach Wilson era is over in New York they took this man number two overall in 2021 I just remember very clearly a couple of seasons ago two seasons ago after losing to the Patriots in 2022 playing like absolute garbage this is when I knew Zach Wilson was basically cooked he said that we the offense and particularly me I ain't letting nobody down listen to this super frustrating you know it is it was a frustrating day of course you know I felt like I had some balls I got away from me but you know we got to find a way as an offense we got to do some we got to do some digging watch the film and see what we can do better as an offense though I mean when you guys are only able to score three points the defense only lets up three points I mean do you do you feel like you let the defense down at all oh they hated his guts from there they they had the bench of multiple times from there the only reason why Zach Wilson played last year is because they are now 40 year old quarterback he couldn't last more than four snaps into the game before his well his achilles blew out and so now he's gone and at least Aaron Rogers doesn't have to babysit anybody while he sits on the sidelines and speaking of old quarterbacks congratulations to Matt Ryan not a shock not a surprise it finished up with the Colts pretty terrible got benched Tiki I know you loved that a whole lot didn't you that was tough that's really tough to watch did you even want him on the team did you think he was going to help I did I really thought he's out he'd have a career bounce back a little rejuvenation and he was not good the Colts overall were not very good that was a disaster yeah well now he's done he's about to be 39 years old in a couple of weeks Matt Ryan decided to jump into the broadcast booth last year for CBS and told everybody this is not an official retirement but the retirement officially came today Matt Ryan got together with the Falcons signed a one-day contract to call it a wrap and this is what Matt Ryan had to say on the way out the door I truly believe that football like life is not simply about what you do but rather who you do it with and I was a better player because and I was a better player because of the people I was surrounded by so today 16 years after being drafted my childhood dream has officially come to an end I'm honored to retire as a Falcon thank you to all the Falcons fans for your continued support through the highs and the lows I always felt your energy and passion I want you to know that every day I felt the responsibility to give you the best version of myself but we didn't accomplish everything we had hoped I am proud of what we did and I know that I gave everything I could to be the best that I possibly could that Falcons fans didn't know what they had until he left okay now they got Kirk Cousins and so things are going to be okay now sometimes don't look a gift horse in the mouth you don't know what you got until it's gone Matt Ryan balled out from the day he arrived here in Atlanta from Boston College we'll talk more about Matt Ryan and his career later on in the show we'll get into Zach Wilson we're going to talk more playoffs there's a lot to get into if you want to talk to me it's simple it's 855-212-4227 I am everywhere at JR Sport Brief we are going to take a break and speaking of being done Matt Ryan is done his career is over Zach Wilson is done in New York he has to go to Denver and speaking of Denver there's another team that might be done it's the Los Angeles Lakers they're trying to avoid an 0-2 hole tonight in Colorado to talk about the Lakers and what they need to do and what this might mean if they take an L we're going to have a conversation with Trevor Lane of the Lakers nation Trevor Lane joining us on the other side more basketball more football more everything you're locked into the JR Sport Brief show here on the Infinity Sports Network T-Mobile has invested billions to light up America's largest 5G network from big cities to small towns including right here in yours and great coverage is just the beginning right now 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defending champion Denver Nuggets the Lakers went down 114 to 103 Nikolay Jokic continues to do whatever the hell it is that he wants to do and at this point in time it doesn't matter if it's the playoffs the regular season the Nuggets are just running them out of the gym I think it's almost nine ten consecutive victories here for the Nuggets against the Lakers and their next matchup is tonight to talk about one of the most famed teams on earth and what they need to do to turn things around and if they can we're being joined by Trevor Lane from Lakers Nation Trevor how are you man doing well thank you for having me on how are you doing I'm very well appreciate the time I guess everything is always a cause for panic in Lakers land give me some good give me some bad over or after what we just saw on Saturday well I mean it's certainly a lot more were bad than good and that they dropped game one and it was in a similar fashion to what we've seen from these two teams the game script out unfortunately essentially the same as what we've seen in the past you know the the Lakers they did just fine out of the gates but as the game went on the mistakes continued to mount and the Denver is fantastic probably the best in the NBA at taking advantage of mistakes that opponents make and ultimately that makes a huge difference they capitalize on every opening that you give them that's what makes them uh champions the good side for the Lakers is that of course LeBron James and Anthony Davis are healthy you always have a puncher's chance when you've got those two guys going they both had pretty strong performances but they're going to need a lot more from DeAngelo Russell in particular tonight if they're going to hope to get a little bit better in the next few years DeAngelo Russell in particular tonight if they're going to hope to get a win he was just one from not one for nine for deep in the uh loss in game one so some good a lot of bad but uh but the Lakers have got to find some way to flip the script on the Denver Nuggets if they're going to hope to make this any kind of a series well Trevor as you mentioned DeAngelo Russell it'd be hard pressed to do what he did again on Saturday 13.6 to 20 from the field when you look at the outside of the ball and in particular trying to defend someone who's likely to win his third MVP and Nikola Jokic do you see any potential adjustments are they just going to throw Davis on him is that a waste of time in regards to fouls how do you try to slow him down or give him a different look well and that's just it there isn't just one answer there isn't a different book to throw you have to throw a lot of books Adam that's the key because Jokic is so good at recognizing what his defenses are doing and then countering that he does that very very well on the fly so in terms of sending a double team do you put Rui Hunter Murrah on him which we saw the Lakers do in game one and let Anthony Davis be a roamer do you let Anthony Davis play him straight up if you do double where do you send that double from those are all things that are going to have to be adjusted within the game because there is no simple solution to stopping Nikola Jokic and that's why he's an MVP the Lakers over the summer made the decision not to go after a true physical presence in the middle to throw Jokic out on the market instead going with Christian Wood whose return is imminent and Jackson Hayes along with Anthony Davis and that could be hurting them right now they could use and a true physical presence in the middle to throw Jokic to give them on yet another different look so for now they're going to have to make do with what they've got and just try to mix up their pitches as much as they can Trevor Lane from Lakers Nation is here on the infinity sports network Anthony Davis just had some comments about not being in the final consideration for defensive player of the year we know about his length we know about his athleticism what do you say why isn't he in that go bear when Benyama grew why does he get that same type of love it's a head scratcher you know if you look at it you could say well okay the Lakers they didn't have as much team success as say the wolves did for Rudy Gobert and that makes but then why is Victor women Yama in the mix and this is and by no means saying that women Yama should not be in the mix he absolutely should be but if we're not going to disqualify Victor women Yama for his team not winning very many games why are we disqualifying Anthony Davis for what I would imagine would have to be the Lakers finishing in the 70 because he's a phenomenal defensive player certainly one of if not the best defensive players of this current generation of NBA players and so for him to the knock on him has always been well we can't give it to him because he didn't play enough games played more minutes than Jerry Jackson Jr did last season torched him in the playoffs and yet still got no love for defensive player of the year uh last year and the excuse was well he didn't play enough games this year played 76 games more than any other uh time in his career and still can't get in the mix he's frustrated uh I know Lakers fans are hoping that he'll take out that frustration uh tonight on the Denver Nuggets and have a really strong performance because it doesn't make a lot of sense to me well Trevor what do you think the rest of the series is going to look like are the Lakers going to walk out of this one uh victorious is there's going to be another defeat to the Nuggets so if it is if they drop game two here that I think we're going to see a Lakers team and we started to see it a little bit in game one where there's a sense of inevitability where they start to question whether or not they can actually win the series so a loss tonight I think would be assigned towards a short series now a Lakers win tonight would do the opposite it would suggest that they've got some fight in them that maybe they have stumbled upon some things that can work against Denver and it could create a longer series I'm still not expecting the Lakers to come out as the the winner of the series but could they extend this to six maybe seven games something like that a win tonight would suggest that whereas a loss tonight particularly if we see again that same game script play out I think that's going to start getting into the Lakers head so tonight's game is is pivotal I think it's going to tell us which direction this series is going to go the Lakers nation Trevor Lane is joining us when you think about what could take place in the off season from the Los Angeles Lakers we all know about LeBron James and his opt-out what could potentially happen here in this off season amongst James with the draft and trades what are some of the realistic possibilities to improve this roster as LeBron continues to get older and I would say he's gonna stay right he ain't leaving I would imagine yeah he's probably going to stay I don't think he's going to you know the potential was there for him to go play with his son brawny I don't know if brawny's gonna stay in the draft or not it feels like most likely LeBron's gonna wind up staying now he could still opt out and decide to sign a new contract could potentially ask for a no trade clause that's something that that could happen but I do think that when the dust settles he will wind up staying with the Lakers the question is how much pressure does he put on the Lakers what do the Lakers do in order to convince him to stay and that they can get over the hump and become a championship team once again and that's going to be on the Lakers front office to utilize the assets that they do have appropriately find some trades and things like that out there on the market and try to build what next season's Lakers will ultimately look like yeah trevor lane is here with us the jr sport re-show on the infinity sports network there's a lot of talks and conversations here in Atlanta about Trae Young and and having also De'Jaunte Murray here and and Trae Young owns a home out in Los Angeles area as well is that something that you find to be realistic adding a Trae Young to the mix are there assets that exist would a third team have to be involved yeah so I think that if Trae Young is indeed available on the market this summer the Lakers will be one of the teams that are that are interested he's a clutch sports client that's going to be a factor as well but yes I do think that Trae Young will be a target for the Lakers in terms of what assets they could part with you're looking at potentially the 17th pick in this year's draft in fact that the tie was just broken about 45 minutes ago or so that officially has the Lakers with the 17th pick this year the pelicans could take that pick in which case the Lakers could look to trade their 2025 pick so we're talking about as many as three first-round picks could be on the table we could be looking at players like Austin Reeves, Rui Hachimura, D'Angelo Russell should he opt into his contract now what we heard at the trade deadline in the De'Jaunte Murray trade talks was that the Hawks were not interested in D'Angelo Russell maybe their opinion has changed this summer when he becomes an expiring contract or if he's on a new deal they do a sign and trade something like that but if it hasn't then maybe that you need to get a third team involved in order to get the assets to Atlanta that they want but the bottom line the Lakers will have some trade assets to to play with and I do think they will very much be in on Trae Young if he's on the market. Now Trevor outside of Trae Young are there any other players that they can add to this roster to kind of push them into another space of competition another level?

Well I'll tell you I'll tell you what the guy that everyone I'm talking 29 teams right now except maybe the Utah Jazz because their history then everybody's watching Donovan Mitchell everybody's waiting to see what happens to the Cavs in the playoffs do they flame out early and then what does Donovan Mitchell do if he does not sign an extension with the Cavs this summer he has to be immediately put onto the trade market because that's a sign he is not planning on staying he has a player option next summer so Donovan Mitchell is the guy now there is going to be a long list of teams trying to get him should he be made available on the trade market the Lakers will not be the only team there's going to be a lot of teams out there trying to go after him I don't think the Lakers could actually wind up getting him I think they'll get out of bed but that's the other name to really keep an eye on in addition to Trae Young Donovan Mitchell is the guy that everybody's waiting to see what happens in Cleveland does he sign an extension and if not they're going to be lining up with offers now Trevor final question for you when you think about the draft and you had mentioned Bronny James and we know LeBron's extension do you think the Lakers just bring on his boy to kind of pacify him is that what we're looking at you know Bronny is the like the James family and clutch sport they made it clear that Bronny is going to do what he wants to do I think if he's available and he stays in the draft and it becomes clear that the Lakers can take him with like a second round pick or something then maybe they'll they'll do something like that but I'm not even convinced that he's going to stay in the draft this year I don't know he's going to get some feedback from teams but I think he would probably be best served going back to school if there was an opportunity to get him I think the Lakers would take it I don't know if they'd do it at the expense of the 17th pick I think they've got this pick whether it's the 17th pick this year or their 2025 pick next year they're going to have one or the other I really think they're going to heavily explore the trade market with that pick if they can get Bronny with a second rounder or something they'd probably do it but I think this first round pick that they're going to have they they're going to use that I think to try to upgrade the team immediately Now without a shadow of a doubt well Trevor thank you so much for taking the time to hop on we know it's a busy night as the Lakers try to stay out of an 0-2 hole tonight against the Nuggets where can people follow you and all of your work with Lakers Nation? Yeah you can find me most of our stuff goes up on the Lakers Nation YouTube channel youtube.com slash Lakers Nation as well as the Lakers Nation podcast which you can find on Apple podcast Spotify wherever you listen to podcasts that's my primary role there but we can also find our written work over at LakersNation.com and if you want to find me on social media I'm over on x at Trevor underscore lane. Yeah well listen Trevor we know the Lakers if anybody's going to be kept busy the Lakers are going to keep you busy and so thank you again for taking the time to hop on. For sure thank you so much for having me. Absolutely that Trevor Lane of Lakers Nation oh man it's crazy how how much the site has grown over the years the site has to be I want to say just about as old as the JR Sport Brief at this point in time I remember the guys who founded it has to be about oh almost 15 years ago and so thank you so much to Trevor Lane and the biggest Lakers site that I know community and fans and news it's all there Trevor Lane of the Lakers Nation. Yeah the Lakers they I said this the other day I thought the Lakers would win this in seven I don't believe in the depth of of the Nuggets but look I mean based on what we saw on Saturday they still don't have an answer for him nobody wants to to to test it and who am I to ask Darvin Ham why Rui Hachimura is the primary defender on Yo Kitchen you know you got Anthony Davis kind of like playing free safety let him play man to man like I don't know maybe that's too archaic maybe that's too old school but if there's a guy out on the park who's just giving everybody the business you got to send somebody out there to just stop him I mean if Anthony Davis and Trevor alluded to this if Anthony Davis is so butt hurt about not being included in the defensive player of the year a finalist or not being a finalist then go out there and prove it tonight against Jokic like you got a chance here in the series y'all did all that talking you the Lakers after the Nuggets won the championship well they kept the Lakers in the mouth and they kept mentioning us and and they beat us and why are y'all still talking about the uh and now you want to get back you're gonna get swept again and yes it's only one game and and today tonight is going to be real indicative about what things look like going forward but this is a mess go throw Anthony Davis on Jokic and let's keep it moving we don't care about the talk the defending champs and Jokic they're just running things it's crazy 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27 the Los Angeles Lakers they started off the the playoffs on a bad note the Clippers they started off on a good note against Luca and Kyrie against the Mavs we're going to talk about that other LA team on the other side of the break and we briefly touched on it to open up the show Damian Lillard lost his mind against the Pacers and Damian Lillard speaking of revenge Damian Lillard got a little bit of it himself we'll get into that on the other side of the break we're going to get into some NFL we got some NBA matchups in the playoffs that are getting ready to get underway JR wants to hear from you call him now at 855 212 4227 it's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network thank you so much to Trevor Lane for joining us in our last break to take a look at the Los Angeles Lakers they try to avoid an 0-2 hole tonight against the defending champion Denver Nuggets if they go down 0-2 then yeah you can probably take a good guess that Jokic is going to run them out of the series maybe the Lakers pick up one game if they don't pick that game up tonight but yeah there's another Los Angeles team competing here in the postseason we're in action yesterday against the Dallas Mavericks with no Kawhi Leonard what else is new Kawhi Leonard didn't play with that inflammation in his knee hasn't played basketball really all month here uh in April and so taking on the Dallas Mavericks I said to myself well maybe Dallas stands a chance here right uh uh no no not the way they started off Los Angeles beat them 109 to 97 this is really what you need to know about the game this is the worst possible outcome Kyrie Irving had 31 points Luka Doncic had 33 points and the next highest score for the Dallas Mavericks is a guy they traded for in the middle of the year PJ Washington had 11 yes it was Kyrie Luka and nobody else that's it and after PJ Washington Tim Hardaway jr came off the bench to have six points whoopty freaking do Dallas Mavericks had nobody it was two on whoever the hell else was on the Clippers that's it they had no damn help and then meanwhile James Harden with no Kawhi Leonard decided to have himself a little bit of a throwback James Harden pushed out 28 points to go along with eight assists he was six of 11 from downtown James Harden his role with the Clippers he's been more of a facilitator he's been more of a passer but after the game James Harden wanted to remind everybody listen man I can still score with everybody like I can score with the best of them you know I mean like still can score with the best of them my role for this team is just you know generating really good shots and making guys shots easier and then when my number of the score is called you support a basketball obviously wise out so I play making it meet my value is going to go up a little bit more and take advantage of it now I know he's thinking about his check as well he's like man I get a chance to show up and try to make some money Paul George had 22 points I mean even Zubach had 20 points and 15 rebounds Russell Westbrook off the bench had 13 and so the two-man Dallas Mavericks Kyrie with 31 and Luka with 33 they need some help they need a whole hell of a lot more help and Luka Doncic says man we got to get our lives together what are we doing we just got to play like we used to play like we played last 20 games of the of the season you know passing the ball cutting a ball moving I think we did a great job last 20 games so we just got to play like that okay all right yeah this this may not end well not this may not end well for Dallas even with no Kawhi Leonard are they going to consistently get enough help from anybody not named Kyrie or Luka and the answer is probably no and so I would look for the Los Angeles Clippers to handle this and even though Kyrie Irving is supposed to be Luka's help they they don't have enough depth and I think we've seen that throughout the course of the season and uh yeah I mean look could you imagine if Kyrie wasn't out there we'd be watching the same story and song and dance we've received from Luka Doncic over the past several years high usage a lot of usage until he's tired and gassed and then they lose good luck to the Dallas Mavericks they they got some work they have work cut out for them and congratulations to the Clippers getting the job done with no Kawhi Leonard speaking of getting the job done due to an injury Damian Lillard stepped up big time didn't he huh they talked about his core and adductor injuries and it didn't matter last night 109 to 94 the Bucks beat the Pacers Damian Lillard had 35 points 6 of 11 from deep oh yeah and by the way all those points were in the first half of the game and Damian Lillard he did not forget the fact that the Pacers knocked out the Bucks from the in-season tournament Hickey we don't we don't got another name for that do we yet no not yet the IST if you want to go short wise now I do know that Emirates is going to sponsor the tournament next year but to still have that they got to come up with a different name and what are they going to call it not the in-season tournament what is it going to be called you think sponsored by Emirates what could they possibly call it that makes sense good question the mid-season championship I mean it sounds worse but oh my god I know it's like hey why are we doing this crap mid-season right it's it's early what is it like in the first month second month or something like that yeah right in November December in season tournament I don't know early season tournament the who cares tournament I don't know the Pacers did the Pacers won right the Lakers won right there how important that tournament is the Lakers beat the Pacers in the tournament yes the Pacers were in the title game did not win it in Las Vegas that much I remember okay and the Lakers what did they do for the banner they they put like I don't even know yeah it's something I think they're forced to do it that's also I think kind of shows you the lack of respect well they're getting money from Emirates so good for them good for the NBA for getting Emirates to sponsor the in-season tournament but look Damian Lillard didn't forget who eliminated him Damian Lillard did not forget Tyrese Halliburton kind of mocking the Dame time a celebration Damian Lillard wanted to remind him that hey man you you got to stay humble in victory because it can come by back to bite you in the behind and Doc Rivers he basically told them he told the public he says when it comes to Damian Lillard and his confidence and you can't change him he's unwavering his confidence is literally unshakable it just really is you know it's it's funny he loves boxing we that's where we we kind of connect because I'm Ali and I grew up with boxing and you know it was good that I was right yesterday you know he took Haney I took Garcia clearly I know more about boxing but he's got that prize fighter like mentality it's almost like he was training for the fight and then when the bell rings he seems to be ready that's that's his mentality oh my god Hickey that fight was in Brooklyn did you see the highlights from that fight by the way I did not I did see Ryan Garcia won though I did not see the highlights oh he knocked them down a couple of times nobody could understand why they let the fight continue at the end of the fight well we knew he was he was drinking a beer at the weigh-in that's one thing after the fight he's smoking he's drinking he is setting the bar for our future boxers he's like listen I can smoke and drink all I want if you thought Floyd Mayweather Jr all he did was work hard and Ryan Garcia I don't know if he's playing crazy I don't know if he is crazy I don't know if he's like drinking apple juice out of the the beer container but he is uh I don't think you can I don't think you can folks fake smoke and that's what he certainly did man look look it up the Babe Ruth died is back huh beer and hot dogs for Babe 714 home runs maybe now Ryan Garcia is throwing it back and says you know smoking and drinking is now how champions are made listen it's it's embarrassing it's embarrassing to get beat up by a guy who played a nut and then smoke and drink his way to a victory like that's and Devin Haney is gonna have to crawl into a hole and do some work to get back you know what maybe maybe Joel Embiid I don't know if he smokes I don't know if he drinks but maybe if he hung out with Ryan Garcia 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