5.1.24 - JR SportBrief Hour 4

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That means that I'm JR. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love to everybody tuned in and locked in all over North America. Coast to coast. You could be in California. You could be in, I don't know, North Carolina, Florida, Texas.

Damn it. You could be in Toronto. What's up Toronto? We just had a caller from Toronto. You could be in Vancouver, Montreal. I don't know where you at, but thank you for listening. Being joined by my main man, super producer and host Ryan Hickey.

He's in New York City. You can always listen to the show on the free Odyssey app, your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. Sirius XM Channel 158.

And if you got a smart speaker, just ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. Me? I'm on the internet. I am. I'm at JR Sport Brief.

Go ahead, look it up. Got a photo with Chris Webber. Yeah, Chris Webber was here with us on the show. You missed it?

Hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We'll give you a little bit of a teaser in a second. We've got a busy show.

A couple of things that I need to update you on. Right now, this minute, thank you, God, get it over with. The Celtics are smacking up the Miami Heat 76 to 46. Boston is on the verge of knocking the Heat out of the postseason. There is no Jimmy Butler.

He's probably sitting around with a funny hairdo. And so yeah, this is the inevitable. Think about this, Bam Adebayo. Oh yeah, by the way, they're in the third quarter and they only have 46 points. Bam Adebayo has 21. The next highest scorer is Tyler Herro with seven points.

He's three of 13 from the field. Meanwhile, the Celtics are just killing them. Derek White has 20, Brown has 19, Tatum has 16, and the Celtics are just going to keep it moving.

Okay. And an hour from now, the Dallas Mavericks and the Clippers are going to go at it. This series is tied at two all, but we learned that Luka Doncic has a sprained knee. He doesn't know if he's going to play.

If it was a regular season, he would certainly be out there. A matter of fact, don't take my word for it. Luka Doncic was asked about his knee early this morning, and it was a very short, simple, and sweet response. Hey Luka, how's that knee? Not good.

Okay. Well, Kyrie Irving got to go out there and play by himself. He'll be in heaven. I hope Luka's out there. No Kawhi, no Luka. Of course, earlier on in the show, we talked about Tyrese Maxey helping to save the six or season seven points in 25 seconds. Had 46 points overall. We talked about the Milwaukee Bucks.

Just, there's so much going on. And then we, we spoke to Mark Jackson, the big Mark Jackson, the former power forward. Used to play for the Sixers, also played at Temple.

He's now a broadcaster for NBC Sports in Philadelphia. And we talked to him about big men. And so yeah, today, well, this is interesting to say. Today's show is all about the big men. Thank you, Mark Jackson.

And thank you, Chris Weber. And then also, of course, I gave you a new top six list. Last hour, we took a look at some of the best stars, young stars in the NBA right now. Who are some future stars 25 and under? You missed it?

Hit rewind, free Odyssey app. Here's a, here's a preview. And number six, I gave you Paula Boncaro. And number five, I gave you Tyrese Maxey. And number four, I gave you Anthony Edwards. And number three, I gave you Shay Gilgus Alexander. And number two, I gave you Victor Wenbanyama. And number one, I gave you Luka Doncic. You want the explanations?

Odyssey app. Real simple. Something else I need to update you on before I get back to some of this basketball. This is hilarious.

Hilarious. I told somebody today, you know, there's no more interesting fights and boxing. I'm a huge boxing fan. But even I know, like, the fights aren't there where people give a damn. And realistically, Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia might be the best fight of the year, at least the most noteworthy fight. I don't care who anybody else is fighting.

And Hickey, how about this? We talked about whether or not Ryan Garcia was like acting crazy to hype up the fight. And then he said he was acting crazy.

Well, Ryan Garcia via Dan Raphael, who's a big boxing reporter with ESPN for years, per multiple sources with knowledge of the results, Ryan Garcia tested positive for the band PED Osterine in a test related to the Haney fight. And then Ryan Garcia decided to show off his bottle of what is this stuff called? Ashwagandha? Is that what that stuff is? Hickey, you heard of that? No, no. Should I bother looking it up?

I think it's for energy and other things. Oh, yeah. He actually he's he is literally live tweeting. Oh, my God.

Here we go. He's acting crazy. He is.

Yep. He is. So Ryan Garcia tweeted a Bible verse.

No weapon against me shall prosper. That was the first tweet. He then said fake news, like if I was Donald Trump.

He says, I need more steroids, I'm addicted. Oh. I'm going to find out who paid to create this lie. Now I'm going to release everybody's stuff. Time to expose the snakes. Hey, Hickey, you're like this one.

The glove does not fit. Oh, boy. I see I'm like Trump. Now I'm positive for steroids. This is a straight attack. And here we have it. Three minutes ago, if I took the steroids, I'm for sure gay. And then the latest one from one minute ago on that 10 sec. Oh, they're trying to take away my greatest victory.

Kind of sad if you think about it. He says, I love you, Jesus. He says, now I'm not going to give him a rematch. I beat him easy, fair and square.

I'll be damned if I have to give him a rematch. Hickey boxing is. Is this WWE or boxing?

That's a great question, because that definitely feels like theater right now. If you're tweeting, what was that, 10 tweets you just read in the span of 10 minutes? I'm not going to open up another one. Yeah. If you tweet that much in that short of time, you are clearly not innocent. That's all I'll say.

You think you think he took the steroids, huh? Oh, if you didn't, I think you maybe sent out a tweet. I'm shocked. We're fighting this ASAP.

And then you go figure it out. You're not sitting and spending your time on Twitter tweeting about how much of a disgrace this is. And, you know, the other things he said and basically sitting on your ass and firing off tweets to let everyone know how innocent you are instead of proving your innocence. Ryan Garcia is 25 years old. So if he was a basketball player, maybe he'd make this list of the future stars. Let me tell you something. He is certainly he has raised his profile.

This is not a joke. He has raised his profile by acting crazy. Like Floyd Mayweather Jr. acted like a villain. You know, he created a persona, Money Mayweather, and I think some of it is not a persona, but he took it to another level. And now we have somebody who's just I don't know, he's acting like the real life version of Macho Man, Randy. He's acting like Macho Man, Randy Savage. If Macho Man was young in 2024 and a lot. And I guess maybe the present day version of Conor McGregor. Ryan Garcia.

Right. I mean, McGregor is a bad dude is a bad dude. All we need is Ryan Garcia is to threaten a guy with a broken leg and say he's going to, you know, do things to his wife.

That's all that's missing here. And fight an old guy for not drinking his whiskey and do some other things. Any barricades around?

Make sure there's no team buses anywhere near. Yeah, he's he got a he got a list. Thank you, Ryan Garcia, for keeping boxing interesting.

Also of note, and we didn't talk about it yesterday because is it a huge deal? Hickey, you heard this fight between Mike Tyson and which one is it? Jake Paul?

Jake Paul. It's going to be it's a sanctioned fight. It's going to go on their boxing records. Does Jake Paul have a boxing record? He does.

His record is like, I don't know, six and one, five and one, something like that. So I'm a novice when it comes to boxing. Yeah. So when you say this is a sanctioned fight, like this is going in like the boxing record books, the official record books.

Correct. This is not an exhibition fight. This is not, hey, let's show up and let's have an event and punch each other around and get permission to do so. This is going to go on their boxing records. So, for instance, if Mike Tyson loses this, quote unquote, fight, this is going to go on Mike Tyson's record.

No different than if he would have fought Evander Holyfield or anybody else. This is like this is a Mike Tyson fight. This is what it is. That's an embarrassment. And I'm sorry, that's an embarrassment for the sport of boxing.

It is. You can have Jake Paul, the fact that he is going to be in the record books and already has, you know, sanctioned, like that's ridiculous. Like, could you imagine me and you playing pickup basketball and going the NBA records, our points scored in that game is like in the record books.

Me and you have points in the NBA all time score. That's it. Like, that's ridiculous. Yeah. And, you know, it's one thing. And look, there's there's hundreds of I don't even know, thousands of people who have boxing records. Right. And Jake Paul, here's his record.

I just pulled it out. He's he's 10 and one. And the only guy who beat him is Tommy Fury, which is the brother of Tyson Fury. Like, that's his record. And all these other folks that he fought.

I mean, Nate Diaz, MMA fighter, Anderson Silva, MMA fighter, Terron Woodley, MMA fighter, Ben Askin, MMA fighter, Nate Robinson. God bless his soul. Nate Robinson is like, hey, if I don't get a kidney, I'm going to die. Like he's a basketball player. So it's one thing to look at this guy's record and say this man is gaming the system and God bless him. He's making tons of money.

If you can do it, then do it. It's another thing to have a fight with Mike Tyson and have that on his. This is you can't make this stuff up.

If you would have told me this in like the 90s or the 80s, I would have said, what are you talking about right now? Mike Tyson is going to fight a guy from the Internet and it's going to be on his record. Who is not Lennox Lewis, like what is this?

I can't you can't make this stuff up. The validity of the sport, and I know a lot of people go, oh, well, this is good for boxing and the attention that it gets. Oh, it's a circus sport right now. It's a it's a clown sport, man. Ryan Garcia live tweeting.

It's just it's nutty. Well, these young guys are just I don't even know. Anyway, speaking of young guys, I told you we had Chris Webber here on the show. And I also gave you a top six list of future stars in the NBA, big time stars, 25 and under. And Chris Webber, we had such a great conversation. If you missed it, I encourage you to check it out on the free Odyssey app. And we talked about everything from Michigan, the current state of the NBA.

It just hit everything. Jokic. And one of the things like right out of the gate that Chris Webber wanted to address was the man that I had here on my list, Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards, without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the brightest young stars in the NBA, is only 22 years old. And Chris Webber?

Well, see, Webb told us what makes Anthony Edwards different. I think when you look at his story of him getting into the league, he embraced a lot of hardship before that. And I think it's his passion. I think what stands out with a lot of guys is their passion, because passion makes you consistent, consistent with effort, consistent with thoughtfulness on the court.

And you see him becoming the leader. I mean, how to, you know, right now the league with OKC in Minnesota being two of the top teams in the West being that young, that's something, man. So that's what makes him different, having the same talent as a few other teams that are six on up. But his impact and the way that the, you know, the veterans on his team embrace him, that says a lot about how he is in the locker room, off the court. So I think a lot of his intangibles is what really I'm a fan of. Yeah, he just goes out there and he, quote unquote, gets it. And I love it.

Hickey, you know what else I love about this man, Anthony Edwards? He wants he wants to play every game. He might be the guy that sets the standard for, man, y'all sitting out.

He might call him some words there. You know, I appreciate that's what the league is needed. All these older dudes. And when I say older dudes, let's think about it. The Kawhi's and OK, I put LeBron in a different category. He's the oldest, but like Kawhi needs to sit, can't stay healthy and and be can never stay healthy.

And I get it. Anthony Edwards is 22. I think he's going to age just fine.

I hope these these young guys just go out there and want to get it. He's not the only dude that Chris Weber showed a lot of love to. Chris Weber, known for his passing, his shooting, getting up and down the court, was known for his power. Chris Weber did it all out there. Chris Weber had some love for the man who will likely be MVP, Nikolai Jokic, because Chris Weber talked about what makes him so damn special himself. I think what makes Jokic spectacular is one, his skill set, the way that he plays. A lot of people were criticizing him, just like LeBron and others, for playing the right way. So one, he went through that criticism, he plays the right way. Two, he trusts players. I mean, a lot of times you see guys taking bad shots, ill-advised shots because they don't trust the player when that's really why he's getting assists. You know, when you're a good passer, guys run harder when you get the ball. They cut with integrity. They make sure that the spacing is correct because they know that whoever's in the right position will get the ball.

It's not just standing around and watching. And lastly, I think the coaching staff of Denver is the most slept on coaching staff. All coaches on Denver are coaches' sons. All coaches on Denver, dad's coached in the NBA. One, takes a lot to be a coach's son. Two, to be able to have that historic value and be able to bring it and adopt it to the game today. That's something special. And so I think it's the perfect storm, but it all starts with his heart, passion, and the way that he plays the game as IQ.

Oh man, genius. You know, Hickey, I never, I never thought about that, but it's true. And my God, how many coaches does a team need? Denver Nuggets, Hickey, they got one head coach. We know Michael Malone. I know his dad, Brendan, was a coach, also an assistant with the Knicks. You got, you got Michael Malone as the head coach.

They have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. They have eight assistant coaches. What the, does every player need his own coach? So he goes out to basically, right?

Not bad. Personal coach, a personal scout, not awful. And then player development coach.

I didn't count these guys in. Player development coach, player development coach, player development associate, player development associate, special assistant to the head coach. Just what are we doing?

I mean, they're the champs, so what am I going to say, right? Maybe that's why they won, because they have all these coaches breaking down all this film, getting all the game plans ready, you know? And so the names that I recognize here, and this is amazing, wow. David Adelman. I know C-Web is familiar with David Adelman because his dad was the coach, Rick, for the Sacramento Kings. Ryan Saunders, you might remember Ryan, his dad. Flip, coach the wolves. Former player, Papa Jones. Ryan Bowen, I think I might, I think I, I think his dad played.

Those are the names that, that stand out to me. We even have a Stojakovic here. This can't be Pajas. This cannot be Pajas, kid. Olyan, I'm going to look this up in a break. This kid, Pajas Stojakovic, wow.

Hey, they just hickey out there. Well, and my dad wasn't an NBA, was your dad an NBA coach? Uh, no.

No, he was not. Okay, so we can't, we can't coach on the Nuggets either then. And I guess we can't pave the way for our kids. We can. A few things that we learned today.

Neither, neither one of us are billionaires like Stephen Ross or Michael Bloomberg, 106 billion dollars. And I guess neither one of us will coach on the Nuggets staff. Hey, a big shout out to Chris Webber. Excellent, excellent conversation. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. When we come back on the other side, I'll give you an update on this game.

The Celtics blast in the heat. And then I, I gotta, I gotta talk about this. I mentioned some of the disasters, some of the young players that should have been on my top six list. There's no Zion is no John Moran. There's another disaster. Charles Barkley talked about it and it has to do with Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. I'm afraid it. I'm afraid that probably Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley will never be friends again. I'll explain why. And you'll hear from Charles Barkley. It's the other side of the break.

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That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. A lot of basketball tonight. I think why not start with Chris Weber, Mark Jackson is a fun show. And then the playoffs are going on right now. How about this? At the end of the third quarter, the Boston Celtics are still smacking the living hell out of the Miami Heat. Can't end their season fast enough. Stupid screen.

Where the hell did it go? 98 to 66. Miami Heat season is over. Thank God.

No need to prolong the bleeding. It's not like Jimmy Butler plays basketball anyway. Can't wait to see what he wears on the first press conference day. Cut out the nonsense with the locks and the hair and afros and all that other stuff. Just play basketball. No more funny gimmicks. Just go be a winner again. Getting kind of lame for a player who's old and busted up. Anyway, we're going to hear from Charles Barkley in a second.

He had some interesting words about Michael Jordan and his son. I don't think they'll ever be friends again, but let's go to the phone lines. Let's go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I guess this individual should be happy. We got Josh and Philly. You're on the JR Sportbree show. What's up, Josh? How are you, JR?

Amazing. What's up? So, since the Philadelphia 76ers aren't going quietly out of the playoffs, regardless of what happens at the end, do you think they should move on from Embiid? How the hell are you going to move on from him? If I remember off the top of my head, I think he's under contract until 2027. How the hell are you going to move? Where's he going?

I don't know. Yeah, like you got to have somebody has to want him and somebody has to want to pay him the amount of money that he's owed. And that's kind of ridiculous if you ask me, like, who's taking him on? He's injury prone. Like, he belongs to them and pretty much them only.

Nobody. Yeah, I'm right. His contract runs until 2027. Over the next several years, he's getting 50 million, 50 million, 50 million and then 60 million bucks. Who wants that contract? Yeah, you might be right on that.

Yeah, I think I am. He's stuck with the Sixers because ain't nobody else going to want him. And it can't cut him like this is guaranteed money. It's not football. Enjoy the ride, OK?

I mean, Tyrese Maxey may drive you to the Promised Land and Embiid may bring his one and a half leg with him. I don't know. Yeah, before I before you let me go, would I be able to ask you one more question quick? I charge by the minute. Go ahead. All right.

This is a random one. This is something that Dan Patrick was talking about recently. What's your take on like ESPN or like CBS starting to cover like WWE wrestling? Do you think it more like does it make it more of a sport or do you think it just makes it more of a circus that they cover it? No, it's it's entertainment and it's certainly an athletic element to it. I mean, are you into professional wrestling? I used to be when I was younger and I still watch like WrestleMania and some of their bigger pay per views.

So, so do I. There are so many athletes who participate, legitimate athletes who participate in wrestling. And yes, I think we all know it's scripted. Like anyone who's like, oh, it's scripted. It's not real.

Like, yeah, so is the movie that you're watching. But these are real athletes. I mean, you have you have veterans, you have you have basketball players, you have people who played ball in college.

Look, Bill Goldberg was in the NFL for the Falcons. I mean, we got we got real athletes. They are gymnasts. The WWE active. They actually have NIL deals like they are actively recruiting athletes, track stars, people who work in team sports, football players. We have legitimate wrestlers like Greco Roman Wrestling, Matt Wrestling at this.

These are athletes who are competing. And so I could care less. I mean, if there's an element that's interesting, like we don't talk about WWE here unless I want to be a jerk. I mean, last night I made a reference to Ravishing Rick Rude. And yeah, but I'm not going to sit here and go, oh, I don't know, Cody Rhodes, you know, beat Roman Reigns.

Who cares? You can save that for wrestling, but it doesn't bother me. Like what, Dan Patrick doesn't like it?

Well, I felt like Dan Patrick. Yeah. He was kind of saying that he feels like it. The line has to be drawn somewhere on like a couple of boxing and UFC, but you know, different. I think he kind of rags on wrestling. It's the athletes and maybe, maybe that's his job. Maybe that's his thing.

If he feels that way, it's his, that's his prerogative to me. You know, Charlie Brown, right? You know, Charlie Brown? No. Hold on a second.

Hickey put them on hold. He thinks I'm referring to like an athlete named Charlie Brown. He don't know Charlie Brown.

I really hope not. Yeah. Bring him back. What's his name? Josh. Right. Yes, sir.

Hey, Josh. Yes. You know, Charlie, Charlie Brown. I'm not talking about some picture on like the, the, the, the guardians.

Charlie Brown, a cartoon. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Of course. Oh yeah. Of course.

I was worried. You thought I was referring to some athlete? Yes. I thought. Yeah.

I, it sounds like a picture for a baseball team. Charlie Brown with an ERA of 2.5 and four victories on a season. No, Charlie Brown and hangs out with that big nose Snoopy. That's Charlie Brown. Do you remember what the teacher sounded like in Charlie Brown? Yeah.

What the teacher sound like? Yeah. That's that sounds like Dan Patrick complaining about wrestling of all things. Hey, tell them to go visit a show and talk to some of the athletes that actually exist in the back. There are some high class, ridiculously decorated athletes. And if it's, if it's this thing to crap on wrestling and he wants to push buttons, then Hey, that's his shtick, I guess. But now there's, there's some amazing athletes back there and I respect them because what they put their bodies through, and then you put it in the scripted element. I mean, last year I had Seth Rollins on the JR sport reef show. Seth Rollins is one of the most gifted athletes I've ever seen in my life. His athleticism, his speed. Uh, he's, he's, he's very into, uh, cross tra- it's, it's nuts.

They do things that most people sitting on their ass couldn't get up and do. But Josh, thank you for calling from Philly, man. I appreciate you. Thank you so much. Have a good show, JR.

Thank you so much. Hickey, I was like, he got me scared for a second. Like, you don't know Charlie Brown? Like, he's a, you gotta know Charlie Brown. Even I know Charlie Brown.

That's saying something. Like what age, I guess you gotta be a baby to not know, not a baby, but what's the cutoff for not knowing Charlie Brown? 10 right now? 15? 15, right?

Yeah, I guess. People know Snoopy. They know Snoopy. Lucy, the bird. Oh, look at you. The bird?

Woodstock. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not great at names.

No, it's okay. Is Marco here? Marco's here?

Yup. At what age would somebody not know Snoopy? Cause I feel like he's aged out, right?

He's not popping like he used to be? That's the thing. Like I, my kids know it, but that's because my wife likes it. But I don't think they've actually ever seen like a Peanuts anything, an episode of this or that. So I don't think kids know that stuff at all. It's not the holidays unless I see Snoopy, you know? Yeah. I don't think they watch that stuff anymore, man. It's not on, it's not on whatever an app. They're not watching, you know, Rudolph and whatnot come the holidays.

They're just, they're just not doing it. You know what I need? I need celebrity death match. I need Charlie Brown versus baby shark to finish it all. You know what?

I'll watch that. Hey, we need to get baby shark and what a, what a, what a, Paw Patrol. We need to get all of these things out of here. I need Snoopy and who else would it Snoopy and Bullwinkle and Bugs Bunny to put a wrap to all of these cartoons.

That's what I'm saying. They don't, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, they don't know that stuff. All the stuff that we watched when we were kids, it's not really on now. So like kids are watching different stuff, man.

Everybody's so sensitive. Can you put Bugs Bunny on right now? I don't know. Elmer Fudd, you can't dress Elmer Fudd. If you put Elmer Fudd in a skirt and put him on TV right now, it's going to be a riot outside. They're going to protest. Well, nevermind.

He's got a rifle and he's going to blow Bugs's head off. I mean, like, no, I don't, I don't think that works anymore. I think we've passed that part. Yeah. We can't, we can't do a lot of things. What a, what a world, what a world.

We need to eliminate all these. Can I use that word? I was going to get in trouble again, Marco. Am I allowed, Hickey, can I say pansy on the radio? Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay.

I can say pansy. Yeah. Hickey, Marco, do I get an email in the morning?

I don't know, but Hickey's hesitancy may be a little nervous. It is clear to say you're not going to get fined. Right. Oh yeah. I know that.

So, I mean, every, I mean. A pansy is a plant. Okay.

That's, there we go. Learning a little horticulture here. It's a plant.

It's a beautiful purple. Uh-oh. I'm in trouble.

A weak or effeminate man or boy. Here we go. It's the JR Sport Brief show here on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm going to take a break. When I come back, I'm going to let Charles Barkley say something crazier. I'm going to tell you about a few things that took place this day in sports. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, we, we talked a lot of basketball tonight, uh, with, with good reason. Listen, listen to this, folks.

And this is, this is wild. We know Tyrese Maxey saved the behind of the Philadelphia 76ers last night. And the last time the 6ers hosted a home game, the fans in New York, right up the road, basically took over the arena. They took over Wells Fargo arena because New York is a hop, skip and a jump from Philly.

And so as a result, and this is so lame and I get it, it's a PR move. It just is like, oh, well, wait, we're the real fans. Michael Rubin, the rest of the owners of the 6ers said, we just bought more than 2000 tickets for 6ers game six. We absolutely cannot let Nick fans take over our arena again, giving these tickets to first responders, healthcare professionals, and other local Philadelphia based organizations. Once we know that they are legit 6ers fans and not imposters. Ha ha ha face. Let's go 6ers.

We can do this. Hickey, isn't that kind of lame? Isn't that lame? That is pathetic. I'm sorry.

That is absolutely pathetic. You, the owners of the team have to buy tickets and give them away to keep your own, well, to keep the opposing fans out. Your own fans won't like, like blow up the building.

I don't know, man. I thought Philly people were tough. I was born in Philadelphia, but I thought Philly people were tough. I can't imagine Madison square garden being overrun with 6ers fans because 6ers fans are not going to want to go to New York and deal with that in the garden, but the Philly fans will what. And you know, what's even more pathetic about forget just the act of the buying tickets. Cause you're afraid Nick's fans are going to take over your building. It's also then using the first responders and healthcare workers as a prop to shield yourself from criticism. Cause it's one thing it's, Oh, we're just going to give it a 6ers fans.

You can get roasted, but Oh, look, we're going to give it a first responder. So now anyone that was willing to criticize the 6ers, it's a little bit more difficult because of, Oh, you're doing a good deed for people that again, do are the real heroes in this world, but they're using them just to shield themselves from criticism. Not because they actually care at the takeover in game four didn't happen. This is never happening. Pathetic. A lot of, a lot of spin right now with this is just a hundred percent, a lot of spin.

Oh my God. And it won't work. Hey, good, good luck. I mean, the 6ers are the ones with the momentum right now in the New York Knicks. Oh, well they got to try to win one in Philadelphia. It's, it's not going to be easy.

So a good luck to them there. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Speaking of criticism, I'm going to have to watch this at some point before the week is up. Charles Barkley sat down with Shannon shark. Oh my God.

Yes. It, they, they sat down together and Charles Barkley, who is someone who was always willing to speak his mind. I mean, last night we heard from him about a Galveston, Texas and the dirty water and the big old women in San Antonio. Those are his words, not mine. Charles Barkley, we know hasn't had the best of relationships with his old friend, Michael Jordan, because he's criticized him publicly about basketball, the team he doesn't even own anymore.

I don't know if they'll ever be friends because Charles Barkley gave some thoughts about Michael Jordan's son and Scottie Pippen's ex-wife and they're on and off again. Relationship. Listen to this.

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