5.7.24 - JR SportBrief Hour 4

It is! The JR Sportbrief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Much love and many thanks to everybody tuned in and locked in. Just how about this, all over the world.

Forget the country, just everywhere. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey. He's joining us, holding it down on the boards in New York City. It's a busy night. I mean, we've got an NBA game going on right now, this very minute, this very second. What a shock to anybody, right?

Maybe not. The Boston Celtics, they are taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Celtics are smoking them 102 to 79. There's nine minutes left in the game.

Let's just hit the fast forward button and put the damn Celtics in the Western Conference. Oh, damn it. What am I talking about? Pause it, Hickey.

Pause it. Hickey, what the hell is wrong with me? What happened to me? I don't know the West from the East.

What happened? Did I fall and hit my head? Hey, maybe you just think you're, I was gonna say the Southern Hemisphere.

That doesn't make any sense either. I don't know. It's one of those days. Did you hit your head too? Maybe. Possibly. Let's hit the music again. The Boston Celtics, yeah. Let's fast forward to the Eastern Conference Finals.

That makes sense. In the Northern Hemisphere. Yeah, Hickey and I know geography. We know geography. We got it. Anyway, we got another basketball game. I know these guys are in the West.

We got game one between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Dallas Mavericks. That game is scheduled to tip off in about 30 minutes. You can always listen to the show starting at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. I'm here every single weeknight. That means Monday through Friday.

See, there's a few things that we know. You can always tune in on the free Odyssey app. You can lock in on your local affiliate Sirius XM 158.

And if you got a smart speaker, ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. A couple of news items here. We talked about this last hour. Congratulations to the WNBA. Because of Kaitlyn Clark, everybody is flying private. They're flying on charter planes. And they're not going to say this publicly, but they don't need Kaitlyn Clark going through no Dallas airport. They don't need her at JFK Airport. They do not need her at Hartsfield Jackson with 20 security guards and 50 million cameras in the face. It's an accident waiting to happen. It's a disaster waiting to happen. And oh, yeah, I guess they finally feel comfortable with the money because they're going to be allocating about 50 million dollars over the next two years to ensure that every WNBA team, all 12 of them, that they fly private.

So no more sitting next to Uncle Joe on that crowded United flight. That is long gone. Also, we learned that Jamal Murray, the idiot who decided to throw a heating pad onto the basketball court yesterday, has not been suspended by the NBA. He's only been fined one hundred thousand dollars. That's it.

That's it. Patrick Beverley decided to apologize. The NBA still investigating Patrick Beverley throwing a damn basketball at two fans last week. I think Patrick Beverley is going to face a suspension and a fine. And he might be shortchanged maybe for the next season.

Maybe nobody picks him up. Also, Rashid Rice already facing eight felony counts for driving like a maniac in Dallas and causing a car crash while he raced through the metroplex. He allegedly punched a photographer last night in Dallas at a nightclub. You can't make this stuff up, man.

You cannot make this stuff up. He don't want to be in the league. You don't want to be in a league. We talked about the Nuggets and T-wolves. Thank you so much to our guest, Scott Hastings, former Nugget, current analyst, for joining us. Rudy Gobert, officially named Defensive Player of the Year four times.

He ties a record with Dikembe Mutombo and also Ben Wallace. A matter of fact, let's listen to Rudy Gobert because he talked about working with this team, working with the wolves. And Rudy Gobert says, and I'm not going to fake a French accent. He's just like, listen, I helped the team defensively and they follow my lead. That's what he told TNT.

I think. I mean, it's great teamwork. You know, we you we love to give individual awards and all these things and and it's great, but you can't do it alone. And, you know, I really have a lot of gratitude for Tim Conley, Chris Finch, all my teammates believing in me, allowing me to do the best every day and, you know, and and just try to change the culture here in Minnesota. You know, it's crazy to the guys for biting and coming every single night with the same mindset. You know, we really wanted to be a defensive-minding team and we've been able to do that so far this year.

Yeah. What a couple of days for Rudy Gobert. He got a new baby.

The baby's born yesterday. And today he wins Defensive Player of the Year. And the way that the Minnesota Timberwolves are rolling, I mean, damn it, they may be in the Western Conference finals. And so we'll see what happens. Their next game is Friday. The Minnesota Timberwolves will be in action against these nuggets.

Game three on Friday. It's been a busy day. And, you know, we've heard some real stupid things. All right. Like right before the break, we went through a few dumb things.

We talked about Rishi Rice. Stupid. Going through, driving like a nut through downtown Dallas, causing an accident, and then you're going to a club allegedly punching people.

He doesn't want to be in the lake. But we talked about Patrick Beverley, who decided to come through and actually apologize again on his podcast. Stupid. An idiot. Jamal Murray throwing a heating pad onto a basketball court. I would have suspended him for a game.

This isn't a matter of the the NBA influencing the games. He could have seriously hurt somebody. An idiot. And today, and Hickey, I don't know why we had this conversation a couple of weeks ago.

It must have passed by. Doc Rivers' son. Hickey, he got a name, right? Is it Austin Rivers? That's his name?

Austin Rivers. He's doing television now, right? He is. That he is.

Uh oh. You don't sound too enthusiastic about Austin Rivers on commentary, no? I've heard him a few times.

There's nothing that leaves me wanting more or wanting me to hear what he has to say about things. Well, we gotta, we gotta give him some type of credit. Shout outs to Austin Rivers. He had a good career at Duke. He's been in the NBA since 2012.

Last year was pretty much it. And now he's been on ESPN. And so Austin Rivers had some interesting thoughts that he wanted to share with Pat McAfee.

And, you know, Pat McAfee is someone else who's been able to transcend media. I mean, he got a whole big old deal on ESPN. And so you got a former punter, you got a former NBA player, two ex-athletes who are now in media. And so when you got an NFL guy and you got an NBA guy, it's natural that they're going to get together and they're going to talk about what sport or which sport is more difficult. They're going to talk about whether or not an NBA player can play in the NFL and whether or not an NFL player can play in the NBA. A matter of fact, I want you to take a listen to this clip right here as Austin Rivers, former shooting guard in the NBA, son of Doc, decided to have a chat with Pat McAfee, former pro bowl punter for the Colts.

Listen to this. We're the best athletes in the world are that's us. I can take 30 players right now in the NBA and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take 30 NFL players and put them in the NBA. Five on the court.

Let's just, let's all relax. You're going to break every play. I got to just catch the ball and run north or south. Whoa.

Well, you got, Hickey, what did you say? Well, you got to do is catch the ball and run north to south. Is that what he said about NFL players? That's right.

And they get breaks after every play. So it's easy. Wow. Wow.

Wow. You know, somebody who wanted to respond is someone who's going into the hall of fame, JJ watt, former star for the Texans finished up his career with the cards. He says, man, so Austin rivers, you don't got a job in either the NFL or the NBA right now.

Go ahead and try it. JJ watt then wanted to reiterate that he could not play in the NBA. He says, I know that he says, I can give you six hard fouls and that's it. And of course, there are a lot of athletes all over America, halfway athletes, high school athletes, college athletes, weekend warriors, guys who were the star in the high school team. There's a lot of people who feel a certain way. There's a lot of people who play basketball and football.

There aren't a lot of people and correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know anybody who's played both at a professional level. We have not had that Bo Jackson on an NFL field and a basketball court. We've had plenty of athletes who've come through and have had success on a college level. We've had plenty of football players who've had success on a basketball court and maybe they could have made the NBA.

Come on, Tony Gonzalez, Antonio Gates. Have you seen Terrell Owens with a basketball in his hands? I mean a Jimmy Graham. We've had football players who've excelled at basketball. In a lot of cases, they can be quarterbacks. In a lot of other cases, they're wide receivers, they're tight ends. And so maybe this leans towards what Austin Rivers had to say. And I think it matters at different levels.

And just for clarity's sake, let's be real clear right now today. If we looked at the NFL talent pool as it exists right now, and we looked at the NBA talent pool as it exists right now, do you think we could snatch an NFL player off of the field and put him in an NBA game and he be successful? I don't know about that. Do you think an NBA player would have more success right now today on an NFL field? I don't know, but let's be real.

Both are difficult. When you think about the skill that's necessary on an NBA court, it's ridiculous. The athletes are not only just tall, they're long, they're athletic, they're quick, they're agile, the endurance is through the absolute roof. To think that a football player is going to step on to an NBA court unless you've just really been busting ass in basketball your whole life, man, you could be super athletic. You could be the most athletic wide receiver. Damn it, you could be, I don't know, Christian McCaffrey, a running back. You could be Justin Jefferson.

You could have a crossover. That don't mean you could shoot. That doesn't mean that you're going to go into the lane. What are you going to do? Meet Rudy Gobert like this?

This is tough. Meanwhile, if I got to think about someone who plays basketball, I don't know. LeBron James.

I mean, this was a joke like 10 years ago on the lockout. Could LeBron James play tight end? 6'9", 250. You know, I mean, he can't out jump somebody. He couldn't be a Megatron out there on the football field.

I mean, you think about this. You couldn't be a cornerback. You think about someone like Russell Westbrook. He couldn't lock you down on the corners. Now, look, I'm not expecting a basketball player to play on the inside. He ain't going to be on the defensive line. He's not going to be no offensive lineman.

But you think about some of the men that I mentioned who transitioned from basketball, but then went full time into football. Think about the positions that they play. Tight end. Wide receiver. Quarterback. All things considered, and I know Austin Rivers might have sound a little bit nutty when he said it, I think you are more likely to have a basketball player be successful or have success in the NFL than vice versa. I think if you can catch the ball and run and maybe jump higher than the other guy, I think you could come down.

I'll tell you this, though. NFL players are tough. NBA players don't want the physicality.

They don't want to get hit. NBA players, that's the part about it that I don't want to understate. It's one thing you get hit once. Your whole life can change.

Your life can flash before your eyes. And so much respect to the NFL players, much respect to the NBA players. But the fact of the matter is, if you just looked at NFL guys and said, hey, how many can play in the NBA right now today? I think we'd find more guys in the NBA could put on some pads and maybe do a little bit of something, because in an NBA game, it's not specialized skill in the same way. Everybody, to a certain degree, for the most part, you got to shoot a little bit. Yeah, we got big men who don't shoot, but now almost every big man has to shoot. You got to dribble a little bit. You got to run.

You got to jump. NFL a little bit more specialized. I think I agree with Doc Rivers son. Sorry, I agree with Austin Rivers. I think we could take a couple of NBA players today, and I think we could get some results. Another thing is, yeah, in order to get hit, you got to get caught.

Hickey, what do you think? I disagree. I think it's easier for NFL to go to NBA because both have to learn, right, the requisite skill. Like you said, the skill level has never been higher, so the transition has never been more difficult, but at least when you go from NFL to NBA, all you have to really worry about is them refining their skills. When you go from the NBA to the NFL, you are not only learning a new skill.

You also have to learn toughness. I think that gene is truly lacking in the NBA that I don't think players recognize or respect the toughness that it takes to put on a helmet and shoulder pads and go over the middle and what it's like to get hit. I think every NBA player, if they were to go over the middle and get hit one time, they would not go back on the field, and so at least with the NFL, there's no toughness they have to learn. Where NBA, there's skill and toughness. I agree with you. Toughness is it.

One hit, but you got to get hit. It has to happen first. So let's think about this, because we don't know. I mean, one of the best basketball players I've ever seen in my life, or a guy with a basketball in his hands that was an NFL player, was T.O. It was Terrell Owens. Is there an active NFL player right now today that you feel confident could contribute in any type of way?

And let's just say one NBA game? Um. I mean, Derek Henry, I feel like would be a good power forward. I don't know if you can dribble or not. I don't know.

Yeah, but that's the thing. We don't know. We have no idea. Do you have an answer in terms of the other way around?

Do you have an NBA player that you think if you put in an NFL game could contribute? I mean, so let's let's let's put it this way. Maybe not like right off the bat. Let's just say you had a let's say you had two weeks. Let's say this guy, this player had a month, right?

Is that is that reasonable? All right. So they have a little bit of training camp. All right.

Sure. And in that case, we snatch an NFL guy, put him on the NBA. You take an NBA guy, put him for a month, put him in the NFL. I would say maybe Russell Westbrook from a few years ago, Russell Westbrook, a LeBron James. I don't know. I mean, not Victor, when they smashed that guy in half, he has no, no, no sense of gravity, right?

No low center of gravity. So not him. Those are my guys, some of these athletes.

I wouldn't be surprised or shocked. You got a guy like Anthony Edwards. I mean, can he move from left to right? I mean, could he not be a running back?

You know, he's he's what, six, five, six, six. He might be Brandon Jacobs out there, for all I know. I just think that there's there's more skill that you're right. And it's a matter of skill versus toughness. But I think when you think about some of the skill positions in the NFL, you gave a guy a month of training. Hey, can you be a wide out? Can you be a corner?

I think those are more transferable skills. Whereas an NFL guy. Yeah, he's tough as hell. Can he shoot? Can he dribble? Can he do it with these freakish athletes? I don't know about that.

But you know what, Hickey? I don't think we're ever going to find out, man. I don't think we ever will.

This is one of those debates where we will live only in hypotheticals and we'll never see it come to fruition. One day we're going to get a guy. And I think the tight end is the position. It's that it's that Tony Gonzalez. It's that Antonio Gates. It's that guy who's able to say, oh, yeah, I can be a forward in the NBA and I can be a tight end here in football.

I think that's the most comparable thing because we've seen it. I'm going to go with an NBA guy. I know, Hickey, you going with the NFL. You know what? We're going to open up the phone lines right now.

It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Do you agree with Austin Rivers? Is it easier for an NFL guy to play in the NBA?

Is it easier for an NBA guy to go to the NFL? I'm going to get to your calls on the other side of the break. It's the J.R. Sport Brief show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief.

It's the J.R. Sport Brief show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. What happens when you take, I guess, a former NBA player and put them on a show with a former NFL player? They get to talking about who can do what on a field and then also on a court. That's what took place with Austin Rivers and Pat McAfee today on Pat McAfee show. Austin Rivers said, oh, yeah, I can get a couple of NBA guys and put them on a football field, NFL field. And I don't know if that's true.

Is it? Listen to what Austin Rivers had to say. We're the best out there in the world.

That's us. I can take 30 players right now in the NBA and throw them in the NFL. You cannot take 30 NFL players and put them in the NBA. Five on the court. Let's just let's all relax. You get a break every play.

I got to just catch the ball and run north or south. Listen, our sport, it ain't that it ain't. You know, Austin Rivers was kind of kind of goofy and saying it, but you know what? I agree with him. You know, Hickey doesn't agree with that with both of us, I guess.

And Hickey brought up an excellent point. It boils down to toughness. There's not a shadow of a doubt that, yeah, if you're an NBA player, you get cracked in the ribs once and you're probably going to go home and cry to mommy.

I understand that. But I think moving an NFL player over to the NBA is a matter of skill. So I think it's really toughness and skill. And let's be real.

And the NBA, the way it is today, right now, there's five of us. On the court, as Pat McAfee said, what's the difference? Not a lot. What, their heights? That determines what they can do. I mean, the way that we have the modern NBA, are you six foot one or are you seven foot four? I mean, the skill sets aren't that varying. OK, one guy could shoot a whole hell of a lot better than the other.

But if you're an NBA player, if you're in the NBA, we make fun of the bums on the end of the bench. You can likely shoot half of the time. You can likely shoot pass like the skills.

They don't vary that much. You can be exceptional in the one area. You can be a yokage passer. You could be a go bare block shot or shot blocker, shot caller, whatever the hell it is.

You know what the hell I'm saying. In the NFL, I think it's easier for an NBA player to move over. Yes, because of toughness.

Without a shadow of a doubt. They have varying skills, right? One guy plays defense, another guy plays offense. You got cornerbacks. They don't do the same damn thing as a defensive lineman. A defensive lineman doesn't necessarily do the same thing as a return guy. And so, I mean, could we not get a return guy, take an NBA dude and and train him for a month and say, hey, you're going to return kicks. He can't beat Cordell Patterson.

I don't know. No disrespect to Cordell. I just think it's it's a little easier if we gave each guy, quote unquote, a month and said, here you go try this. I think there'd be a better opportunity for an NBA player to fit on an NFL roster for a couple of plays. I'm not saying he's going to be a God or a star as opposed to an NFL guy.

What's he going to do? OK, he can dribble. Oh, he can do layups real good. But can he shoot? Can he get the ball up court? I mean, it's tough. And then there's the height.

We haven't even talked about that. How many NFL players are running around seven feet? Not a lot. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. It's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. John is here from Arkansas, the JR Sportbreeze Show. What's up, John? What up, JR? I love the show. Thank you.

What's up? Go ahead. Hey, so I agree with both of you. I think it's a matter of toughness and skill, you know, skill set going from football to basketball is definitely going to be tougher. But, you know, you have been talking about the offense. I'm a Carolina guy myself, Tar Heels.

So I'm going to throw this name out there to you. Julius Peppers did defensive line and Carolina basketball. Yeah, he absolutely did.

I remember that very well. So what's your what's your point? So what's your point that that that we're going to get a six foot eight like defense, like Kaleis Campbell, who's older, like we're just going to throw him on to a basketball court?

No, I mean, I don't I don't think so. But you were mentioning only offensive players, which is true. Both of them were all offensive players. But getting the chance to throw a Carolina name out there, Julius Peppers did play defense in the NFL.

He did. And he's a rarity. Most of those dudes, as I mentioned, play play offense. Can you can you off the top of your head?

Tell me about a premier defender who, you know, went out there and played basketball. Oh, no, that's that's that's my point, John. Thank you so much for calling from Arkansas eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Let's go ahead and talk to Brad from Buffalo.

Hey, Brad, you're on the JR sport show. What's up, man? How are you doing there?

I'm excellent. Shoot. I have a few points. I think the toughness is a real good point, but you can't tell me that these NBA players have not grown up and got fouled hard and been hit hard and had the wind knocked out of them. I know it's not the same as get hit across the middle, but to say an NBA player is not tough and I think is a little undermining.

And two, I think about this from a different perspective. When you have just a pure numbers game, right? You've got so many different spots on NFL roster. You're telling me that an NBA player can't play special teams or like Pat McAfee develop a punt, punting leg or wide receiver.

Just so many different spots to build. And I can't think of a lot of football players that can crack a starting five and get good minutes. So I think that's where my argument lies. OK, yeah, I'm kind of in that same vein with you, but I will say this.

You got it. You agree with me here, right? We can talk about an NBA player being tough, but we don't know of an NBA player. There's a different type of NFL. So come on.

We know about Ronnie Lott. The man ripped off his finger to keep on playing. Like, come on now. There's difference. And then we saw Kobe Bryant with his Achilles, but Kobe Bryant didn't rip off his leg.

He just stood there. I agree with that, but I'm telling you, I think LeBron James could take a hit and also deliver a hit. Do you see the way LeBron James cries on that field?

You think LeBron and I know he played a little bit of football growing up. Do you think LeBron James would take a hit the way he'd be out there and complain on a basketball court? Yeah, that's a fair point. But these guys, once they get hit, it's a different game out there. They got to either be with it or they got to get the hell out. You know, so it's about developing that toughness.

And sometimes once you get hit, you've got to get back up and start delivering. You know what? You're right. I'm being a jerk because for real, the way LeBron James is a once in a lifetime athlete.

And I guess if he wanted to play football at all, six foot, nine inches of him, unless he was just too damn tall, I think he would be able to go out there and do it. Thank you, Brad, for calling from Buffalo. Bob is here from Baltimore. Hey, Bob, you're on the JR Sport Reshow Coast to Coast.

What's up, Bob? Hey, so I was thinking there's one NFL player, the way Patrick Holmes just plays, I think he can just do anything. And for what the guy said about that all you have to do is run and catch, I don't know if an NBA player can really get off the jam. OK, well, what happens with the new kickoff rules, as he just said about special teams?

I mean, there's a difference. The new kickoff rules, if he gets the guys are fast, so that may be but to be a receiver. And it's still a hard skill to be able to well, you have to catch the football that's coming at you fast and high. Yeah, I've seen it cleanly in order to run it.

I've watched a couple of football games. I agree with you. I understand. I don't think anybody is disputing the fact that it is ridiculously difficult. But these are ridiculous athletes.

Also, Bob, and thank you for calling from Baltimore. It should be noted that a lot of these athletes, it doesn't matter if you're playing in the NFL or you're playing in the NBA, they probably grew up playing a lot of sports. It's just a matter of what you were able to specialize in as you get older. And so this isn't a debate about, oh, could this guy play football or this guy play basketball? What Rivers, what Austin Rivers basically spoke about is today. Right now, I put my own preface on it and said, hey, let's not just say snatch him right now.

Give him a month. And sure, we know it's going to be tough to get off the line of scrimmage. We know all of that. Everything is difficult, whether it's NFL or NBA or NBA to NFL, it's all going to be tough. These dudes deserve a whole lot of credit.

They're world-class athletes without a shot of a doubt. 855-212-4227. Todd is here from Maryland. You're on the JR sport. Go ahead, Todd. Hey, JR. Love the show, bro. Thanks.

Yes, sir. Well, what wasn't mentioned was the great Willie Mays. He was a great, great athlete and he had four letters in high school, baseball, football, basketball, and one other track, I think it was. But I tell you what, Willie Mays was a bad, bad dude. Well, thank you for reminding us about Willie Mays.

And maybe Willie Mays, maybe right now at, I don't know, almost 100 years old, maybe Willie Mays could go out and play wide receiver and also play point guard. Maybe. Okay. I don't know.

Hickey, I didn't expect that one. Did you? No. You had to say, hey, kid, I didn't know we were getting baseball now into it.

No, I did not know. Anyway, it's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network. Hey, somehow, some way say, hey, Willie Mays.

He had to get included as a part of the conversation. NFL, NBA, not quite. It's the JR sport re-show. We're going to take a break on the other side. We're going to tell you about quite a few things that took place this day in sports. It's May 7th.

I don't know if we're going to go back as far as Willie Mays, but we might. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport re-show here with you on the infinity sports network.

Hey, congratulations. The Celtics smashed the Cavs 120 to 95 in game one of their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup. Right now, the Dallas Mavericks and the Thunder, they just get underway.

This is game one of their matchup to determine who will move forward to the Western Conference finals. We've had a busy show. We've talked about a lot. Jamal Murray fined $100,000 for throwing that heating pad onto the court yesterday. We talked about Kaitlyn Clark.

All WNBA teams will now fly private charter planes. No more flying commercial next to your Uncle Joe. What else do we have going on? Rudy Gobert. Congratulations to him. Rudy Gobert, a four-time defensive player of the year, now joins Ben Wallace. And then also, Dikembe Mutombo, the only individuals to have done that and accomplished that four times.

Victor Wambenyama. He wins rookie of the year yesterday. And then we have Rudy Gobert wins defensive player of the year today. And then also Gobert, he had his first kid born yesterday.

Congratulations to him. Rudy Gobert is winning everything. And then we also know, well, damn it, Denver Nuggets are trying to win. The Minnesota Timberwolves are whooping that ass.

Timberwolves are up 2-0 in their series. Thank you so much as well to Scott Hastings for joining us earlier on in the show. Let's get to some of your calls.

I want to emphasize this quickly. Let's get to your calls quickly. And then I'm going to tell you about quite a few things that took place this day, May 7th, in sports history.

855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we shared some comments with you from Austin Rivers. Yeah, former NBA player.

As recently as last year, Austin Rivers was on Pat McAfee's show. And he basically said, hey, I could take 30 NBA players and put them on an NFL field and they could have success. I couldn't do that. Vice versa. I can't take 30 NFL guys and dump them into the NBA. Listen to the whole conversation.

Hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. I somewhat agree with Austin Rivers. As Hickey and I just said, it boils down to physicality and skill versus toughness, toughness versus skill. It'd be tough for an NBA player to just step onto a field.

And skill-wise, it'd be very difficult for an NFL player to kind of match up skill-wise with everything you'd have to do on a basketball court. It's kind of wild. 855-212-4227. Dan is here from Wisconsin. What's up, Dan? Hey, JR.

Thanks for taking my call. There is one athlete I think who could have played in the NBA or football. Dave Winfield. He got drafted in all three sports. He had that build, had that athleticism.

I think he probably could have did it. He was big as hell, Dan. What is he? 6'6", 6'7". One thing here the world will never know, Dan.

He was a big dude, though. Thank you so much. Appreciate you.

Yeah. Love your show. Thank you so much, Dan. Let's go to Baltimore and talk to Danny. Danny, you're on the JR Sport Breeze Show. Go ahead. Hey, what's up, JR?

How you feeling, man? Excellent. Great question. I was talking about this with a couple of my guys. One of my good pro friends played with the Ravens, and he used to always come get me. And I would used to ask him like, why do you want to play ball all the time? He said, there's a difference. He said, it's easier for basketball players to come and play football versus us coming over.

I said, why do you say that? He said, one thing people don't know is we get a break in between every play. Basketball is nonstop. But I'm a big time basketball player and player.

I think it would be a little bit easier for us to cross over to their sport. But like you said, the tenacity and toughness because I was a basketball player. I got hit playing football one time. I had a bad attitude.

I wanted to fight, but the hit was clean. Yeah, it's both ways. Listen, that's why everybody deserves their love for what they can bring. Danny, I hear that.

Appreciate you, man. No doubt about it. Let's go from Baltimore to Massachusetts and talk to David. David, you're on the JR Sport Breeze Show.

Go ahead, David. Yeah, JR, the Celtics is kicking butt like you said, and I think the Pacers is going down the Knicks, man. Well, I mean, they got to win another game. I got the Knicks in six to seven. They always play it close, so we'll see.

How does it stand now? One-one? No, the New York Knicks, they won the first game yesterday in Madison Square Garden. So the New York Knicks came out on top.

So they had one and nothing. The final score was 121 to 117 last night, David. I thought, OK, JR. Take care, man.

You too, brother. Thank you, David, for calling from Massachusetts. I mean, we had Dave Winfield references. We had Willie Mays references.

You know what this means, Hickey? I think it's time for us to take a trip down memory lane. It's time for This Day in Sports History.

You see, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Breeze Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Yeah, whoop that ass.

Anyway, it is the JR Sport Breeze Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Let's take that trip down memory lane. How far are we going to go?

You know what? Let's go to May 7th in 1989, because on this day there was a man you might have heard of. He played basketball.

Ain't no other arguments about that. His name is Michael Jordan. He had 44 points.

And my apologies to everybody in Cleveland who took a loss tonight against the Celtics. But Michael Jordan hit one of the most famous shots in his career, one of the most famous clutch shots in NBA history over Craig Elo in 1989. It was the shot in the Bulls. They got them calves the hell up on out of here. Listen to this.

He looks, he looks, he looks. He gives to Jordan. Jordan to the circle, puts the shot in the air.

Good! The game's over and the Bulls have won. Jordan beat him at the buzzer with a jump shot in the circle. And Chicago has knocked off the Cavs 101 to 100. Yeah, this is Michael Jordan.

What the hell else am I supposed to say? Unfortunately for them in the Bulls, they lost to the Pistons, but I think we know how things went for Michael Jordan in the 90s. Anyway, that took place in 1989. Let's fast forward to 1994.

Why? Because the Denver Nuggets. They became the first eighth seed ever to upset a number one seed in 1994.

Those Nuggets with Dikembe Mutombo on the floor. They beat the Sonics in five games. Let's go ahead and take a listen to the Nuggets upsetting them in game seven. Everyone said in the West, this Denver Nugget team was the least likely chance to have a chance to advance. Another three, way short.

That's it. Mutombo embraces the ball and the unlikely upset, one of the great upsets in NBA playoff history. The eighth seed, a team that was two games over 500 on the season.

The Denver Nuggets, youngest in the NBA, have beaten the team with the best record in the NBA, the Seattle Nuggets. That was in 1994. Let's fast forward to 1995. I can't stand this guy. His name is Reggie Miller. Let's go through this quick eight points in nine seconds. And these these Pacers at this point in time, they ended up beating the New York Knicks 107-105.

Listen to this. Miller for three and he got it. Reggie Miller with a clutch tray and it's 105-102 and a steal. Miller retreats to the three point line and hits again. Garce misses, batted around, Ewing hits and he's shot no good. Reggie Miller rebounded a foul with 7.5 seconds. Miller hits too. No timeouts.

Anthony stumbled and falls. Time runs out. Reggie Miller scoring eight points in the final 32 seconds, taunting Spike Lee and 19,000 at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, I ain't a fan of that. I can't stand that guy.

This guy actually like, let's go ahead. Allen Iverson, you want to know what else took place this day? Allen Iverson. It's easy to sum it up when you just talk about practice. We sitting here, I supposed to be the franchise player and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen, we talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game. We talking about practice, not a game, not a, not, not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, not the game. We talking about practice, man.

I mean, how silly is that? And we're talking about practice. I know I supposed to be there. I know I supposed to leave by example. I know that. And I'm not, I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important. I do.

I honestly do. But we talking about practice, man. What are we talking about? Practice? We talking about practice, man. We talking about practice. We talking about practice. We ain't talking about the game.

Later, he would clarify, you know, that entire situation, the death of a friend, all of the criticism that was in 2002. Allen Iverson almost now beloved by everybody. I'm glad Allen Iverson is just, he's living life and he got it all together. Shout outs to AI. Oh yeah.

Hey, congratulations as well. This has nothing to do with the past history. Joe Burrow was practicing today. Good for him.

Maybe Joe Burrow will play football later this year and won't break something. Interesting. Anyway, we've had a fun show.

If you've missed a minute or a second, go ahead and hit rewind on the Fari Odyssey app. Thank you to everybody who called up. Thank you to our guest, former NBA player, and also current analyst for the Denver Nuggets, Scott Hastings.

He may have to go and play for the Nuggets if they want a chance at winning anything. Go deliver some fouls, Scott. Go help them out. Hey, Hickey, thank you for a great show. This was a lot of fun. Action packed.

All the time. A lot of news. Rudy Gobert, Rashee Rice, Kaitlin Clark. We got it all. We didn't even get into Brunson. We got time to get into him. And tomorrow we got a new top six list because that's what we do on Wednesdays.

The J.R. Sportby show here on the Infinity Sports Network. It's done. It's over. It's a wrap. But don't move. Don't go anywhere. Well, because I said so. But then also, Bart Winkler, he's coming up next.

The J.R. Sportby show is done. Thank you for listening. And thank you to Hickey. Y'all be cool. Be smooth. Be well. All that good stuff. Bye.