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That's 855-212-4227. Tonight, Denver Nuggets have a chance and an opportunity to wipe out the Minnesota Timberwolves. Tonight, Kaitlyn Clark will make her home debut in Indiana against the Fever. Last night, the Boston Celtics got the Cavaliers the hell up on out of here. And of course, like an hour after the game ended, there were already reports about how J.B. Bickerstaff, they were going to fire his ass. People are still talking about the NFL schedule release and people are really breaking it down. A lot of questions today about which teams got high profile prime time spots. Some teams more than others.
I'll tell you about them in a few seconds. Jared Goff, he spoke to the media today about his new contract. He's getting paid. Greg Olsen, a former tight end for the Carolina Panthers, used to be the number one analyst on Fox. Well, he just got demoted, I guess because Tom Brady. Well, we knew Tom Brady was going to show up, but it is a major financial demotion.
We'll talk about that. Matt Verderam from Sports Illustrated is going to join us next hour to take a look and talk through the NFL schedule. College football has a new video game. We knew or now know the cover athletes. I wonder how much money they're going to make.
We will discuss that. NFL, we know, is going international. Last night I told you about public stadiums. The Jacksonville Jaguars play like two damn games in London a year. They're getting so much financing just to redo that rat trap that they have down in Jacksonville.
And it is a rat trap because I've been there before. So give me a break. And speaking of a break, the Chiefs need one. Between Rashee Rice racing and Harrison Butker speaking at college graduations. One of their rookies got his car stolen. He just got to town. And they, whoever the hell they is or they are, they they took his car. What a world that we live in. We got a lot to discuss.
Super producer and host Ryan Hickey. Hey, how you doing, man? You good? Doing good, JR. Doing really good today. Did you have a chance and an opportunity to evaluate the schedule of your Indianapolis Colts? I did.
Oh, I looked at it up and down, back and forth. I know it very well. I'm very excited. You feel good. You feel good that.
OK, how many wins did you do that yet? Of course. You ready? I'm sitting down. No, I'm actually standing up.
OK, well, I hope there's a chair underneath there because you're going to I think you're going to appreciate this. OK, go ahead. Shoot.
Eleven wins. Wow. OK. Hold on. Wait, wait.
In twenty twenty four. Let's let's do this. Right. OK.
I'm going to do this right now. I'm going to pull up the Colts schedule. Sure.
And I want to see how delusional my friend here is. OK. That the fancy video Colts. OK. Home games. Don't care about that.
Don't care about the wallpaper. Here we go. Here's the schedule I'm looking at. Are you looking at it? Yes.
OK. You open against the the Texans. Yes, sir. And is that at home? OK. That is home.
That's at home. You go on with a win against the Texans. I'm going to say yes.
I think that I'll support this. I think they split the first two on the road at Green Bay. Week two home against Texas.
I think they go one and one out of those two. OK. I'm looking at the games that I. OK, how about this? I'm going to go through these teams and I'm going to tell you which ones I would not favor the Colts in. All right. I don't think they would really win.
OK. They can beat Houston. They can beat Green Bay. I'd favor Green Bay, though. They can beat Chicago. I think I'd favor Chicago. Maybe.
Maybe not at home. That that might be a split. They'll have a fight with Pittsburgh. Jacksonville, I favor.
Tennessee will definitely be a fight. Miami is that. That's OK. That's at home. At home. Miami inside will probably light you all up. Houston.
Yeah, who knows? Yeah, that'll be a fight. Minnesota. I'd favor you over Minnesota. Buffalo. I'd take Buffalo. The New York Jets. I'd take the Jets. The Lions. I'd take the Lions.
I would not take New England. Denver. Yeah. You got to beat Denver, right? You're probably next. Come on.
Yeah. You beat him. I guess you'll split with Tennessee. You have to beat the Giants.
And I assume that you'll split with the Jags. So you said 11 wins. I didn't win. I didn't count.
But I think I was maybe at like eight. Somewhere around there. 11 wins. JR, you'll see. I think they can beat both the Jags. I'm OK with one of the three. The Dolphins. Bills. Lions.
All at home. Just go one and two. That's all I'm asking for. Nothing crazy.
One and two out of those three. Well, I know you like the Colts. I, for whatever reason, some twisted reason, I like the New York Jets. And I just looked at the schedule and said, man, is that bad that I'm not enthusiastic about the Jets schedule? Like I looked at it and I looked and I said, hey, maybe there's a chance and an opportunity that I'm going to go to a game. And if I do go to a game, maybe it's October 20th when the Jets take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh, because I like Pittsburgh. There is not another game here on this schedule that I'm saying, oh, man, I'd like to go to this. The Jets take on San Francisco to open up the season.
We know that already. New York Jets are probably going to get stomped. Aaron Rodgers has a two and four record against the Niners out there.
Bad idea. Then they take on Tennessee. They have New England. The Broncos, the Vikings, the Bills, the Steelers.
New England again, the Texans, the Cardinals, the Colts. How come I didn't mention them when I was going down? Did I mention the Jets are taking on the Colts? I just skipped that.
You did, and you favored the Jets. Oh, I did. Oh, OK. I did say that?
Yes. I mean, that also, by the way, J.R., that date, was it October 20th? No, Colts, Colts, Jets, November 17th. Oh, excuse me, November 17th. Well, by that point, I mean, Aaron Rodgers could be an elected man, possibly.
Oh, well, I mean. So he might be practicing his inauguration speech. You think he's going to change his mind mid-season, run for office?
Hey, while the things have happened. I was going to say, would you put it past him at this point? If Aaron Rodgers decided to retire tomorrow, I wouldn't put it past him. They got the Seahawks, the Dolphins, the Jaguars, the Rams, the Bills and the Dolphins again. There's nothing exciting here about this New York Jets schedule as they have matchups with the NFC West.
I'm just I'm kind of bored. I kind of don't care. Just waiting to see what happens with the New York Jets throughout the whole season. And really depends on Aaron Rodgers. You know, last night we gave you a top six list of quarterbacks who have the most approved this upcoming season in 2024.
And I didn't put Aaron Rodgers on the list. And it's not because I don't think he has anything to prove he does. I just don't think he cares.
There's no pressure. The guy's not out there playing for money. He's not playing for Super Bowls. I don't I don't know where his brain is. I think Aaron Rodgers brain is scattered in a million places. And so if he can make it through a New York Jets season healthy, the Jets will be fine.
Every day, every week is just going to be an adventure. I mean, for your team, Hickey to Colts, you just got to hope that your quarterback, Anthony Richardson, is healthy. And if he's not, it's real easy. Joe Flacco. Hey, get in the game. Paying this guy eight million dollars to be a backup break in case of emergency.
And it might happen sooner than later. This I do know the Indianapolis Colts, they have a grand total of. One primetime game, one.
The only team worse than the Colts with one game. Well, let's just put it this way, the cards have one primetime game. The Patriots have one primetime game.
And so do the Titans. Carolina Panthers don't have any. Don't expect them to be on Thursday night football, Monday night football, Sunday night football. Don't expect to see them on. Don't expect to see the Panthers nowhere but one o'clock getting their asses beat in.
OK. The teams with the most primetime games. The Dallas Cowboys. The San Francisco 49ers.
And of course. The New York Jets who opened the season, at least Thursday. Jets open in San Francisco against those Niners. And these New York Jets, they had five primetime games last year. And how terrible was that? That America had to witness the garbage of Zach Wilson because Aaron Rodgers went down. And so the New York Jets with all of its talent, all of these expectations, with Aaron Rodgers leading the ship.
How about this? The NFL is so strategic. They have a gentleman named Mike North who works in the league office and works with all of their broadcast partners. He was on a media tour today. He spoke to the press. He was all over the place.
I've never seen this guy in my life. And Mike North was asked, hey, why in the hell? After the disaster of the New York Jets last year, why are we doing this again with more games?
Listen to this. I think there's a lot of really good storylines in the league right now. One of which is Aaron Rodgers, right? This time last year, we were all in on the Jets.
Everybody was. And, you know, he made it four plays and that schedule suffered as a result. Now he seems like he's healthy.
He seems like he's relevant. The Jets seem to have gotten better. So are we all in again on the Jets?
You know, every time Aaron Rodgers plays Josh Allen, like that feels like must-see TV now. It was last year. I think it is again. Hickey, is Aaron Rodgers going to play every game, every game, like every game?
I would say no. Oh, damn, man. We're going to get screwed. Well, this is this much we know. We're going to get screwed on some of these matchups, man. We're going to get screwed on some of these games. We can look at the highly anticipated matchups by the time we get to the middle of the year. Some of these games are just going to be crap for lack of a better word, man. This is.
It's terrible. At least we at least we got Thanksgiving, right? Talked about one of the premier Thanksgiving games. We got the Lions and the Dallas Cowboys always going at it. Lions are going to go out there and take on the Bears. That should be fun. And then also the Dallas Cowboys always on Thanksgiving.
They got the New York Giants. Hickey, are they going to wear them ugly uniforms? Do we know yet? Oh, I hope not.
I really hope not. The 100th anniversary New York giant uniforms on Thanksgiving would make everybody in America go, are those the everybody in every house? There's going to be somebody who goes, those are the Giants.
I thought the Giants wore red, white and blue. Like, what are they wearing right now? And it's going to have to be a whole explanation that they've been around for 100 years. And then somebody's 100 year old grandma is going to go, I remember when.
And it's going to happen all over the place. I hope they don't wear them ugly things. Some people may think they're watching the CFL on Thanksgiving. Oh, my God.
You're right. We need the. Hey, listen, if you're with the New York Giants, do everybody a favor. We're we're the normal uniforms on Thanksgiving. We don't need no bleep show running across high definition screens all over the country.
We do not need the eyesore while we sit down to eat. Please do us a favor. Spare us.
That's always a fun matchup. And then obviously we talked about this yesterday. The NFL told the NBA we don't care how many Christmas Day games you have. NBA started running five Christmas Day games. The NFL said, screw you.
Christmas is on a Wednesday this year. The NFL said here are the Steelers and the Chiefs. The NFL said here are the Ravens and the Texans. That's like a playoff. It's not like it is a playoff rematch from last season. The Ravens beat the Texans after the Texans went out there and and made their way into the second round.
Mike North, the man who you will never hear from ever again. Besides today, he was on Sirius XM NFL radio and he was asked about why we have Christmas games and why they picked certain teams. That was really the challenge of that Christmas Wednesday is you had to find four teams that were all playing each other so you can have this little round robin. We play Sunday to Thursday all the time. Now we're going to play Saturday to Wednesday.
It's really the same thing. You've got to find four teams that all play each other. One home and one road for each of them. They've got to be able to hold down four national windows. Two Saturdays, two Wednesdays. Finding four teams that all play each other. One home, one road. You can think all four of those teams are going to be playoff relevant and worthy of national windows in week 16 and 17.
That's seven months away. I don't know how any of us know which of these teams are going to matter. But if you had to roll the dice, I like Baltimore. I like Kansas City.
Coach Tomlin's never had a losing season. And obviously Houston, maybe the story of the year last year with their ascendancy. So I think we picked the four right teams.
Hopefully by the time we get there, you know, we're proving right. I can't wait till they start flexing some of these games at the end of the year. The games that absolutely won't matter because the teams suck. That's my favorite part of the NFL schedule, taking a look at the end and going, I move them from Thursday because they're garbage.
It's inevitable. Congratulations to Mike North of the NFL. This man went on a media blitz today explaining the schedule. And you will never hear from him again. Unless there's one day next year.
Hickey, what do they do? They put him back in a basement in the Park Avenue office or they stuff him in a closet? Hopefully the basement's refurbished.
That's what we'll go with. Maybe no sunlight, but you got a nice bed and a good TV to watch the games. Yeah, NFL, they got a nice office. Have you been in there before?
No, never have. Office is nice. They have a nice basement. So I'm sure he could do OK. I think the bathrooms get cleaned regularly.
I don't think he has to do anything, but maybe just find food. He'd be OK. Well, that's where Good Morning Football was, right? Or I guess it used to be in the basement. So, I mean, now the basement's open. So there you go, Mike.
More space for you. They still do that show? No. Oh, yeah. Moving to L.A. now. They moved it to SNY for a while. They shot in there.
Listen to me telling everybody's business. I'm just telling everybody. They shot it at the home of the New York Mets and now it's gone. And I don't know what's going on with NFL Network. Didn't they unfortunately fire a lot of folks?
Didn't they do that? Yeah. Tough times in the NFL, you know, when you're not making the money, you know, not bringing it in.
You got to let people go. Oh, yeah. What 20 billion? Twenty bill a year right now, right? Yeah.
Somehow not enough to to keep some people around. Games in London and Germany. They're thinking about putting games in Ireland. We're going to talk about this. Yeah, Brazil.
I got a game in Brazil on a Friday night in Sao Paulo. Come on now. This is you all can't keep the media people on staff. You're just buying a piece of ESPN. That's also been rumored, folks.
I ain't making that up. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sportbree show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Congratulations to the Jets, the Cowboys. They have a great example. They have six opportunities to embarrass themselves in primetime games this upcoming season. And then the 49 has got six games as well. I don't expect major embarrassments there. We'll talk more about the schedule. We'll get into some of the games as well.
Matt Verteram, I told you from Sports Illustrated, is going to join us next hour. Speaking of embarrassing. The Celtics eliminated the Cavaliers. I'm not sure if this is embarrassing or was embarrassing for the Cavs because let's be real, who expected them to win, especially given all of the injuries? Well, what's embarrassing is that after they were eliminated, of course, we got the articles and the stories about how bad their head coach J.B. Bickerstaff was. And how bad some of the players were at being professionals. What does this mean for Donovan Mitchell? What does this mean for the Cavs? We'll talk about that.
The phone lines are open as well. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Hopefully your team doesn't embarrass itself next season in the NFL.
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We'll talk more about that later on in the show. Got a lot of primetime games for the Jets, the Cowboys and the Niners. And then none for the Panthers. Consider yourselves lucky. You won't get a chance to see if C.J. Stroud is going to, you know, I guess stay above Bryce Young unless you pay for it.
It sucks for you. We'll talk more NFL as we continue on with the show later this year. Something that's active right now happens to be the NBA playoffs. And last night we had another elimination. The Boston Celtics advance to the Eastern Conference finals again.
The Boston Celtics wipe out the Cleveland Cavaliers, the final score 113 to 98. A no surprise as Donovan Mitchell is still dealing with that calf issue that is pretty much stemming from a knee issue, which is pretty much stemming from carrying and dragging this entire team when he's been healthy. I mean, they went on one stretch earlier this year in the wintertime. And outside of that post All-Star break, they just it just existed.
Right. Jared Allen also really didn't play here dealing with the bruised ribs. People are taking a look at the head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, despite leading this team and helping them in a turnaround over the past several years. I mean, this is the furthest the Cavs have gotten a postseason since LeBron James.
I love it. Once there's an elimination, three minutes later, the athletic has an article out about how terrible things were in the locker room. How much the team hated the coach. The same thing that happened to the Phoenix Suns.
What a week, two weeks ago happened last night to the Cavs. Donovan Mitchell, they're going to choose between him or Garland. Is Donovan Mitchell just going to take the money? The locker room and team wasn't happy with Jared Allen despite his busted up ribs. They understood he was hurt, but he didn't want to take an injection for it.
I'm like, OK. And then J.B. Bickerstaff. Team didn't like him. And so they're going to be some changes here with the Cavs. And it has to be because they ain't going to do nothing. Last year, they were eliminated in the first round by the New York Knicks. And this year, there's there's nothing inspiring about them. It's Donovan Mitchell and friends.
They're not a team. They need to see the development of an Evan Mobley, who last night in a loss had 33 points. Darius Garland had 11. He was an all star before Donovan Mitchell showed up. I mean, the leading scorer, I mean, behind Mobley last night, Marcus Morris.
I don't even know which one. Well, he's not Markieff. I don't even know if Markieff is still in the NBA. I didn't know Marcus this twin. I didn't even know he was on the Cavs.
Come on. Cavaliers need to get things together. I mean, Al Horford in an elimination game. Al Horford. He was the star last night for the Celtics.
Yes. Al Horford is like 90 years old. He had 22 points and 15 rebounds. And so after the game, after the elimination, after the Celtics beat them four games to one to the goal to the Eastern Conference Finals again. The head coach of the Cavs, J.B. Bickerstaff. This man was on defense for his job to protect himself. Because after the game, of course, the media was asking him like, hey, man, was this season a good one?
Listen to his answer. I consider this season an improvement. You know, again, to win a round as you've gone through where we started and continuing to build from the ground up, you know, to win a round in the playoffs isn't easy. I thought we faced a tough challenge in that first round, obviously, and to be able to go to seven games and win it in a game seven showed a ton of growth. OK. A lot of growth.
Sure. That's one way to let everybody know that you want your job. Bernie Bickerstaff or excuse me, Bernie is his daddy. J.B. Bickerstaff didn't stop there. J.B. said, looking towards next season.
See, that's how you play the game. I'm already going to be around for next season. He says, yeah, we got some positive momentum. We've got a good team. We've got good individual players. We've got high character players, you know, that are concerned about winning.
And, you know, anytime you have that, you're going to give yourself an opportunity. You know, I would love to see what we look like when we're whole, you know, for an entire season, a pressure we can put on the league from that standpoint. But we've got a good basketball team of guys who want to win and guys who want to get better.
OK. Mm hmm. Guys. Well, these same guys, it was reported in an article in The Athletic, Donovan Mitchell is not fond of these guys. They don't work as hard. They don't take winning as seriously. And so who are we to believe in an article quoting sources or the head coach who's trying to protect his behind? I mean, I could look at the basketball game and just go, what's inspiring about the Cavs?
This is nothing. It's a Donovan Mitchell show. Darius Garland looks like he has checked out. Evan Mobley is like, can I get the ball so I can grow and get better? The Cavs are a big old yawn.
They're a nap. Not worthy of a damn thing. And if Donovan Mitchell is back. J.B. Bickerstaff is probably going to get the boot. There is someone who played in the NBA. He doesn't even think that Donovan Mitchell should show up. He thinks he should go somewhere else.
Listen to what Tim Legler said on ESPN. I think Donovan Mitchell has done a lot as an individual player in this league and he can continue to stay in Cleveland and he can continue to leave them in scoring. And you know what's going to happen?
He's going to have to beat his head against the wall. That looks like the Boston Celtics. That looks like Philadelphia. And when they get him beat back and they can sign an additional max player in Philly, you got to beat your head against the Milwaukee Bucks getting Giannis back, Lillard, Doc Rivers with a full year with that group. A young Orlando Magic team that you just battled seven games with. You know the Miami Heat are always going to be in the mix, right? So I just think as the best player there, that's what you're going to face.
Or do you go somewhere with a couple of guys on a roster that are your peers on that level where you don't have to do that every night? And now you're just more of like a cog in the machine that can go potentially compete for a championship. I think that's where Donovan Mitchell is going to look around and understand that's going to be his best opportunity. Man, you got two options. Go to the Los Angeles Lakers and score for LeBron James.
Notice how I said score for him. Or just take the 200 mil from the Cavs. And if it sucks after two years, then just demand a trade like everybody else.
Take the money first, though, if you have the option. I'd say that. Cavaliers outside, they ain't doing nothing. Stuck in mediocrity. LeBron James. He couldn't attract talent to Cleveland. Donovan Mitchell, if he stays, it's just for the cash.
Depends on what Donovan Mitchell wants. It's the J.R. sport we show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven on the other side of the break. There's another basketball team that won a game last night. It happened to be the Dallas Mavericks. We're going to talk about the Mavs on the other side.
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The Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Talking about this in the break, one of my buddies here. I'm just saying to myself, I can't.
He's like, hey, J.R., who's when I said, man, it's a pick them. I can't help you. You want to win money? I can't help you.
I can't help you on that one. This is like a toss up game. Denver on the road. They ain't worried about Minnesota.
They're not. And I mean, for the series, I believe the Nuggets will win at this point if they got a they got two chances to win one game. I'm going with the Nuggets now. Come on. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
The other side of the break. We spoke about the Cleveland Cavaliers and what a disaster that they're starting to look like. And in a few minutes, I want to show love to the winners. OK, I didn't give enough love to the Celtics. And then I have to talk about what the Dallas Mavericks have been able to do in this series against OKC at the top of the hour. I want to talk to you about Jared Goff.
This man got a new contract and he spoke to the media today. But let's get to the phone lines. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Let's go to Michigan and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, you're on the J.R. support brief show. J.R., Mr. Positive, what a show. Oh, my God, what a show.
Lions are going to the Super Bowl. Donovan, please come to L.A. Help LeBron. Help Anthony. You're a good fit. You've got the right attitude. Wow.
Jerry, you've got such great topics as usual. But I think it's radicalized Catholicism. I can't believe. Yeah, but I don't I don't want to I don't want to say that. I don't want to say radicalized Catholicism. I mean, that that I would not find to be fair to disparage anybody's religion. I'll put it to you this way. In my own words, and I shared my own words yesterday. I'll say this.
I think people have to be a little less judgmental about how other people live their lives. That's right. That's it. There's nothing else.
That's that's pretty much the short of it. I mean, he can believe whatever he wants to believe. But in a public forum to say such a thing that that is supposed to be a blanket statement to a school graduation, even if it's a Catholic school, I think you want to kind of touch every person and not necessarily kind of beat people down with your own thoughts.
Oh, J.R., I do apologize. It was bandied about. It's being construed as a culture war. And some people some people are trying to put this up there with Colin Kaepernick.
It's it's lazy. Look, man, Colin. And thank you, Greg, for calling from Michigan. Colin Kaepernick basically said, listen, people, there are things that are going on that I don't agree with, things that aren't right. The man was trying to be a raise awareness for a lot of things, equal rights, police brutality. And people weren't a fan of what he did. He exercised his free right to protest. And he didn't do anything.
He didn't bother anybody. But people were still offended. Even though people who were offended, if you would take a look in the Constitution, he's doing whatever is in his constitutional rights.
But people still had a fit. Look, Harrison Butker is free to believe and say whatever he wants to say. I mean, personally, I got no issue or problem with that.
What I find hypocritical is, is that when you say such things, it shouldn't have been in a forum like that. Not at a graduation, not at a commencement, not in this day and age where women's rights are being kind of pushed to the background. Look, do what you want. If Harrison Butker and his wife, they're fine with their situation with her staying at home, then that's fine.
That's good. But when you start putting that out in public about how that's a woman's place. I got I got a message today from a woman who said, well, what about me? I can't have a child.
What about me? And those are the small things. It's just like when you start dictating to women what they should or should not do. I mean, I don't even want to go down the line. Do people need to be reminded there was a time where women weren't allowed to vote?
Do people remember that? I mean, we're going through a time right now where women don't have certain rights that are being rolled back. That's just that's where we're at right now. And I think that's where you have to be cognizant of of of just being respectful. Let other people do what they want to do.
You know, Hickey, we talked about this last night. Yesterday, a commencement is supposed to uplift everybody. It shouldn't be controversial. And I know people do commencement addresses all over the world and all over the country. And they want to inspire people and they want to go against the grain and make people think outside the box. And but there comes a point in time where you've got to read the room. Unfortunately, I think some people only read one thing and don't know what else is going on in the world. And so Harrison Buck is free to feel however he wants. I just think the forum they used and when he said it and how he said things, I found him to be backwards.
I think he could have utilized the same thought process and sentiment in a in a different way that would have uplifted folks. But hey, that's just me. I stand here for four hours every weeknight and people have opinions about what I say. At least I get paid for it. OK, not everybody's going to agree with me. And I don't expect people do because everybody's a human.
If you agree with anybody 100 percent of the time, I think you should go get your head checked. Terrible stuff. Thank you, Greg. For calling from Michigan. Hickey, you got anything to add or can we talk about the Celtics? I know I'm at this point, I'm ready to talk about the Celtics. Les Harrison, Butler, Les.
I mean, also other commencement speeches. You know, at least Harrison, Butler was not under the influence. Did you see that at Ohio State? Oh, my God. Hickey, under the influence of ayahuasca pushing Bitcoin.
It's a hell of a year. Wait a minute. Not him, right? No, not who? Not Rogers.
No, no, no, no. Oh, it was not. It was not the commencement speaker.
The commencement speaker at Ohio State's graduation gave this speech under the influence of ayahuasca. Is it can I watch it on on X? Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's out there. I could see everything. Everything is on X since Elon Musk took over. Right. Oh, everything.
There's no guardrails. There are things that I don't want to see on X. I'm like, I just want to know what the Yankee score is, you know. And it's like, here are two baboons. You know, I'm like, I don't.
This is not what I came here for. I got to look up that that that speech. Yeah, I guess. Do you think Aaron Rodgers will get an invite back to Cal?
Has he done a commencement at Cal? Probably right. Great question. I don't know. I mean, he's really only gone off the rails, we'll say recently. Right.
Like two, three years. Right. Like, I mean, we weren't talking about what Aaron Rodgers was saying and believing outside of the football field. What?
Up until really covid. Right. Aaron. Yeah. Just about Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
When he started with the whole Jordan Love thing, that's when things went left from there. Right. Aaron.
Well, that's about what's going on four or five years now. Aaron. Aaron Rodgers, honored with doctorate for charity work. OK. Medical College of Wisconsin back in. I don't know when this was, but it happened. OK.
I do remember there was a school that in Wisconsin said now a sponsor dropped him due to some of his beliefs. Well, 2018, Aaron Rodgers got that honorary doctorate. OK. I wonder how long it will be before Aaron Rodgers chimes in on Harrison Bucker. Is it next week or two weeks from now? Two weeks?
Maybe because he just did the Tucker Carlson pod. So, you know, let that marinate. And then probably when everyone stops talking about that, that's OK. Now I've got to dive back in. OK. Well, let's talk about a team that's trying to win right now. Aaron Rodgers has to wait until later this year. I told you the Celtics, they eliminated the Cavaliers last night, 113 to 98. Al Hofford, the big man in charge, went to it, went for 22 points to go along with 15 rebounds. Yes, Al Hofford still plays basketball. And he said, man, it was good to win this game at home. This is what Hofford told the Celtics radio network.
That's a real thing. You know, we haven't been able to we haven't handled home in the past like we needed to. And in this year, we closed it out in the first round against Miami in five. We locked in. And tonight we did whatever it took. That team kept fighting and we found a way.
So that's what it's all about. Al Hofford is so pleasant. Used to play here in Atlanta. Such a pleasant guy. Family is pleasant. Sat next to his family. Maybe I don't I feel like I see his family once a year when the Celtics come here. Everybody is pleasant. You know, his whole family is there because everybody has a Horford jersey on.
All of them. Such a pleasant guy. Now let's listen to a miserable person. It's the head coach of the Boston Celtics. His name is Joe Malooza. Picky, I just called him Joe Malooza.
That's they lose in the conference finals. You already got the nickname ready to go. That is perfect. Oh, my goodness. Joe Malooza. Hey, if he's a winner, he better sound happier than this.
Listen. Everybody wants to win until it's really time to win, because then you do a bunch of you don't want to do so. The guys, credit to them, they consistently do that. And we just have to keep that up. Every game is going to be different. Every series is going to be different.
Regardless of who we play is going to be different sub patterns, different matchups, different lineups. Just got to do it. And the guys did it.
So credit to them. Oh, my God. Picky, man, you would think that he's just like sitting in a chair. Holding his arms, rocking back and forth, just staring straight ahead without blinking in a padded white room. Like like rocking. You ever seen Lisa Simpson or Marge when they're frazzled?
They just they start shivering and shaking and moving back and forth. Yes. That's how you picture Joe Missoula after a win. Oh, no, I saw the press conference. I watched it.
I know exactly what he looks and sound like. And that's what it is after a win after he went to the Eastern Conference finals. I mean, at this point, I think I may I don't give a damn who wins. I'd like to see the Knicks do it.
I don't expect them to. I want to see the Celtics win the championship just to see Joe Missoula act like a human being. Just to see Joe Missoula, I don't know, show some type of joy. Is he going to be a drunk like a lot of these other individuals at these these sports parades?
Is he going to go, Clay Thompson or Tom Brady? How about Michael Malone? Michael Malone was a full on combative drunk last year at the Nuggets parade. And I mean, damn, Joe Missoula live a little bit.
I know coaches are hard to please, but damn. Anyway, another team that won last night, the Dallas Mavericks, they beat this young Oklahoma City squad, 106 to 92. Luca Doncic, I guess he feels good.
Thirty one points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists for a triple double. The fans were telling him he sucks and OKC and Luca said, I don't care. I feed off the negative energy. I love it.
I won the chat. Luca sucks. It gets me going. It's even better. That's how I feel. Don't bother me. Tell me I suck. That's great.
My life is still going to continue on. And Luca did a great thing, not just have a triple double. Luca spoke to TNT after the game and he said, yeah, I'm not worried about the referees. And he was right.
He didn't whine and complain like he normally does. Just trying to play basketball, just trying to focus on basketball. Sometimes I forgot. This is the thing I love.
This is the thing I do. And, you know, I just my mental focus. Just go out there and play basketball, you know, with a smile on my face and just go. Did somebody give him a beer before the game made him happy? Maybe you're right.
He's good for I don't know what it takes mentally to get him in that space, but keep doing it, because obviously when he's not focused on the rest, he plays great. He said, I had to be reminded to have fun. Whoa. And I get it. Not everything about work at anything is fun. You go have your ups and downs.
But damn, look at your paycheck every two weeks, bro. Come on. Luca Doncic finally having fun. Dallas Mavericks, more of a veteran team, beaten up on OKC.
How about that? Outside of Shay Gilgas, Alexander, they need more help. Chet Holmgren, he ain't there yet.
Maybe in a few years. It's the J.R. sport re-show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, Luca's making major money. Of course, he should be happy on the other side of the break. We're going to talk about a quarterback who is now the second highest paid QB in the game. His name is Jared Goff.
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