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Just ask it to play the Infinity Sports Network. What a day. What a week that it's been. And the NBA is going from the draft to trades, to free agency. We even got stories about players and their girlfriends. It's wild.
This is pretty much just the start of what I guess is going to be a wild free agency period. So we got a lot to discuss. Okay.
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That's at JR Sport Brief, all over the place, on social media. Damn, it's Friday. Happy Friday to you. Okay, if you're at work, on the road, on the highways, the byways, delivering, quitting your job, whatever it is.
Thank you for taking the time to be here. A big what's up. Colton, how are you, man? You good? I'm swell, JR. You sure you don't sound swell? You okay? You sure?
We're great. That's what happens when you have a two-hour commute. So when you think the traffic's going south and you're going north, it's like, oh, great, nice.
You think it would be the opposite. A two-hour commute from where? That's what happens when you're coming from central Jersey, JR. So you had to drive up the Jersey Turnpike.
You would be correct. And the New Jersey Parkway. I got the best of both worlds today. Oh, my.
What did you do? You came through the Holland Tunnel, right? No, sir. I went to Jersey City and then took the path on over here. Oh, my God.
You didn't even drive into Manhattan. Oh, no, no, no way in heck I'm ever doing that, JR. Oh, my God. Oh, wow.
Two hours. Let me get you a helicopter. I think that might be in a budget. Ah, not my budget. No, not your budget. No, I ain't talking about you. Not your budget. I said we.
Not you, we. We can put in for a helicopter for you. I can ask. We'll put a GoFundMe page together, right?
Yeah. No, listen, I will work on it for you. You don't worry about anything, OK? I appreciate that, JR. But now that you're here, I hope you're all good. You have a good week.
I, of course, had a great week. You didn't get drafted, obviously, right? No, thankfully not.
Thankfully not? Well, do you see the money these guys are getting? I see the money, but I also see the stories and the headlines that have been driving me nuts as a Laker fan the past few days. Oh, you're a Los Angeles Laker fan.
I am a DJ. Oh, boy. Well, we got a lot to discuss here, Colton, because it's as you just mentioned, as I discussed, it has been an eventful week. I mean, damn it. Yeah, you're right. For the if you're a Laker fan, how much have the Lakers had to endure this week?
Help me out here. I think I'm correct. Wasn't J.J. Redick introduced on Monday or Tuesday, right?
You'd be correct. My favorite thing about J.J. Redick's press conference this week is when he was asked about, you know, preconceived notions and expectations. And J.J. Redick was basically like, I don't give a, you know, you know what, I'm not even going to say it myself because I can't get me kicked off the radio. I want you to hear from J.J. Redick earlier this week during his introductory press conference where he was asked about trying to prove people wrong.
And he was just like, I don't give a what? I don't really have a great answer for your question, because I really don't give a like, honestly, I want to coach the Lakers. I want to coach the team.
I don't want to dispel anything. I don't. I want to become a great coach in the NBA. And I want to win championships.
And I want my players to maximize their careers. That's all I care about. Oh, my goodness. Wow.
Whoa. Somebody give that guy a hug. He just got the Lakers job and he's already cussing like a sailor. I wonder why he got the job. Not to say that he couldn't be a good coach or won't be a good coach, but I think he got the job because he's LeBron James friend. Well, LeBron James business partner.
LeBron James is just getting everybody work this week. Like J.J. Redick is like when Oprah used to give away the cars. I think she's retired at this point, but you get a car, you get a car. Everybody gets a car. You figure out the tax implications. I ain't paying for that.
That's what Oprah said, not me. So the Los Angeles Lakers give J.J. Redick a job because LeBron wanted him to have a job. And then we can fast forward to last night.
And how about this? LeBron James isn't just hooking up his friends with podcasts and stuff. LeBron James is just like, damn it, I need my kid to get a job to in the world's worst kept secret.
Last night, as I stood here on air almost at about this time. Well, Mark Tatum, he's the deputy commissioner of the NBA. It's the only time you see him. Otherwise, he's out there making money.
You shouldn't see him no other time. OK, I stood in this exact spot in the studio in Georgia looking at the stage via my television in the studio in New York City. And Mark Tatum, he walked up to the stage on ESPN and LeBron James got somebody else a job.
Hey, listen to this. With the fifty fifth pick in the twenty twenty four NBA draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select. Ronny James from the University of Southern California. Yeah, there was no hooting and hollering because he wasn't there. He was in New York City, but he wasn't at the draft.
Sitting around at a fancy dinner because that's what that's what billionaires do. I'm surprised he didn't have his pinky up. His mom cried as she gave him the Los Angeles Lakers hat. LeBron James reportedly gave a heartwarming toast.
And Bronny James is the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Good for him. The guy had a cardiac arrest last year. He was a McDonald's All-American. People talk about this guy like he was complete ass. He was doing good.
We don't know what he would have done in a full year in college, but I noticed he got the job today or yesterday because of his dad. So if you too want a job from LeBron James, maybe you need to go ahead and give him a holler. What a week the Lakers have had. It's like the Celtics win the championship one week and then the Lakers are just like, yes, it's LeBron's team now.
This is LeBron's week. We had the NBA draft with the Lakers and nobody even talks about the number one overall pick, Zachary Rishaze. I met him today. Nice guy. Real nice guy. I don't think he's 6'10 or 6'9 how they say it.
I don't think so. He also needs to eat. I felt like I could push him around if I needed to. He got me by a whole foot.
I could push this guy around. What a busy week. Nobody cares. Two days ago when Adam Silver, people like Adam Silver, they don't need to care about Mark Tatum, but Adam Silver is still on stage and he announced this and people are just like, yeah, OK, listen to this.
With the first pick in the 2024 NBA draft, the Atlanta Hawks select Zachary Rishaze from Lyon, France, and France's JL Boron-Bress. He's such a nice guy. At least today. I don't know how nice he's going to be against opposition. He's smiling, he's nice, he's kind, he's warm. It's like, hey, I wonder how long before he gets sick and tired of everybody here.
I asked him about the city of Atlanta. He's like, I love it. I like it. People are fine. They're cool.
I like it. I can't wait to play for the Hawks. It's like this is the first day of school. Wait until you get homework. Wait until you get punished. Wait until people get married.
Wait until people just say, hey, you suck, man. It's possible it could happen. I don't hope it on them.
I don't wish it on them. But hey, welcome to Atlanta. What a big week. Colton's Lakers rule the world. The Hawks have the number one pick and nobody cares. LeBron is getting everybody jobs. And then, oh, my goodness, this was big, too. Right the night before the draft, who would have thought that the New York Knicks would actually make noise?
The New York Knicks. I was I just got off the air. I just got off the air Tuesday. It's Tuesday night.
Three minutes, four minutes after I got off the air. The news started going off. Hey, listen to the news from CBS Sports HQ this breaking news out of the NBA, where the Brooklyn Brooklyn Nets are trading the kill bridges to the New York Knicks.
That's for multiple reports. In exchange for bridges, the Nets are going to receive Boyan Bogdanovich and a plethora of picks. That package includes four unprotected first rounders. Yeah, the New York Knicks gave up four first round picks Bogdan Bogdanovich or Boyan Bogdanovich pick Bogdanovich, it doesn't matter. Bogdanovich.
They gave him up and they sent it to Brooklyn. Just so Mikel Bridges can connect with his old buddies from Villanova. Dante DiVincenzo and Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson. You got four college teammates on the team.
And they're all expected to be contributors on a squad that's hoping to compete for a championship. I mean, at minimum, at minimum, they should go out there and compete the beat up on the Boston Celtics or at least try to. And then the New York Knicks also said, hey, why the hell not? Let's let's just give OG Ananobi $212 million.
What a week it's been. Los Angeles Lakers. LeBron owns the league. He might as well own the team. Can't wait till he owns a team in Vegas. He's going to hire all his friends to play on the team.
I don't know. We'll see. The New York Knicks are not a joke anymore.
Damn it. They haven't had a squad realistically this competitive. I want to say in like 25 years, a roster this deep, man, they weren't even this deep in 1999 when they went to the finals.
Hawks have the number one overall selection and it's all about whether or not a tree falls in a forest. Does anybody notice? I hope, I hope he's such a nice guy. I hope Zachary Rejazay is not a bust.
Caleb Johnson from 92-9 the game here in Atlanta, Georgia joined us yesterday as a guest. He pretty much said that this guy's like socks. I'm like, what? He says he's like socks. Like, yeah, you need socks. You get socks as a gift. They're functional. They're good. They work. You know, socks can be stylish, but socks are not exciting.
What grandma gives you for your birthday or for Christmas, socks and underwear. Not all that exciting. But the Lakers have brought the excitement. The Knicks have brought excitement. I can't believe it. Brooklyn Nets are doing trades.
I mean, and we had news today. Quentin Grimes, a former New York Knicks is now a Dallas Maverick. Tim Hardaway Jr. What does he do?
Nothing but shoot. They sent him up to Detroit. He can just shoot to his heart's delight up there.
Nobody's going to see it. Good for him. Emmanuel quickly, another former Knicks. Toronto. Shout out to all the listeners in Toronto.
I love you, Canada. Emmanuel quickly. This man got a massive deal. This lets you know the NBA is nuts. Emmanuel quickly, who I think, you know, most NBA fans may or may not know this guy's making $175 million. No wonder the New York Knicks traded him.
They're like, we're not paying this guy that. What a week it's been. We're less than a week away from July 4th. I feel like it was only yesterday I was staring at Memorial Day. And here we are at another holiday. And I don't even know what juncture of the sports season this is.
This is an odd time. NBA free agency is upon us. And let's be real, there aren't many big free agents.
Major League Baseball is getting ready for its all-star game. The NFL, this is as quiet as it's going to get until training camps get started. It doesn't appear that Tua Tonga Veloa is going to get a contract.
It doesn't appear that, I don't know, Dak Prescott is going to get a contract. I do know the NFL is being sued. What a wild time in sports, but you don't got to worry about it because I got you covered. If you want to call up, you can.
It's 855-212-4227. We got a lot to get into. A matter of fact, we'll talk about the NFL and its lawsuit issues as it relates to NFL Sunday ticket. Does the NFL owe you money?
They could. I told you about free agency in the NBA. Where the superstars at?
It's like crickets right now. Where are the big stars in NBA? LeBron James is the biggest free agent.
Come on now, cut it out. Oh, besides Zachary Rejazze, I also spoke to AJ Terrell from the Falcons today. He did a damn good thing here in the community in Atlanta. I told you the NBA or excuse me, not the NBA at all.
Star game sucks. I told you about the Major League Baseball All Star game coming up in a few weeks in Arlington, Texas. We got a couple of guys who already made the team.
And how about one of them has already heard? I'll give you a hint. His name is Bryce Harper.
It's a big hint, isn't it? And of course, late at the end of the show, I'm going to share with you quite a few things that took place this day in sports history. It is June 28. It is a Friday. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. We're going to take a break when we come back on the other side. I can't ignore this story. Because there was an NBA draft pick and we were able to touch on it a little bit last night.
There's a guy who might have got drafted or fallen in the draft because of his girlfriend or fiancé that might have been his babysitter? What? Is it Jerry Springer or is this the NBA? I'm going to tell you about it on the other side. Happy Friday to you. Have a drink for me.
It's the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. When you pay for service, you get your, let's use a car analogy, right? Okay. You got a car, you need an oil change. You need the tires rotated. You need balance. You need all of this.
You need the fluids changed. You need all of this done, right? You got a car. After they take care of it for you at the dealership or wherever the hell you get your car serviced, if you get your car serviced, I hope you do. After I pay you the money, they give you the keys back and you leave. And hopefully you don't have to come back for a few months, okay?
That's how life works. I pay for service. I want the job done and I want to leave. We got a lot of people listening to me right now who are delivering food on a Friday night. Maybe somebody is delivering Domino's. Shout outs to the Domino's delivery person or whatever other pizza. Anyway, after you drop off that pizza, you leave. You go. I don't expect to see you unless I deliver the same thing every week or I order the same thing. That's it.
Service is done. You don't expect, you know, anything more than that. Over the past two days in the NBA, during the course of the draft, forget during the course of the draft, forget all of Bronny James and Zachary Reis, Jose, forget all of that stuff. We basically got a story of an NBA draft prospect who fell in the draft because someone who allegedly was supposed to take care of him didn't leave. I'm talking about Kyle Filipowski. Are you familiar with what I'm talking about?
Do you have any idea what I'm referring to? Hey, let me put it to you this way. Kyle Filipowski went to Duke. He spent two years at Duke. Seven foot guy who can knock down shots. OK, we've seen this a lot now. All right. It's supposed to be maybe a pick and pop guy in the NBA. Hey, every now and then get us a rebound, but pick and pop knock down to three.
All right. No big star here expected to be a first round pick. He fell into the second round. He put on his suit, his tie, his tux. He sat in the green room on Wednesday night. With the.
With a woman. And he didn't get picked. Cameras were in his face like he was.
Aaron Rodgers. The cameras were in his face like he was Will Leviss. The cameras were in his face like he was Lamar Jackson, at least Lamar. Yeah, he went in number 32. And then we saw the images afterwards him standing by himself with his female companion as she comforted him as he did not get selected in the first round of the draft. He did get drafted number 32 by the Utah Jazz.
And so what gives and what the hell does this have to do with getting a car serviced and having the service end? Well, I want you to listen to this via ESPN. Jonathan Givoni basically sat on ESPN and he gave a little bit of insight as to why he was falling in the draft.
Listen to this. NBA teams are talking about the fact that they had question marks about his girlfriend being so much older than him. Why was he estranged from his family?
Because of this whole situation, he apparently doesn't talk to his parents or his brother. And it's a very, very odd situation. I personally don't understand why it would cause him to drop like this into the second round.
There are obviously there are no question marks about his character, but NBA teams are talking about his nerves and his workouts weren't great. And when they asked him about this situation in interviews, the answers they got weren't satisfactory for them. So this Kyle Philipowski situation is bizarre. Bizarre. This situation is bizarre. Colton, have you heard some of the details surrounding Kyle Philipowski? It's been hard to avoid. If I talk about it on the air, I don't get kicked off the air, right?
I don't think so, no. We'll make sure of that. I'll make sure that you aren't. Well, thank you.
I may kick myself off the air, get an early vacation, but hold on. I want everybody to listen to this headline and shout outs to Rob Littel. This is all a legend. Not for me, but out there. Kyle Philipowski's 26-year-old ex-babysitter, maybe cousin, and now girlfriend, Kaitlin Hutchinson, accused by his family of grooming him to be a Mormon and plotting on him being her lottery ticket. Okay. All right.
All right. Well, he is 20 years old. Depending on what you look at, she's anywhere from 26 to 28. Nothing wrong with that, right? He just met her yesterday? No, apparently she might have been his babysitter. Whoa. And reportedly there are messages from the brother and the mother online about how he has abandoned the family and, and this woman is pretty much, I don't know.
She got him by the puppet strings. I don't know. None of my business. I can't recall hearing any more wild of an NBA draft story. And maybe if I can think of one off the top of my head, I mean, come on, Allen Iverson got locked up because of a fight at a bowling alley.
Okay. And then that was a whole lead up to the draft. I'm sure if I sat down and started going through nails, Oh yeah, that was crazy. That was what I've never heard about a woman manipulating an NBA draft pick. And I've seen Kyle Philipowski play. I've seen a guy play in New York. The guy was a New York state Northeast. Him and his twin brother were beating a snot out of these smaller kids.
That's what happens when you're six, eight, six, nine and grow to be seven feet tall. I hope his brother at Harvard is doing better than Kyle is. You probably get the last laugh twin brother, by the way, twin brother in the Utah Jazz. They didn't care. They did not care. They decided to add him into the mix of all these other misfit of players that they have. The Jordan Clarkson, Collin Sexton, Lori Mark. And what the Jazz are doing, I have no idea, but Bobby, he didn't care. He did not care. Hanes just said, Oh, well, let's just bring them in.
You can fit in here in Utah. And so when I talk about a service, it doesn't matter if it's getting your car serviced or asking the babysitter to watch a kid. You're not expecting the babysitter to end up marrying the child. That's nasty. Look, I ain't got nothing against Kyle Filipowski. I just hope for his sake that this is a guy who's just not being used.
Manipulated, bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray. I hope that he's in his right mind, because apparently there were a lot of NBA teams who decided to look at this man in his personal business and say, no, thanks. And let's be real now. We can look through the annals of every draft, whether it be Major League Baseball, the NFL, NHL. We got some people who in life, just like anything else, they've done some bad things. Aided in a potential murder.
Didn't know about it. Hi, Brandon Miller of the Hornets. I'm not going to go down the list, but we had some people get drafted that have done some bad things and they still got drafted.
Let me tell you something. If Kyle Filipowski was actually going to be good. I know what he did at Duke. Sixteen points, eight, nine rebounds a game.
That's nice. But if he was going to be nice in the NBA, they wouldn't have given a damn. One of these NBA teams would have welcomed him in with open arms. Well, Kyle Filipowski, you ain't going to be that good. You'll be OK. Maybe. But you ain't going to be that good.
Because the cream always rises to the top, regardless of what baggage it comes with, even if the baggage is your former babysitter. Good luck to Kyle Filipowski and the Jazz. I don't I don't know what they're doing. Let Danny Ainge figure it out. I don't know what's going on. It's the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. 8 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. I think that's the wildest story we got in this draft. And now that it's behind us, this NBA draft, which felt like a a deflated balloon, a backwards draft. We're going to take a break when we come back. I got some good news for you. The NBA draft next year. Supposed to be better. We got a prospect coming out.
I got to tell you, prepare yourself for this. The number one overall prospect for the draft next year. He is not French.
Not French. A round of applause for that. I'm going to tell you who it is on the other side of the break. We're going to get more into the Lakers at the top of the hour. I want to tell you about NFL and Sunday ticket.
If you're spending money on that, maybe the NFL will write you a check. We got a lot to do and we got a lot to get into. We've had so much discussions about the draft from this year that, damn it, we don't know what's going to happen next year. We're going to get into that.
But Colton, educate me. As we talked about Kyle Filipowski in the last break, is it apparent like he's really this was that did she used to babysit this man? Yeah, J.R., the pictures are not good at all. There's pictures of him hanging in the backyard and she's the only girl there. And there's his buddies, looks like.
And she's there with him, arm around him. It is. Yeah, this isn't great. Are we talking about like, oh, come on, you kid. Let's think about kids like little rascals, right? The little rascals, they were a bunch of kids and they all hung out together. I could think about family matters. That was a television show like Urkel loved Laura. They he liked her, right? Are you telling me this isn't the same thing?
This is this is an older woman watching him in the backyard. Yeah. J.R., this isn't good at all. The more I saw it, I'm like, OK, I was out and about, didn't pay attention.
And then I see all the pictures and the information along with I'm like, oh, my goodness. This is this is weird now. This has been very weird. Now, we know the NBA is known as a trash talk league, right?
It sure is. What the hell is this man going to hear when he steps onto the court? Not even just on the courts. Imagine going into the locker room with your teammates. No, they're going to look at him.
Come on. We got a guy on the Philadelphia 76ers in McCain. Well, he's already making TikToks and painting his nails, you know, and it's that's going to be all good and great on the Sixers until they lose. And he sucks and he misses a three. The fans are going to be like, hey, man, get off a TikTok and paint your nails a different color.
Stop paint your nails. I think I think his teammates will leave him alone. Like, how about this? Jordan Clarkson to most is probably a little eccentric in his own right. OK, I think in the locker room. Kyle Filipowski, they're not going to you got to go home and talk to mommy like you think that's what they're going to tell him who's going to say that to him? Well, we're also comparing a guy that's one sixth man of the year. We have a kid that doesn't fit the bill coming right out of the gate as a rookie. This could not go well for him, especially in a place like Utah, where there could be a lot of losing. Oh, they're going to have a lot of losing. I wonder what Draymond Green tells him as he tries to box him out at the free throw line.
I wonder what I don't I'm thinking of. Yeah, we don't got too many dirty players left in the NBA. To be honest, I don't even think we have that many trash talkers left. And good luck to Kyle Filipowski. And you know what?
I got to be honest, depending on the stories that come out or don't come out. He might be on the team and not get burned. Well, the Utah Jazz Danny Ainge might say, listen, this this ain't worth it, man. We got to get this guy out of here. But it's Danny Ainge. They'll probably hold him throughout the course of the season. Good luck to Kyle Filipowski as he is engaged to his former babysitter, allegedly.
855-212-4227, that's 855-212-4227. I don't think this this man I'm going to tell you about next has these type of problems. And that's someone who is expected to be the number one overall pick in next year's draft.
Yeah, I hit the fast forward button. Why? Because the NBA draft has pretty much gone international. The past two drafts, number one picks have been Frenchman. And there's nothing wrong with Frenchman. I told you, I met Zachary Risache. I met him today. Very nice Frenchman.
His dad is his sister. Very nice people. Very nice.
Last year, Victor Wenbanyama. Haven't met him, but he's a very nice guy. I've watched him and seen him work out. Very nice guy.
Read books before he goes to sleep at night. Turns his phone off. You're looking for Victor Wenbanyama after 9 p.m., he is in bed reading, I don't know, the Bible in French. I don't know.
I have no idea. Next year, I don't know what the guy does at number one. This guy, I don't know how to say it. He is a badass.
He's going to be at Duke. You know how we got Victor Wenbanyama hyped up hyped up for all of us? We didn't hear the end of Victor Wenbanyama.
For a year and a half he was hyped. This man isn't going to get the same type, but his name is Cooper Flag. Cooper Flag. This dude is six foot nine. He has arms as long as, I don't know, somebody who's seven foot five.
He comes from Maine. He blocks shots. He drives to the basket.
He dribbles like a small man. He's nasty. He's not a Frenchman.
Some of his words, they might be French in language. I'm talking about dirty. This guy will trash talk you. And he's going to Duke, so you can bet your ass that people are going to hate his guts. I'm talking about JJ Reddick level hate. I'm getting into Grant Hill level hate. People love Grant Hill now. People love him. I'm talking about Christian Laitner level hate. And Colton, what was that other guy that people hate?
He's tripping everybody. He's in the league now on the Suns. What's that guy's name?
Oh my God. Forgot his name. Grayson Allen. That tripping ass Grayson Allen. People hate his guts today. I'm surprised nobody has punched his lights out in the NBA yet.
I'm talking about that level of hate. Cooper Flag was a McDonald's All-American. Cooper Flag actually sat down with 24-7 sports and he talked about being a kid.
He didn't say anything about his babysitter, thank God. But Cooper Flag sat down with 24-7 sports a couple of months ago and he said, yes, as a kid, I had problems. I had issues except for his have to deal with aggression and getting angry and channeling his emotions.
This guy's interesting. Kind of started even when I was little, like I used to have a problem, to be honest, when I was like young, like if I was playing bad or things weren't going my way, I would get so frustrated. Like I would come to tears sometimes like on the court. Like I was always so competitive that I always kind of just like found that fire within myself. And like sometimes, like you said, when it just clicks on, like it clicks on and I'm usually able to have like at a good level.
But like you said, sometimes it does click into a different gear. If you go on YouTube and watch this guy's highlights, he is ruthless. He is relentless. He will dunk on you and yell in your face. This guy will destroy you.
He's a kid. He can't even have a drink yet. Unless there's a disaster at Duke and he suffers an injury, this man is going to be the number one pick next year. And so you don't have to worry about, I don't know, a Frenchman that you've never heard of having the number one overall pick. You don't have to worry about another guy from Serbia whose name is Nikola taking over the league. There's like eight of them now. Cooper Flag is American.
You can wave your flag and support the NBA as this man just dunks on people and blocks shots and curses you out. Prepare yourselves for Cooper Flag. Something else you should prepare yourselves for.
What is it? We got another trade? Woj is announcing a trade. Oh my God. Congratulations, folks. It's happened.
It's taken place and it didn't take long. Woj is reporting the Atlanta Hawks are trading De'Jounte Murray to the New Orleans Pelicans. De'Jounte Murray is a member of the, oh my goodness, it wasn't Trey Young, but they got De'Jounte Murray the hell up on out of here.
Here's the news. The Pelicans are trading a 2025 first round pick and another pick in 2027. Larry Nance Jr. for De'Jounte Murray. Well, I can tell you this, De'Jounte Murray is probably in. Brandon Ingram is probably out in Zion Williamson. Where is he right now? Probably at the buffet table. Congratulations to the Pelicans.
Now, this is very interesting because Atlanta, they got to, well, not all the time. They got to look at De'Jounte Murray enough and what a failed experiment that was. Hey, Colton, what are your thoughts? I'm going to give you mine.
We're going to dive deeper into the, at the top of the hour. You like this move? I was just reading before I jumped on with you here that it would be an easier package to get Trey Young than De'Jounte Murray. And this is what they got for De'Jounte Murray? Geez, what is Trey Young going to go for a bag of chips then? Not even a good bag of chips? Like off-brand bag of chips?
Holy cow. What's an off-brand bag of chips? Like your neighborhood like store, your ShopRite brand, your Stop and Shop brand, your Giant Eagle brand, you name it brand, just... Not Lay's, right? No, definitely not a good bag like Lay's. No, definitely not. Comes in like the thick plastic bag with no label on it. Yes, exactly.
So that's what it went for? I don't... JR, I don't know how you feel about first-round picks with the NBA. I don't think they matter at all.
Yeah, it depends on who you are and what team. Sometimes a first-round pick matters and sometimes it doesn't. I mean, in the case of the Atlanta Hawks, which they are pretty as much as average as average can be, the picks matter. I mean, look, the Atlanta Hawks accidentally got the first pick in the draft this year.
I like saying his name and practicing. Zachary Risache. They get this man and nobody cares.
Well, the Atlanta Hawks, I mean, all things considered, they're expected to be average. What else is new? Landry Fields, during the press conference today, I attended the press conference introducing Risache. Landry Fields was asked about potentially trading one of their veteran players, one of the point guards, whether it be Trae Young or whether it also be De'Jaunte Murray. And of course, Landry Fields looked at the member of the media and he basically told him, hey, we're focused in right now on the rookies that we just drafted. We're focusing in on them.
We will always look to improve the team. And about five hours after that, they send De'Jaunte Murray to New Orleans so he can throw alley-oops to Zion Williamson when Zion is actually healthy enough to play. Look, here in Atlanta, we knew this day was coming for a very long time because there was no way in hell that Trae Young and De'Jaunte Murray were going to be able to operate on a basketball court together and not happening at all. You got two point guards who need the ball in their hands.
One is bigger than the other. The other guy in Trae Young is not running around or moving on the court when he doesn't have the ball. And just to bring in Larry Nance?
Okay, fine. I feel like these Atlanta Hawks are back at square one where they were a few years ago when they had someone like Kevin Hurter who was shooting the ball. They sent him out to Sacramento. You bring in Bogdanovich. Now you have Risache and the Atlanta Hawks are going to Atlanta Hawk. I got to tell you this, people.
I don't feel that they got any really much better or worse. They better pray to God that Risache can show up to work and live up to being a number one pick, which a lot of people don't believe he can. This is crazy. I tell you, the NBA drama continues on. I told you it was a wild week. LeBron James gets the coach and his son on the same damn team.
Shame. The New York Knicks say let's go ahead and bring in someone pretty amazing. Let's bring in Mikel Bridges.
Risache goes number one. Bronny James goes 55. And then to end things on a Friday evening, the Atlanta Hawks decide to trade one of their guards, De'Jaunte Murray, one of my favorite cities. De'Jaunte is now in New Orleans.
Good luck. Let's see how many games Zion can actually show up and play. It's the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. It's 855-212-4227.
It's 855-212-4227. We'll talk more about the trade that just took place in the NBA as De'Jaunte Murray is no longer a Hawk. Gets moved to the Pelicans. We'll get into the Lakers.
NFL Sunday ticket. Klay Thompson. Free agency.
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