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If you got a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. What a day. What a night.

Last night when I left. What an afternoon. We had an almost no hitter by the most electrifying man in baseball. Jalen Brown of the Boston Celtics, not on Team USA, continues with cryptic tweets. Man, we had a fight in Charlotte last night.

Was no malice in the palace, but we had a couple of teams in Copa America that were not happy. We'll get into that. Bill Belichick is back on television. Tyreek Hill is dropping his top five quarterbacks. Cam Newton and Christian McCaffrey.

Invites to weddings. People are mad at each other. We got reports about how Clemson and my friends down in Tallahassee want to leave the ACC. What a shock. What a surprise. There's just there's a lot going on.

Jamal Adams is now a Tennessee Titan. We got a lot to discuss, a lot to get into. How about this? To talk about the latest with the Celtics, which is you got three guys. Well, no, you only got two guys from the Olympic team on the Celtics.

Could have had a third guy. We're going to talk with Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe. He's coming through in about 15 or 20 minutes and we'll get into why Derek White made the Olympic team over Jalen Brown. And what exactly is Jalen Brown going to do? Is he going to, like, subtweet everybody over the next six weeks? Is he going to watch the Olympics? Is he going to diss his own teammates? We have no idea, but it is certainly a, I'm not going to call it a funny situation.

It's a unique situation. Grant Hill spoke last night. We'll hear what he had to say in a bit. Also, Bill Bender is coming through from the sporting news to talk about some college football. I just told you about two ACC teams that are looking for greener pastures.

Everybody's looking for more money. Who isn't? And then Jared Dubin is going to join us. He covers the NFL for CBS Sports. There was an interesting, you know, article ranking the best coaches in the NFL right now. We'll get into that and some of the other news that has come down the pipe today, like Jamal Adams now being a member of the Tennessee Titans.

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Super producer and host Ryan Hickey. How you doing, man? You good? I am doing good, JR. And I'm like, I think a lot of people in sports, I could say I'm doing good.

I'm actually doing good. And there's no controversy around that. It's nice. What does it explain?

What does that mean? Well, Team USA, right? Derek White should be thrilled.

He's on Team USA. And now there's drama about, you know, did Jalen Brown get screwed? And now Jason Tatum is getting grilled. And we're opening up this conversation again about Tatum and Brown.

Is Tatum defending Brown enough? So there's one thing. Copa America last night, right? Columbia wins. Their fans are now fighting Uruguay players.

There's a little stain on that win as they go to the Copa America final. And today, Paul Skeans lights it up again, has the best outing you possibly could have, throwing seven no-hit innings. And the manager is getting raked over the coals, rightfully so, for his decision to take him out.

It's like, everyone that's doing good here is getting some sort of criticism. Rightfully, the guy was at basically 100 pitches. It was the seventh inning. He just got to the bigs. Like, what do you want him to max out at?

OK, he's raking. He got to go back out there at minimum twice. He could go up to another 30 pitches.

Why do it? What would you do? Give him one more inning to see if he sat everybody down with nine pitches? I'm not saying you have to guarantee the two innings. I would agree that, look, when you're at 99 through seven, it is a long way to go to get to nine. But I mean, look, what if he has a four-pitch inning? You know, like, see how he goes. And you would think, you would think that because of his age that when you're young, OK, you can stretch your arm out a little bit and you can take on a bigger workload than, let's say, when Johan Santana threw a no hitter for the Mets and then basically it was never the same after.

I think it was like 134 pitches he threw and then basically his arm fell off. He was older. So, like, you would think a younger player could handle that workload better than an older player.

You would think so. But at the same time, you don't want to jeopardize what the future is, you know, for this guy. I agree. So I'm not mad that Derek Shelton pulled him. Now, what I will say is, OK, if you wanted to give him a little more of an inch there, you say, listen, bro, go back out for the eighth and that's it. Obviously, they had a pretty much a hard count here at 100 and they wanted to call it a day. Ultimately, if you care about who won or lost, the Pirates did hold on to win one to nothing. They gave up two hits.

They were not accounted to Paul Skeans. They actually loaded the bases. They still walked away with a victory. Aroldis Chapman closed the game out and he finished today with seven innings pitched. OK, he struck out 11 guys on 99 pitches. Derek Shelton, who's the manager of the Pirates, he talked about this after the game and he was pretty much asked, hey, was this an easy decision? Was it a tough one? And this is what he said.

Not at all. I mean, he was tired. I mean, it was, you know, it really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.

Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where he was at. It was about, you know, trusting your eyes, trusting him. When I went and talked to him after after that, I mean, he was tired. They did a good job of wearing him down.

And I mean, he gave us everything he had. Well, that is pitch count. Come on.

OK, sure. It's not, hey, he hit ninety nine. We're not going to let him throw one hundred.

We're not going to let him throw one on one. But the pitch count is what makes him tired. OK. And so here throughout his career, throughout his 11 starts, the most pitches that he has thrown was just last week, Friday, he threw one hundred and seven pitches against the New York Mets.

He gave up two runs, pitched seven innings, struck out eight. So he has gone over one hundred before. He's gone over one hundred quite a few times.

One oh seven, one oh two, ninety eight, ninety eight, one oh three, ninety three. He's done it. He's hit it. And so they could have put him back out there.

But if the guy is tired, if he said he looked tired, then what are we doing here? He's 22 years old. He has the world in front of him. This guy is probably by the time he reaches free agency, which is ridiculous in baseball because they don't let these guys really become free until they're like a million years old. This guy is going to make, I don't know, fifty five million a year. I mean, are you going to trust a pitcher to, you know, earn that much? You're going to trust and be healthy.

I have no idea. But we know the salaries are going up. I mean, if you got top guys right now, the Scherzers and the Verlanders, these guys careers are basically over. They're making all this money. What the hell is Skeens going to make if he can pitch almost up to forty?

It's ridiculous. Skeens was asked about this after the game and we got his thoughts on whether or not he was surprised that he got pulled. Listen, wasn't going to be surprised either way if he sent me out or or pulled me. I mean, we have Holderman and Chapman at the back end of our bullpen. So I think those are probably the I think, you know, two of the best guys in the league. And so I have a ton of trust in them to be able to finish it. And, you know, obviously in a one nothing game, we you know, you want to stay in there, you want to finish it. But, you know, I mean, the volume is getting up there a little bit. So I get it. Yeah, I don't I don't think anybody should be shocked.

I don't think anybody should be up in arms. The Pirates right now are trying to inch to five hundred. They have a record of forty five and forty eight.

And for a guy this electric, I think there's going to be plenty of opportunities for us to see him light things up. You worry about the future. You worry about getting the victory and keep it moving. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Ken is calling from Vegas. You on the J.R. sport.

Go ahead, Ken. Hey, I just really don't understand how you said three hundred twenty three. No, it is no big deal. Whenever you compare numbers, you've got to compare it to something else. Two hundred and forty thousand games. That's one out of every thousand games. That is a big deal.

So sorry. The numbers don't match up with what you said. It is a big deal.

One out of every thousand games. I'm not saying that. Ken, listen to me.

I'm not saying that throwing a no hitter or dare I say a perfect game of which there haven't been only twenty plus is not a big deal. What I'm saying. Well, let's listen to me, Ken. You listen. Listen.

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saying pulling him is not a big deal. I did not say no. Listen to me, Ken.

Listen, you have a problem listening. We know how special no hitters are. We know how special perfect games are. I am not up in arms, pardon the pun, about him being pulled.

He's twenty two years old. He was pulled from what could have been a no hitter a few games ago. This guy is awesome. Look, you throw a perfect game, you throw a no hitter.

It's absolutely awesome. I think he's going to have a chance to do another one. I think what's more important right now at this stage of his career for a guy who hasn't even had fifteen starts in the bigs, I think it's preservation of his arm here throughout the season and then into his career. I'm sure the Pittsburgh Pirates have a path forward that involves keeping him healthy and not really pushing his workload. This man literally went from LSU, got drafted, started the season and is now here in the majors.

OK, I think you'd have to be a complete dumb ass to think that a no hitter or a perfect game is not special. What I'm saying is it's more important that they keep him healthy for the long run. Is it risky? Yes. Is Derek Shelton up for criticism? Yes, absolutely. That's part of being a manager.

You have to go out there and make the tough decisions. I have no problem with them pulling him at all. The guy may throw a no hitter a month from now. Shoot, by the end of the season they may shut him down.

Why would anybody be surprised? Pitching is probably, you know, we make fun of the injuries that we have and the NBA and the guys can't suit up, the guys can't play. Joel Embiid, last night I gave you a top six list of some of the most injured players in the league. Pitching is not natural. I mean, Rob Manfred, as silly as he is, the man gave an interview with the Dallas News, Dallas Morning News, I believe, and he basically said, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm concerned about the rash of pitching injuries.

Everybody's concerned with rotation and velocity and people are putting so much torque on their arms and we can go down the list. Steven Strasburg, this man won a World Series, won a World Series in 2019, was an MVP of that series in 2019. They gave this man a contract north of 200 million dollars. This man's arm fell off. They had to surgically repair his arm. They had to take a rib out of his side to see if he could still go out there and throw a baseball. We have seen great players, great pitchers, great young guys go out there and have it one day and it's gone the next. Pitching is so volatile. He had his chance.

Today wasn't it? If his pitch count was lower than 100 and if Derek Shelton did not observe that he was getting tired, maybe he would have left him in. You know, I don't think Paul Skeens and God bless him, you know, you're not necessarily always going to get the honest answer from anybody when they talk to the media. He could have said I was fine. He could have said I could have went out there for another two innings. He could have said I was gassed. He kind of did. He said I was getting there towards the end. Yeah. And so they pulled him.

Why push him? He's had an amazing game. Okay, yes, it's a no hitter. Yeah, I'm fine if you say, oh, well, they could put him out there for one more inning.

But look, I'm not sweating it. This guy will have his chance. I'm sure he'll go out there one day. And instead of having 99 pitches in seven innings, I don't know, maybe next time you'll have 70. Maybe you'll have more left in the tank. And he can just go out there and finish the job himself.

This is probably the best. Well, he is the best pitcher in baseball right now. He is certainly the pitcher garnering the most attention given his age and where he was a year ago. And I'd love to see him plenty other times. I like to see him healthy. But the odds are you want to know the odds are at some point, maybe he's gonna have an arm injury.

Okay. That's just what happens when you're throwing a baseball for a living. I'm not upset at Derek Shelton pulling him. And I think this guy Yeah, if he stays healthy, like every other pitcher looks like he has a damn good career ahead of him.

I was a Pirates fan, I would be thrilled. The JR sport re show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break.

When we come back on the other side. Some of the news that continues to just permeate from yesterday to today. Jalen Brown is mad. He's upset.

Derek White took Kawhi Leonard's spot in the Olympics. And Jalen Brown is trying to understand why. Is it Nike? Is it not Nike? Is it?

Jalen Brown says he's not afraid of anybody in their resources. What the hell is he talking about? We're gonna talk to Gary Washburn, who covers the Celtics and the NBA. Okay, for the Boston Globe. He's coming through on the other side of the break. Congratulations. We just got started.

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Anyway, the United States of America. They beat Canada last night in a friendly as they get warmed up for the Paris Olympics. Now, despite that victory, a lot of the attention is still on someone who left the Olympic team in Kawhi Leonard and the man that replaced him, Derek White is a man who just won finals MVP, who's not happy about this development. And there's another player from the Celtics on the Olympic team that is having to answer questions that have nothing to do with them. The Celtics are still in the news.

I'm talking about Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum and Derek White to talk about what's going on, what may happen, what has transpired to try to interpret things is Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe covers all things NBA and Celtics. Hey, Gary, how are you? Hey, how's it going? It's good.

Good to chat with you. The last time we had a conversation, we were talking about what the Celtics could have done. They did win the championship. So before we get to that, have you had a chance to relax a little bit?

Not particularly, but it's probably a good thing to stay busy. But yeah, to cover a team all the way to the end and see them get that championship after falling short many, many years is definitely definitely a different experience than I've ever, ever had. And now when you see what the 76ers and Knicks have done to try to get at them, it's kind of like the new seasons all starting over again, obviously with summer league and a new influx of players into the NBA, it never really ends.

Doesn't end and neither do the storylines. I guess my first question to you, Gary, what are your impressions of Derek White making the team over Jalen Brown, who was just finals MVP? Well, I do think they've liked Derek for a long time Team USA. I think he fits a definite role, a good back court defender, a versatile player, someone who can do a lot of different things. He can score at times and he's going to be a team guy.

You know, you got a lot of eight personalities on that team. A lot of guys are not used to coming off the bench are not used to playing maybe seven or eight minutes a game. And I think Derek White kind of fits into that equation of like a guy who is kind of just happy to be here. You don't want people that are kind of brooding in the locker room or saying, oh, I should be playing over here. And you just want a guy who when they call on him, he's going to go out there and put in, you know, two, three, four, whatever productive minutes and then go back to the bench. And I think Derek White's a fantastic player.

He deserves this opportunity and I think he'll flourish with it. Gary Washburn joining us from the Boston Globe. Immediately following the replacement, Jalen Brown tweeted out the, hey, I'm paying real close attention to what's going on.

We get a message today where he says, I'm not afraid of your resources. There's comments that he didn't make the team because of some of his criticisms of Nike. Grant Hill says that's not the case. Tell us about Jalen Brown. Obviously, he wanted to play on the team. Is this going to create a new chasm amongst them, the Celtics, when they go back in October? I don't think that Jalen Brown has a problem with Derek White making the team.

I don't think he's mad at Derek. I think he's upset with the process because, you know, basically as with a lot of guys around the league, Kyrie Irving, you know, there's several other guys who kind of felt like, well, there's no try out here. We don't get a chance to show it on the court. We just, you know, Team USA just started choosing guys. So it became kind of, you know, just a process that will Grant Hill and, you know, Steve Kerr or whatever, just started picking guys and saying, do you want to play? And usually this process does have, you know, a camp and you got maybe, you know, 25 guys going for the 12 spots or whatever. And in this situation, there was no process to where you could make the team.

You just had to get chosen. I think Jalen had a problem with that. I think he has a problem with some of the players who made the team that he feels like he's accomplished more than. You look at a Tyrese Halliburton, you know, you look at a Devin Booker and as much as, you know, Devin Booker's a prolific scorer, Jalen proved it on the defensive side. He won the NBA finals MVP. He's a conference finals MVP. He looks and he goes, well, you know, why does some of these guys automatically just get these invites and I don't even get a call?

So I think he's more upset with the process. And then, you know, on top of that, Kawhi Leonard. And I just think we all kind of doubted whether Kawhi was going to go through this. He didn't finish the season with the Clippers because of his knee. Then suddenly his knee is going to, you know, rehabilitate and get 100% two months later and he's going to play a full Olympic schedule and lead the U.S. to gold.

Like everybody kind of knew that was a little bit of a bizarre decision considering he hasn't been healthy in the playoffs the last few years. And then he backs out and then you choose Derek, why you don't, you know, it just seems like and I think what Jalen is implying is that they got something against me, you know, not even get a call. How about a conversation? How about an explanation?

How about something that says, hey, man, we know what you've accomplished, but this is what we're looking to do. And I just think he feels like some of his, you know, and could you say that Team USA is definitely run by Nike? Some people would say that, you know, a lot of Nike players on that team, I guess, except Anthony Edwards, who's an Adidas guy and Steph Embiid, you know, but you weren't going to deny those guys spots on the team. You're not, if Steph wants to play, regardless if he's underarm or not, you're going to let him on the team. The same with Joel Embiid, he's never been an Olympian.

So I think Jalen feels like he's been, you know, pushed out of this process, maybe for some of his words in the past. He's not, he has no allegiance to shoe companies. He's a shoe-free agent. He does wear Nike's, but he only wears Kobe's. It's kind of a, you know, tribute to Kobe Bryant.

So I just think he feels kind of the whole entire process. And this was just kind of the straw that broke the camel's back when Kawhi backs out and he probably didn't even get a phone call. Hey, Gary Washburn, joining us from the Boston Globe. You mentioned some of his words in the past, whether it's a defense of Kyrie Irving. We know he was very vocal in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd.

It was only a couple of months ago that even Stephen A. Smith was saying, hey, I've heard people that say, you know, he's difficult and he's not well liked. I mean, is he helping himself with the tweets and the messages or is he feeding into this? He probably isn't helping himself. At this point, he probably doesn't care. He's going to be who he is.

He's going to be focal. And I just think that's why he feels like, you know, when he won these awards or NBA finals MVP and he in the Easter conference, he was shocked because he said, you know, I didn't think I was going to win any of this stuff because I'm not, you know, one of these guys who just says whatever people want to hear, I'm going to speak my opinion. You know, he's been strong in the Players Association, you know, in the negotiations with new CBA. He did support Kyrie Irving's freedom of speech in many cases and kind of maybe not exactly what he said, but just kind of like, well, are we going to start really penalizing guys for retweets? Is that what we're doing here? And I just think that that was a new kind of wrinkle in obviously this new social media that we're in.

This is something that the NBA wouldn't have had to deal with 20 years ago, 15 years ago, is social media activity. So, you know, he's had, you know, he's been a person who's strong in his opinion. And I do think as few today had a definite point of just saying like, there's people that don't like him because of that or feel he's got an attitude or, you know, he's not a great personality and he doesn't get a lot of endorsements and things like that. So I think all of this manifests into the situation. And maybe, you know what, maybe just he's not a Brant Hill guy. This doesn't seem like Brant Hill. You know, sometimes that's why some guys don't make this Olympic team. Before, it was Jerry Colangelo.

We can go back to the women's side, 2016, when Candace Parker was already coming off an MVP and didn't make the 2016 Olympic team. You know, sometimes politics come into this or just personalities or likes and dislikes come into it or this person's going to, you know, affect the chemistry of the team, we think, because of how they are. Like, we all know this all goes on.

Yeah, absolutely. Well, Gary, I want you to hear this clip. I know you've heard it. I want the audience to hear it. This is from Jason Tatum at his media scrum, where unfortunately, like he's being asked questions like people are trying to rip a story or make a story. This is Jason Tatum asking or answering questions about Jalen Brown being left off the team.

Listen to this. Yeah, I mean, there's so many guys that could, you know, take the last spot or whatever. So, yeah, it is. He's being asked, is it disappointing and difficult and hard? And he's just like, why are you asking me these questions? Gary, you're around these guys all the time. Are they still trying to make a story out of this?

Can we, like, put it to bed? Why are they trying to separate these dudes? Yeah, it puts Jason in a real bad spot if he says Jalen should be here and over there at White. It's not fair for him to say that. And he's not going to say that. He's smarter than that. And it puts him in a bad spot. And I just think at this point, there's really not much you could do. And I think Jalen probably needs to talk publicly and say, hey, man, I got no project there at White.

This is what I have an issue with. And then Team USA, Grant Hill kind of, you know, well, I wore Fila throughout my career and it wasn't a really funny joke. And he kind of tried to explain, but you can't, it's hard to explain why you're leaving out the NBA Finals MVP and H.A. Copper Finals MVP and a guy who's been an All-Star. It's real, who plays the same position as Kawhi, who's kind of a physically healthy Kawhi.

I mean, you know, there's a, I think there's a five-year difference between the two. And, you know, and I understand, I can understand Jalen's opinion on that. I mean, he looks, he goes, okay, you guys invited Kawhi Leonard, who's perpetually hurt, and you just gave him a spot, but I can't get a phone call.

I can't get any consideration for being on this team. And, you know, he knows, I mean, I think he has respect for the guys, he's contemporaries in the league, but Jalen also feels like he's one of the best players in the league. And that's why a lot of these guys are here, because they think they're the best. They think they're top notch and Jalen's no different.

So, you know, is that, is there a political side to it? Does Grant Hill feel like there's going to be some issues? And it's not fair to Jason because it puts Jason in a real bad spot.

You know, what's he supposed to say? Well, you know, because he knows, if he criticizes the choice of Derek White, then there's a problem with Derek White. And Derek White's a great guy. And Derek White doesn't deserve this. He deserves to be on the team.

But in my opinion, so does Jalen. And, you know, but if, you know, it's a political thing. If you're not in a Team USA system, if you're not, you know, there's been guys who, you know, thought they should make it and didn't make the select team over the last several years. And we're chosen for that.

And, you know, it's just a, it's kind of a system where you have to be part of something for a while. And, you know, he played in the World Championships a few years ago in 2019. You know, didn't really have a great tournament. None of the Team USA did. They finished in seventh place. But if you really look at it, you know, it's probably, it's probably part, you know, we like Derek White and it's part, well, we just don't feel like Jalen Brown's a fit chemistry-wise. Well, Gary, knowing that they haven't, it hasn't even been a month since they won the championship.

We already got a story, at least people trying to make a story. What's the biggest challenge for them repeating next year? Is it depth? Is it an injury to Porzingis?

Is it ego? What's the biggest issue or challenge for them to repeat? Well, obviously the competition is much more daunting when you got Philadelphia picking up Paul George, picking up Eric Gordon, you know, healthy Embiid is back, Maxie just signed his extension, Kelly Oubre when it comes on back. So Philadelphia has made some moves now they have kind of a big three and the Knicks pick up Mikel Bridges and they're wrapping up too. So they re-signed in Moby.

So I just think the competition will be better, but it's also different. Miami's kind of on the slide. Milwaukee has done pretty much absolutely nothing. I think they signed Torian Prince and Delon Wright.

Those are two free agents, but that's not going to make anybody turn their heads. But I think for the Celtics personally, they've got to stay healthy and they got to have that fire. And we'll see, like, you know, this is what makes, you know, good, great teams dynasties is that let's do this again.

Let's have that same organization. And they know they're probably not going to be as healthy as they were last year. There's going to be some diversity comes out of nowhere and they're going to have to deal with it. And they pretty much brought the entire same team back. And we'll see other, you know, there are some of the draft picks do or whether they can find some, you know, maybe a guy who can help off the bench, you know, later this summer. But at this point, this is the team they have and they're going to have to really, really deal with being the hunted, not the hunter. Yeah. Well, they've had their chances over the years. They finally reached the top of the mountain.

People are going to try to knock them off. Gary, thank you for the time. Where can people follow you on your work with the Globe?

BostonGlobe.com and follow me on Twitter or X, whatever you call it, at G. Washburn Globe. Thank you so much. Enjoy some time more, Gary.

Catch you down the line, OK? All right. Thanks.

Appreciate it. No doubt about it. That Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe. Crazy situation like that. They just won the championship. And there's already stories about it. People just there is a story because of Brown and his tweets. But then, hey, did you hear what Brown said? Tatum, Tatum, what do you think about what Brown said?

What do you think about Derek White? It's just they can't even enjoy the championship. Anyway, it's the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We are going to take a break. We come back. You know, Gary referenced the comments by Grant Hill. We'll hear the comments from Grant Hill on the other side of the break where he had his poor joke about he wore felas and he was on Team USA. So we'll hear that.

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Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief, the J.R. Sport Reshow here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you so much to Gary Washburn from the Boston Globe for joining us in the last break to talk about a little bit of Celtics drama like they won the championship. But then Kawhi Leonard gets hurt.

Derek White is his replacement. Jalen Brown is like, what about me? Jason Tatum is like, this doesn't have anything to do with me.

Leave me out of it. And then Grant Hill had to answer some questions, and Gary Washburn alluded to Grant Hill's comments about, hey, I got to build the best team and what have you like. Come on now. He's a better player. He being Jalen Brown, he's a better player than Derek White. Is Derek White a great player? Yeah, the guy could have been an all star this past season, OK? But it is kind of weird when you remove one wing player that is known for his defense and can shoot the ball and you don't replace him with another similar wing player who can shoot the ball, maybe not as good as Kawhi, but then also plays defense and is younger. And, you know, he's going to play. And so, yes, I think it's obvious as hell whether it's Grant Hill or Steve Kerr, they don't they don't like or the selection committee or whatever committee selects.

Is it Nike? They don't like Jalen Brown as simple as that. Is it fair? No, it's not.

But life ain't fair. But you know what? Like everybody, when you say things or you do things, you got to live with the consequences. And so, yeah, he's been outspoken.

You know, there's rumors and comments that, oh, he's not liked. He wore the T-shirt during the Celtics parade that pretty much said, hey, where's your source? Where's your source?

So, look, you can poke the bear, but don't be mad at the results. That's it at all. Let's take a listen to what Grant Hill had to say in response. Listen to this.

Well, for a good portion of my career, I wore Fila. So that was supposed to be a joke. Didn't play right. No, look, you know, we're proud of our partners, obviously, at USA Basketball. But, you know, this is this is about putting together a team. And I'm glad you kind of brought that up, because I think just overall, you have incredible interest, an abundance of talent that we have here in the United States. You can't get 12 spots and you have to build a team. And one of the hardest things is leaving people off the roster that I'm a fan of. Guys who've been finals MVPs, guys who've been a part of the program, guys who've won gold medals.

But the responsibility that I have is to put together a team and a team that complements each other, a team that fits a team that will give us the best opportunity for success. And so, you know, whatever theories that might be out there, they're just that. Like, Hickey, what do you think, man? So I never really thought about it, to be honest. And you are right. Like when you have a player like Kawhi and you have a player like Jalen Brown, who, I mean, are very similar, it really does not make sense on paper why that you make you would not make this move. Like the only thing I think of is just like, well, you know, they don't you know, they picked Derek White in part because he's not going to play a lot of minutes. He'll be fine with that. But then as I think about that, you're insinuating, I'm insinuating a lot of people are insinuating that, like, well, why would Jalen Brown not be OK with playing 10 minutes a game on Team USA?

What would make me think that he would pout or make some sort of, you know, stink about not playing a lot? And it is goes back to like it's just there's something about it. I don't know if it's fair or not, but there's something about him that people don't jive with and don't like. It is very weird. And sometimes that's life. You know, some people like you, some people don't. I mean, I can understand Kyrie. He's controversial. That's just what it is.

Even if he was a good soldier, he didn't make noise. Look, people, I'm paid to be opinionated. Hickey is paid to be opinionated. They're paid a lot of money. And so ain't nobody losing sleep over any of them.

We're talking to hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. OK. But the fact is, when you open up your mouth, even at their level, you got to pay the consequences. That's it.

That's it. I'm sure Steph Curry has opinions on this or LeBron has opinions on that. And and when they answer or say things, you know, sometimes they get slapped around in public because of it. Some guys in the public space are more controversial than others.

And Jalen Brown has put himself in that space. He has not he in a in a public way. He's not he's not endearing. That's a fact.

That's it. You know, he's not sitting around laughing in press conferences. He doesn't.

I don't think I've seen the guy smile since maybe he was at Cal. He's not endearing. That's just what it is.

That's what it is. And so he's he's not liked. Now, if there's more of a personal reason and then I don't know it, but I know from from just observing him, I've never met the guy. I just know from observing him, he's he's not outward. The guy's from here in Atlanta, Georgia. He ain't too far from from where I'm at in the studio where he went to high school.

He's just not an endearing dude. That's it. 855-212-4227.

855-212-4227. I told you I wanted to get into something pretty crazy last night out in Charlotte. It had nothing to do with the Panthers.

It was it was Copa America. We almost had a malice at the palace, but we'll get into that at the top of the hour. And we got so much more to get into as well. Tennessee Titans got a new player in Jamal Adams.

I hope he can play. But let's get to the phones before we have to shut up for this hour. 855-212-4227. Todd is calling from Baltimore. You're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up, Todd? Hey, JR. What's happening, bro? I'm excellent. What's on your mind? You got to go quick.

I got you. Sports Dynasty. They're saying people are saying three in a row, two out of three. No one's not quite sure about a dynasty. Well, it's three in a row.

It's the Oakland A's. One, two, three. Back in the 60s or back in the 70s.

71, 72, 73. OK, well, all right. Well, thank you, Todd.

Appreciate that. I'm just seeing your opinion of a sport. Oh, you're asking me. I was a little confused. I was like, we didn't say anything about a sports dynasty. I put it to you.

Well, I'm going to answer you, Todd, because I got to hit the break. Thank you for calling from Baltimore, man. All right, brother, you know it.

No doubt. Sports dynasties come in. They come in different ways, I think at minimum to have a dynasty. I think you got to win three championships. Let's let's just say three championships in five years or maybe three. Not even you think about the San Antonio Spurs. The San Antonio Spurs are not one of these teams that went back the back the back the back the back.

They didn't three feet. It's like they won in all these odd years. Nobody would look at the San Antonio Spurs and not say, you know, that they were a dynasty. So, yeah, you can look at a team that that repeated. You can look at a team that three peated.

Did a team kick ass and win championships over multiple years? I think that's it. It's hard to say, you know, even what I said, I changed my mind three out of five. No, like you spread it out.

Hickey, you got a definition. I think three out of five is fair. It's three out of five.

You really doing good. But I mean, you don't you want to make it still tough, right? Like a dynasty is a big word. Well, any any any team or every league is different. The Patriots were not here winning every every single year, but they would have been asked for 20 dynasties come in different shapes and sizes, Todd, just like other things. It's the J.R. sport. We show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to talk some NFL. We're going to talk multiple versions of football.

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