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The JR Sportbrief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you to everybody listening all across North America. I hope you're good. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well. I hope you're doing smooth. I'm going to be hanging out with you for the next three hours. This show gets started every single weekday at 6pm Eastern, 3 Pacific. Where the hell you been?
That means I've been here for an hour already. We talked about the Rams potentially trading Cooper Cup. By the way, he's been injured for weeks now. What a great deal another team is going to get on an injured wide receiver. Injury prone wide receiver. We just talked about the greatness of Lamar Jackson.
Absolutely amazing. Might win a third MVP at this rate. But man, do it in the postseason. Win a championship.
We'd love to see it. Talked about Derrick Henry. Man has not lost a step.
Not at all. And the Bucks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're just lost. They lost their duo, this dynamic duo. Mike Evans is out with a hamstring, minimum three games. Chris Godwin, he is out out.
This man broke his ankle, dislocated his ankle, his leg, his foot went the wrong way. He gone. You won't see him until next year. Sucks. Probably with a different team. He's a free agent.
Breaking your leg before the money comes. Damn. He'll be okay. And we'll be okay too.
We have so much more to get into. How about this? The Boston Celtics are minutes away from getting their championship rings hanging banner number 18. Or at least putting the year on another banner because there's, there's no more space.
The New York Knicks are in Boston to open up the season against the Celtics. Like how much, not even how much, imagine being so successful that you can't even hang banners in your own arena because there's no more space. It's like, hey, we got a couple of banners and what we do is we put the years, put the years on a, on a new banner. That's how good we are.
It's pretty awesome. Uh, Hickey, how many, how many Knicks championship banners? Two of them, right? Uh, two. Yes. Enough room to hang a few more.
Plenty of space. Oh my God. They got one band and they just add the year like it's a patchwork quilt. How do you, even the retired numbers and all of this, come on. I know it is, uh, an embarrassment of riches, right? Here we go.
The retired numbers have their own, uh, they have their multiple numbers on multiple banners, but the championship banners have their own, their own. Okay. A good, okay.
All right. If Bob Cusi, didn't Bob Cusi say he was the best NBA Frenchman before women? Yeah. Did I see that correctly?
Hickey? Did you see that too? I did not see that. Did he really say that? Yeah. He said that. Yeah.
Wow. They got Cedric Maxwell out here. Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce is carrying the, uh, the last trophy. Hickey, uh, do you think Paul Pierce is high right now?
High, drunk, one of the two, both. Yeah. At least he didn't bring strippers with the trophy. Okay. That's, uh, that's good. I don't, I don't know how that would fit in with the Celtics.
That would probably not be appropriate. Hot take. Yeah. At least, uh, Paul Pierce could walk out onto the court. I'm happy about that. Yeah.
This is going to be a good NBA season. Listen, folks, if you want to be a part of the show, you can do so. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
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Okay. They just showing all the young guys some go say how to yeah, go Hickey. They ignoring Bob Cusi.
What are they doing now? They want to say hi. This is in a wheelchair.
You got to show him love too. Yeah. You can't ignore the elders. No, sir. Yeah.
You can't say hi to Paul Pierce and just say, who are you? Oh, you Bob cool. Oh, I know. I heard about you.
I know you. Yeah. So they, they showed them love.
This is good. And the Celtics, I mean, even after winning the championship and I don't know, this has kind of been beaten to the ground a little bit. Oh man.
The Celtics were disrespected as champs. Oh no. The Jason Tatum didn't play in the Olympics. Oh, Jalen Brown.
You know, he didn't get selected to go to the Olympics when Kawhi Leonard got broke again. Oh my goodness. No respect for the South. Come on y'all. They whooped everybody's ass last year.
How much more respect do you need? People are looking at USA basketball as a barometer for how people in the NBA feel about the Celtics. This team last year, they were second in scoring with 120 points a game. They were fifth in defense. They got two of the best wings in the NBA, two long dudes who can score ridiculously athletic and play defense. They got, they got depth.
They got white who just went to the Olympics as well and won. You got Drew Holliday. This is a team that doesn't even need Kristaps Porzingis.
It'd be great if he's out there. They don't even need him for the regular season. They went out there and won 64 games last year. And by the way, the team is up for sale. There's not a damn thing to worry about with the Celtics. If they are healthy, they'll be right there out there defending their title. And they might be, they might be a team that goes back to back. We haven't seen that.
We've been alternating every single year. This is crazy. You know what?
Let's take a listen to Joe Mazzola. He's not going to tell me that I'm going to die tomorrow. Is he? I hope not. I mean, how many times can you repeat that?
But I don't think so. I think he, I think he'll use it a few times, but Joe Mazzola, he talks about the expectations for the Celtics this year. And he says, we ready. We ready.
I think he did. You have an opportunity to carry the organization forward, to double down on the tradition and the history of what this organization has. And what else would you expect than someone expecting you to win all the time? I wouldn't want someone expecting me to lose all the time.
That would be debilitating. Hickey, he sounds like, uh, he's like, he's like a Halloween character. Like meaning what? Like, like Joe Mazzola looks like somebody who'd be staring at you through your window. Oh yeah. He's got a, like one of those blank stares too. That is frightening. Yeah. He's got, he's got a, he's got a, uh, an ire that's just like, dude, dude, are you happy?
Did you, do you smile? Hickey got a wife and kids, the kids and the wife, the family looks beautiful. But when he's doing this, man, I want Bill, Hickey, I want Bill Belichick to talk to him and say, hey, relax a little. Lighten up. Bill Belichick. Hey, you know, I never heard Bill Belichick answer a question and go, hey guys, you understand?
We're all going to die soon. So stop asking me the BS. Whoa.
Whoa. Joe Mazzola, as intense as it gets, nice Celtics. They're going to take on the New York Knicks.
We know what the Knicks have done. Julius Randall is gone. Dante Divacenzel is gone. Isaiah. Hartenstein is gone. Incomes Carl Anthony towns.
Incomes, McHale bridges. And they retained OG and a no B New York Knicks got, they got bigger. Uh, Mitchell Robinson will come back at some point, I guess, over the winter and he'll probably come back and get hurt again, but they got depth. They got depth. Even though some of it is hurt.
Precious, our true eyes hurt. Landry Shammet got hurt. They dumped him. Knicks will be fine. The Knicks are going to be competing for one of the top spots in the East. They may be right behind the Celtics and we don't know how injuries are going to go, but the Knicks are going to be ready to punch them in the mouth. They open up the season and 20 minutes from now against the Celtics, Jalen Brown, he was on some of the top 10, and he was asked about you concerned with the New York knickerbockers.
I wouldn't use the word word. Uh, but the Knicks have a good team. Um, I think, you know, cat brings some, a level of excitement to them, uh, dynamic offensively shooting the ball as well as no McHale bridges and stuff like that.
So, um, the next, you know, I think we'll be, you know, a team to watch this year. Listen, they already got Carl Anthony towns. He can get you 21 plus and get you 60 points in a stupid game. Uh, but besides that, they got Jalen Brunson. This man has emerged as one of the top scoring threats in the NBA, despite being barely six feet tall.
This is a bad man. This man was running around, dragging the New York Knicks last year until he could no longer get the ball. The New York Knicks last year until he could no longer drag them until he went out there and got hurt, broke his hand to end the season. New York Knicks got rid of the 76 is in the playoffs. They got rid of the Pacers didn't in seven games. This man was the last dude standing 29 points a game. The Knicks haven't had a dynamic score like that since some guy named Carmelo Anthony and people love Jalen Brunson. He's the little engine that could, and Jalen Brunson says the way that we got just bounced last year and they wouldn't have got bounced if they were healthy, but you could say that about a lot of teams, Jalen Brunson said last year has motivated me and us to do better. A lot of things.
Yes. Um, game three, Indiana. I think that was a missed opportunity on our part. Um, and then following game four, we didn't show up. And so how we close out the series is not ideal. Um, they're winning for the last five.
So that's something I thought about, obviously my hand breaking. Um, but yeah, uh, whenever you don't win, you think about what you did to lose. Picky, you like the Knicks. I like the Knicks. You excited for the Knicks this year? I am. I am. I will say a little bit of that excitement left when they traded for cat. I'm not a cat guy. Oh no.
But with that said, if they are healthy, I think they are the biggest challenger to the Celtics and I'm not a fan of the Celtics. Carl Anthony towns. He had some stinkers himself in the post-season. Oh my God. He did. And that's what gets me worried.
He has some stinkers. You would think now being in a different position. I mean, we knew who the number one option last year was for the Minnesota timber wolves.
That was, I was Anthony Edwards. You would think being in a different place, more shooting options, I would say would, you know, be a different place. I mean, I would think it would be a different place. I mean, shooting options, I would say would, would help him out. You know what he does and how he handles New York.
We're going to find out. Is he going to make it through the season? I think Carl Anthony towns has a decent enough disposition to make it through the year. I think he's rather even keeled.
He doesn't say the wrong things. I don't think he's going to be doing any nutty things outside. He's going to ball.
I would be more concerned with injuries. Carl Anthony towns has been known to kind of miss a bunch of games here and there. You can never, you never bet this in the NBA. You never know who's going to be healthy, how long they are, but you said you're not worried about the Celtics in what regard? Well, I'm just saying like, I think the Knicks can compete with them. I think, I think the Celtics are the best team in the East, but like, I think they played in the, Easter conference finals. I think the Knicks would give them a run. I think they match up really well. I think they have a toughness that would give Boston a difficult time.
I agree with you. If we took both teams right now, and let's say everybody was healthy from Porzingis to Mitchell Robinson and what have you, I would, I would give the edge to the Celtics. I would. If we had to say, Hey, let's play a healthy series right now, everybody in peak condition and peak form, and we had to do it seven games, I'd give the edge to the Celtics. Not that I want to, but I would, I just think their size and their versatility and the scoring, I think also separates them. You think about the New York Knicks. We know Brunson is number one. And then you can look at Carl Anthony towns and then you look at bridges and then you go down the line and look at OG Ananobi. And that's, that's, that's where it is.
And they got McBride off the bench. But I think the full balance of offense and defense still lies with the Boston Celtics. And even if I have to look out West, I would say the best team on paper is Oklahoma City.
But then even, even looking at them, I'm worried about their size. I think the Celtics are still the team to beat. I'm going to favor them to go ahead and win another NBA championship. And then maybe Celtic fans, and I guess everybody has to have some type of chip on their shoulder, right? At that point, I guess Celtics fans stop feeling the disrespect. We know that Jalen Brown is motivated. He's like, Oh, if I gotta be in Nike athletes to go on Team USA, I'd rather not. And we know Tatum had to sit on the bench. These guys are motivated to go out. They feel like they got snubbed and they're going to go out and bust ass. I wouldn't be surprised if, well, not Brown.
Maybe I still don't respect him enough. I think Tatum is better. I wouldn't be shocked if Tatum won MVP. Him, Shay Gilgus, Alexander, one of these guys go out and wins MVP. The Celtics are the team to beat in the East.
I think the Knicks are well and most equipped to go ahead and knock them off. Speaking of Jason Tatum, he just received this ring. Picky, these rings. Now these are like cars. You open them up, you spin them around, you sit inside the ring. It lights up. Did you see this ring? It is very flashy on TV.
It looks cool. You got to unscrew the rings now. Can you wear it outside if you want to? No, you don't wear it. You put it somewhere in your house like a trophy, right?
Right. You put that thing in a lock. Oh, in a safe.
Excuse me. You better make sure that it's on lock and key. Bring it out maybe for special occasions. You know, they have an anniversary, but otherwise you can't.
I mean, walk around the street on a random Tuesday. No way. I'm laughing. Why did they give Chris Staps Porzingis a ring? What?
They give that guy a ring. How many games did he play? Damn. No, he just showed up at the end and was like, here I am, guys.
I'll help out a little bit. He did have a couple of big games. Let me see.
He's never healthy. If you were the owner of an NBA team, would you give out like three rings then? Like bench guys? Sorry. You're not getting anything. No, no support staff.
You're not getting anything. I'm being a jerk, but he played 57 games in the regular season and he barely played. They had to wait for him to come back in the postseason. It's like, he's living a good life. He's like, listen, y'all, I'm, I'm seven, two, I'm seven, three. I could run a little bit. I can dunk. I can shoot threes and I gets paid. Okay. I gets paid.
Thank you. I haven't met one Benyami yet. I have met Porzingis. This man had to take like three steps back and lean against the table to talk to me. He, I mean, when he was getting his ring from the ownership group of the Celtics, like that's where you can truly tell, like what a normal sized human being looks like compared to him. He, I mean, is a mountain of a man. Holy hell. Yeah.
He made me a mountain. Holy hell. Yeah.
He makes no sense. Yeah. And Victor, when Benyama is bigger than him. Crazy.
Oh man. If these, if Victor, when Benyama and Porzingis, if they held hands and then I don't know, uh, stretched across the room, how much would that be? 20 something, not 20. What, what's a, what's a wingspan?
Like, like 15. Don't they say Brianna Stewart got a big old wingspan. She does. She has a massive one.
I don't know. Hers off the top of my head, but it's, I know it's very long. I mean, you could probably fill up a 20 foot room, right? With their wingspans. I mean, they're seven feet.
You got to think they're, yeah, I would, I would feel comfortable saying, Oh my God. Brianna Stewart has a seven foot wingspan. Wow. And what is when Benyama's wingspan? Let's see when be wingspan long enough.
Oh my God. Eight feet, eight feet wingspan. So you, I think Chris stops is close. Maybe, you know, seven and a half.
Yeah. I just looked and look at his arms are not long. You, you, did you see like, look at Chris steps. He's long as hell. He's tall as hell. But when you see when Benyama, all you see are arms and legs.
It's like they took, he has a normal sized head, but the rest of his body has been stretched out. Chris steps, Porzingis, his arms are, I want to say much shorter, but they're not as long as when Benyama, we got a, we got a fun NBA season ahead of us and the Knicks and the Celtics are getting it going right now. Who do you favor to win the championship? I would still trust the Celtics. They're the most talented team and the West has just, I mean, I like the Nuggets still, but that clock is ticking very quick, very quick on them. OKC, I just want to see a little bit more from them, especially in the post season, their ability to use all that youth and talent to kind of finally break through. Then to the East, like maybe we're sleeping on the Bucks. I just can't, it's like they're getting old and run down. Yeah. I think they'll be better than what they were last year.
It's it's real tricky. And I'm not a fan of Denver right now. I know they added Russell Westbrook to try to help and add another dimension to the team. I'm just concerned about their depth, even losing guys like Contavious Caldwell-Pope.
So good luck to them. Another fun NBA season, a lot of surprises, I'm sure, and trades that we'll get. But the NBA season is nothing but drama.
The NBA season will get started in about 10 minutes with the New York Knicks visiting the Celtics in Boston. You know what? Let's hear O.G.
Anenobi. This man never speaks. He talked about trying to slow down Jason Tatum. Is there a way, O.G.? Just to play hard, make sure they get a contest and then just trying to force them, make them as uncomfortable as possible.
OK, real, real simple. I see Jason Tatum going for, I don't know, 30 plus tonight. Let's see if O.G.
Anenobi can slow him down. Nothing is slowing us down. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We both favor the Celtics to win the championship. There's another team in New York aiming for a title, except for they suck.
And their star player, the opposite of Jalen Brunson, an attention hog. Well, he says that they need to have fun. That's Aaron Rodgers dropping some news on how the New York Jets can get better. OK, I didn't know they had to have fun. Talk about that, get into some more football as well.
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That's 855-212-4227. Hickey, I didn't know who the hell Shaboosie was until last week. Do you know what's, is he the one who sings the Tipsy song? Yeah, that's him. Yeah. Oh, okay.
Everybody in the bargain. Yeah, he's performing at the TNT rally thing before the game. Yeah, I heard the song. I heard the song.
I didn't know who it was. Well, okay. All right, good. Does he have anything else? Do you know? I don't know. One hit wonder. I don't know.
Do you know another song besides the Tipsy song? Nope. Neither. Good luck to him.
All the best. I'm saying for real, you know, nowadays you don't know. There's no artist development. It's like, hey, make a hit song, put them out and go from there. That's it.
You know, I don't know. Right. Get as much money as you can from it because you don't know if there'll be another one.
That's right. Make the money tour. And we don't have legacy artists anymore. This is just here today and gone tomorrow.
And if you can stick around for a long time, good on you. And speaking of wishing somebody well, all the best to Andy Dalton. The Panthers put out a statement that Andy Dalton and his family were involved in a car accident in Charlotte today. It says neither Andy Dalton or his family were transported by medical to a facility. Dalton is being evaluated by team medical personnel.
That's good. It seems like that is a minor car accident. And I wish Andy Dalton and his family are nothing but the best. And hopefully what is no recovery, but I still wish them the best.
Any type of car accident, whether it's a fender bender or up, it can certainly be jarring, especially if it involves your family. So all the best to Andy Dalton and his recovery there right before we went to break. Unfortunately, we talked about a team that is in need of recovery. I mean, they're in need of a lot.
I don't know if it's going to come. And that's the New York Jets. Well, we talked about the Celtics were getting ready to tip off. They're looking good to start this season favorites by by a lot of people to go ahead and repeat as champs and the New York Jets. They're the New York team. They're trying to get to a championship to. Just like the New York Knicks, I just don't know if it's going to come.
We saw the disaster. On Sunday, 37 to 15, the New York Jets can bring in Devante Adams, they can do this, they can do that. Fire their head coach and you still got the same crap results. And so when you have all of this talent on one team, you don't get the results.
What's what's the problem? I mean, after the game, everybody is screaming about the lack of execution and we're not used to each other and, you know, we have to do better every week. It's a different excuse. Aaron Rodgers, I guess, to his credit, he's he's accepting responsibility. When he's not throwing his teammates under the bus, but today on Pat McAfee show, Aaron Rodgers took it a step further as to why the New York Jets aren't having success and what they need to do to turn it around. It has nothing to do with route running. It has nothing to do with getting the head coach the hell up on at it.
It has nothing to do with any of that. Aaron Rodgers said today, the New York Jets, they need to have fun. The energy and I look at myself first, you know, it just wasn't good enough. You know, I think personally and as a team, there's just we're playing with too much anger and not enough enjoyment. You know, that's why I kind of wore this hat today as a little reminder.
Shout out to Jake Ryan and and Hugo. But there's a we've played this game for a long time and we get paid incredibly well. This is our livelihood to play a game. And most of us dreamt about or played as kids and and always want to be in this position. And personally and our team, we just need to have a little more fun, smile more, to enjoy each other. And, you know, it's fun when you win, of course. But I think there's ways of of taking some of the pressure off.
And it's got to start with me this week with my energy and my approach. Hickey, what is he saying? He's no longer going to come to work as a miserable S.O.B. I guess that's what he is claiming. I'd love to know his thoughts on why he thinks everybody's playing so angry and seemingly walk behind eggshells every single game. Curious.
I'm curious as to why that happens. This seems like a a perfect example of projecting. Like, is everybody being miserable or are you being miserable? But you're saying that we all need to be less miserable. Is it you or is it the team?
Because what you're saying is you need to set the temp. What are you going to do? Is Aaron Rodgers going to wear his is Mr. Rodgers sweater and shoes to the practice facility tomorrow? He's going to sit down in the front and and take off his sweater and is is what what did Mr. Rodgers do? Did he take off the sweater? Wait, wait, wait.
Here's a better question, Hickey. Mr. Rodgers sat down. Did he take off the shoes and put on slippers?
What did he do? Yes, I think that was it. He untied his shoes and put slippers on. I think the the cardigan, if you will, stayed on the whole time. He took a jacket off. That's what he did.
And then he went to go talk to that stupid puppet on the wall. I forgot about that. You have a better memory than I do. Oh, listen, I remember.
Yeah. Mr. Rodgers was around, you know, type of guy. He comes home, takes his jacket and shoes off to talk to puppets. Come on.
That's what he did. And then the mail that the mailman, the mailman comes to everybody else. Why do you spend so much time in Mr. Rodgers house? There's another guy. He's a nice guy. He wanted to hang out with him more.
I'm sure there's a lot of people that he was delivering mail to that were pretty, pretty mean to him. Gave him no time of day. And here's Mr. Rodgers having a conversation with him. Yeah, Mr. Rodgers is Aaron Rodgers. Take notes. Take notes. Be like Mr. Rodgers. It'll make the world a much better place.
Wild stuff. Aaron Rodgers, he had other advice, too. He says, let's just let's work on the offense. Let's do that.
Let's do that first. Looking back on the 16 season, we had a subtle shift in mindset. And the mindset was offense. We're going to win the game. And the confidence that I saw on both sides of the ball really changed in New York.
Good batter and different. But the last long stretch has been win with defense offensively. I think we need to just adjust that mindset instead of like, hey, let's go play. Well, it's a let's win the game on offense. Well, you do it. This guy got he does a whole lot of talking for being a loser.
The New York Jets are two and five. Shut up. Stop taking money. Do you need the extra million dollars? I get it.
Capitalism is great. Go get the money. But damn.
The New York Jets are paying you first. Shut up and win. Man. Has there ever been a human being that needs to hear himself speak so much?
It'd be more amusing if both he and Draymond had a podcast together and talked about anything. Maybe not. But damn enough. Hickey, here's a dumb question. Mr. Rogers, he's not here, right?
Unfortunately not. Oh, my God. Whoa. This may have been going 20 years. Whoa.
Oh, I was about to say, like, I thought it was around the pandemic. No, 20 years. Mr. Rogers passed in 2003.
Fred Rogers. Yeah. Wow.
Well, it feels like yesterday. Wow. And we haven't had society is too far down the toilet to get a new version of them, right?
Wouldn't take them seriously. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think you're right.
That's bad. We the world needs Mr. Rogers. Kids would be much better off as well. The generations after have all gone into the toilet because they had no Mr. Rogers.
That's true. Rich Ackerman is here with us. Hey, Rich, you remember? I know you remember Mr. Rogers.
He was the greatest, right? Of course. Who didn't love Mr. Rogers? I don't know. His neighbors, maybe.
I don't know. No, the guy was quiet as can be. He had all the people over at his house. All the mailman was always in the front yard.
The guys next door talking are puppets. What else did Mr. Rogers did he have? He had kids come over to the house, right? Was he throwing parties at the house? I wouldn't say parties, but I'm sure there were kids at the house. I mean, I was more of a Sesame Street guy, but, you know, yeah, there were kids.
There were definitely kids at the house. I love Sesame Street. Sesame Street is still going today. Yeah.
Actually, when WFAN had its Historia Studios, they filmed a Sesame Street there. Yeah. Very, very well aware. Yeah.
Pretty cool. You mean you met Elmo? I did not. I'm sure. I'm sure I saw the guy, all those guys, but. Excuse me? Yeah. You know, but I did not.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You saw who? I'm sure I saw the people who, you know, voiced them and stuff like that, but I, I never, never actually saw the characters themselves. You saw the guy who sits on the floor and does Elmo? Yes, I'm sure.
And not only that, but back in the day too, they had a shuttle bus that went from the city to Historia that was specifically for Sesame Street, but I was able to ride it. And it was, and I'm sure, I'm sure there were a couple of people that, you know, I would have found out like, hey, you're that guy? Was there ever a nine foot tall man on that bus? No, never, never, never saw that person. No, no Big Bird.
Okay. Yeah. Big Bird. What was he, a giant or they put him on stilts? Yeah, he was, he was a big boy. There's no question about that. Nine foot human being. Yeah. Oscar.
You know, not difficult. Throw the garbage can. Throw a green guy in the garbage. Speaking of green, the Boston Celtics have just tipped off this season.
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That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Gabe is here from Wisconsin. Gabe, you're on the JR sport re-show. What's on your mind? Yeah, I was listening to your take on Rogers and let me start out by saying I'm a Rogers fan.
I'm going to be there at Canton, right? He gave me more entertainment in his years than I can count. Okay. And you know, okay, with that said, um, your frustration and you're not a pack or a jet fan and you made me giggle so much because I'm like, that's what I felt so many years. And that was the one thing when he left, we all thought, well, I don't know.
Even if Jordan Love doesn't do anything, at least we don't have this frustration for a couple of years. And it's so interesting. It's like, can you, you know, your frustration and it's like, just go play. Yeah. I feel that way.
I think I find him to be a hypocrite. And thank you so much, Gabe, for calling from Wisconsin. And I am a Jets fan, but I think I say that enough. I love the Jets.
Their failure is amusing to me. You might say, I'm not a real fan. I'm just, just being honest. Like it's just, just don't be so hypocritical.
You know, he's always talking out of one side of his mouth and then doing something else. Oh, well I need to do this. Oh, we need to have fun. Well, shut up, go play. They're a bunch of losers. Until the Jets turn things, they are losers.
I don't care who's in the locker room. They got a record of two and five losers. Won two games, lost five. Loser.
Sheesh. Speaking of losers, I don't even know how they, and we just heard this in the update. I don't even know how they, how are they going to get through a season? Yeah, give Tyrese Maxey the ball.
The 76ers, they start their season tomorrow against the Milwaukee Bucks. Chris Middleton isn't playing. What a shock. This man had surgery. He had two surgeries. He had a surgery on each ankle.
But then the Philadelphia 76ers, Joel Embiid is already gone. He said he's out due to injury management. What?
What the hell is this crap? You got Paul George. He hyperextended his knee last week. They decided to give him a giant contract. Four years, $212 million. Joel Embiid got himself an extension as well. The contract will take him through 2027.
For a guy who can't even start the season, what the hell has he been doing? For the past, Hickey, when did the Olympics end? July? July. Early August, I think. It's actually early August. Oh my God. August, September, October.
Two months minimum. What you been doing, brah? I thought he lost 20 to 30 something pounds so he could be in shape to play basketball. He can't even play in the opening game.
He told everybody, oh yeah, I probably never played back to backs again. You're lazy. You know what? Earn that money.
A contract to earn the money. Is there no pride in that? He's lazy. Lazy.
You know what? A lazy basketball player. Hey, Nick Nurse is head coach. He spoke today and he said he don't even have words while Joel Embiid is not ready to play. He don't even know what to say.
I don't know what to say to you. He's in practice. He's looking good. He's progressing. He's not quite ready yet. He'll be ready pretty soon. I don't know what else to say. Nick Nurse needs a cigarette. He's like, we haven't played one game and I got to answer this question already?
Like Joel, what is he going to do? Just show up in March and say, here I am. What you need? I can get you 30 with my broken knees and broken face and broken feet and broken hands. This guy is fragile. And it's amazing. A seven time All-Star, multiple time scoring champ. I've seen him play once or twice.
It's amazing. He can just do what he wants out there. As big as he is, you can't stop him. As flow and methodical he is. I don't know how he does what he does because he's just so big. And I go, oh, he's going to move the wrong way. He's going to fall and break himself. Poor Nick Nurse had to answer more.
Yeah. Well, did Joel Embiid, did somebody hit his knees? Did he fall on the floor? Has there been setbacks? Listen to what Nick Nurse said. There's been more setbacks. No, we've, uh, uh, again, he's, he's really active. He's, uh, lost some weight. He's out on the court, et cetera. Just kind of sticking with our plan of, of making sure we're getting him in a really, really good place before we get him playing live. Okay.
All right, whatever. Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, by the way, they, they don't approve of this plan as I'm sure you can imagine. They said this plan sucks. And if you're Adam silver, what do you think about this? If you're a fan of the 76ers and you're buying Steven season tickets, how do you feel about this?
I would feel flimflam. Y'all playing games with me. I'm supposed to buy tickets to a team where I don't know if the star is going to play Tyrese Maxey takeover, bro. This 76ers team is going nowhere. If they should be so lucky to be healthy in the post season, good for them. But at that point, do I expect them to have continuity?
No, I don't. Is Paul George going to be available throughout the course of the season? I'm not going to bet on it. Is Joel Embiid going to be available? I don't bet on it. This is going to be the Tyrese Maxey show and friends.
And I don't know how often his other friends are going to show up. Hickey, what are your thoughts on this 6ers team? Same has been for a while. You're right now put banking every single egg you have in a basket that is broken, that is perpetually broken.
That would never be healthy. Like literally the, his entire career, he has dealt with some sort of injury in the post season, if not during the regular season. It's like at what point do you just, and it really goes back to when he got the extension, what was that, now a few weeks ago, like what do you, it's the definition of insanity where you think they have a chance, you think on paper they're a contender, and then you realize, oh, well, he's playing on one leg and has one eye and, you know, can barely walk and he needs load management in the playoffs. And it's just like, it's just like, you can't take them seriously.
They're a joke. He is, he's like Humpty Dumpty. He's like the basketball version of Humpty Dumpty.
He falls down and he breaks and they put him back together again. And he's able to sit back at the top of what Humpty Dumpty was doing on that wall, by the way. Do you know what he was doing on that wall? What was the importance of that?
Again, same thing with the 6ers. Why do you keep on going back up there, Humpty? Get off the damn wall.
You can't stay up there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. This is dumb.
I guess it gets to a point where there's so much money. Hickey, this man is, yeah, that's right. Poor Zingus. He took off his, he put on his warmup just to get his ring.
And now he's sitting on the sideline in a three piece suit. I forgot. Yeah, I forgot he's gone until what? Indefinitely, what, December, January?
January, maybe February. He's gone for a while. He needs to give that ring back.
Why are you being opposed, man? He put on his warmup. He put on his warmup to accept his ring.
So he wouldn't have the optical of accepting his award in street clothes. Oh my goodness. You can't make this stuff up. It's the JR Sport Reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 855-212-4227. I'm going to get to your calls. We're going to talk some football, more basketball. We're going to talk some college. We got it all, so don't move.
