NBA Players Injured or Resting? (Hour 2)

I hope your bracket isn't busted. I hope you can still make some money.

I hope your workplace productivity is still very, very high. March Madness continues. Right now we got Tennessee leading Wofford 8 to 6.

They just got underway. We've already seen an upset. We got McNeese who beat Clemson. And then we got more basketball the rest of today, the rest of tomorrow, and on Saturday and on Sunday.

And we got basketball for the next couple of weeks as we march down to the National Championship game. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to our producer helping to hold things down today in New York City, Greg Frank. You can always listen to the show on the free Odyssey app, your local Infinity Sports Network affiliate. If you have Sirius XM, it's 375.

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It works. It's fancy. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. You can also find me online. I'm everywhere at JR Sport Brief. Thank you oh so much to Bill Bender for joining us from the sporting news in the last hour to break down everything that has taken place and that he believes will take place here during the March Madness tournament, during the NCAA tournament. And as I mentioned, we've already had a big upset. 12th ranked McNeese knocked off 5th ranked Clemson.

The final score there, 69 to 67. Now understand this McNeese, their head coach, he gone. Will Wade is going to be leaving for North Carolina State whenever this tournament, whenever this run is done. For McNeese, he's on borrowed time and so are they. But Clemson, you would think that they were the one with the coach leaving because damn it, Clemson, they only had 13 points in the first half. And yeah, they were still down by about 10, 10 points with about 90 seconds left. They were able to claw back in, but it was not to be.

Time ran out. I want you to listen to the final call of this upset. McNeese knocking off Clemson.

This is courtesy of Westwood One. Clemson with the ball down four, 10 seconds to go. Front court, Hunter. Over to Zachary. Gotta launch. Baker three.

Won't go. Loose. Scrum. Hunter.

Drives. Lays it in at the buzzer. It's not enough. McNeese with the upset. Let the March Madness begin.

Yeah, there you go. March Madness is underway. I know you was sitting around watching it, maybe gambling on it earlier today. McNeese is now going to take on Purdue. Purdue did its job. It beat High Point 75 to 63. Also, we got another matchup in the next round of 32.

That's set. We'll have Houston taking on Gonzaga. Houston beat SIUE 78 to 40. And the Zags, they beat Georgia just a few minutes ago.

89 to 68. We got another matchup. I just told you this one is active right now, this minute, this second, as Tennessee and Wofford just got underway. Earlier today, Auburn beat Alabama State. Creighton knocked off Louisville 89 to 75. Creighton and Auburn are matched up.

So we'll keep you all up to date with the games as we are right here live with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Let me tell you, on a day like this, a day like tomorrow, I got one brain. I got one mouth. I got I got one mouth. I got two ears.

And they all have to work in about 50 million directions. So thank you for the amazing job of our producer, Greg Frank, as we navigate March Madness together. Right before the break, we also talked some basketball on the NBA side, as the Boston Celtics have been sold for a record $6.1 billion.

And that is a lot, a lot of green. And this is an interesting time of year because, well, March Madness, the college guys, they they gobble up a lot of the attention. And so honestly, like right now, there's a lot of NBA stars that are taking a little bit of arrest. Are they hurt? Are they injured? That's TBD.

That's to be determined. But I want to talk about that, because always while college basketball rises to the occasion, it rises to the attention of, gathers the attention of everybody across the country. The NBA takes a back seat, which I always find hilarious. We'll talk about that in a minute, because even talking about resting last night, Nikola Jokic did not play for the Denver Nuggets.

And his head coach, Michael Malone, had a whole fit about some of the ideas as to why he was sitting down, saying that it's not fair to fans. We'll get into that in a second. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Let's go to Ohio and talk to Connor. Hey, Connor, you're on the JR Sport Reshow. What's up? JR, I appreciate you taking my call. How are you doing this evening? Excellent.

What's on your mind? I wanted to talk about Deion Sanders' proposal to like, have like actual spring games for college football, like NFL type spring games. Yeah, he wants to play against the other teams. I saw that. Correct.

Yeah. And so, and I think this is a good idea. I feel like it's a way to get college football and its brand out there. It's not a bad idea, don't get me wrong.

I feel like there could be some cons to this in the long run. But for the most part, I like where he's going with this. And I think I like how Syracuse and Fran Brown jumped right to it.

Yeah, you saw that. They're right on that. Like, they want to be a part of that.

And because basically what you're doing, and it's a smart idea. I mean, if one team's going to jump at it, then I'm sure others will follow. Now, I know some might be skeptical because this is stupid because, oh, we're, they're just going to see how our players are or, oh, they'll, it'll be like a little like off to the side scouting idea where you could see what players perform and they could take those players and offer them. Well, that's what we've heard from Matt Ruhle at Nebraska. And this is one thing, and thank you so much, Connor, for calling from Ohio. This is one thing that there's, there's no one size fits all. So we have Nebraska who during their spring game is basically going to run around and give us a, you know, I don't want to call it like an all star game, but we got a series of mini games.

Who's the biggest, who's the fastest, who's the strongest, the skills competitions. So Nebraska's doing that. Deion Sanders has come out and said that, hey, I want like one inner school scrimmage type games, which is currently not allowed in the NCAA. And when Deion Sanders was asked about, you know, Matt Ruhle and the mini games, Deion Sanders is like, I'm not worried about that. And I guess if you're Deion Sanders, are you going to admit to being worried about anything? I don't think he ever will.

But I think there is a legitimate case. If you are a school, okay, we're going to scrimmage and just have one have one practice. Like how are we going to do this? Typically in the NFL, like if you're going to do it, you make it worthwhile. You fly out, you hang out for about two or three days, you have a practice and then boom, you have a preseason game just to go out there and break up the monotony of your offense, looking at the same defense. And then you have an opportunity to also compare the talent level between the schools.

How you do this on the college level? Well, like, I think we've already fully accepted that this is all a business. I mean, we can take a look at March Madness right now.

And we all know this is just a massive billion dollar business. But aren't they still students? Don't they still have to go to class? Aren't they taking finals in the spring?

Like, is a semester done yet? We're just going to fly somebody out to a place and then flying back after what, two days of practice? Look, the cat is out the bag. The jig is up. We all know this is about making money. Okay, all these football players, all these basketball players that I'm currently watching right now is Tennessee is beating Wallford 13 to eight. All of these guys, it's about money and good for the players.

Got guys like Ed O'Bannon who fought for years just to get a piece of the pie. What's their priority? Is it class or is it basketball?

And from a fan's perspective, from my perspective, I want to see the stars. I know the last guy on the bench playing for Wofford. He's thinking about his degree. He's thinking about his job. But ultimately, the way that these teams travel, where they travel, all the conference realignments that we've had over the past several years, the last thing that anybody, anybody is thinking about is class. Have you heard how their schedules work? Thank God they're getting paid. Got to get up in the morning, then you got to study, and then you got to practice, and then you got to study some more, and then you got to practice, and then you got to wash your behind, and then you got to go to study hall, and then you got to practice, and then you got to have a dinner.

I'm glad these dudes are getting paid. The practices are insane. And then you think about a sport like the NFL, it's not like, you know, you out there head busting, and then you know, you get a chance to lay down, then you got to practice.

You know, how much recovery time are you getting? And then in a lot of cases, I don't know, maybe you have somebody go out there and cheat for you on your test or your exam, but you're not supposed to. It's just sports in the athletic system of the United States of America has just been a sham for years. It's been about money. And now that the players can now get their share of the pie, you know, people are less apt to beat them up about it.

But I remember when I started here on the Infinity Sports Network in 2020, almost exactly five years ago, I had people split 50-50. We don't get this anymore. I had people calling me up, telling me how college athletes should not get paid. They're getting a scholarship.

That's all they need. I haven't heard that in a long time. Did everybody just wake up and change their mind? Or did everybody just all of a sudden say to themselves, man, who cares? It's commonly accepted.

So is that what it is? Things are commonly accepted. People will just lay down and take it. I think it was one of those things where everybody just realized this is happening everywhere. So who am I to try and stop it? I don't know if it's if it's even that much. Who am I to try to stop it? Like some of the I'm going by what people told.

I had people calling me from all over the country all the time. Great. Just going all in about a scholarship is enough. These guys get paid at the professional level. Why should the college students get paid?

And my thought process was always very, very simple. It's like, well, why can't they like this is this is this is robbery for the athletes to have not gotten paid. And I know even today they're allowed to make money. Like you can have a marketing deal, but the schools aren't paying the athletes yet.

And that'll eventually be the next shoe to drop. But when you think about it, how come if I'm a mathematician student X at Wofford University, how come I can go to class? How come after class I can go get a job and work at McDonald's? But then, you know, if I'm if I'm athlete X on Wofford on the basketball team, you know, I can't have a job on the side to like they really told they really told us one of the students I think he played basketball or football a couple of years ago.

They told him he couldn't monetize his YouTube channel. Like in what world in the United States of America is somebody of age not allowed to go out and get a job? Like at its base level, if you're old enough to work, whatever it is, 16 years old, amateurism, preserving amateurism, that that was the biggest sham. It was the biggest joke is the biggest money maker is the biggest robbery. It's just like, hey, if we can hold the pot of money and then not have to share it with our workers, man, it's a damn shame. It took, you know, 25, 30 years of lawsuits to get a job. Suits for that to even change.

That is the biggest sham. So I'm happy for all the athletes who can go out here and get some cash and get some money, whether it's March Madness with the tournament, whether it's a spring game, whether it's conference realignment, everybody is going to try to hoard as much cash as they can and tell everybody else, you got I'll keep it over here. Yeah, you're good. You got enough. You don't need enough. I got we good. You don't deserve anymore. And that part of everything sucks. Wait until they start paying the players.

I guess people may or may not have a fit by the time we get there. It's the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 888-710-4ISN.

That's 888-710-4ISN. We're going to take a break when we come back. I'll give you an update on what's going on between Tennessee and Wofford.

I'll tell you about some of the other games that we have later on this afternoon and this evening. And then speaking about the people making the big bucks, I had mentioned to you the NBA takes a back seat at this time to March Madness. There's a lot of stars who are currently sitting out and resting. Well, one head coach wasn't happy with the idea that resting his star player, Nikola Jokic, was a bad idea and just bad for the league. I'll let you hear what Michael Malone had to say about that on the other side of the break.

Give you an update on everything with March Madness you're locked in. It's the JR sport re show on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR sport brief.

It is the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. 855. Well, that's the old one.

How about that? Let me get with the new one. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. It's like back in the day where you changed your phone number. Eventually you had to learn it, right?

You still gave away the old one sometimes. It's kind of crazy. What year are we in now?

2025. Do you even know anybody's phone number? Do you know anybody's phone number besides your own? Greg, do you know anybody else's cell phone number? Wow. That's a good question.

I think the answer is probably no. I just have everybody's name in my phone and why would I look at their number? Yeah, why would I know their number, right?

It's their name. Their name is their number. Used to have a phone book and I'm not talking about the one from Ma Bell, Pa Bell. I'm not talking about the one you found on the curb.

They dropped off at your house. I'm talking about a phone book, the address book inside your house. You had to write the name, the number, the address, and then you knew everybody's information. Nowadays you just look at the name and you go, hey, send text message. People don't even call anybody who wants to talk on the phone and send me what you need to say in a text unless it's easier to communicate and communication is a law start. Take it from someone who talks for a living.

Be nice if we talked a little bit more. Anyway, here's the correct number. 888-710-4ISN.

That's 888-710-4ISN. We got two active games going on right now in March Madness. One has just gotten underway. We got Arkansas and Kansas going at it right now. Arkansas leading the way 12-7. It's our first game and first matchup in the Western region and then Tennessee is still holding off Wofford 29-18.

It's about five minutes to go here left in the first half of this game. We're minutes away from the start of Yale and Texas A&M and another 10 minutes. We'll also have Drake taking on Missouri. Those will be our next set of games before we get to the the nightcap where we have Utah State taking on UCLA, Omaha taking on St. John's, UC San Diego and Michigan. UNC Wilmington versus Texas Tech will be our last game of the night.

That'll take place in about three hours from now so we'll keep you up to date here as things continue to roll on during March Madness. I did make a point that at this time of the year the NBA has to take a back seat as they kind of go on the stretch run. Most teams have about 10 to 15 games left approximately in the season and they are not playing games about getting the season over with and going to the play-in, getting to the postseason. Teams that have a legitimate chance of winning it all, they want to make sure their players are rested.

So for instance the Boston Celtics are about to hit the road. It's seemingly for about two weeks and you know we've seen Tatum have a seat and Brown have a seat. I know with the Cavaliers and we've seen Donovan Mitchell have a seat and then for a guy who has won three NBA MVPs, Nikola Jokic has been gone from the Denver Nuggets for the past two games. So last night the Denver Nuggets they lost to the Lakers 120 to 108 and on Monday they beat the Warriors 114 to 105. Westbrook had that triple-double, Gordon had 30 plus and Jokic has a chance to just kind of rest.

Now the Denver Nuggets were kind of derided because these were nationally televised games and when you don't have Jokic it's just like oh well you're screwing over the fans and it's not fair and it's a travesty. Ignoring the fact that I guess that Nikola Jokic is this guy plays a lot of basketball given his size and given the thought and the idea that he is not in shape or he's not athletic. The guy just gets up and he plays ball. I mean this season he's already played 62 games.

Last year he played 79. All of this from a seven-foot fat center who could barely jump over a stack of dimes okay and he just goes out there and he plays. And so before last night's game before the Nuggets took on the Lakers their head coach Mike Malone was not happy or thrilled at all with what he heard.

A matter of fact he was asked about these comments and he let it be known right out of the gate. You know what Jokic is not resting at all. Jokic is hurt and please believe please believe he's always playing basketball. I think somebody said the United after the Golden State game that you know what the Denver Nuggets did was a disgrace to the league and I think that's just a bunch of I mean in 10 years the last 10 years Nikola Jokic has played the second most games in the NBA 10 years and the guys in that top 10 none of them are superstars.

So if Nikola is not playing it's not because he's sitting it's not because he needs rest it's because he's he's hurt and and he's he's trying to play through things that most wouldn't and we're at a point right now where you know we have to do what's best for not just Nikola but all of our guys as we move forward and try to close out this season. Okay now he said he's played the second most games in the NBA over the last 10 years that that is probably accurate possibly probably is accurate if you take into account the postseason because I have in front of me a list of players who played the most games over the past 10 years and yeah it would be right according to the postseason. The guy who's played the most games over the past 10 years his former teammate Contavious Caldwell Pope 753 games. Harrison Barnes 753 games. Tobias Harris 746 games. DeMar DeRozan fourth 743. Nikola Jokic 737 and his current teammate Russell Westbrook has played 732 games. If I gotta put the postseason in here and all the playoff appearances yeah Jokic has definitely played more than DeRozan, Tobias and Harrison Barnes and to think about that is actually crazy because in an era and a time where all we do is is talk about load management and rest and we gotta rest this guy gotta sit this dude out and this guy is hurt this guy is fat nobody is looking at Nikola Jokic and saying that this is the model of basketball efficiency people look at him and just go he plays basketball and he does his stamina has to be through the roof his durability is through the roof and it's amazing to know that Jokic isn't a star in the league where you gotta think about whether or not he's gonna be sitting down so I do think it's kind of backwards to accuse the Nuggets of just resting a guy resting their star a Jokic because he can't because he can't play the guy plays all the time for a dude who used to look I mean he doesn't look like the Pillsbury dope boy but nobody will look at him and go oh my god this is Giannis it's not the case at all and so hey we got a lot of dudes who are resting can't fault the Boston Celtics if you know they decide to sit out for a little while and take a rest but the rest of the league it's time for a little bit of R&R as we march towards the postseason I told you about the Golden State Warriors criss-crossing the country over the next two weeks Boston Celtics gone for the next two weeks and this is this is cram time in the NBA let's get the season over with let's play our silly little play-in games let's get to the playoffs and let's crown a champ come June I can't think about it it's it's already it's March 20th it's the the first day of spring hey Greg are you you wearing some some festive bright colors for spring no I am not no okay you're wearing like a shade of gray or black or blue or something I guess huh yeah gray sweatpants and a temple zip up and a black t-shirt from the final four three years ago in New Orleans okay all right nothing nothing bright about your attire are you I what what's the attire for you oh you gotta okay well I'm dressed appropriately for the current weather conditions here in Atlanta it's uh it's cloudy and so I have on a a black what am I wearing black paint a point park uh hoodie from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania shout outs to point park university I'm wearing uh black Nike joggers I'm wearing black uh Nikes and uh yeah I'm not I'm not spring festive because outside it's the one day out of the week in Atlanta it's uh it's cold and cloudy so no no need for me to every day is spring here in Georgia okay every day I was gonna say seems a little unseasonably cold down there yeah well it can't be 80 degrees every day okay fair enough not every day hey Ack are you are you dressed appropriately for the first day of spring you wearing some uh just a pull over uh yeah you know I'm okay I'm just according to the weather here in New York not with the colors though huh no no I got a bright red bright red uh three quarter zip if you want to call that okay for the colors yeah yeah that's the color of a flower that's the color of a flower yeah bright nice to spice up the room a little you know yeah well we need it I don't know maybe tomorrow I'll wear something a little bit more uh spring-like we'll see put on a I don't know a peach peach shirt or something that's nice that works yeah what about something like master's theme like you know azaleas or whatever you know oh azalea I thought you were going to tell me about a green jacket yeah it's I don't know you know the green jacket kind of sticks out a lot but you can go with that if you want I like green I like olive green I like olive there you go that works olive greens little uh I like uh it's fatigues maybe I know fatigues is not spring-like yeah no it's kind of like all weather yes winter weather I may wear some fatigues over the weekend what about what about braves colors that you know that gives you a little spring braves colors Atlanta Braves you're in Atlanta yeah they already look at me and they go hey jr you're not a Braves fan I go give me a break okay they go why are you always here you know you're always here but I'm like yo why are you bothering me I like baseball I like the park that's I tell them that I'm like give me a break they're like aren't you from the Bronx I'm like just shut up for a minute just let me enjoy the game yeah just leave me alone and this is the act these are the people these are the people who work for the Braves I show up and they go you don't even like the bridge I'm like shut up who told you that I'm always here supporting and hanging out with you hey you know what out they do next week act what's that they invite all the media to the stadium and they tell us about all the things that are going on and they say come eat oh they yeah they did that yesterday was it yesterday at Yankee Stadium is yank well they showed off the new all the food all the food you can eat but they got what is it a cappuccino and a yankees cap I saw uh it's not cappuccino uh it's what um what's the blanket on the dessert um oh oh tiramisu yes yes yes how much is that gonna cost 30 bucks I don't want you to put it in a yankees hat though that's a souvenir to take home I guess but you know it does that doesn't seem like it's like putting tiramisu in a cup I guess so yeah you've never went to a baseball the ice cream they saved the ice cream I like that you know that I you know when I was a kid used to get that at Carvel and you know and because I couldn't always finish the ice cream sometimes I I would just ask to buy the helmet for a quarter yeah man I used to have the helmet in my house I had all the helmet Yankee helmet a Met helmet and I used to you buy it one time you get the ice cream and then you take it home yep and now you got a new cup for whatever the hell you want absolutely you know my only complaint though and this is like every everywhere is that when I was a kid you can go to the park and they'd had they'd have like any team's helmet and they'd have hats for any team you can buy now it's just the home team what do you mean at the the stadium yeah oh well you know now you can only buy the home team well you why am I going to sell the the competitive stuff right you know it's it's baseball but I but I get it I get it I just wish you know how about just one stand somewhere in the park where everything we'll call it everything out of town uh everything on the MLB section right yeah exactly so if you root for the Yankees you can buy your Yankees hat at the truest park okay I see exactly and if I if I'm a Braves fan I could go to Citi Field and buy a Braves hat right is that exactly you're such a nice guy I try you know we try we try to be a good sport people are getting beat up over stuff like this all over the country it's very sad I want to see them sell Dodger hats at uh you know I don't know in San Diego somewhere let me know how that works San Francisco too yeah Sanford it might be a might be start some warfare out there it's a yep it's a crazy world speaking of rivalries it's March Madness we got a lot of teams going at it we might have some rivalries born they might have some rivalries some new ones and to get an update on everything going on in March Madness right now this minute this second it's time for a news flash man I love pale in Texas last time I was out there I got in trouble I mean not legal trouble but I got in trouble trouble that I can't discuss on the uh the radio like like hang out until you know 8 a.m type trouble great trouble anyway oh this is not trouble this is actually good we might have a well this certainly so far is a good one between Kansas and Arkansas uh Kansas leads 28 to 25 about seven minutes to go here in the first half the winner of this game the winner of this matchup will advance to take on us the winner of Saint John's and Omaha almost gave Saint John's the victory uh but not the case not the case if Saint John's loses to Omaha come on now the back pages of well not that they're physical back pages Greg when's the last time you physically saw the back page of a newspaper in New York that's a good question uh at least a couple years New York Post would be the paper though yeah is there I mean you work at a sports station right I mean are is there a newspaper in the the newsroom at all is there like a physical newspaper in there anywhere I tell you if there is I don't see them right it's like something for the cat to take a pee on I think right I don't know did you read them growing up I did I'll admit it oh yeah of course I did I read the news I had no choice it's true there wasn't a hey watch yourself okay well the reason I asked is just because I feel like nowadays if you admit to something like that you will get uh stereotyped as an old man well you did it uh I'm not an old man you said what I'm saying but you said of course like yeah of course JR you were reading the newspaper on a tablet and a chisel like uh I remember but I there was no choice I had to read the newspaper because the internet didn't exist uh oh not in the way it does now not at all really um no I remember the newspaper I did that you had to you either listen you that you only could you either listen to the radio I did that you watched television I did that and you read the newspaper that's it there was no other way to consume information I remember reading the box scores for sporting events I remember reading the entire newspaper and I would I would finish the paper I would have ink on my hands like no no different than people like to just scroll endlessly through their phone through their phone today like I was actually reading us and I still do this most of the time that I spend in my phone I know it sounds crazy people hey JR what you doing I will say I'm reading the news you know sometimes I go I'm reading newspaper they go the newspaper I'm like oh it's what am I dating I'm dated now come on it's whatever well thank you so much for at least uh having touched the newspaper in your life Greg that makes me well absolutely and I just wanted to make sure that I could acknowledge that while also not being uh you know an old man all of a sudden I'm only 30 okay a good stuff only 30 good stuff well thank you Greg what's the new number here 888-710-4ISN that's 888-710-4ISN let's go to Sean calling from Michigan you're on the chair our support brief show what's up Sean I'll tell you straight up brothers I'm I'm right along your lines you know what I do what when I get off of work is stay is staring at gray walls I sit in my car every night and I stare at greenery and the scenery and uh okay the beautiful elegance of life up here in the U.P. of Michigan I do and now it's you know I'm saying I do it's the first day of spring too good right exactly and but I was gonna tell you so you guys know you don't know what snow is all about I still got seven feet banks of snow all around my house seven feet all the way around everywhere I go who does we take we take care of we take care of ourselves up here very well who doesn't know what snow's about who you talking about Greg is in New York and I'm from New York what are you talking about oh are you are you I thought you're from Atlanta I am from Atlanta I'm originally from New York I could be from both oh okay so you know what snow is all about okay well that works that works I know I know how to shovel I know how to operate a snow I know how to wipe off I think it's a very I literally think it's a very peaceful thing in the neighborhood when everybody helps everybody else oh that's nice yeah until you until the next day when your back hurts and your hands yeah but no up here everybody helps everybody out that's what life should always be about y'all don't just look here you look at the neighbor you're like okay I can help you forget your neighbors you don't have the neighborhood kids that just do all the work y'all are doing too much well I'm on a little tiny road oh there's no kids okay well I got all kinds of kids they all love me I'm not lying on a big street I'm on Adams street in Panesdale it's like a it's like I would say uh like not even a quarter mile long but all the kids run up and down all the time it's a really quiet neighborhood yeah we'll make the kids go outside and do the work okay oh yeah they do too that's what I did in my neighborhood it's like hustling I used to go through the neighborhood and then you know I could make myself a good maybe 20 or 40 bucks by shoveling right yeah of course come on right shoveling somebody out by trying to get the job done that somebody else can't do help thy neighbor well I did it for the money I didn't do it for the helping them I did it for the money oh you did inside your heart you did it for the neighbor too yeah whatever yeah you did come on JR whatever come on you can't tell me you didn't try to help somebody else enough of that stuff are you ready for some basketball what are you rooting for Michigan Michigan Michigan Wolverine oh naturally you know what what I'm not going there I'm going I'm going Michigan State even though the Wolverines fan I want to see um my boy win the second tournament your boy oh is oh yeah come on wait wait that guy is great you're rooting you're rooting for the Wolverines but then you're all I'm not rooting for the Spartans because I want Izzo to win the second okay and I'm still one of them but I would love that but I would love to see that happen okay I can dig it you know I'm saying I mean wouldn't that be great for his whole legacy it's been about 25 years so that'd be a nice gap right right wouldn't that be a nice legacy for a guy that knows the game to go out he's he's he's more tolerable much more tolerable than uh than Dan Hurley so I'll take that one okay all right all right well thank you Sean uh enjoy your your snowy uh spring thank you it never ends it it basically it comes and it melts till May 30th or something like that and then about June July it snows again it goes back again but that's all right enjoy it we love it all right we love you brother I love you brother I do I love listening to you so it's all good too well thank you for calling Sean it's a lot of love Sean has showed me more love in the past five minutes than I've received in the past month is this the past three months thank you Sean I appreciate you for calling up from snowy Michigan as we got a good this is a good game we're 40 oh we blocked the dunk oh my goodness damn cans oh and he fell to the ground in pain oh Kansas is Kansas and Arkansas are tied at 40 all and there's nothing worse than getting your shot blocked nobody wants that getting your layup blocked into the the fifth row the 50th row but to have a dunk blocked on the way to the basket and then you fall clear out of the air that's that's embarrassing and it's none of these guys are Victor Wen Binyama either you get your shot blocked by Victor Wen Binyama you you feel embarrassed I saw him block a shot one day he didn't even he snatched the ball out of the air didn't step off of the ground he just literally took the ball from the guy in the air and threw it down the court that was embarrassing but uh we got a good one between Arkansas and Kansas they are tied 40 all right now this minute this second also getting ready to come out of halftime Tennessee leads Wofford 36 to 27 we got it and we got another good one at least close Texas A&M currently leads Yale 29 to 21 Missouri and Drake they literally just tipped off a few minutes ago and those will be our active games we gotta wait about 90 minutes or so before we get Utah State and UCLA and we end the night with Omaha and St. John's UC San Diego and Michigan and the final game of the night is UNC Wilmington and Texas Tech let me take a breath that's a lot of basketball we'll keep you up to date on it all as the show continues on you want to call me up it's real simple you can 888-710-4ISN 888-710-4ISN we'll take a break talk more basketball and speaking of green in New England there's a there's another team in New England they might be doing something too Patriots might add Stefan Diggs we'll get into it it's the JR support reshow don't move