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We took a look at some of the crazy and wild things that have come out of the mouth of Jerry Jones. We talked about some amazing performances by guys like Nicole Jokic and Steph Curry. And in a few seconds, I'm going to tell you about another amazing performance by someone who's getting ready to break one of the biggest records in sports.
I'll do that in a second. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey in New York City. You want to be a part of the show, you can. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Oh my goodness. Hickey, he did it again. Alex Ovechkin has done it again.
Oh my goodness. Alex Ovechkin just scored a few minutes ago. He now has 892 goals. He is three goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals of all time. He is two goals away from tying Wayne Gretzky at 894. Unfortunately for Alexander Ovechkin, the Carolina Hurricanes, they are smacking the Capitals right now four to one. They just finished up the second period. I don't know the way Ovechkin is going. Maybe he can go out there and score four more goals to go ahead and give them the victory. I mean, what a way to obtain the record.
And we just talked about it yesterday. All he does is score. Alexander Ovechkin, he just keeps going and going and going and going. And that's without a shadow of a doubt. They have seven games left, the Capitals do.
Seven games left in the season after tonight. And Ovechkin, he makes it sound easy. I guess he's like Nikola Jokic.
I don't know, maybe it's a European thing. He's just like, eh, it's just another day at the office. I want you to take a listen. This is Alexander Ovechkin. When he was four goals away, he's now three goals away.
A couple days he's just like, eh, it's whatever. Goal is a goal. It was a great play by Stromer and Carli. The goal is a goal is just a goal. I don't know. It's just a goal a goal. You think you think him and Jokic communicate? Probably not, right?
It's like, what? I think Ovechkin loves hockey more than Jokic loves basketball. I think so.
I would I would agree with that. Do you think Jokic at 39 years old will still be playing basketball? Oh, hell no. Hell no.
Hell no. When this man is done, he will not step foot in America. But to I don't the Nuggets have to twist his own. Hey, come back, man.
We're celebrating the, you know, the championship. No, I don't want to do it like they're going to have to twist his arm to come back to America. I don't think I wouldn't be surprised if he's done in five years, OK?
I would be surprised if he skips his own jersey retirement ceremony. Oh, my. This is a good question. No, no, no, no. This is you made me think of something real fast. Hey, I don't even know what number he wears. What right now? First number jumps on you could not.
You know, they can get it right. Nicole Jokic wears no, no, I don't know what number it's a famous another famous current athlete wears the same number. Oh, my God, I don't know, bro.
I don't know. Oh, he doesn't wear 11. No, it's double digits, right? He's double digits. Man, what is what number does Nicole 10? Not 10. He's in the teens, though.
Let me see the teens. It's not 10, not 11, not 12, 13, 14. He was 15 for Carmelo. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He wore 15 just like Carmelo. It's 15, 15. Right.
Yeah. See, I had to think about I don't know what number he wears. I don't know. I don't know what number anybody wears. Like Kevin Durant right now. He's running around with the Suns. Is he wearing seven again or something like that?
No. 15, 35. So he's throwing it when he was with Brooklyn, he was seven. Right. And so but when he was in Oklahoma City, it was 35.
And I was back to 35 back to 35. Yeah, bro, I don't know. Jason Tatum, do you know number is zero? Okay.
That's easy because you can see it. But Brown, I don't know what number he was. He was 32. He was. You think he was 32?
I don't know. That's a big man number. That's an ugly number. Well, isn't there is Carmelone were 32, didn't he? He did. Carl Anthony Towns wears 32 now. Does he?
Yeah, I don't know, bro. Anthony Davis, never seen him play. Don't know what number he wears. And Edwards.
Do you know what Edwards wears? He was number five. Okay.
Yeah, yeah. Do you know LeBron James's number? Oh, 23.
Come on. And when he was in Miami, he wore number six. I think we have a Charles Barkley esque game with you instead of what team is he on? What number does he wear? What number he wear? I don't know.
Listen, Joel Embiid. Well, I guess we never know. He's never in uniform. I don't know. He's having I know he's having arthroscopic knee surgery. That's what I know.
I know that lamellar ball. I don't know what number he was. He went like number one or something.
Gotta gotta wear a low number. I think it's I think it's one. Yeah. Yes.
Something. I know he's having surgery too. I don't even know what body part. It doesn't matter anymore.
Does not matter. Those ball brothers in common. They know the surgery table. Those ball brothers know how to break.
They do. Those ball brothers know how to break. Oh, my God. Put a new meaning to ball breaker, huh? Yeah.
Ball breaker. Look at the brothers. Look at the kids.
Definitely. God bless their father, too. The poor guy had to have his foot amputated. My God. Well, not for big baller brand.
He didn't look at. Look out for your diabetes, people. OK, be careful. This man had to lose his foot because of his blood sugar. Again, we'll be on the treadmill tomorrow morning. OK. If I lose my foot, it's because I'm going to kick somebody in the ass.
I don't know diabetes. Goodness gracious. Hey, congrats to Alexander Ovechkin. Hickey, I don't know what number he wears. What number does he wear? Do you know? You don't know. The announcers call him his number.
They call him the great eight. OK. Yeah, bro. Numbers don't matter to me. Wow.
Come on. No, I like who cares? I don't care about no numbers. I care about the guy in the jersey. You're so locked on the game. You don't even know what number they're wearing. That's how locked in you are.
Do not get. You know, I guess it's Hickey, to be honest, even when he watched the games. And this this sounds crazy as a sports fan.
I guess this is this kind of sounds bad. Like I can watch an NFL game, NBA game, a baseball game. You see a guy enough times, even if it's from a distance, because let's be real, you're not zoomed in on every play and every guy, every minute of every second, every game. You can look at somebody and know who they are by their body type.
Very simple. I can watch a baseball game and I wouldn't I don't necessarily have to have a graphic. I could just look at who's in the batter's box and just like that's Peter Lanza. You know, that's that's Reyes up. That's Shohei Ohtani. You know, that's Mookie Betts.
It could it could be anybody. They don't have to have distinctive features to just look at a guy's body and go like Kenny Lofton steps in the batter's box. I don't confuse them with Ricky Henderson.
You know, God rest his soul. This is the same thing in basketball. I know who everybody is, but I don't I don't know their numbers. So you can distinguish their shadowy figure.
They're not shadowy. I'm saying like you can identify players by their look, by how they move, by their swing, by their shot. AJ, if they showed AJ Brown line up on the screen and I just had the look, I don't know what number he was. Eleven, doesn't he? Ten or eleven. Eleven. Right.
This is interesting. I knew that. But I can look at he's he's the biggest he's a wide receiver that looks like a linebacker. I can't tell the difference between him and what's the skinny one? Was it AJ? Devante? Devante, AJ.
I called Devante Smith AJ. Yeah. You can't tell the difference between them two?
Come on now. One guy looks like you're breaking half. The other guy looks like he does the break in. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my God. That didn't come out right. They didn't come out right. One guy looks like he hurts people and the other guy looks like he gets hurt.
That that's I like the first one better. Let's act like the first thing that didn't happen. But no, you what you know, everybody's number that plays sports. I feel like I can get if we did like a trivia contest, I feel pretty confident I would get ninety five percent and I'm right. Jalen Brunson was number ten. Jalen Brunson was number eleven. OK, what numbers does Shohei wear? I don't know.
Shohei Ohtani. No number. It's just God. God doesn't need a number. Does he wear a single digit or double digit? I want to say double digit.
Now I'm blanking. Wow. Yeah. You know, 17. He was 17. Number 17.
Aaron Judge. Come on. You know that one.
No, I don't. This is the second. Fifty five. Forty four. Wait a second.
You don't know. Ninety nine. Ninety nine. Ninety nine. Ninety nine. Yeah. I had to think about that for a minute. Fifty five.
He should be barred from baseball. If you were fifty five. Hideki Matsui wore fifty five. That's.
I know. Paul O'Neill. I have a Paul O'Neill jersey. I have a Paul O'Neill spring training jersey that I still wear in the summertime. What number is it? Twenty one. Come on. Look at you. I know Derek Jeter wore number two. A-Rod wore thirteen.
That's why he's cursed. Yeah. Come on, man. I feel bad now. This is one I should know. Oh, boy. Oh.
Cal Ripken. Did he wear thirteen too, right? No. Three. He wore three. I thought it was eight. Yeah, he wore eight. You're right. I used to see that. I used to drive by his facility all the time on like in Baltimore.
Between Baltimore and DC. Right. Oh, you know where it is, right? Yeah. I've driven by there a few times. Yeah.
It's just sits right there on the hill. Yeah. Damn, Hickey.
Wow, I had no idea. I'm gonna take my job because I don't know guys' numbers. Come on, now. Hey, look, Charles Brockett gets paid a lot of money and I didn't know what, you know, what decent guys are on team, so. Right. I know the important ones.
Tom Brady wore thirteen. Come on, now. I know the important guy. No. What? Twelve. Twelve.
From CD12. I wasn't, I'm not thinking. I'm just thinking out loud. He just throw names and numbers and hope it sticks. Patrick Ewing, I know he wore thirty-three. Every great out of Houston, Texas, they all wore thirty-four.
Come on, I know these things. Patrick Holmes wears thirteen. Do you know what number Patrick Holmes wears? No, what number does he wear? You don't know what number he is? I don't know, no. Fifteen. Fifteen, okay. Vince Carter wore fifteen.
Yes, he did. So does Nicole Jokic as we just learned. And Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo Anthony going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Congratulations to him.
Yeah, you know what? Hey, let's listen to Shams Sharania. And we're talking about great players. Alexander Ovechkin is scoring another goal, now three away from passing Wayne Gretzky all-time. Carmelo Anthony, a great basketball player. All he did was go out there and score and rebound so he could score some more.
And Shams is on Pat McAfee showing Carmelo some love. Carmelo Anthony has been notified. He has been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025. He's the landmark player, the big name player here for this Hall of Fame class and ten-time All-Star, six-time All-NBA team, the tenth leading scorer of all time in NBA history. We know how great he was with the New York Knicks, the Denver Nuggets.
He had late runs with the Thunder, the Portland Trailblazers and finished his career with the Lakers. He is a first ballot Hall of Famer. Yeah, he is. I mean, they let anybody in, but he is.
The Syracuse National Championship, Jim Behan 2003, that was great. I know Carmelo at his, he's going to laugh and there's a chance that he cries. It's possible. He's going to laugh. It's going to be funny.
Carmelo is a pretty sarcastic guy. I hope he keeps it clean. I'm hoping he's not dropping profanity. Everybody just curses all over the place now.
Just like, does everybody got a curse? He's going to be a fun, he's going to have a fun speech line done. I think so too. I don't know about crying. You think I'll cry? I don't know. It doesn't seem like a crier. If you're going to cry, it's got to be the time, right?
That's true. This is very emotional. If Michael Jordan cried, they turned him into a meme. Come on.
Oh my God. I'm still waiting. Who's, who's one of my waiting on?
He's still playing now. Who am I waiting on? LeBron? Oh no, not LeBron. We know he's going to get in.
Oh my God. There's somebody else I discussed. I can't wait to, is it Jokic? His is going to be like, like five words.
Doesn't care. May not even show up. Who else is going in? That'll be interesting. You're saying this year or it's still playing?
Just in general. Like think about the guys that we know are going into the hall of fame. Like Westbrook is going to go, that'll be a very interesting speech.
All the crap that he's taken likely to finish his career. Probably not going to win a championship. A Duran is going to go in. Oh, uh, obviously LeBron, Chris Paul will go in. Jokic will go in.
Am I missing any other active players? Oh my God. Steph Curry. Definitely. But that his speech will be so vanilla and straight. Like there's no mystery about his speech, right? No. Like great career. He's probably going to finish his career with one team unless he says, I'm just going to end in Charlotte and why the hell he would do that.
I have no idea. Um, Oh, Oh, Draymond Drake. Oh my God.
Hickey. That'll be interesting. Oh my God. Oh, what is he going to say? Thank you Steph. He should think Steph walk off the stage, get down on the floor and kiss his feet. That's what he should do.
That's it. And instead he'll probably say that Steph should be kissing his feet cause how easy he made it. And also check out the Draymond green show wherever you get your podcasts. He will say that, right? I think he knows, he knows that it's, it's Steph Curry.
He would never outwardly admit it, but he knows, which is why I think his, uh, you know, his, his introduction will be, will be rather a fun to watch. And then we got a bunch of other guys who will probably go in, have no, no need to be there. What's the guy on Sacramento from Los Angeles used to play in Toronto.
What's his name? Oh, DeMar DeRozan. You think he, they're going to put him in a Hall of Fame.
They, what are we doing? They're talking about Paul George. Paul George is a better player than DeMar DeRozan. Neither should be in, but are they, are they that much different?
They don't deserve to be in a Hall of Fame. I think Paul George has got a gold medal. He's got something. What does DeMar got?
If you put the two of them on a basketball court in their primes, I think I'd take DeMar DeRozan cause I know he's going to play well. A mid range game is crazy too. You know, it is good. He gets buckets. Yeah. So it gets bounced in the second round of the playoffs every year, which is why Toronto said, see ya. Yeah.
Yeah. We got a bunch of, I don't want to call them bums. They're not bums, but Hall of very good players that might just, uh, might get in. Congratulations to Carmelo. Not Hall of very good Hall of Fame. Congrats to Alexander Ovechkin.
Not yet in the Hall of Fame, but he's three goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals all time. Man, this is why I like sports. This is why I sit. Hickey, this is why I watch not for the numbers, but for the people who wear them. And the talent.
And the talent. Yeah. I don't need to know what number Lamar Jackson wears.
I don't care. He wears a number, uh, he wears a single digit, single digit, a bum quarterback. He wears number eight, wears the same number.
Boom. Yeah. Anthony Richardson wears eight.
No, you said competition. Daniel Jones. Anthony Richardson wears five, five.
I know. I know that because he's always laying down on his head. He's always on the floor. Like I know what number he wears. I always see his back. Always hurt on the floor. Good luck to the Indianapolis Colts.
Good luck. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. We're going to take a break. We come back. Speaking of, uh, of sad stories, this guy should be a future Hall of Famer, but he can never stay healthy.
He can never stay out of trouble. I'm going to tell you who he is on the other side of the break. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.
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Oh my goodness. Like right before the break, we talked about all these great players and Alexander Ovechkin scored another goal, three away from passing wing Gretzky all time. And Carmelo Anthony on his way into the basketball hall of fame. We talked about the fact that a lot of these athletes, I don't know what numbers they wear. Heck yeah, I know Steph Curry's number 30. Zero 30. He was 30.
Nice save. Yeah. Take about it for a minute.
I'm like, it's 30 something. He has it on his logo, like S O S C three zero or whatever fancy under armor shoes that he, uh, remember they used to, they used to be popular. The people don't wear those no more, right? No. Do people wear anyone's shoe anymore outside of Jordan?
I think I could be wrong. I think Anthony Edwards, I think his shoe with Adidas is popular. I think like I, I'd be interested if I, if you know, if you go to an AAU game, like what, what, what shoes are our kids wearing the most? You know, I have no idea.
I don't know. Kyrie, I think Kyries are pretty popular. Yeah, but he's not with Nike anymore.
True. I guess the old Kyries. Yeah, that's right.
I don't know. I don't know that that was to be John Marin who we'll talk about in a second, but uh, he has also some bad news for someone in that Kyrie. Well, he's a teammate of Kyrie Irving. Uh, Anthony Davis hurt again.
Oh my God. I'm not laughing at the injury. It's just the irony of he's hurt again. Anthony Davis had to leave a game against the Atlanta Hawks a few minutes ago due to an eye injury. He got elbowed in the eye by Daniel Gafford. The ball was on the floor under the basket. Anthony Davis went to corral the basketball to get the rebound.
Uh, Daniel Gafford went to reach the stretch to get it as well. And he ended up backhanding his own teammate, Anthony Davis in the eye. Anthony Davis hit the ground. Anthony Davis has left the game.
Right now the Atlanta Hawks lead the Dallas Mavericks 55 to 51. Uh, Anthony, why is he always hurting nobody else? I know we talked about, uh, Joel Embiid having arthroscopic knee surgery and he's always hurt because he's fat and not in shape. Anthony Davis is just, he's just always in the wrong place.
How he jumps, when he jumps, when he falls, how he goes for shots, how he goes for blocks. It's like the man is just asking to get hurt. It stinks. Get, get well soon. Anthony Davis Hickey, he's going to return in the game, right? It's just, uh, he'll be okay. Right.
It's fine. He didn't break his orbital bone. He's fine. I mean, I hope so. Looking at that video, like it's obviously painful to get an elbow.
It's like the, uh, the eyebrow if you will. But I mean, that is not enough to, should not be enough to keep you out the rest of the game. Oh, we'll see. It's Anthony Davis. He could be out for a week, man.
I'm not paying attention to the Dallas Mavericks for a long time. I just want to know if Anthony, is Anthony Davis hurt? Yes or no. Is Kyrie Irving hurt?
Yes or no. And at what point do they move on from either one of these guys or they move on from them? And what time do they get a selection in the draft? And also, uh, you know, what happens with the GM and the owner? That's it.
There is nothing basketball related that I have any interest in when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks. None. Zero. Did you see a fan yell at Nico in his face that he should be fired at the basketball game? No. Today?
It must've been from yesterday, two days ago. Like he's, he's walking off the court, I guess it's during warmups. So place is pretty empty and he's near the tunnel and he, he greeted someone on the way off the court or off of the field of, you know, going into the tunnel, whatever you call it. And uh, you know, he shook somebody's hand and another guy had a phone in his hand and he was just right there in front of Nico. He's recording and he'd go, fire Nico, fire Nico.
And he couldn't do anything but just glance and just keep on walking. You know, that's it. Unless he somehow wins a title, he is never going to hear the end of it. And rightfully so. He'll be gone before he wins a championship. I mean, that'll happen first. He might leave or they may just, you know what it's going to be to save face for everybody. Hickey. So the owner Dumont isn't embarrassed.
So he's not embarrassed even though the entire situation is embarrassing. It's going to be one of those. We have mutually agreed to part ways. Does that happen this summer? Next summer?
Oh bro. Nah, nah, it can't be this summer. Now has to be at least a year.
Got to even more. They're gonna wait for the crap to really hit the fan. Like next year.
Okay. Like when Kyrie is like, man, I know I'm hurt, but I don't want to be here. Anthony Davis is going through another year of being hurt. And the Dallas Mavericks have like three wins for the season. It's going to take that, bro.
They're going to, they're going to, they're going to have to do like an Oakland A's reverse boycott on this team. Yeah. Only themselves to blame. And if you're Nico, himself to blame.
Yeah, they don't, they don't got nobody but themselves to blame. And speaking of blame, I mentioned this, you know, last night and that amazing performance by Steph Curry, Steph goes out there, drops 52 points as 12 three pointers. There was an instance where John Morant who finished the game with 36 points and all of a sudden Taylor Jenkins is fired.
He's miraculously healthy. John Morant like is walking off the court, going back to his bench and he's throwing up like finger guns towards Buddy Hill. Even, even Draymond Green looked at him and just kind of go, well, that's not a technical foul. Even Draymond is looking at him going like, what are you doing? And so the NBA is actually investigating what the hell is going on with John Morant and whether or not he deserves a suspension or fine. John Morant, I guess he doesn't care at this point in time. He went on social media and simply said, Ja this and Ja that. And he laughed like everything is always about me. Well, yeah, man, you, you the guy who was waving around guns. You, you the last guy that needs to be on a basketball court throwing up the Yosemite Sam.
Like what are we doing here? Like how old is this guy? What is he 30? Not 30. You gotta be 25, 26. How old is this guy? He's, he's 25 years.
He's going to be 26 in August. He doesn't know that maybe he's the last guy that needs to use, you know, his fingers to make guns on a basketball court. It's like if Gilbert Arenas ever came back healthy and Hickey imagine if he, there was a, wasn't there a basketball, was it a basketball player, a football player? He used to twirl his fingers around like guns and put the gun back in the holster. That sounds familiar. And now I can't think, I feel like it has to be football because basketball is kind of common, right?
If you hit a, if you're hot or shoot a deep three pistols and put them back in. Yeah, but there was somebody, he would, Marco, it was the NFL, right? Well, the NFL plays to do that. I can't remember it.
It sounds right, but it's not, it's vague on me. He would, he would spin the guns around and put them in a holster on his hip. I think it was like a quarterback or something like that. Can't do that if you're John Rivers. Was it? Is that a kid's joke? Yeah, I don't know. Is that a, is that a, is that like one of the most, the least likely guy that you could see having that celebration gun celebration NFL? Should I look that up?
I did already. Let's see. NFL concerned about, Oh no, these are, this, these are the real guns. Bengals come up there a bunch there, no?
No, the guys who come up with the bazookas guns, like these guys. When he shot up the entire Eagles stadium. What are we doing? What are we doing? And there was a, there were kids that were killed here in Atlanta and he was just at the school showing love. And his first thing to do at a game is just to whip out the gun celebration. What do we do?
It wasn't even just a gun. This is like, this is like the New York Mets. It's like, Hey, it's kids day.
Who are we going to have throw out the first pitch? Hawk to a girl. Okay. It's just, so you're saying self-awareness is an issue. The world is just built with so much irony.
So why, why do we need to feed into it? You know, I don't know. Here's a story. October 19th, 2024, the NFL concerned about epidemic of gun related celebrations resurfacing this season. Oh my God. George Pickens flagged after gun celebration versus bangles. Yeah.
It's a Drake. London regrets his gun machine gun celebration. Patrick, Patrick, my homes find over $14,000 for a parent gun gesture. Yeah. Yeah. And John Moran walks off the court, those up two hands, points two guns at buddy healed and just, you know, at what point is it not just an automatic suspension? Is that too much? I mean, on the NBA, it's easy.
I get it. Like for John Moran, he should get a suspension. Am I wrong for that? No, you're a hundred percent right.
I think it's for him because it's not just any player. They're like, Oh, you know, you shouldn't do that. When they went through this whole thing with John Moran, with all the suspensions, like at some point, didn't you sit them down and explain every twice.
Isn't it like almost like we're your kid? Like, look, I'm sorry. I have to punish you now because you're stupid and you're obviously not getting it. And if I continue to let you allow you to do this, it's only going to get worse. So yeah, cause now we're going to stop.
You're going to wind up in the club with another picture of a gun. Like you gotta, you gotta come down on them for this for me, but I don't think any of the league wants to do this cause they don't want the bad publicity. They want it to go away.
They don't want the attention. The NFL, not the NFL, the NBA players association is going to pitch a fit. You mean it's obvious suspending the guy because he threw up a gun just in the game. That's not fair. Find him, but don't punish him or don't suspend him. He needs a suspension man. And he doesn't get it.
Like if he's, if he's doing this on a basketball court, am I supposed to be shocked that for another two years he beats up another kid at his house or, you know, threaten somebody at a footlocker? I don't think so. And that's the thing.
And afterwards it's always, oh, why are you always looking at me? Are you serious? Are you sure?
Do you really want to go down this road? And that's why? Cause the NBA doesn't do another, none of the leagues do.
They don't do enough. And everybody, oh, you're just trying to get me. No, you're stupid. That's that's the problem. Hickey, there's your, the kids are wearing his shoes, I guess. I don't know Hickey, right?
The jaws? Remember he was supposed to be the neck. He was supposed to take over for Kyrie. Like at this point, Nike's just going to get out of the basketball. They're going to be like, man, we can't, we can't win for nothing with any of these guys. You know what?
That's not true. They got Victor Winbenyama, but let's be real. People buy shoes that guards wear. Like what big man has ever sold some shoes?
Anybody? Shaq had a line to that. No, cause you're right. Because when you think Starburys did well, speaking of camera. No, they didn't cut it out. He heard he's bringing them back, by the way. They were popular. Nobody was wearing Stephon Barbaries. Star, but when I was growing up and listening to CIO, some kids had them.
Really? $20. It was the affordable basketball shoe. Nobody was wearing them, Joyce, bruh. I wish I had them back in the day.
Never did. I'll get you a pair. It's going to be easy. Okay. I'll get you a pair. No, but Jarrah's right though, because if you think of shoes, you think of the guard, you think of somebody that can move. Somebody that's fast.
If you think of a big man, it's plotting. I don't want your sneakers. You barely move. What do you do? You dunk. Yeah. Jokic.
Jokic. I think, I think his shoes come from Japan. I think. Does he wear Crocs? Is that what they are? Could you imagine if he was out there busting ass?
Yeah, I could. Or just flip flops. That's I could see him in flip flops.
What's his name? Jokic. Jokic shoes. I swear his shoes are from Japan.
And if he gets mad, you get a T cause you throw the flip flop at you. What shoe is Jokic? He's wearing, they're called 361 degrees. I don't know.
He announced his signature shoe deal with brand 361. Where are they from? What country is this? I don't even know. I don't know. I'm going to figure it out on the other side of the break and tell you in case you want to buy yourself a pair of Nikola Jokic shoes. Imagine putting up things on and you start busting ass, right?
You got to bang them on like a shoe horn. Like the, when you got a horse. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. That'd be a good way. Marketing.
We all think of them with horses. No. Yeah.
Right. Can you go into a store and buy his shoe? Probably not.
No, I would think not, but I don't know. He's an MVP, but nobody wants his shoe. I'll tell you that much.
310 MVP. Well, but I mean, I want the shoe. Why? So I can be slow. I can't do what you do. Nobody, nobody. He doesn't even want to play basketball.
Okay. How's he going to sell shoes? He doesn't even want to play the shoe.
Saps your love of the sport. Oh my God, man. He's some ugly shoes. He looked like a orthopedic shoes. Well, see now, now we're talking. That's where you got to market him. Oh, people in the CIO barely moving. Look, you can barely move and be like Jokic.
Give me a pair. He's not even on the website. Like they got another, they got another guy dunking the basketball. It's not even him. Let's be fair.
If he's on the website, he'd be giving you the finger. Yeah. Buy it or not. What do I care? Get out of my face. Yeah.
It's hard to go back to the track now, please. Oh, it's Chinese. It's Chinese shoes. China. Oh, there you go.
Three 61 shoes. A footwear brand from China. A specifically based in China. That is tariff written all over it. Yeah.
It's not made in America. Listen, with all these tasks, the NBA is going to have a decline in European imports. Forget the players.
We're going to have no players coming over. Starberries, man. Now we're going to need them. We need made all Starberries and Shaq shoes or his shoes. Listen, are Shaq shoes even made in America? I doubt it. No, in Shaq the businessman.
No way shoe business about to take a fall. Oh, what a world. It's the JR sport re-show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break. Tell you about a few things that happened this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore.
But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything. And it was primitive and lousy and we liked it.
On the JR Sport Brief Show, I wish I was 50 years younger and I kick your ass. April 2nd, 2025, April 2nd, 1986, college basketball. They adopted the three point line.
What took them so long? April 2nd, 2001, Ichiro Suzuki becomes the first Japanese position player to play in Major League Baseball. And we know what he did. He won the MVP and Rookie of the Year in his first season. Back then, MLB, they had a feature. People had no idea what Ichiro was going to do in spring training.
We didn't know he was. But a rough spring training in 2001 had some folks wondering if he could make the jump to the major leagues. He really didn't hit that well in spring. He looked like he was overmatched by a lot of pitchers and they weren't even number one pitchers. And the shoulders that swung at their pitches carried a lot of weight. This is a big adjustment for him and a lot of pressure. And the eyes of an entire nation are focused on Ichiro.
There are some nuances that are different from the Japanese game to the American game. Coming over here, facing guys that he's never seen, never heard of. I think what we need to do is not place too much attention or too much focus.
And I know that's hard to do. But at the same time, let the guy play. And oh, did he play. The man is going into the Hall of Fame, has more hits than anybody that's ever picked up a bat between Japanese Baseball League and the majors. Ichiro is one of my favorite players to watch. Good for him going into the Hall of Fame.
How about this? April 2nd, 2007, the Florida Gators, they repeated as national champs. They won in 06, they won in 07, they had Holford, they had Brewer, they had Noah, they beat Ohio State 84 to 75.
Yeah, they had, well, that team had that big man that could also never stay healthy, Greg Oden. You know what? Here's a final call from CBS. And Thad Motta does not want to foul. This game is over. They have come.
They're going to let him go. Florida takes its place in history. Back to back and unforgettable. Some year for the Gators. National champs in football, national champs in basketball. Yeah, they weren't as arrogant as that guy Dan Early was.
Anyway, speaking of back to backs, how about this? April 2nd, 2018, Villanova, they won their second title in three years. Dante DiVincenzo, the man who just got in trouble for pushing and shoving the other day. He scored 31 points. Villanova, they beat Michigan 79 to 62.
Here's another final call. A matter of fact, this is Dante DiVincenzo after the game saying that my teammates helped me out. Maybe teammates like Jalen Brunson and Mikael Bridges?
Honestly, it was credited to these guys up here. They did a great job of making it difficult for Jalen and Mikael. And they were just making the right play. They were trying to be aggressive and they were finding me. And Amari was setting great screens, getting me open. Did you have any inkling at all today that you might have this kind of a night?
Honestly, no. I did not think that I was going to have this kind of night because every night I come into the game, I just try to bring energy. And if we start off, we get off to a good start. I try to take that energy to a new level.
I try to defend and I try to rebound to best my ability and just try to get it going. And like I said, these guys did a great job of just finding me and I found myself in the rhythm. Yeah, that's pretty hilarious.
Well, it's not hilarious. I think you remember it looked like they were all going to be on one team at the same time on the Knicks and then the Knicks traded him for Karl-Anthony Towns. They're on the team for what, like a month together?
That's fun. Yeah, that's it. They're like, oh, now we need somebody big, not you, bye.
They just moved them. And they even made, what was that? A, is that a food commercial, Uber Eats commercial or something like that they just did together? Uh, yeah, Fanatic, something like that. They met them in the hallway like, oh, we used to be teammates, uh, in college, but Oh, AT&T.
Okay. Always reconnected. It's nice that the brands can now utilize real life events to make commercials good for them for being creative. And there you have it, folks, a few things that took place this day in sports history. Hey, listen, thank you so much to Matt Moore for coming through to talk about the greatness of Nikola Jokic and the NBA. Thank you to everybody who tuned in.
If you missed a minute or a second, you go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. I'll be back with you tomorrow. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Hickey is, uh, David Lee will be here tomorrow, right? Former NBA player, former Nick and Warrior. And former Gator as well as the kids can set for the Final Four. That'd be very fun.
Yeah, David Lee was a rebounding machine. He'll be here to talk about them Gators. Give some thoughts on March Madness and what that team can do. Uh, we got a lot to do. And Hickey, you'll be gone the next couple of days, right? The last bachelor party I will be attending for a long time will be this weekend.
And next time you do anything like this, it'll be for your own bachelor party, huh? That's true. That time's coming up. Oh, my goodness. Oh, damn.
Hickey. All right. Clock's ticking. All right. Well, okay. Don't don't rush it, Hickey. All right. I'm trying not to take it. It's slow.
If you need an alibi, blame me. Time thing. So things typically work. Hey, have a good time out there. Look forward to catching you back with us on Monday.
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