court so so this time tomorrow this time
tomorrow
we think some people will have been
traded or we hope some people will have
been traded some big names at least
so i'll ask you like this michael uh the
nba trade deadline
less than 24 hours away would deal
ordeal zip
would you like to see done take that
wherever you want what deal would you
like to see going on
i want to see see i'm i'm more
interested
in contender moves because
certain people will be traded and
because they're traded that means
a contender somebody says okay we're
taking this we're going to raise this
we're going to another level so i'm
watching kyle lowry very closely
because toronto toronto golf to a rough
start playing in tampa
didn't help they get off to a rough
start they start to bring it back to 500
now they've fallen apart again the
custom out the coach will get to that
and all that
uh later with pascal siakim but kyle
lowry is a good piece for a contending
team
not necessarily with toronto right now
we know
the heat are interested the sixers the
best team in basketball the sixers
are interested the lakers and now the
lakers
are interested coming up from the
outside
the dark horse the lakers i would love
to see him go to philadelphia
because you know that's my favorite and
it's not just doc
i'm telling you i can give you a whole i
can give you 20 minutes i'm not going to
do it right now
i'll give you 20 25 minutes from
philadelphia without mentioning doc one
time
that's why i love that team i love that
team and i just
i okay you know you're talking to a
process guy right you know you're
talking to a process guy oh i know
i know i know so the the for this i i
i love the sixers just not as luck much
but
good when we get to the later we're when
in the nba finals and we have
some nba guest who comes on and says hey
nobody this team floated about uh below
the radar all year long and people
talked about the bucks and the next team
when they say that in may in june they
say what we're just gonna have to check
them
when they sit down with june saying hey
look at philadelphia i'm telling you
right now
in march when they're saying that best
team of league
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait okay don't you go to you
go you go too far
i'm not going to say that the sixers no
you say when it when somebody says
watch out for philly or this team flew
below the radar
brought it in first place and until he
got hurt they had the leading mvp
candidate ain't nobody slept i'm a sixer
stop it
because you know that way i'll tell you
what to have
i'll tell you why they have because you
can't
you can't walk you i'm talking about you
now
i'm going right to your neighborhood
your front lawn gordon you can't walk
in my neck you can't walk three steps
without mentioning james harden in the
nets
in mvp and how he's 45 and 17 last night
by the way
25 and 17. yeah you love you love heart
lowest
the bucks other conference lakers sons
nuggets jazz philadelphia yes
philadelphia's in first place
it's almost like people are waiting
they're waiting for them to just like
prove that they're not real but they're
real it's real
it's real now you'll see what boogie man
are you talking about man like they've
got plenty of sixers believers
you could be a believer in the sixers
and still recognize
that they think you're winning another
boost offensively do you think that when
you establish this
no i have the nets i have the nets
you're not a believer who james hart is
not a believer
it's ho
[Laughter]
that's hilarious i like how you put that
you know i mean the with you are against
you that's that's basically what you're
saying right you the witness are against
you come on no don't watch it no fins
straddling
yeah i'm saying i'm saying they're the
best team in basketball
yeah yeah yeah okay i like we know no no
i like you like yeah we know we know man
we know do you think that went east
touche no
touche no no no two shade two you know
what matt you're absolutely right man
sometimes i get my little nuanced spaces
and i get too comfortable in my gray
area
you're absolutely right that's how you
come strong and don't come at all
that's how it should go it shouldn't be
no it's almost like oh this person's in
the mvp conversation or the mvp no well
why are you bringing them up no
you're absolutely right michael if i
ain't gonna pick him i'm not a believer
that makes me a hater right let's just
go all the way with it i can't stand the
sixers
they're frauds okay they're gonna
implode
doc rivers is gonna blow another 3-1
lead that's true
because you want to hear that that's
what you'd like to hear that's what you
want that's what's going on
come on cletus let's just go let's just
go all the way with it then let's just
go all the way by hers
that hurt sarcasm that was sarcastic
even the sarcasm
even though it was sarcastic that was a
shot there
that three one shot but
cuz it's kyle lowry
all right listen my if the sixers get
kyle lowry
then i i will feel less
confident about our friendly wager
i will feel if the sixers get if they
bring
philly's own if they bring villanova's
own
kyle lowry to philly
that's that's a that's a balance of
power shifting
type of transaction um so
he's the player i want to see move the
most and if he goes to miami
i mean that could that could vault that
could totally make the east that much
more fascinating and that much more
miami's a little shaky oh yeah at the
time they were coming back
now they're sinking now they're sinking
again i don't know about it maybe lowry
answers it
and then of course if the lakers get
more firepower
you know um then i mean we all we've
already canceled christmas quite a few
times
injuries not withstanding obviously
they're beat up right now they're
struggling who wouldn't without lebron
james anthony davis
otherwise uh it's free aaron gordon
you like i mean aaron gordon to the
celtics is that
is that another one you you think it's
gonna happen does it need to happen
how much of a difference will it
actually make i wouldn't give up marcus
smart
i like aaron gordon but unless i'm
missing something i'm not giving up
marco smart to get him i wouldn't but
maybe i'm missing something
because jordan but maybe i'm overrating
marcus smart
no i don't think you're not he's
fundamentally attached to him
okay no you're not overrating him you
know what marcus smart is we talked
about
him in the beginning of the show we
already talked about marcus smart today
you just don't realize it
margarite jerry margarine he's an
irritant
okay he is the he is the draymond green
of the celtics
and i at the beginning of the season
when i when i was asked to name the
celtics core their their top three
players
their top three obviously i went jason
tatum jalen brown
and over kemba walker i put marcus smart
you know he's not gonna he scores like
career averaged like 12 points a game 11
12 points a game
you know five assists so you look at the
numbers you go oh something special but
he's an
excellent defender can defend three
positions and
is one of those guys who will never play
a full season because he's going to
spend most of the time on the floor
diving for balls again he'll get hurt
all the time because he just plays
like with this um contagious
recklessness
so that's great problem is
something's wrong with the celtics the
celtics will be fortunate to make the
playoffs i said
make the playoffs something is off
in their mix i'm not sure what it is so
i'm not
underrating i'm not overrating marcus
smart maybe we're both
underrating aaron gordon to a degree i
think aaron gordon
is right when he says he's just
frustrated by all the losing and and
frustrated by the atmosphere
good player i think i take that chance
i'd lose sleep over it
trading marcus smart for aaron gordon i
think i'd do it
and if somebody said good trade i'd
believe them and if somebody said to me
you made a bad trade i think i believe
that too it's that close
but i'm leaning toward like the celtics
need a different mix
and i think that might uh i think that
might do it
you better uh he better hope he doesn't
get shipped to uh
to houston um
talking about how frustrated he is with
the losing thanks james
houston thank you james um
hey listen don't don't don't don't don't
sneak in and don't sneak this
don't sneak this because unfortunately
people like you
are gonna just i'm sorry i don't know
how you can hold
okay i wasn't gonna go here i don't know
how you can hold
what he did against in houston
to get out of houston how you can hold
that against him so much
to where you could ignore that the best
team
any power ranking you look at right now
has the nets at the top of
the power rangers well good for that
they beat the blazers last night with no
kyrie or kd
i mean i'm just saying that the best
team most would consider them right now
the best team in basketball
they certainly seem to be the most
formidable team in basketball
okay but you cannot deny what james
harden is doing right i'm not denying
what james harden's like
james harden he's i'm not denying him
he's playing a few okay he's a great
come on can i can i can i pull can i use
your words against you real quick
do you mind do you mind i don't mind
okay
just like you told me earlier do you
believe in the sixers
or or are they gonna win the east no
well you don't believe in them
if you ain't telling me that james
harden is the mvp right now
then you're denying what he's doing
because if if it wasn't exactly for
how he behaved in houston it would be
undeniable
that he is the mvp right now it would be
good because we're not for houston
you saw what yo right have you been
watching
are you familiar with it i did you call
it no that doesn't mean you can change
great
unfortunately you can't split the mvp
award only one person you know that yoga
is having a better season and he's
having a better season
the person is he is he though yeah
yeah yeah if you include the a games in
houston where harden
blew up the spot yes then by start to
finish
is jokic since he's been in brooklyn the
mvp is the beard
and what's fascinating is most people
were concerned
most about how he would fit in yeah
there was some concern about kyrie
nobody was worried about kd
but could james harden adapt
and he's more than done that he's in
right now he's the mvp he's playing
especially
with playing the beat out with lebron
he's
no that's we got an east coast we got an
east coast conversation
and we got a southwest reality east
coast conversation is that james harden
has done all of the things that you said
he has been wonderful
beautiful to watch it's beautiful it's
beautiful lou it's beautiful
right all right
here's the southwest conversation he
left them
he left him a mess he like he's messy
he's messy man he's messy come on
david they just broke a 20-game losing
streak
why why they break a 20-game losing
streak
they must they might be missing a great
player why are they missing a great
player because he abandoned them
during the season so yeah
both things can be true he's playing
awesome basketball right now
but he did houston no favors and they're
such suckers
their ownership what a bunch of suckers
hey what's the uh what's the updated
version of the kick me sign
okay you gotta kick me here
here here and on the back hey
we suck james harden abandoned us but
you know what we want to do let's
announce it this year
we're going to retire his jersey thank
you james for all you've done for us
thank you james
losers speaking of the uh
speaking of the celtics tonight
um they are going to be in milwaukee
which just dropped 140 on the pacers
last night and since that one two this
is that
what five five-game losing streak they
had uh last month
they're up to 12 out of 13. and they put
up that 140 without giannis
um okay if you want to legitimately this
is
a side note we'll get back to the trade
deadline in a second if you wanted to
legitimately
talk about a team in the eastern
conference that people have relatively
speaking i know they have a two-time mvp
slept on it is milwaukee it is
it's we've made it almost a two t a two
horse race between the sixers
and the nets when milwaukee is coming on
strong
two games back can i tell you why
i tell you why people have stepped up
because everybody expects you right
that's it yeah and i would say um
like last year they got so much
attention they were
as as well as they're playing right now
as well as
let's go to the top team in the east of
philadelphia brooklyn
as well as those teams are playing
milwaukee was unreal
last year at you know setting franchise
records their nights their knots of
references to
1971 when you know you had the big o and
and lou alcindor at the time
you know winning a championship they
were great and they get to the playoffs
and they lose in the second round and
they lost
pretty decisively to to uh miami in the
second round so
you do that and it's unfair but i do
this all the time not only
am i holding last year against milwaukee
i'm holding mike
budenholzer's career against him
i'm holding against him because he's
been here before he's had
top in atlanta remember atlanta number
one team
great yeah they play the cavaliers and
act like they've never seen a basketball
before
i think they got swept in that series so
he's had top teams before
great in the regular season get into the
playoffs flame out so they flamed out
last year
uh they flamed out the year before
i don't know they didn't have drew hart
it looks good right now i just don't
trust it
to to quote captain marvel last time he
didn't have me
they didn't have jewelry holiday so okay
different team um there's one other
name i just want to mention or two
oladipo the interesting to see where he
goes
the other one is um
the other one is uh
no no god no lonzo ball lonzo ball bonzo
um like so
been on a tear lately do you know
do you know about by the way do you know
he's only played 200 games
you know that you know he's only played
200 career games
200 career games his first his first
year what 17-18 season
is that the first year 17 18. yeah i
mean if if the math is right if i'm
looking at this right he's
200 200 career games he just played his
200 career game
um he's banged up he had some injuries
he's been he's been on a roll uh since
february
point being obviously the pelicans don't
want to sign him as a restricted freedom
they don't want to spend the money on
him
we talked before about whether it's the
knicks whether it's the clippers i've
seen rumblings about the bulls
i'm a fan i who nabs lonzo ball
he's having not even quietly a ball does
nothing quietly he's having a great
season
um and he's another person that could
depending on where he ends up could
really shift the balance
um and not just as a rental not just as
a short term whereas a kyle lowry's 35
years old let's do 23.
again it feels like he's been in the
league forever dude 23 years old
i'm saying with lonzo ball a couple of
things before i talk about lonzo ball
i'm going to say
and it's so funny that you brought up
your hometown team the new orleans
pelicans because i was looking at them
last night
dare i say i know they play in the west
they've underachieved like this is let's
not talk about them like there's some
oh some young team i'm just gonna name
four guys on the team one of them is
lonzo ball
how about the front line you got zion
williamson
you got brandon ingram you got stephen
adams
and then you got lonzo i mean come on
like this is not an untalented team and
they're like what seven games under 500
uh that they should be better than i'm
not saying they shouldn't
oh is it five games under 500 is that it
uh yeah
whatever it is seven yeah no i got uh
they should be
where san antonio is right now they
should be a seven or eight c
this is it's a little disappointing what
the pelicans have done but
okay that's not my point my major point
is about lonzo and i think lonzo
is gonna be i'm gonna put this on him
you know how chauncey billups it took
him a while to kind of find his team
he finally found detroit it was pr
detroit may have been his fifth team
it was a lot like i liked that comp i
liked that comment it was like four or
five teams
where he started talking in boston goes
from boston to toronto
he spent some time in denver uh
orlando minnesota i think i think
detroit may have been a six team
he goes to detroit and then bam we see
the real chauncey phillips
and a team a general manager that got
him a city that got him a team that got
him
and he flourished i think lonzo ball is
one
good fit away from really having a nice
career somewhere i
i'm a i'm alonzo fan i was coming out of
ucla
maybe the lakers not a great fit at the
time
they were a little too it just wasn't
the right team
the pelicans should be the right team
they're not going to pay him he's gonna
go somewhere
and he's gonna play well hey thanks for
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