so over the weekend lamarcus aldridge
shocked us by signing with the
brooklyn nets a lot of people had him
ticketed for the miami heat
and so he joins the already loaded nets
and michael i was reading this on
nbcsports.com earlier our guy dan
feldman
pointed out that the nets are the first
team in nba history
with six players who've already made
multiple all-nba teams
durant hardin blake griffin lamarcus
aldridge deandre jordan kyrie irving
they've combined for 31
all-nba appearances only the 0-4
lakers oh four lakers and we'll come
back to that
who had 38 among malone shaq
peyton and kobe and the 2011 celtics who
had 32
among shaq kg
paul pierce jermaine o'neal and ray
allen had more all nba selections
in prior seasons
so here's what's interesting none of the
four teams with at least 30 all nba
selections have won a championship
right and among the 13 teams with more
than 25 all nba selections only two
won a title and that two includes the 72
lakers
because their number includes elgin
baylor's 10 all-in-selections
as we know he retired during that season
right
yeah he retired during that season
coincidence and coincidence
no because the reason that those teams
rarely win a title in order to
accumulate that many all nba selections
you got to be kind of old
um so nonetheless
this is a big deal a buyout but a big
deal
for um la to go to bk
and i just want to extend michael
to you an invitation i've been saving a
seat
it's a little crowded it's a little
tight we might it's not exactly socially
distant at this point
okay it'll be our elbows will be
touching there'll be some skin to skin
hope you don't mind
because you've been you've been kind
you've been waiting kind of long but
i've been trying to save you some room
this seat is taken
i've been telling people hey somebody
sitting there no i'm holding this for
somebody
i'm ign inviting you
onto the bandwagon there is still time
because there are enough haters out
there because we saw that over the
weekend
there are plenty enough haters out there
to where there's still space
on this nets bandwagon so you could just
put the little baptist finger up
excuse yourself from the congregation
with the with the with the sixers and
come on over
to this championship chase here with the
brooklyn nets and just letting you know
yes i make it a big deal lamarcus
aldridge's off the buyout market
not because lamarcus aldridge is the
thing that puts him over the top is that
the markets
lamarcus aldridge but it sounds like
before him blake griffin you're saying
that no no
because he's a role player he's a role
player
and clarkson should play more center
anyway i mean he just gives another
another option i mean let's not get
let's get carried away here
okay this is this is not peak lamarcus
aldridge
this is not pete blake griffin but blake
talked about it earlier and it's kind of
hilarious
everybody in their feelings and
everybody mad and blake said it to
earlier today
for the last two years i've been hearing
how terrible i was
it's like everybody getting all upset
like they got like they got jumping over
kia blake griffin
like they got lamarcus aldridge when he
was dropping 50 in the playoffs that's
not who they just got
they were already locked and loaded for
a championship and i tried to told you
when they assembled this big three what
they've done a brilliant and masterful
job of
is replenishing the depth that they
sacrificed
to get james harden in the first place
so those questions about their depth
are no longer at least on offense
defensively
neither blake nor lamarcus helps him
defensively they gotta play clacson
uh you know when it really comes time to
to stop people as best they can
but offensively they got even more guys
that can get points
and experience guys that can get you
points in big spots come play off time
all right uh look so first of all thank
you for the light yet or not
you're welcome no i appreciate y'all
hold it as long as i can
appreciate the offer and i appreciate
the question
um no the offer is great and if you said
it's not socially distant look
i know a lot of people right now have
co-covered fatigue even with the vaccine
you gotta wear a mask i'm not gonna get
ahead of myself
i'm not jumping on some crowded
bandwagon
even with the vaccine floating out there
so i'm going to pass on that thank you
very much
in all seriousness i'm going to ask you
now you mentioned you just kind of
just kind of glossed over the most
important thing about the
brooklyn nets their their their biggest
flaw and that is their inability to lock
you down and lock you up
defensively when it turns into a half
court game and it will
right now it's great right now it's
great you know regular season
they're putting up you know their
offensive rating james harden is this
james harden is that and he thinks he's
the mvp thanks james for your humility
um so he thinks he's the mvp of the
league no question
period but in the playoffs
for them to win a championship they will
have to
defend consistently not just for a stop
or two they don't have to consistently
defend
yeah championship let me ask you a
question when's the last team
who's the last championship team that
couldn't
show them the last championship well
none of them couldn't no
no that this that's never happened
wouldn't that work and they can't even a
defensive
championship team they can't just
couldn't there's there's a there's a
stat and i don't have it in front of me
and i don't memorize i apologize
but there's a certain threshold in terms
of ranking
that few if any teams have ever gone
below to win a championship it might be
something like 11th
maybe it's something crazy maybe last
year's lakers might have been one of the
exceptions
in terms of regular season defensive
rating i don't want to butcher that
but to your point historically
you have to at least reach a certain
level of defensive competence
to win a championship this team would
break that mold
they've improved substantially
over the past season defensively enough
to offset what is potentially but see
here's the thing
all right you're right no team has ever
wanted not being able to defend
also no team has ever had this kind of
firepower
when durant's healthy when he returns
nobody's saying no but i'm sorry point
it out nobody said
you just told me no no i did not point
it out i said yes she did the
accumulation of
all nba selections on teams that were
old
i mentioned the 2011 celtics and shaq i
mentioned the people who were decorated
in terms of accomplishments for their
careers the old four lakers didn't have
this kind of firepower
they just had what was left of carl
malone and gary payton they didn't have
nbc james harding you know i don't know
justin all right
i'm not okay i might take kobe and shaq
over their regular big three
i might take those two over those lately
those two
well at least she said well at least you
said mike okay and we can have that
debate
but kevin durant james harden and kyrie
irving
are a trio offensively
unlike any we've ever seen arguably and
they've been somehow they've been some
other big threes
through our nba history lots of big
threes but this trio is different
can the defensive question remains about
the playoffs why
because we haven't gotten to the
playoffs yet but this team i maintain
only has to be okay on defense
to complement and supplement what they
bring on
i'm gonna tell i'm gonna tell you right
now
please don't say i didn't tell you
in march oh i won't have to say that i
won't have to say that
i'm just telling you right now if i if
if they falter in march
i am fully prepared no no no i'm not
even
michael if they fall to her in march no
no i got i got you i got this i got it
no no
no i mean if they they fall to the
playoffs excuse me if they no i don't it
doesn't matter what you're going to say
if they falter in the playoffs i'm going
to come in
and you see this right here you see this
i'm not even going to bother putting
this on
i'm not even going to put this on i'm
just going to sit here and i'm just i'm
going gonna take it
i'm fully prepared to take it i'm gonna
take all the smoke
i'm okay with that you know i'm okay if
they falter in the playoffs
i'm gonna just sit here like a grown man
and i
will i will show up especially i'll be
here if they get upset i'll be here like
right i'll be ready for it
like that would be that yeah i'll be
right back if they get a if it's like
the
uh who's a a couple examples like denver
denver golden state dallas you know one
of those one eight
one of those yeah monumental struggle or
i'm ready i'm ready for you if they
struggle if they fall behind
don't let them fall behind don't let
them lose this game one
if they lose game one if they fall down
two to one
three to one oh you're going up you just
going to be warming up
oh i know that's my attention at 3-1 i'm
ready
you remember i'm good on one remember we
were newspaper guys
you remember we were newspaper guys um
and you as a columnist of course
it was it was this unwritten rule like
you had to
you write something you got to show up
the next day even if you weren't writing
or reporting or you might have been off
the next day you just got to show up and
just stand in the locker room in case
somebody wanted a piece of you
that's how we came up we came up in
those days you know it was like okay i
wrote something i
wrote some commentary maybe a little
controversial i'm here if anybody here
wants to discuss i'm here
in person you want something no right
this is pre-internet day this is before
you can just write something from a
thousand miles away
and never have to you know worry
accountable you have to
kind of say the counterbalance step into
you have to talk about it
yeah so i'm gonna be accountable if
my brooklyn nets do not
come through in the postseason i'm i'm
you know i
don't i will you won't have i won't ever
say you told me so
you won't give me a chance to say you
told me so because i won't get a word in
that choice
all right listen that's okay i'll
deserve it and i will deserve it
as an aside don't you feel
a little uncomfortable riding for the
brooklyn nets now brooklyn i say new
jersey
the the brooklyn nets who have
tried to why why do you have they don't
really have a
they don't really have a footprint um
their fans i don't really know what
their fans stand for
it's the brooklyn that they're just so
they're so
it's just it's just so uh temporary and
temporary team and they don't really
have any
passionate triggers they're not the
celtics
or the lakers or the history or the
76ers
that or the 76ers or even the
field the orlando magic even though
orlando magic
is never a deeper fantasy like you're
jumping on there you're just jumping on
talking about
how do you feel good rooting about for
rooting for this team why are you
rooting for this team
why are you rooting for them tell me why
because of the tell me is it james
harden honestly oh it's me honestly
honestly me yes because of that because
of that
because of people like you i'm oh this
is this is full-on contrarian
mode right now it's perfect i'm enjoying
all the people who think the nba is
broke
who just all the people who are in their
feelings all the people who are butt
hurt because they feel like the nba
is rigged and and it's another all those
anti-supervisors oh no oh wait again
maybe there's another one i got that guy
okay maybe this doesn't apply to you
okay the rest of you
don't know okay but those guys are out
there but those guys are out there you'd
acknowledge that though right
but you would acknowledge that right
those people are still out there right
sure
bring on another the haters bring on
another all-nba player
in his mid-30s go ahead and do it i
don't think it's unfair
i don't think brooklyn oh wow we might
as well give a trophy to brooklyn right
no i like seeing the collection of all
these stars
because i'm going to sit there in my
straight up hater game
when they fail i'm going to love it i
am going to love it
you don't really like it you like to
hate on them yeah so yeah you like it
because it gives you something to hate
on it gives you
gives you it gives you yes i got you
confession confession good for the soul
bad for the reputation okay let me just
let me just throw this out
a couple guys on the team i just don't
like i don't like i'm working through it
i'm trying to work through it like kevin
durant is
has there ever been a more sensitive
star player in the nba is he the most
sensitive star
in the league in a generation i mean
if i this is what i would do we talked
about
um we talked about social media the
other day when when uh the chicago bears
had qb one
with andy dalton and you said hey where
are you trying to go with this
if i'm facing the brooklyn nets what i'm
doing
if i'm that team i'm the opposing team
i'm getting my
social media team to just troll him
i'll just troll him just throw out stuff
it doesn't have to be true
throw our stuff about him attack him say
like he's overrated say he shouldn't
have left golden say all the stuff that
bothers him
say steve kerr preferred to coach a 15
and 50 team to coach
uh kevin durant he is bothered he's not
unbothered he's bothered
by so many like little stuff
little stuff just annoys him come on man
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