Epiosde 196 – Let That Hurt Go

🎙️ The SplashCast with Reggie and Norwood – Ep. 196: “Let That Hurt Go”

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HBCU News Around the Culture

CIAA brings baseball back (time)
HBCU players invited to the MLB Combine (time)
Michael Vick causes ticket prices to surge (time)
Prairie View named #1 recruiter in the SWAC (time)
Sapphire Golf Tour making waves (time)
VSU dominates with Lunabotics innovation (time)

🔸 Hoops

WNBA players denied visas by U.S. Embassy – 17 Senegalese women (time)
All-Star voting is heating up (time)

NBA

OKC Thunder: your new NBA champs (time)
Tyrese Haliburton suffers torn Achilles (time)
Pacers’ trade (time)
Ime Udoka gets an extension in Houston (time)
KD trade rumors swirl again (time)
Khris Middleton picks up option (time)
Daniel Gafford re-signs with the Mavericks (time)
Ace Bailey’s basketball journey + Sharife Cooper’s dad connection (time)

🔸 Football

NCAA: Winning everywhere – who’s up next? (time)

NFL:

Falcons letting the young guys cook (time)
Travis Hunter officially signs (time)
Jaire Alexander heads to the Ravens (time)
C.J. Mosley retires – salute to a career (time)

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[Music] thank you for tuning in to the latest episode of The Splashcast your go-to podcast for news and discussion in the world of sports welcome ladies and gentlemen nope no check your mic my mic is there i’m fine okay you couldn’t I didn’t change nothing okay welcome ladies and gentlemen to episode 196 of the Splash Cast Monday Night Raw i’m your co-host Reggie i am your co-host Norwood our powers combined we are your H.B.CU homeboys welcome to Monday Night Raw how you feeling brother how you feeling i am feeling well uh we just finished the basketball season i am a little concerned about exactly what I’m going to do with my time now that there is no sports uh but we gonna figure it out for sure yes sir yes sir y’all know what it is when we come to uh Monday Night Raw we do our HB.CU news around the culture followed by whatever is in season football or basketball this time it’ll be basketball then we round out with football as well uh if you’re listening to the playback go back and listen to the mic check uh that is released on YouTube every week uh as well as follow us on uh Instagram Tik Tok all of your socials as well as follow Dive Team Media Network as well we had some political correspondents from our uh uh co-anchor Lloy Amaker for the political side along with everything dealing with Iran and the state of the US so uh with that being said man let’s get into it let’s get into it let’s start out with our HB.CU news around the culture yes we are starting back with something that kind of continues you already know what it is more black baseball baby so the CIAA is bringing back championship baseball for the first time in eight years they dis the CIA as a conference disabled baseball or stopped baseball from being a championship sport i think some schools had intramurals just to kind of keep it going but as far as competing uh in the NCAA they discontinued that that was the word discontinued that in 2017 and it is a momentous occasion to bring it back yeah this this is good for all parties involved and what do we say every every show more black baseball this is by definition black baseball always always great congratulations CIAA and yeah y’all go support yes sir give me one second i gotta make sure that I am on my Yeti microphone which sounds so much better i apologize if I sound like I was in the bathroom of an airplane um I am now back on my uh uh microphone so uh we are back ladies and gentlemen uh talked about CIAA shout out to Can’t wait for it to turn up speaking of baseball uh you had many HBCU players uh invited to the combine to the Major League Baseball combine you had shout out to Cardell Tibido from Southern University Brody Pppel from FAMU and Juan Cruz from ASU i believe that’s going to be Alabama State and not Albany please if I’m wrong don’t shoot n jump just jump and pull up on him pull up on him go uh but shout out to them man i’m excited that they’re getting the the the press uh shout out to Major League Baseball for making this happen and shout out to the Major League Baseball Players Association for also making this happen how do you feel about this this is great we need more of this uh I hope these guys go out and put on a great show and hopefully get picked up and get into a system where they can play in the future uh but there are good H.B.CU baseball players now I’m realistic the numbers are not the same but there are guys that are good just like there are in basketball and specifically even more in football but it is these type of things where you have to invite them to the combine they have to get seen by coaches and then from there give them an opportunity they beat these guys they beat them that that’s what it’s about and they’ve been competing the thing is we I mean we cover black baseball hb.cu have been competing for years uh just and we talked about I think we talked about it last week the SWAG players opted the SWAG schools opting in so to even have uh the amount of scholarship players the same amount of scholarship players as everybody else so we’re finally getting a level playing field and hopefully these numbers will grow i expect for these numbers to grow personally absolutely all right let’s move on to football i believe uh Norfolk State norolk State shout out to y’all uh tickets continue to surge um they are doing shout out to their PR department they have embraced sports marketing department them two i’m sure they work hand in hand you’re right um they have you know I’m a sport man you know I got Whoa whoa whoa whoa no that’s cool pr just great there’s a small department over there that work their ass off you got to give them people credit yeah and they they they are taking care of the taking advantage of the moment um they’ve embraced everything that is Virginia they’ve had Mike then Norfolk State they hire Mike Vic they’ve had Allan Iverson everywhere he’s used his connections um their prices surge and I believe if I’m not mistaken has gone from uh I believe like $60 to $100 so it’s not anything crazy per se but they are generating revenue and that’s what you need yeah I’m I’m kind of in the middle of 80% sorry that was my bad 80% part part of me is great you’re making more money you got a new hire you got all all the interest in the world the rest of your sports are doing pretty well let’s make the money but also I mean it’s a lot of people who have been supporting North State for a long time and then you double the ticket price i can see both sides yeah it went from 110 to 200 i get it but here’s the explanation of why it was part of it part of the ticket sales they’re kind of following the University of Tennessee model the ticket sales will go straight to the NIL earnings for athletes so that they will then use that money to then invest back into the roster which would then generate more money and invest into the to the program which would then generate more money for the school if you frame it that way I think that takes the sting away of going from $110 to $200 because you feel like you’re actually investing into the program well this is my only thing about that is if you going to go from 110 to 200 give them people a better experience you have to find a way to create a value ad and the value ad can’t just be Michael Vic is coaching you need to take some of that money and invest it into the fan experience as a sport marketing sport management person I do believe that great you can charge more for what is perceived to be a better product but you should give people more than what you were giving them last season i think that’s fair i believe in an even swap is a much better relationship for the consumer and for the team specifically long run yes i just think the priority I the the priority should be the fans and the alumni especially in college and HB.CU the priority should always be the fans and the alumni cuz y’all got y’all got some money now there’s been an injection of money into this university spend that money and make it look like something cuz that’s what you should do yeah but what I was saying it’s you have to kind of project management a little bit and prioritize where you spend that money oh yeah because you’re going to have to you’re going to have to invest into the athletic department heavily in order to put a product out on the field that will generate the revenue so then after you do that I think you can then maybe you can do it concurrently or simultaneously and invest in all three which is kind of dividing the pot but you’ve got to figure out a way to invest in the fan experience as well as spend the money on recruiting and all of those things and I’m not asking them to be not be realistic we understand that the money needs to go in the NIL so you can pay more players so you can bring in better athletes sure but this is where you guys get paid to be marketers and advertisers you got to find a way to do it within your department then maybe you pay them people a little bit more money to work a little harder but I do understand you just can’t give all the money to to sports marketing and say “Hey let’s make this the land of milk and honey.” I get that too but if I’m a consumer and I’ve been going there paying $100 for 20 years and now you ask for more money then yeah I want it i want something or otherwise you my name on it or something i just got you going to have me feel away as a consumer and that’s one thing that I I harp on with H.B.CU’s more than anything because we have we have we don’t have the biggest fan base but we have a very loyal fan base and that requires you take care of those people we require that you take care of us too right uh you’re correct you’re correct i really I really expect you to roll out the damn red carpet to be completely honest but I get it i mean we go we got we go to We get it hey man things are nicer but it’s in there yeah but speaking of investing man I think another example of it is Prairie View uh uh Coach Tummaine Jackson came from Valdasta State if you go back and listen this is a call back he laid out at a plan that at the time seemed a little crash talk and he had four bullet points of don’t call don’t DM me I’ll DM you you have two days to respond no you have four hours to respond blas don’t ask me about money no I remember yeah don’t ask me no it’s 24 hours cuz he’s like you don’t don’t ask me about uh NIL or I won’t talk to you it ain’t It ain’t I I know it’s not 24 hours cuz we said “Damn what about if you in class?” It’s four hours i I’m I’m almost willing to look that up um but what prayer view ha what they have done though is injected that’s what I was trying to get the intro is they’ve injected the money into the program and they now have the number one recruiting class in the swack ahead of Texas Southern shout out to Houston y’all spending that money right Florida&M Alorn State and Alabama State uh they’ve they’ve landed three they’ve landed three stars and four star talent in recruiting and a and a portal so I mean whatever he’s doing seems to be working right now right so for me there are a couple things here he’s surely talked himself into notoriety i’m going to read these rules to y’all once again when I follow you there’s a 4hour window to follow back or we’re done send the number transcripts and the highlight on the first message address my staff as coach not bro uh don’t ask me about nil and then he said “Finally pray talk to your family girlfriend dog or any other people before we offer you not after you take 80 visits i’m going to want to know ASAP.” So from a purely sales point of view he’s a closer he not he’s not letting you off the phone barbecue or mildew i either want you locked in i don’t from the sounds of it he don’t even want you which is as a salesperson a little scary i don’t you don’t have a lot of time to think about this if I offer you basically need to be ready to accept that’s interesting capitalizing on his capitalizing on his reputation you could do that coming off a national championship appearance right so I think that you know the number one recruiting ranking is great we’ve seen the commercials of course he’s been all over the media for some of the things he said this is the point where you have to start putting what you said with the things that you’re going to do um because there’s going to be a spotlight they’re going to they’re going they want to see if this works or not and if it works then you’re going to see more people do something very similar if not that seat could get hot fast it seems to be working right now right number one recruiting class i mean you need the players so we’ll see now we got to see you play football that is the thing yeah but you know and best of luck we’ll see man shout out to Prairie View shout out to Prairie View new new new coach new energy right it’s working and they they got a rabbit like they’re another Hey that fan base don’t play about their school at all no they be out there with the they be out there in the middle of nowhere with them and they put engineers all over the city of Houston if you need an engineer prayer if you got one for you yes sir um moving on man moving on to golf real quick shout out to uh the Sapphire Golf Tour which is the first professional golf tour uh built for black women um as the United as the United Golfers Association believes in the power of representation and importance of creating a pipeline for young black girls and college players uh the tour will host four marquee events across the country showcating showcasing elite women golfers building the pipeline for future stars uh tour dates are June 15th in Atlanta Maryland oh no the tour dates announced were announced on June 15th they will be in Atlanta Maryland Houston and Jacksonville so make sure y’all go support very black yes and go support and I think that the reason that that this was very important to me is we continue to lose H.B.CU golf teams we need to bring them back we need to do whatever we can to find a way to make those things work and this needs to be this this very well could be the first exit out of college into the professional realm hey can I play in the Sapphire Golf Tournament just to wet my feet uh I think that there is a relationship there that could be cultivated and this could be great for all parties involved h.b.cu’s hey for those that are trying to figure out a way to get your golf programs back and capitalize on uh golf this may be a uh a path towards it need to partner with them need to shout out to Sapphire Golf Tour yeah this is this pretty good and then even finally we moving on to Hey man competitive events don’t always aren’t always limited to a field or a course or a court uh the Virginia State Luna Botics team uh was the only Say that one more time luna Botics okay what’s that tell me what that is Reggie it’s got something to do with space lunar yes there is a space black space robotics team makes history black people in space only was the only H.B.CU to compete at the 2025 national NASA Luna Challenge at Kennedy Space Center and crushed it with a team of 15 innovators across engineering and tech majors they built a robot that completed every challenge on simulated lunar terrain i.e driving on the moon um so congrats to VSU for leading the way in this um this is one of the more surprising and fantastic Braves beat Mets surprising and fantastic uh fantastic news stories yes and black people in space with robots how y’all like that now I don’t expect this to last very long i’ll be honest they not gonna let us get up there with methods of transportation i just don’t see us no they trying to get us they trying to get away they trying to get away from Right i know i feel like they gonna take whatever we figure out with this Luna Botics team and they gonna try Oh well thank you for your information but we gonna have to take this and run literally um I’m a little surprised that that Alabama&M isn’t there because of their location to with respect to is it Cape Canaveral I believe so I expect more if if if they same thing here we got the we got the space center here if if if more notoriety comes to Luna and and any type of robotics I think H.B.CU’s it’s just like bowling we got bowling teams we could definitely have and now we got gaming teams esports and got them satellites we’re not gonna forget i’m never going to let y’all forget about them satellites they gave us i want all we got those yeah but we got them we got satellites and now we got cars in space it’s only a matter of time it’s only a matter of time i can see it now boy y’all be floating hey but ladies and gentlemen we have come to the end of the HBCU news around the culture segment we are going to take a break i am going to get a bear some light um not like liquor but some light um and then we’ll be back with hoops followed up by football to round out the episode uh make sure you like follow subscribe uh we’ll be right back right hey Splashcast listeners are you ready to dive into some exciting opportunities with us the Splashcast is now open for brand partnerships advertisements and sponsorships we want your business to make a splash with our audience picture your brand reaching all of our loyal and passionate listeners who love our weekly content from HBCU News around the culture to our splashes of the week we cover it all if you’re looking for a dynamic platform to showcase your products or services look no further reach out to us at divete [email protected] that’s divete [email protected] or visit our website at www.thesplashcast.com for more details [Music] back we are back we are back and it is time to talk oops how you feeling yes sir we are back ladies and gentlemen with our basketball segment as I keep trying to lie I keep hitting my camera uh as we uh basketball segment episode 196 of the Splashcast Monday Night Raw we appreciate you always remember to like follow and subscribe to Splashcast and Dive Team Media Network on all your socials and everywhere you get your podcast and social media uh got a few things we’re going to talk about in basketball norwood this is this your baby right here where we starting first you want to do WNBA NBA finals NBA we going to hit it and get it we going to follow a very simple uh rubric here let’s start out with the ladies actually let’s do this and then Oh hold on i don’t like that uh we’re just going to do that for now uh but in 2023 uh no player received more than 100,000 votes all-star game and then this year there are 39 players who have received I think hold on one second this thing is driving me crazy um who there are eight players who have received over 50,000 votes uh this year 39 players have received more than 50,000 votes and 19 over 100,000 votes this is this is just the brand growing there’s no other way to put it angel Reese and Caitlyn Clark is are great for basketball we’re going to talk about it every week y’all can be mad and on top of that y’all are more than welcome to get right into them Tik Tok comments because me and Reggie will have time for you every time um y’all been in there too yeah but this is good this is good this is means you have more people interested earlier and they’re actively voting and participating this it’s a different thing to get somebody watch the game it’s a whole another thing to get somebody to go to the website and click the website in their free time and vote congratulations for the WNBA they’re doing a fantastic job you got to take with the good with the bad we talked about the bad and all of the bad press that you’re getting and all the misinformed thoughts and opinions and we see it all the time in our comments how uh if you’re if you like I think we could talk about we talk about Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark a lot if you like Angel Ree uh y’all talk bad about Caitlyn if you like Caitlyn y’all talk bad about Angel i don’t understand why y’all just can’t like the player and leave the other player alone they both succeeding honestly I don’t hate that because I mean same thing i hate to continuously bring this up but this is Magic and Bird it having opinion is better having an opinion liking or disliking somebody is better than not having feelings at all if you’re the league or if you’re a women’s basketball definitely for the for the bottom line you’re right you’re right um so of course and it’s also signifying a new day they finally have a new class of athlete because it’s really not just Caitlyn Clark and um Angel Reese there’s a there they this was a dream draft for the WNBA um and it’s growing i do have a question for you though before we move on to shout out to the dream and that’s why I’m bringing this question up great segue that you didn’t even know was happening um the Atlanta Dream are really good uh not even surprising anymore pow pow just had her careerhigh 16 points five assists six of eight field goal uh instant offense and I think she’s like five or seven or something from three she’s got to be in the rookie of the year conversation right great but I rather win i just want to win i just We don’t have anybody else winning we got to take whatever team we get and I love the individual accolades but I love the 10 and four way more i do love the 10 and four but I’m just saying if we’re talking about voting and all-star votes and all of these things she’s got to be somewhere in the conversation at least i know I don’t even know if they have the rookie game yet but she’s got to be in the rookie of the year conversation pow pow ryan Howard hey hey y’all better go vote alicia Gray alicia Gray for real and shout out to Britney Grinder i got a lot of jokes for you all the time but you’ve you have added some toughness to that she was an excellent offseason pickup atlanta Hawks learn find you a veteran center who can help you out if you can do anything watch and learn please any solo watch and learn so that’s that’s all I wanted to bring up i wanted to highlight the dream we don’t really talk about them a lot because the season is pretty new and BNBA was at a fever pitch nhl’s at a fever pitch i think we had the draft with football it was just so much going on but the WNBA the Atlanta Dream are good and don’t let them win don’t let them win pressures on you everybody else in Atlanta united because y’all won and then we come here the US Embassy denies visas to 17 players from Sagal’s women’s nationals team and I don’t have any other way to put this other than this is just trash uh I was looking at the whole time is the number of players from different places that they’re going to let be in the NBA draft so when it’s convenient and when it’s in full support of you then of course come to the come to the NBA and play it’s not something that I’m in support of well then we’ll just cancel visas for you guys this is hate it’s disrespectful it’s terrible it’s awful it’s literally all of the above y’all y’all should and could do better orange man is tripping um the United States is in a unique position over the next two to three years for an international sports in terms of the international sports landscape you have the World Cup here next year uh and then you also have FIA which will be here as well in the next couple years mind you and I believe if I’m not mistaken isn’t the Olympics supposed to be here i can look that up i know I know that I know for sure World Cup is here and Oh I think let me uh let me check that out but definitely World Cup is here and y’all are not making people feel safe i I don’t know how to say it any other way and right so you you have all of these state of affairs and the way that we’re looking on a global scale is not the greatest right now i mean I’mma throw something out there that y’all ain’t even thought way to put it boy i’mma throw something out there that y’all ain’t even that y’all ain’t even thought about you know Iran uh qualified for the World Cup you didn’t even think about that did you they will be here next year assuming that they I mean you know assuming whatever happens happens so and you’re right the the Olympic summer Olympics will be in LA 2028 you’re right yeah so I mean you you over the next five years the United States is at the center of the international game of which it goes right back to what we were talking about in the pre Yeah in in the in the mic check please go back and listen we talk about ICE agents at the damn Dodgers game well what do you think people are looking at and thinking well 2028 I feel safe going to the Olympics there hell no or and you you also I hate to have to be this guy but you piss people off you remember the last time we had the Olympics here in Atlanta you don’t remember Centennial Olympic Park oh kaboom i mean I think in LA when they had the unrest in the Middle East in the 80s they had a whole kidnapping hostage thing so it’s like y’all y’all I listen sports is not the end all be all but sports is one of the few things that brings everybody together despite political background the only people that don’t come is North Korea and at that point when you start to mess this up because I work in utility scale infrastructure is going in if they mess around and pull this there have been hundreds of billions of dollars spent on these events you know who you know who we are right now we Charlotte right before they had that uh baseball allstar game and then they lost it cuz we you doing stupid [ __ ] ain’t no other way to put it bro how about some damn bathroom right oh and that was going to put y’all and Charlotte big city right been begging for a baseball team please please let’s get a baseball team you don’t know how to have nice things and neither do and I’m not going to say neither do we neither do them people who supported this cuz we didn’t support this and we think it’s some separate y’all do the census every year now we doing the census we ain’t on that list uhuh we ain’t on that list we should have stayed at home and minded our damn business and I’mma say that because I think it needs to be said and I also feel like I want to record it that’s one of the things I like about the podcast is what Chris say there it is right there on this day Monday June 23rd 2025 he let y’all know what he felt about this and I think that matters and if you know if y’all come looking for somebody Splashcast don’t want no smoke baby we will not nail smoke but speaking of smoke NBA has new champions congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder they are the kids that did the young one of the youngest teams to ever win a championship sam Prey has put together a magnificent deep the Spurs basketball the Spurs organization i can’t even call this the Spurs because the Spurs had David Robinson already there’s nobody who’s like all of these guys are young and I don’t think that any of them are in their prime yet so outside of old man Caruso who they call this is scary for at least the next four five six years if I’m LeBron this probably pushes me closer to retirement i’m not gonna keep playing with you children because it ain’t it ain’t the juice ain’t worth the squeeze i can go on bryson get jumped okay see uh they shout out to Sam Prey first off for getting this done again um again game seven was anticlimactic and we’ll get to the whole injuries and everything but um you can’t discount the fact that they were the best team in the league really for the last two years right and what’s scary about them winning is last year you could attribute it to youth and this year you kind of put the expectations on them that they’re supposed to win it and I think they got a lot of people got lost in expectations because they just got good two years ago shay has been with OKC for one two three four five years this is six year in the league been there ever since Paul George went to the to the Clippers so since Chris Paul was there so the fact that that they got so good they first of all they sold Shay they kept Shay which shout out that might be the greatest Sam Presley all the picks that we talk about and I’ll talk about those in a second all the draft picks and the the flipping and the swapping he convinced Shay at Gildis Alexander who many viewed behind the scenes that no basketball as the next guy he convinced him to stay in OKC and be there and say “Hey I I’mma pay you this money you got to trust me you got to trust me.” And he had a process now I ain’t gonna say he went by the process because the Paul George Russell Westbrook kind of accelerated the process for this team i think there are two things there number one this is he is a guy who can collect talent and you see across the NBA it’s a lot of teams who can’t our team if you sometimes if you look uh but I will say that I think that that first learning experience prepared him for his second time all right I slipped up i didn’t get it done and I still don’t really think it’s him i think it’s more coaching but whatever championship didn’t come to OKC this time I’mma get it right they had some things fall their way you know let’s be real chad and that foot injury was scary especially as a guy that big it’s great that he was able to be healthy and play a ton of basketball this year even when he came back i mean um he came he missed 50 games because hip right from the hip but still came back and was able to play uh Jaylen Williams has really lifted himself into a different stratosphere than I think people really consider that he is elite two elite two-way guy third team all NBA third team all defense i mean especially when you look at guys like Tatum who gonna be out for a season jaylen Williams is in a prime position to to try to be that next guy they have OKC this young team outside of Caruso nobody’s older than 26 lou Door is a linebacker and they’re gonna lose probably six or seven people off this team within the next 18 months but they have so many picks they have one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 picks in the next six years including they got two draft this year this draft two in next draft three next draft two in 2027 and then it goes back to one pick every year 2028 2029 2030 right when all of these players contracts are up and and I think that if they’re smart they kick the can they package and repackage all right well I’ll trade you one of these fringe guys um I’ll trade you one of these fringe guys in return you give me your first round pick in the future I’ll trade you a guy and a pick cuz right now they don’t really have a guy i mean we we can talk about this now nicola Topic is the first player to win an NBA title before playing in an NBA game this guy is going to be available next season so and what do you do i mean there’s honestly not even a place to probably play him right now the answer is probably just stick him in the G-League or trade him uh I don’t know if you trade him but where they suffered the most if you want to nitpick this team and that I noticed with Indiana um is the backup point guard they were running Jaylen at the one or they were running uh Kase Wallace which is cool but I think Topic for him being what he is he’s kind of like that big facilitator he can score crazy but he can also pass the ball very well 19 years old 66 and he can pass shoot and dribble sam Prey is picking all the guys that I’ve been telling y’all that you have to start picking now if they not 66 or better don’t call so you have him in the background and I think what they can do with their players is just fill in the blanks the blank is the backup PG that’s really all they really missed correct they were so good they matched the coaching errors now uh for this they have everything they may be the new dynasty and have Sam Prey i wonder where he voted on terms of all of these super team votes that they had and stuff where they were talking about because the way that he built the team it’s almost like he was ready for the disbanding of the super teams and he took advantage of it right then there with Adam you mean that you could read the CBA before it comes out and create your team around it not like your name was Matt Ishmir and you act like you can’t read you mean that’s that’s like a thing that people do shout out to them of course he learned it from uh uh the Spurs organization and he took it there sga how you feel this is this is the part that Reggie just alluded to was “Hey we need backup point guard minutes she ain’t played 34 minutes a game you only need a guy for 12 minutes.” I mean and and I will say there are going to be enough older guys i mean Chris Paul would you be I I think that there’s going to be a big market for Chris Paul chris Paul stay right there with Wimpby he ain’t leaving i don’t It depends you could go to New York you could you could go anywhere where all we need is a little bit of extra facilitation but number one congratulations SGA uh regular season MVP scoring leader finals MVP this puts him in one of the me most elite categories there are very few humans to ever walk the planet to do all three uh congratulations to him mike and Wilt I want to say no Wilt wasn’t finals MVP him Mike Shaq shaq shaq that’s who it is yeah that’s crazy that’s crazy that’s hell of a season hell of a season you can you can never take that away from him um it looks like he’s I don’t think that he’s in his prime yet even if he was even but his five and six and a half yeah that’s fine that’s crazy to say cuz he’s 26 you normally enter your prime at I think he’s entering his prime his peak powers will be we’re about to see we have the ability to see Miami Heat LeBron style where it’s like there’s just nothing that you can do there’s nothing and he’s so good at creating separation and getting to the elbow that there’s he and Nimh hard shim hard he played him tough once hit by two or three of them shots and he hit the three I said y’all go ahead and kiss this one goodbye right Nim and and you’re right Nim hard i want to give a lot of respect to the Pacers they played their ass off uh it was really unfortunate to lose Tyrese Hallebertton to the Achilles so early in the game i respect the Pacers for number one going in the half the Pacers were up and eventually they just I think the devastation of the injury set in and you just not having enough juice for for the best team in basketball i think you just get to a point where hey we’re good and and I think that those Pacers guys are a lot better than people give them credit for but you just eventually run up into a buzzsaw and you need your leader and you need his 15 points and probably his 10 assists in order to win the game but uh tragically we lost him in the first quarter to an Achilles injury that’s going to have him out for the entire 25 26 season what’s sad what makes this even worse shout out to SGA first of all for being the consmate professional is I’m not going to lie to you i picked I think I picked OKC in six and you picked OKC in seven if I’m not mistaken what was going on here is and you this is all hearsay speculation i think we were on our way to being wrong ties Hallebertton was three for three from three right he had a couple of assists he looked very confident and I think he had 13 points rick Carile was very upset that they had the buses there painted ready for the championship right and OKC as good as they are they’re still a young team and TJ uh McConnell Delivadova was having a hell of a game and playing out of his mind we were on our way to seeing I agree indiana lose and then okay when with that exactly I would I have no ties to either and this is small market teams it is what it is when he when I saw him fall and they immediately cut away and they said he’s banging on the floor I said oh I know this Achilles I know this unfortunately the NBA we’ve seen it so much that it’s like a thing now and then you we all basically doctors at this point we go back and watch the replay you see the same thing that we saw with Kevin Durant Grant same thing we saw with uh Jason Tatum same thing we saw with Dame Lillard you can physically and unfortunately you know the slow motion you can see the Achilles pop every time it’s a gruesome injury he looked to be in a ton of pain i respect him for going out that was about to be my tons of blaze he he said “Hey man if I can walk I can play.” And I don’t know if that’s omnis or sad or all of the things but he wasn’t going to go out like no chump and I know we everybody calls him and all these things that kid ain’t no he he Stefan get it right he gave it everything he had and that’s that’s what we ask of players now well I think he was put in a damned if you do damned if you don’t right so the reason and I’ve heard a lot of people say they told him he shouldn’t have played or they say he played and you you have to play my two cents on it is this it’s different from Kevin Durant it’s different from Jason Tatum because Kevin Durant and Jason Tatum already had rings kevin Durant and Jason Tatum were in title towns right boston and Go Golden State is a title town now because of everything that’s going on there with Steph Curry Kevin and Klay Thompson that whole dynasty right there tyresese Hallebertton had a chance to become the greatest pacer by default of all time just because they would have won a championship and still top three still top two and not only that he would have had the greatest individual playoff run of all time no shade to LeBron cuz that 16 championship is crazy he he would have been the new Slim Reaper because he was murdering big dog he he would have hit a game-winning shot over every team and they would have beat two number one seeds and a number two seed and a number three seed the best team in the league in the East the best team in the league in the West and they were on their way that’s the thing that hurts so bad is they were on their way in that game game seven i’m convinced that they were at least going to it going to be down to the wire and they g they gave him hell with no Tyrese for three and a half quarters i mean it’s unfortunate we didn’t get like that’s the biggest thing more than anything it’s unfortunate that we going he’s going to be out the next season and it’s unfortunate that we didn’t get to see their best player the Pacers best players and OKC best players just duke it out but it was it was a great finals the playoffs have actually been really good and once again even even the play like everything leading up to the playin now basketball a playoff start after allar if y’all haven’t figured it out and if your team ain’t figurin that [ __ ] is here to stay bro they not letting that go because it makes meaningful basketball which is what you need now I will say I ask you about the Hawks here but I’ll wait until we get further down this a move made right before this is very interesting they the Pacers traded their first round pick they get well they got their first round pick back and they traded the 23 overall pick this year and draft rights to center Mjave King so next year the Pacers will have a draft pick and they’re giving up the 23 this year i honestly think that this is a really good move because this pick is going to be okay but I mean with no Tyrese Hallebertton and a wide open East I don’t know what they look like so you might be you know lottery or you know mid round pick which could be really good for a team who’s going to have to make some decisions because your Nissmiths and your Nimhards they going to want their money benedict Matin you everybody ain’t going to be able to go so at least you have an opportunity to replace the guy and you get your pick back yeah it is i I looked at this for what in for what uh the Pelicans are trying to do i don’t it’s a way that they can kind of get draft capital this year and try to build and start the rebuild i’m they ain’t doing nothing to that get rid of Zion if you’re not if you don’t get rid of Zion the Pelicans I assume you’re not trying to win at this point yeah but I mean okay you say get rid of who’s going to take him new York my answer is always sell to New York they ain’t going he ain’t going there new York hey look they still ain’t got no coach you’ll take him or send him to Phoenix i’m sure that Matt is will have a new shiny toy that won’t work in his house that he loved to have so yeah great i I could do it yeah yeah yeah so uh again shout out to this was a great finals um Aaron N Smith a lot of the Pacers if there’s any consolation for the Pacers any consolation at all it’s the fact that a lot of them made money a&m Hart made some money aaron Nmith made some money miles Turner he made it he He got rebound bro he made it nothing so this is the thing he made it he made them where they’re probably going to have to overpay for him he’s not going to be cheap but they’re going to be enough teams that still want a guy who’s big and tall and space the floor and rim protect so they’re going to have to probably go into the tax for him and you going to go into the tax now I hope that they should get some level of reprieve because Hallebert is not going to be able to play but potentially Nimhard N Smith and Benedict Matie should make more money because they’re going to all have to play more next year because you’re not going to have Tyrese Hallebert so Nimhard for sure nimhard might be the point guard so if I’m any other team in the East or any other team I’m I might pay a little couple of million extra for TJ McConnell let’s just get him off of that team because he is too valuable to them right right and I mean if if I’m TJ McConnell I don’t leave i might get more money too i don’t know if I don’t leave i think I do leave he ain’t got that many more seasons and he’s like 31 right yeah i felt bad for him you could tell he was like “Man I really I I want this.” He This was it this was it this was the P this was the Pacers year up i’ve been telling y’all all season i said “Hey man y’all might need to watch TJ McCllin Obie Toppin who Obie didn’t play his greatest game but I think that he’s a guy who I don’t count this game the the emotion was gone he He is a rotational basketball player who can kind of do he can shoot it he’s a He’s a finisher at the rim he He runs with pace he plays decent defense and he’s 69 and that’s what the I mean honestly that’s what the Knicks me back yeah but they also they the Knicks got outbid twice if I’m not mistaken yeah i mean it is what it is both your four power forwards that you didn’t pay right made it to the finals got right the hell on way from you and got to life speaking of moving on big move on Maya signs a long-term contract extension with the with the Houston Rockets makes him one of the highest paid coaches in the NBA after a 52 win top two seed team in the first time in seven years that boy moved on like Maya i got right on to a better city and I got this team of little monsters over here y’all got y’all in Boston without me and that’s fine because I’mma make them pay over here and then after they sign Udoka go ahead and bring that down here come the magic kevin Durant traded to the Rockets for Jaylen Green Dylan Brooks and the 10th pick in this draft in five second round picks what do you think about this then I’m going to talk what do I think i think he whipping the work whipping the work whipping whipping whipping the work they Houston shout out to Houston houston put the whole league on notice right before the finals yeah okc y’all cool bro i see that y’all pressed you got it you got it houston live celebration shortly houston has followed the same blueprint quietly they followed the same blueprint they drafted a bunch of people all of I think they all most of it is all most of their team is draft picks if I’m not mistaken mine is Freddy and um and uh uh Freddy Dylan and uh Stephen Adams but now Dylan’s gone and you parlayed this into I know Kevin Durant is 37 years old i know Kevin Durant probably is not going to play the best defense kevin Durant is going to be able to shoot over anybody in the league until he’s 135 years old he’s going to be able to score he’s going to be the adult and he’s going to be able and he’s at the point where now he plays a lot of team game little less ISO ball now oh yeah um which is what you need and he’s cool with Eay y’all forget Eay coached him in in in Brooklyn he likes Eay they were going at it when Eay got the job in Boston he was talking [ __ ] like they like each other so him going there is fantastic eay but let let can can can we can we talk about Eay real quick let me talk about eBay my man has had a five-year run that will go down in sports history my man and she be Nia Neil on he had Nia there course side everybody mad had the job in Boston should have won the championship there’s no reason that they shouldn’t have beat the Warriors other than Steph Curry clay Thompson i understand that they great but they were theoretically the better team on paper and they were put together well he then messes up goes back comes back like Tiger Woods after he messed up gets the Houston job and turns get lux up and gets the little robot everybody else is cool but he gets the little robot brings in an adult and they make it to the They get upset by Curry is a uh tor a tormentor of EA low-key i forgot he lost to Curry this year uh lost to Curry but I mean Curry about to retire and now they are set up and they got Kevin Durant to add to all these young pieces and I’m going to leave this to you because you know all of the pieces cuz I forgot totally about Reed Shepard like they have so many players even after trading Jaylen Green and Dylan Brooks I think you said two a couple months ago that Dylan you actually said it all year Dylan Brooks was the guy that was probably going to be odd man out and not for nothing I know a lot of people don’t like Dylan Brooks dylan Brooks shot 40% from three this year sure did career high career high so you had him and then you had uh uh who else jaylen Green i mean Jaylen Green jayen Green is gonna be Jaylen Green he’s he’s Bradley Bill to me but um it is what it is why place not a winner how how we bring that back up oh yeah uh so there are a couple things here for me the Kevin Durant trade was a great trade for the Rockets because as you have already mentioned they signed Stephen Adams to an extension which made perfect sense you got Tari E on the bench who’s a 34 you have Reed Shepard and you have Cam Whitmore now all of that sounds like you probably need a a solid young backup point guard once again this is a place where if I’m Chris Paul hey man y’all hiring I ain’t got to play a lot of games let Fred Van Fleet do the majority of the lifting and then just in case if you need an add additional facilitator who’s familiar with the organization and the city yeah let me come here and ring chase with with and and can Kevin Durant get Chris Paul a ring so they’re they’re in a situation where they’re ready now me personally they’re going to decline Fred Van Fleet player option at 44 million that should be understood and expected now it’s up so now Freddy can you I mean it’d be wise for you to take a pay cut well they said that it’s on He The reason they declined it is because he’s he’s not leaving i’m negotiating a long-term extension yeah yeah 16 20 16 25 million somewhere in there yeah yeah i would Yeah i would probably do I ain’t do I’m doing three years i would probably do four years three years in a team option so it’s really two years and if I want to I could trade him as an expiring uh but that that puts the the Rockets are set that’s the reason I think that they were okay with giving up that 10th pick it wasn’t really any place for him to go now long term and especially now I would like to see Amen Thompson play someone to see if he could possibly be their point guard of the future if you can make him a point guard oh my god put him in a Draymond Green roll yeah and just Hey man and no let him be Russell Westbrook russ couldn’t really shoot he can rebound he can assist and he can and he can get to the bucket with the best of dog 10 10 and 10 that that’s very reasonable for a guy like him kevin Durant just on the wing right raining threes and you don’t have to be the master facilitator cuz KD can pass and Sangon is still your guy and you kept Jabari which that’s the only sticking point of this trade which made no sense to me it ain’t no way in hell I saw what Jabari did in the playoffs and not putting him with Kevin with uh what’s his name uh shooting guard for the Suns i can see his face deon Booker thank you devin Booker yes that that and I from everything I saw it looked like Jabari was like I guess they probably told him we keeping you but it looked like he was prepared to go somewhere else and be the man and I thought that that was going to be the next the natural evolution for him and nope now you’re playing for a championship i think they have the third or fourth best odds to win a championship next year already i think you’re speaking as if they’re done i don’t think they’re done making moves i I think you can still you could still go make a move somewhere else and add somebody i I personally think I don’t know if they’re married to Sangun i I’ll say it this way one of them two got to go one is Sang Goon or Jabari Parker not now jabari Smith jabari Parker used to go i mean Jabari Smith sanguna Jabari Smith I assume will be moved why by the time that you have to pay Jabari cuz you going you know he going to get the unrestricted two years and you pay him like 20 or whatever by then Kevin Durant will be gone so you’ll be able to split the money like this is best case scenario and then especially once Fred Van Fleet get a normal contract then that’ll be your big three amen thompson Jabari and Sangon and realistically you probably won’t even have to max Jabari or probably Thompson you probably give him a decent amount of money without have I mean it depends on how good they are and if Thompson makes all defense he he his his offensive upside if he could get to 15 and 20 points would you trade Sangon and whatever would you would you make a trade centered around Sangon for Giannis no it’d have to be Sang Goon and a couple players and you’d have Giannis at the five nope kd at the four a man at the My team too old then like Sangon ain’t hit his he he’s not in his prime yet jabari is not in his prime yet i if you do that you you’re pushing your team into it’s old right now your team is young with one older star i think this allows this team to kind of keep it going for the future i I’m I’m not And Sangon is baby Joker there’s there’s not going to be a guy who you can get that’s gonna be as good as what he looks like he’s going to be for the next seven eight years giannis ain’t Jiannis ain’t gonna play that long and if he does I mean once I I don’t you know he’s super human but without speed and without speed Giannis is it’s a lot to be desired uh another person that they’ve been linked to for a second trade is Buddy out of Sacramento um oh Damont Sabonis yeah Damontis uh so it I I just I basically I’m saying I personally don’t I don’t know if they’re done per se i I 100% think that they are done and should be done you going to play a nineman rotation you got your nine men anywhere you cut it and I think that you need to find out what you got in Reed Shepard everything that the rumors say say that they believe that he could still be one of the best players to come out in this draft yeah it was this it was last year so yeah they still believe in him and I mean when we seen Cam Whitmore play basketball he looks elite so if you if you want He was so disgruntled i wouldn’t be surprised if they package somebody with Sangon or Jabari and try to go get something else i just don’t know depends on what you’re willing to give up is the caliber of star you get if I’m Udoka I’m reselling the kid hey man it was tight this year we had Dylan he’s a veteran you know he’s getting paid real money and he’s just at he’s probably he’s a more adult basketball player than you are but we move Dylan out of the way we move Jaylen Green out of the way you’re going to be in our nine man rotation consistently at worst play with us you’ll get to play with KD and get some good tape with better players then you go get your money or do all the rest of that but at least get some good tape right now Cam Whitmore just doesn’t have enough good tape to go somewhere um now as far as the Suns you got a bunch of stuff but your stuff don’t make sense jaylen Green get a bunch of stuff well hold on hold on this is the thing you got Jaylen Green he’s an asset and he’s on a good contract there are going to be teams that just need a pure score he has that innate ability u don’t even come to Phoenix i think that it is unfortunate that this trade happened after because I think that as much as they like Bame Jaylen Green would have been a really good addition to the Orlando Magic but I mean they’re going to be teams or send them to Brooklyn if you’re Brooklyn I think they got three picks in this draft give me Jaylen Green and I’ll send you two late round picks and a player maybe Nick Claxton or something because I think they want to go after a big so I’ll send you Yeah they ain’t got nothing but shooting guards on their on their team right now i’ll send you Nick Claxton and I’ll send you two late round first and I’ll take Jaylen Green off your hands i I think that that I think that him and Bradley Beal as long as they can get three picks and maybe one player for Bradley Beal and get the money off the books then you can go make something happen you’re going to have players who are available you just need the money to pay them and unfortunately Ishbia ruined all of the money so now you got to try to sell these assets you’re ruining you got the 10th pick this year that this draft picking at 10 is perfectly fine it’s gonna be something that you need there and then you got five second round picks which is like the equivalent of a mid to late round first and I would actually probably use I would use all of those second round picks as sweeteners to move Jaylen Green and just move move Bradley Bill’s they’re hot shoes you remember going to the store you have a dollar you be like “Hey here’s 17 cents back.” Well let me get 10 high shoes real quick that’s a second round Pixar and And I think that as bad as they’ve done I don’t think that he likes being called stupid and I think that one thing the rumor is is he’s stupid so you got to make this work well they calling your brother stupid too like they they think your whole family dumb freaking stupid how y’all do so good in your own business y’all come over here and look terrible and your brother ain’t even got the team yet um but I think that I think that people have gotten down on the Suns because of Matt Ishbia and I don’t think that that has anything to do with Bradley Beal not wanting to win or I mean even like the Jaylen Green situation he I don’t think he wanted to leave Houston i’m sure he did not want to go to Phoenix because him and Devin Booker play the same position so you know it’s it’s it’s a process for them and as fast as you mess it up you might have to slow down to fix it yeah i mean yeah they are snails pace they got some they got to break some stuff down to bring the building back up they are online uh next up Chris right uh picked up his $33.3 million player option for 202526 i will tell y’all my prediction here is he is the buyout candidate buy out buy out buy out hey go ahead and pay him his money and let him go on to wherever he wants to go to i think that you know he probably can get one of those maybe five six seven million deals and play for a team that’s that’s trying to contend i think that he would be great as a guy coming off the bench for the Knicks i mean honestly hey you want to come play half a season for the Hawks we interested uh the Suns they need whatever they can get i’ll take him as the eighth ninth guy in our rotation i’d rather have him than Terence Man for 50 games hell yeah when was the last time he played 50 games uh what did he play this year he played a decent amount of games this year he actually did not bad yeah that’s what happens when you go to Washington people just forget that you exist who him i thought he was hurt uh that’s a lie he played Nope this season he played 37 games that’s what I thought yeah he got hurt he got hurt last year but I mean okay he’s had four years of injuries since the since the championship season which he played through an injury he has not play I don’t think he’s played more than 60 games in a year yeah maybe well 22 23 he played 33 23 24 he played 56 and then last year he played 37 for the Bucks and for the Wizards but I’m saying like you got to kick the tires on this guy is he healthy if he’s healthy enough to play 50 because he’s going to be uber cheap and he still got a mid-range i’m saying that if you got a team that already out Yeah I get it i get it in it out yeah the Warriors another team hey can I just get a guy who can play some just play and shoot i don’t need you to do much else but I know that you are a capable shooter if you healthy now yeah I need you to pass a physical but I mean I’m sure the Warriors are like “Bro you can’t do nothing with you’re old and the rest of this team is young as hell.” Carrington Sar they probably gonna draft another guy um and what’s your boy who got punched in the face by Draymond fool yeah so realistically yeah he don’t even fit on this timeline might as well send him on home and then yeah I’ll take a flyer on a guy who’s still a mid-range demon when healthy send him to Chicago for sure i mean he’s going to get a job it’s just is he going to be healthy enough to to play 40 or 50 games but if he’s healthy enough Yeah i mean hell Milwaukee might need him back the way it’s looking you want me to keep it real i don’t think Yeah uh what else we got gaffford gaffford resigned with the Magic that was baffling yeah that to me I don’t understand this move and I will say why because they already have Derek Lively now I do understand that he’s under contract this year for $14 million so it there the intelligence is you sign him to a very reasonable tradable contract um now I don’t know when you can trade him due to the fact that he already has got 14 million this year i think that you might be able to trade him this season and in that case then yeah I might be interested in I mean I would love for him in Atlanta i’ll do a signing trade on Clint Capella and the 23rd pick at 20 million yeah no at 14 this year 20 next year south Cap going to go up so 14 this year hell yeah and y’all can get Clint for seven or 10 and you compare Clint with AD and let AD play out the paint like he wants to right i mean and Gaffford is basically high energy low skill a kungu so I I’m not mad at it in Atlanta i I 20 million i don’t trust the Falcons front i mean Falcons i don’t trust the Atlanta Hawks let her go let that hurt go no no no well H Falcons I I have left i’m I’m I’m I’m with it but the Hawks front office and the ownership and the way that we’re going I don’t know what we’re doing but I do agree that he we need a backup center and the way that he plays then would allow Moay to then hang out at the three right and then allow Zachary to do whatever he’s a good competent center and that I mean we paying a kungu the same thing like $20 million a year that that’s a good starter price sixman price for a guy who I mean Washington I don’t know what and Washington I don’t know what the hell y’all doing just giving players away so they can go other places and be successful but but yeah and I mean we’re not gonna be the only team in the market I mean the Lakers got to call it $14 million right the Lakers The Lakers might as well be on the corner any person 16 or above hal I’m trying to holla hey I’m trying to holler i’m trying to holler i’m trying to holler yeah man uh but I again this is the beginning of free agency i think these there’s a lot of chess moves being made i think people are monitoring Giannis think people are positioning themselves to be able like this is a positional contract you’re positioning yourself to either keep him as a cheap contract or like you said make him tradable yeah he’s like 26 on a four you might as well say it’s a fouryear $70 million $74 million contract check box yeah I’ll take that on yeah especially with the salary cap increasing he’s not going like he’s going to be a positive contract I assume for at least three out of the four years if not all four years yeah Cleveland i mean yeah I think backup center is what everybody needs yes yes yeah oh Denver oh my god yeah that’s how y’all won y’all had DeAndre Jordan when he was could do something and Jal McGee and all of them yeah you just need somebody yeah but now you can’t you can’t do that no more and Yeah you need a replacement so he’s he’s this is a great Nico well done i know we didn’t put you in the mud for a lot of the things that you’ve done and I got one more thing here uh but this was a very good for all intents and purposes you knocked this out of the park now one thing that I did see on the internet I just really did want to talk about was you remember Luca had that calf strain too and Nico was hot because he didn’t want to play and Luca was like “No I’m not gonna play until my body says that I should play.” Now you look at that Tyrese Hallebertton thing and you’re like that yeah but also Luke was out of shape fair but that that calf strain is going to become infinitely over with it’s over with it’s over with that whole hey you can play through the calf strain they had Achilles injuries this year for in the playoffs in the playoffs they had four there’s no way y’all can’t get by elite players like the these ain’t just Jags these are the guys who we came to see and as much as you ain’t g you going to have to uh who’s the person that Luca was one but there was somebody else that had a calf strain and they just didn’t play for like two months i can’t remember who it was but then you basically you just can’t play ain’t going i ain’t gonna be there so it’s like bro oh that’s what I Hallebertton you kind of understand that like I said before you were in Indiana you had to play but this Achilles this is our like I I kept saying this that the Achilles is our generation’s ACL so when the ACL was in the 60s 70s and 80s the ACL was devastating really to the 90s the ACL was devastating and now with modern medicine and modern um technology you’re able to have these different type of operations and y’all be having two sets of ACL’s now man people I don’t Yeah y’all we evolving but y’all gotta figure y’all gotta figure out y’all gotta figure out y’all gotta figure out the games that you play with the injury report ain’t going to work no more it don’t work on the calf strain you ain’t no more calf strain achilles is the only thing that needs to be if it’s a calf strain it’s Achilles go ahead and call it what it is and we just not gonna play trey had a sore Achilles a Capella had sore Achilles a Kungu Hawks was like “You got sore Achilles calf strain sit out don’t even worry about playing.” Two sore Achilles i’m like “Bro do you need a new set of ankles?” Yeah yes that cost Steph Curry bam and finally Ace Bailey’s agent is reportedly Share Cooper’s dad omar Cooper and Cooper wanted to be paid for doing interviews share Cooper former Atlanta Hawk really more former College Park Skyhawk who was good in the G-League elite for us with College Park then went over to Cleveland and I don’t know their uh G-League team but he led the G- League I think two years in a row in scoring and still never base was going crazy could never get on the floor and I don’t know if Share plays anymore or if he plays I think he plays overseas and of course also this the sister Tia Cooper who used to play for LA Sparks she kind of played and she was good for a while and then she just became like an influencer so this is scary to me because of the track record here and I mean you you didn’t I don’t exactly remember what happened with Tia it was just weird that like this girl is a good basketball player she just could never get on a roster and then Sheree there was always rumors that he wasn’t the greatest teammate he kind of Hollywood real Hollywood right um and just never I don’t care what happens if you lead the G-League in scoring for two years you we need to see you on the NBA floor that tells me that it wasn’t always I I is you have to kind of take the rumors with a can of with a grain of salt because there anybody else if they’re that and it’s also the I mean don’t get mad the Hawks ain’t the greatest organization when it comes to front office and everything we do make some good stick around picks well we just got to figuring them out so I mean but what’s alarming is that he wanted to pay be paid for doing interviews and that he’s turned down interviews because of this and he hasn’t worked out with anybody yet and this and he’s asking for like a a game plan of how you’re going to make this kid a star if I’m This is why I don’t I don’t I there’s no way I first of all I don’t know even how you got hooked up with Ace Bailey i mean I know ybody from Atlanta but I don’t even know why you would even entertain Omar Cooper being your your uh agent because he doesn’t even have the wherewithal to see what just happened with Shadore right shadore kind of did the same thing allegedly allegedly allegedly kind of did the same thing that’s going on right now except for Shador daddy is Dion Omar is Omar so like we we ain’t we ain’t you you’re not paying attention to the landscape and how these owners because a lot of the owners that own are they all run together and to me this just sets yourself up to fall shout out to the Hawks you may you may y’all may come up so it’s it’s it’s a little tricky for me because I I I’ve been pretty I’ve been on the record saying that I think that Shador is a good football player i didn’t think that the way that I didn’t think that he was as good as the way that he was talking i think you can be good but going to the NFL owners and say “Hey you want to change your organization get you a me.” You’re not that good you’re not that like and and there are not there haven’t been that many guys who I think have been good enough to have that type of conversation but I don’t think you to be that guy in this case Ace Bailey for all intents and purposes has been the third pick until this week everything says Cooper flag undeniable we talked about it last week go back and listen already put out the collateral I think they got a jersey number for that kid already uh the Spurs 77 no you can’t do that he No JK already mad with y’all for traded his little brother you better leave that alone um but the Spurs are in in an interesting situation but we do believe that whoever drafts a second pick is going to be Dylan Harper and then we believed Ace Bailey would be three and then probably VJ Edgecom Kong Canppel X Y andZ on down the line but there now it looks like Ace Bailey may slide and they said that he wants to stay on the East Coast but I don’t know what you see on the East Coast that you love atlanta he from Atlanta right where are you going to play like Atlanta’s You’re not go you’re not going to be the star in Atlanta and you would literally be drafted no he’s going to be a three to be the three behind a guy who was the first pick in last year’s draft and who’s taller than you he’s taller than you i think that he’s probably going to have a better shot than you and he is a team player they not I I This is ugly this is a ugly situation i I I for the life of me can’t see how you how how you navigated your high school from your high school to this point in 18 months and ended up here and if you go to Charlotte you ain’t going to be the star there lamelo’s the star you in Atlanta Trey’s the star and Brandon Miller yeah well you not starting over Brandon Miller bro no no no he would you would move Brandon Miller to the two and you would have Ace Bailey at the three which would be scary but you not gonna be the star you going to be three you Tito brother to tell you um or you could have went to the Sixers and played potentially for a championship but you just keep [ __ ] on them and then I guess the only other team is Brooklyn you could be a star in Brooklyn but you that’s all you’ll ever be but ladies and gentlemen we’ve come to the end if we haven’t I think that’s it we’ve come to the end of the basketball segment of episode 196 of the Splashcast Monday Night Raw think we got a few things we gonna talk about in football segment yeah huh i said Reggie gonna put out basketball as his own segment um Oh yeah yeah yeah my bad go ahead no no no um all I was going to say was We’ll be right back we coming back with some football quick hitters i’m about to go make me a drink real quick hear me out and on that note we’ll be right back hey Splashcast fans are you ready to take your obsession to the next level join the Splashcast community on Instagram and our own Facebook page for an immersive experience like never before get in on the action with lively discussions fiery debates and a community that’s as passionate as you are our social media platforms are buzzing with the latest podcast news exclusive updates and behindthe-scenes sneak peeks don’t miss out on the chance to connect with fellow Splashcast enthusiasts dive into the conversation share your thoughts and be part of something bigger find us on Instagram and Facebook or go to www.thesplashcast.com to join now [Music] yes sir we are back with our final segment of episode 196 of the Splash Cast Monday Night Raw uh our football segment we got a few things we going to talk about today um real quick we going to start out with high school and the reason I’m bringing this up is because there’s so many different moving parts when it comes to NIL and it comes to the makeup of I was right here brother all right oh god we really we really done with basketball lord what am I going to do basketball is over with y’all basketball is over with we are now talking about Georgia High School football sports because it’s about to be July hey see y’all in August just letting you know we got about one more of these right uh but um G So here it is georgia High School uh Scholast Sports Association uh to crack down on transfers proof of address required driver’s license lease agreement utility bills and old address must be disconnected parental rules uh both parents must be listed on birth certificate if moving between parents um two transfer limit after two transfers in high school athlete must sit out one year um these moves answer a whole lot of things when it comes to recruiting in sports one is both parents must be listed on the birth certificate y’all remember the show Blind Side y’all remember that movie if those rules had taken in effect in Mississippi I think where he’s from he would not have been able to play which is interesting because I think you there’s other outliers when it comes to like adoption and all of those things proof of address that’s always been a scam you could always go get your grandma address or something like that but now they’re requiring that you have to turn off the utilities at the other house to prove that you live that you’re living where you say and then of course at the two transfer limit no more Kevin Durant who is the poster child uh one of the poster childs of transferring to different schools over and over again one of the originators um my my thought process on this is is this something that will become standard i I know high school recruiting is a big thing in the three states really the four which would be uh Texas Florida California and of course Georgia which is the number four producer of professional athletes so I I I I don’t know if you can enforce this anywhere else it is a state rule but I wonder if any other states like Texas since you’re in Texas where money is abundant uh will will adopt any of these rules i’m sure they’re going to be a copycat if it works then great then we’re going to do this too as a person who’s always who parents made them follow the rules hey you’re going to go to this school i always hated the people who got to go to different schools yeah this this where my uncle lives i know where your family lives they live down the street from me why are you going to a whole different school oh well there’s a better opportunity to play sports so I there’s a little bit of hate there but I I do think that I think that this is it could be good i think that this also probably disproportionately affects black people yes so this is interesting that you bring that up because [Music] why I know here in Georgia I’ll just speak on Georgia since this is Georgia law right now gwynette and Kennaw and all of those places allegedly allegedly allegedly recruit players i’m from the south side of Atlanta southwest Atlanta to be exact they come down to our neighborhood and take those players all those players from our area pay them pay their moving fees recruit them basically and then they go play up north or and get paid and they take all of the the revenue that’s generated from those players we just talked about Buford building a $63 million stadium that wasn’t done by Buford athletes a lot of them transfer Westlake i talk about Westlake all the time well Westlake starting quarterback got recruited to go to Roswell a few years back they went to Roswell after going 14-2 at Westlake went to Roswell went 16 and0 won a national championship his name is Malik Willis he now plays in the NFL he played for Liberty for a while he was really good to me I do think that this may It’s kind of like satellite camps it will affect black players because you may not get the opportunity i’m just I’m looking for the financial like the financial requirement we know non-black families oh we’ll buy a house or we’ll rent a house for sure in that district if that’s what it takes for for us and and especially after hearing the Jonte Murray story where hey I live right here but I can’t go to school right there it is unsafe for me to go to school right there that’s that’s the part is what do you do if if I mean harsh reality a lot of these kids grow up and not the best neighborhood so you have to stay at that you have to go to that school that might not even be safe then what do you do i ain’t think about that but on on that aspect though well we got to see how this does for Yeah i mean Yeah yeah because there’s a lot of times we’ve seen the stories where you get sent somewhere else because it’s an opportunity i think basketball for up north is similar where they send you to like Catholic school maybe that’s what it is where you go to a charter school now or a Catholic school to where I think those rules don’t necessarily apply or maybe not all the rules apply i do think now what I do like about this rule is the two transfer limit yeah y’all can’t go out there and play for four schools in two years we’re not in support of kids of free agency we’re not not in high school but it if you look at where and I will say basketball’s changing now and um it’s not really the the before it used to be the hook kid sport now you got basketball is damn near baseball with the amount of travel and expenses that come with it if you don’t have enough money you’re probably just not going to be able to get on enough radar football is a whole thing it I it is but also if you’re 6’4 and you run a 44 you ain’t got to go to no 707 camps and I’m a guy who hates them 707 camps 707 don’t have no pads when you play football pads are a must so I get so frustrated over the 707 i was like bro I was 707 murderer wasn’t a killer shirt all bro i was right like I don’t even know what you do on like you just tag you’re it like no so for me football size and speed going to translate no matter where it is i don’t care if you the only one they going to find a way for you but basketball that cost so much money you have to play in all these leagues you got to play in all these you have to play in the in these tournaments just so you can be ranked it’s not like when we grew up where hey where you play i play at this high school cool everybody gonna go to the high school everybody gonna know how good you are now you have to play in these tournaments or like they’ve monopolized it where if you don’t play in the tournament they’re just not going to really they’re not going to consider you good aa you Yeah we want to see you play against the top players in your class type and you know it is what it is but I I am interested to see how these rules are implemented in terms of these transfer rules all over i know they’re going to be adopted in the south but how they’re going to be adopted in the main the largest populated states um if if Georgia does it well prepare for dual rest and I I think that I don’t know how to do this but I think that there should be a high school players like there needs to be unions i hate to say it that way but there needs to be a high school players union and a college especially since they allow for players to get paid by NIL it’s a states thing so I think Texas is one Georgia is another Florida’s another it’s just so tricky because these guys are filtering out every four years it’s difficult you’re basically going to have to like create this and then have Well I’m saying like freshman freshman year sophomore junior year senior year then you’re gone you don’t have any more investment in this ever again and you’re constantly having new people it’s difficult to get everybody to be on the same plan when this is this four years for me versus these these schools and these coaches and athletic directors are going to be there 10 15 years so yeah I’m making rules for right now like they want rules for right now they want rules to stay in control for the next 15 20 years it’s it’s it’s it’s surely It’s something i I just wanted to bring that up because all of my high school coaching friends like going wild over this it it dropped in a couple of my chats today too um it it’s going to be quick hit for Cornell Powell shout out to Cornell Powell for those that don’t know who he is he is a two-time college football champion played for the University of Clemson he won a national football championship i’m sorry he won a Super Bowl and he is now also a UFFL champion two Super Bowl um he’s a twotime Super Bowl champion I believe with the Chiefs my bad didn’t mean to short change your brother right right one two three four five um this is dope five rings in nine years is crazy man being at the right place at the right time is half the damn battle and I love this cuz one thing that comes with championships is checks you get extra money for all them extra games and then you get a championship bon he got five championship bonuses [Music] yeah and perseverance shout out to the perseverance too man i’mma I’mma play basketball and I’mma I mean I’m sorry football i’mma play football and I’mma produce everywhere I go right uh he’s a constant teammate everybody and you can’t keep getting jobs if you’re a bad teammate so shout out to him man and run me my trophy case i’m putting that in the foyer as soon as y’all walk him like “God damn why you got Yeah these my trophies.” And you know he So for him to go to Clemson you know he was good in high school i’m gonna try I’mma have every picture you gonna see from age be sick of me you gonna be sick of me now i just Yeah just life has been I’ve been blessed to highly favor i know you probably haven’t been but I have all right well so while we talk while let’s move on to the Falcons so the Atlanta Falcons top four draft picks are expected to be put in starting roles this year that is going to be uh Jaylen Walker James Pierce Jr Billy Bowman and Xavier Watts watts correct it just sounds like a producer name for some reason but Xavier Watts so and I am not surprised that four these top four players are going to start we already knew the top two players were going to start that was said once they decided to trade their first round pick for next year that James Pierce Jr was going to start and let me tell you they they starting to whisper about him they said the first step is real his first step is real off the line now and they said Jaylen Walker is just Jaylen Walker he’s a football player he plays literally everything um I’m excited tell you bro I love me some Jaylen Walker bro i like them both but I like them for different reasons i like Jaylen Walker because he looks like the [ __ ] he looks like the Hey who’s in charge jaylen me and then Jay Pierce Jr who you need who ass need to be whooped hey bro look they look they look like Abed Castello they look like they gonna come and Jaylen Walker gonna try to talk nice to you and tell you calm down and Jay gonna stand there like I dare you to say something just flinch i let him talk because I like him if not I’ll be the whoop your ass off and don’t forget that just because James Pierce gonna whoop your ass that Jaylen can whoop your ass too right and I mean I’m trying I’m trying not to get excited about this team um but I’m out here [ __ ] y’all i’m excited i’m excited i mean because the other part is we talked about I mean Xavier W I mean Xavier Watson Billy Bowman we hit on both they’re positive draft picks we thought that they should have been drafted around earlier we hit on both of those and Kobe Bryant’s still out there we I’m trying to not let the H the Falcons ruin me i’m I’m I’m excited about both of my teams right now the Hawks hey y’all just stick stick to playing draft these two guys and just ease it on just just just make it work the Falcons we finally got a quarterback we got a receiver we got a running back kyle Pittz you got to the bye-week um and the def the defense there’s so many guys on the defense that it’s just like it’s got to work right yes uh so here’s the thing about the defense i said that I’ve been on record and shout out to everybody that’s joined the Splashcast versus the world shout out to everybody that comments on our Tik Tok and Instagram um I love having the debates there um I said that we’re CB2 away but the and I thought that Jaier Alexander was going to be the guy i did a whole video on him he included the the Falcons in his final four for where he’s going to sign but he ultimately went back and played with his high I mean college teammate in Lamar Jackson and I mean Baltimore I mean you can’t really go wrong going to Baltimore he made He This is the decision where if you have an MVP level quarterback he wins he ain’t wrong you made the right decision bro he told y’all go get him and he was like “Okay.” So I mean they went and got Jire i wish you would tell him to go get a receiver but shout out to Josh i did you took the layup i did i was going to let it go oh I was fast break baby so with Jaier signing I do want to bring this back to the Falcons do you think we stand pat with our defense the way it is right now at least our secondary you think we stand pat i mean your boy’s still out here so I’m not going to say Jaylen no um what’s the quarterback asanti Samuel Jr yes he’s still available i I don’t Nobody’s picked him or his Darius up i don’t think that we’re in a place to say no to two i don’t I don’t I would rather have them both or have one of them i I don’t think that cuz like we didn’t fix our situation last year and we kind of leaned they was cooking our ass at the end of the season and it’s one of those situations where don’t you did a good job in the draft but that don’t mean don’t do the rest of your homework we’re in a position like that’s the reason I want the Hawks to keep the two picks like you got a good starting lineup backfield cuz [ __ ] is going to happen same thing with the Falcons it’s guys out like I mean if you really look at a team right now Morgan Fox on your Zack Harrison Jaylen Walker Devon Diablo Kaden Ellis Leonard Floyd Jesse Bates AJ Terrell that’s not Yeah yeah i I I left Jordan Fuller i left Jordan Fuller then pulled a Peter Griffin not you not you not you but like but if you listen to that defense you like well damn that defense is it’s not a lot on there to hate and we still got Rrook we got Street we got Ebeti we got Doris we got Troy Anderson we got JD Beerran we got Helms who I like a lot and Billy and Xavier and Clark Phillips like this is a good I think we’re at the point of consolidation on the DBs i think we if you’re gonna make Billy B so Terry by Terry saying all four of rookies are going to be given the opportunity to every opportunity you out of there that means D Alfred is probably out of there and you keep Clark Phillips that means we’re not signing Justin Simmons or we’re not really signing any other DB cuz Helms is hell on wheels behind Xavier Watts i like Helms yo i like And I’m not gonna I been shout out to y’all at the in the world in the chat man um I I will give my Q’s a chance i could see us standing pat and giving him a chance but what I will say is if we going to do that and we going to stick with Mike Hughes who’s not a bad corner I just think he’s a really good corner three type rover type player then we’re going to have to do something about the interior D line we’re banking on Doris and Rrook Anamada and Zack Harrison not Anya but Doris Rrook and Zack Harrison to take the next step we got Morgan Fox and all these veterans that we added to be able to help them along uh I I Yeah yeah i think he’s going to be a trade bait deadline i think there’s I think we’re going to keep a lot of these players and I think at the deadline the trade deadline we’re gonna make a move with all of these people that are not going to end up playing that we have i think Evan Ketti I think uh uh D Alfred I think Yeah those are my like that’s the thing for me more than anything is like Mike Ford at the backup uh left corner i’m probably moving on from Mike Ford and make Mike I would like to make Hughes the backup corner and then I would probably like to see Asante Samuel in that cornerback two spot that would really for me make me very that’s where my mind was i like Mike Hughes but I think Mike Hughes is a Rover i think he could be a backup CB2 i think he could be a Nickelback i think he could guard the backside the backfield i think he could blitz i think he’s he’s he’s what Buffalo used uh oh number seven i have him in in in my in my mind anyway number seven for Buffalo i think that they could he’s a safety DB or uh Petri for Houston or uh uh I think they got another Kansas City he’s one of those guys that can do it all and I would love for him to stay there but I do think we need a CB2 but we’ll see and like my only thing is we saw what Zid Jesus boy what Zidarius did as soon as uh what’s your boy from uh the line Hudson Aiden Hudson went down sidarius gave you all that you needed at defensive end i don’t think that we could I don’t think we could and I don’t think we should pass if there’s a good free agent and we getting closer and closer and nobody Why not why not if it work if it can work for Detroit hell why not yeah yeah i ain’t gonna lie but we’ll see we’ll see what the Falcons are going to do uh again we about the end of the dead period we ain’t going to have a lot to talk about i’mma try to see what we’re doing it’s a lot of take a little break y’all i’mma tell y’all right now it’s a lot of players still out there we’ll see a break on real quick 30 30 30 of the 36 uh unsigned 2025 draft picks are second round draft picks uh this is a call back to last year last week when we talked about uh two second round draft picks getting fully guaranteed contracts which is unprecedented y um I I anticipate and I think I said it last week now that we talked about I said this is going to change all the negotiating tactics going forward absolutely if this would have happened and they were the last two to do that because remember we we said the agents colluded mhm he said this the first two yeah uh not my problem honestly no second round pick don’t don’t sign none of them cool don’t cut them all cut them all hey Shamar come on anybody whoever you need come on come on whatever you need but what that means and why I brought this up in terms of one of the players that signed was Travis Hunter so Travis Hunter they were trying to make a big deal travis Hunter hadn’t signed either i was like “Bro he just bought a $10 million house or whatever he just bought you won’t buy no house without without knowing that you’re not about to be signed like you knew you were about to be signed.” So he signed four years i think this was 46.5 or 49 46.5 30.5 guaranteed um he is electric he is the personality he has the ability to be the face and I have followed closely to now of course to the tape of him playing cornerback and receiver now I understand that you release what you release you’re pause if necessary you don’t you don’t necessarily see all the bad and you don’t necessarily you’re going to see more of the good but I think they have showed him over and over again playing wide receiver and showing how bad he is and showing him at cornerback and showing just how amazing he is which for all intents and purposes is true but his what they’re talking about in Jacksonville which is what I think why they really signed him and gave him that much guaranteed money is his work ethic is crazy he’ll mess up at receiver go and study come back the next day and run the route correctly trevor I ain’t going to say Trevor Lawrence because we don’t care about him but everybody else is at that at camp all the coaches are talking about those things i’m not saying he should play receiver i’m just saying his ability to learn and adapt is going to make him end up being the franchise player to me so they’re going to do what I said do from the beginning he’s He’s a quarterback he is and I told y’all he’s not a wide receiver one and I think that it’s very clear that he just can’t be that and that’s fine i know that everybody’s like “Oh he’s so good a receiver.” He’s not is he playable yes is he probably somewhere between a mid-tier wide receiver two to a top tier wide receiver three sure i think that they’re probably CB1 though yes numero uno that and that is going to be what is important and I think that this was the other part is even if he’s capable if you’re CB1 bro we need you to be the CB1est of ones this team needs to win games so even if you are good enough to play some receiver bro that might just not be in the cards for you right now I know you’re gonna do the best to make him happy I think that’s the reason they gave him the you know $30 million guaranteed he’s the highest paid non QB pick ever as far as guaranteed money so yeah I paid you so now that I paid you more than what most guys at your position get paid fall in line big dog and I think he will i think that that’s that’s the best situation for him sticking him at wide receiver in certain spots is going to be cool but trying to make him a part of the weekly game plan you’re only going to run down your CB1 yeah yeah for sure for sure and before we get out of here um shout out to CJ Mosley uh great career he’s one of the few people this how you know you feel old you see people play their entire career like I remember he was getting recruited in high school and then he got he went to Alabama and he was amazing and then he he was part of the that group Nick Sabin’s first like 2008 to 2012 13 team and then he played a bunch of years in the NFL he was really good with Baltimore um and then he ended up going to get his money in New York job well done job well done shout out to you shout out to you and uh I’m going to throw this out there daniel Jones is looking to be the starting quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts over Anthony Richardson great job go ahead do it do it y’all going to want Y’all going to figure out and I’mma tell y’all who I got this from my mama when people gonna do something stupid you have to encourage them to do it just go ahead and do it not let him encourage him that’s the same thing oh Daniel Jones i mean not Daniel Jones see I I got it mixed up with the other guy trevor Lawrence you gonna pay him do it zion you going to send him to a max contract even though you never earned it do it do it they already said that they are preparing Anthony Richardson to be the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers i think that’s a great the best way to get him there and if I’m Anthony Richardson it’s probably a really good job i can sit here and just learn for a little bit and then yeah y’all can learn from who learn from who arthur Smith shane St or Aaron Rogers shane Stiken that’s who you gonna learn from oh you talking about in Indianapolis i thought you talking about in Pittsburgh i No no no no no no no no just learn get Hey take all the pressure off you start Daniel Jones let me tell you if anybody can tell you what happens when you start Daniel Jones please look at the New York Football Giants breaking breaking breaking oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] the Boston Celtics have traded Drew Holiday to the to the Portland Trailblazers for Anthony Simons and two two picks oh well damn that’s a hit that’s me they just got off all of that money for Anthony Simons and two second round picks celtics trade that’s a hit holiday that’s a Trailblazers for Anthony Simons in two second round picks not going to lie to y’all the for who the Celtics the Celtics just got really good now they lose defense but I mean you can go get a defense of somebody go get my You probably just kept Jaylen Brown jaylen Brown and Anthony Simons can make it happen that’s a lot of scoring that’s a lot of scoring anthony Simons is a microwave boy mikroave yes let me tell you right now yeah they did it congratulations you move Drew Holiday and if I remember correctly Anthony get paid less than Drew don’t he what drew now hold on hold on i don’t think the Anthony Simons is cheap now he cheaper than Drew drew is like at 40 million ain’t he 30 40 40 50 oh yeah yeah yeah yeah four years $100 million that’s that 25 million a year yeah that’s good that’s that’s and and you know Anthony SC right dance in the streets oh I ain’t got to be in Portland no more smoke this J and I never got to get out of there i’m out of here hey Scoop say but this is that’s not sense for the Trailblazers hey Trailblazers fire sale let me tell you ain’t no way scoot Jaden Sharp Drew Holiday and Denny Aisia and you still got Aiden over there and you got Jeremy Grant y’all forgot he is still in the NBA that team don’t make no sense we’re cleaning we’re clinging we’re clinging still chilling oh no clinging like well I’m the starter here and I’m gonna probably get some money here so I’mma stick around i get it but everybody else yeah you Yeah hey man we we might need to um as the Hawks hey man go look and see what Oh cuz you got Kumani Kamar too all defensive player shh somebody got to go and then of course uh so that’s that’s breaking news damn uh what something else no I’m just I Oh just to happen so that’s breaking news and while I was sitting here scrolling reading this uh another thing came up no breaking news but I did notice that Michael Parsons Jr has still not signed an extension hold on but this this is the part anthony Simons he gets 26 this year 28 next year uh the Celtics get a combined 72 million owed to Holiday off the books uh they say $40 million in s in uh in luxury tax they’re $18 million below the second apron and Simons is extension eligible it’s a slam [ __ ] dump hey shout out shout out to Brad i mean he he he transitioned s and and shout out to Danny y’all made it happen they not done the timing of this trade is not by accident this happened before the draft for a reason they f to get into that draft too that’s the reason they got them seconds they gonna move They gonna move somebody else off that team and you might need the pie Wednesday that That’s going to be interesting hey I’m I’m We We could We could probably figure that out but yeah yeah this The Celtics are are Who else they got that needs to go they got one more person that has to go no they don’t uh the one Derek Derek the two oh I’m probably trying to move i’m getting Chris’s side out of there oh yeah chris Staps chris Staps well I mean move him for what and who going to take him he ain’t played a full season in three years four years um my answer is Utah i mean always answer for the whites right send them right on over there and but this is and he from a cold and he from a cold weather country too don’t he look like it that haircut but just realistically you could you could I mean Utah has Taylor Hendris Philip Powski John Collins Lori Markin all of those guys are cheaper than than Chris Staps yeah you flip Chris Staps for two bigs or a big and a pick or or you flip [ __ ] Staps and a pick for two bigs is what you do yeah and if I’m Utah I’ll probably take Chris give me You take Chris Stabs you give me Walker Kesler no it’s got You’re trying to get off him no well I want something i want two picks if I gotta take Chris Tabs and give you Lori I mean the answer is really John Collins but you don’t have no draft but do Boston draft draft picks you would know that more than I would john Collins would be a good four for them and then you put And then you draft your center or you call Clint Capella i mean that tooapella or Jackson or Jackson Hayes like there’s there’s gonna be guys the I was just saying the Hawks should sign it should have tried to sign and trade Capella if you weren’t going to but I mean even just sign a trade for a second round pick for anything you about to let him walk and everybody’s about to try to get him well that is I mean I I still think that that’s technically on the table we would just have to give something up mhm yeah yeah y’all want tears man or nang dog y’all could have like there are things that we could do to make it where it’s worth or or that 23rd pick if we can get a center that’s a legitimate center we’ll give you we’ll sign and Trey Clint and give you that pick you ain’t gonna get that 13 pick now but yeah I would I would like an established center for that i’d sign and we we getting we filling in a a need with that 13th pick now the 20 What is it 24 24 I don’t know now this is the thing and we’ll be done after this i would much rather trade that 23rd pick and buy a second round pick i’ll take that Chinese dude who looked like he might be okay it’s It’s this draft there is enough guys that are going to just somebody everybody can’t get drafted in the first round it’s going to be some decent players at the top of the second round that I would be interested in sending to College Park and then have them come play with the varsity i this is the new part of sports that nobody’s talking about is because there’s so many good athletes that are basically trained from birth now because of it’s kind of like turning the European tennis almost like where you have the tennismies like you’re going to get so many good players that are undrafted look at the Falcons get so many players that are undrafted free agents that are fourth round picks fifth round picks in football that are second round picks in basketball it’s only two rounds Now it’s a record low it’s only 100 people but it’s only it’s a lot less junk in the way now there because the guy’s like “Oh no i could just go back to college.” So yeah if there’s a guy who you really like there’s potential that he could be there at the top of the second round and this is the draft if if I was the Hawks sell the printer buy the second round draft pick send him to College Park because we’re going to need to back field positions and if we could have a guy go play College Park for two years same thing with Juric if he play another year at College Park and then comes and joins the varsity I’m fine with that too and then we will know we know how like at then or hell if Buffin ain’t ready then if he ain’t ready by the like by the start of this season be ready he going to be ready he going to be ready to play or ready to travel one or right and if you’re not jerich I have no I have no issue and Mohamed Gay to be completely honest what he lacks in offensive skill he has in athletics just let him play eventually just got to let him play i think I think he’s a playable person i’ll pro I probably be okay with moving man and nang for picks and one good player you know the minivan is on the train the freight train out of here for me he’s cool you got you got to get somebody to shoot back though you’ve got to get like the thing that he has is the the availability to score like to shoot the three at a high clip and we don’t have enough of those guys we got to get you know we got to figure out what we going to do with Caris Avert we got to we got to have some shooting we can’t go to [ __ ] with that when when Trey goes off the floor and everything that I will be doing is for anytime that Trey’s not on the floor I want a tall guard and I want another guy who can shoot i gotta have yep yep yep but oh before we leave Braves record their first save today by beating the Mets since May 16th that’s 31 games without a save uh broke that streak hopefully this is just on the way shout out to the Mets being the Slump Busters as usual norwood if we didn’t forget anything take us out 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