GP opens on the Grizzlies Summer League kicking off tonight in Utah…where we will see Zach Edey’s professional debut alongside GG Jackson, Jake Laravia and fellow rookies Jaylen Wells and Cam Spencer.
(21:07) Team USA Basketball Roster announced….and Ant Man says he is the #1 option
(38:10) Weird neighbor behavior, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese continue to make history, Paul Skenes named to All-Star team and more.
(1:17:15) Team Thad Program Director Norton Hurd IV joins in-studio to talk Peach Jam, AAU, and local hoops
(1:40:46) GP’s Carry Out with what we’re watching tonight including Summer Grizz v Summer Jazz
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basketball long how long has been with riding with K Alabama Jersey and sa and retired the odds couple with Rob fer Lang Whitaker John Roser and CJ hurt live Thursdays at 2 pm on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media [Music] app live from the bill for tough Studio at FedEx forum it’s the Gary Parish show presented by Ortho South on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app now here’s your host Gary [Music] Parish all right I’m here my name is Gary Parish I’m speaking to from the bill for tough Studio FedEx forum Downtown Memphis Bennett Doyle right there producing the program glad he’s with me glad you’re with me hope you’re getting through the day best you can and I hope you’re ready for some summer Grizz cuz the summer Grizz are in action tonight it’s the debut presumably of Zack Edy and a Grizzly’s uniform they’re in Salt Lake City we’ll talk about it momentarily plus you see all these new assistant coaches got a bunch of new assisant coach bunch of new faces walking around the building Bennett we’ll talk about it in great detail first though quickly let me set today’s schedule for you 1020 on Mondays I’m usually joined by Michael ease from ESPN but he’s in Scotland today I bet he’s playing some golf that that’s a good place to play golf that’s didn’t they didn’t they invent it there I feel like that’s the I feel like that’s the birthplace of of golf I think it is you know how this is the birthplace of rock and roll I think that’s the birthplace of golf so Michael has gone to the birthplace of golf I’m not going to make him get off the golf course to talk to me about stupid basketball and stuff so uh he ain’t going to be be here today so instead we’ll use that segment to discuss USA Basketball where 22-year-old Anthony Edwards has already declared himself the number one option heading into the Summer Olympics I love the confidence I wonder what LeBron and Steph and Kevin Durant think of it we’ll discuss that in about 25 minutes when we finish doing that we’ll take a break come back do five more things you need to know at which point we’re going to discuss five previously undiscussed stories among them oh buddy we got a new Dear Jane oh nice this one’s wild this one’s interesting it involves some some new neighbors all right and some weird stuff that’s happening in the middle of the night H woman writes to Jane cuz that’s what you do when you encounter things you don’t really know how to handle them you just ask Jane so she writes to Jane and uh it’s a wild situation I don’t know that it’s a it’s a weird one benett I’m going to run you through it we’ll do that in the third segment Caitlin Clark and Angel ree both did something this weekend that no other women’s basketball players had ever done before I’ll tell you what it was in just a bit a growing number of democratic leaders spent this weekend calling for President Biden uh to step aside in this presidential race and allow somebody else to run against President Trump we are living in some bizarre political times uh I’ll get you updated on that situation a little later on in the show Paul skes was named at NL Allstar this weekend less than two months after making his MLB debut for the Pirates he is the first ever person to be selected number one overall in a draft in a year and then in the subsequent year be an All-Star in Major League Baseball history made if the decision makers are smart they’ll let him start the All-Star game we’ll spend some time on that a little later on in the show and an absolutely horrific story emerged from the region this weekend did you hear about this 22y old man he was in gel in Nashville for beating his ex-girlfriend and uh had his bond lowered by a judge and when that happened he was bonded out and less than 2 weeks later he’s back in jail after being charged with the same woman’s murder yikes violent criminal Bon loward released immediately commits another violent crime the young woman’s father talked to the media about it just a sad sad situation I’ll tell you what he said about the whole deal during a segment we call five more things you need to know then around 11:20 team th Norton her going to join me in studio it’s peach jam week I don’t know if you knew but it’s peach jam week so we’re going to catch up with her he’ll help us get ready for that we’ll do that around 11:20 then we’ll eventually do gpce carry out and call today so that’s the rund down we got a lot to get to but I did want to start if you don’t mind Bennett with the NBA because I like the NBA you know it was just last week um we were mostly focused on the on the NBA draft what would the Grizz do with the ninth pick that was the question heading into to that week uh and then of course on Wednesday we find out uh the answer they selected two-time National player of the year uh Zach Ed out of Purdue um that was uh on the night one of uh the 2024 NBA draft later tonight he’s going to make his debut for the summer Grizz 8:00 Grizz Jazz inside uh in Salt Lake City that’s where we’re going to play you can watch it on the grind City media app Rob Fisher going to be hosting tonight pregame coverage Kelsey Wright Johnson Lang Whitaker also going to be in studio Mike Wallace going to be on site in Salt Lake City John Roser producing Robbie Weaver direct big day around here Bennett it is a big day around here Z Edy making a summer Grizz debut you ready for it you fired up I am very fired up actually this is the most excited that I’ve been about uh summer league for the Grizzlies in a long time just because not only him you just got multiple guys on this team that are going to be expected in some way to contribute for the Grizzlies this year I don’t I I can’t remember a time when we’ve had more guys on a summer league that are going to probably be contributors for the Grizzlies in the upcoming season well how often do you have a possible if not probable starter right you know for a western conference Contender playing in summer league like that’s not a normal thing like you ready for this I don’t think you’ll see another projected Western Conference starter or at least not many um playing in Salt Lake City or Las Vegas or in summer league but the Grizzlies because they had a needed Center and they used a top 10 pick on a center um there is most people are operating under the assumption that Zack Edy will be the starting center for the Grizzlies on opening night talked to Zack about it last week he said he don’t make the lineups Taylor Jenkins does but um obviously that’s the goal he acknowledged that um yes he would like to be the starting center on opening night so there’s going to be a lot of eyeballs on this tonight I told you in CJ earlier like CBS Sports HQ has already hit me up to come on tomorrow morning to talk about whatever happens tonight specifically with Zack Edy he is not just um you know a top 10 pick he you know Alex sawar is also a top 10 pick a top two pick uh I don’t know that most people would recognize Alex star if he were just walking around he just looked like a you know a tall guy but but like who is that you wouldn’t know people know Zack Edy he’s been on television nonstop for four years and in two of those years he was the national player of the year he’s played in a final four he’s played a national championship game so there will be a lot of eyeballs and attention on him not just because he’s such an accomplished college player but also because he’s such a divisive polarizing prospect there are people who really do believe in him the Grizzlies obviously uh on the list of of people that fall under that umbrella there are also people who really question this we talked to Michael Lees about it last Monday and you know he he was skeptical for all of the reasons other people who are skeptical are skeptical but I did think Zack said something something interesting last week which I think is also accurate and that’s that when people talk about him they really spend 90% of the conversation on his perceived weaknesses and rarely get to his undeniable strengths most of the conversation about him isn’t about the stuff that he can do well it’s about the stuff that people think he can’t do well or the stuff that the the the tape shows that he doesn’t do well for inance when we talk about say Reed Shepard most people talk they start with the shooting right they they start with the strength when you talk about Zachary rishes like whatever the strengths are like people start with them most conversations about prospects young players start with a conversation about the strength but with Zack Edy the conversation almost always starts and concludes uh with people focusing on um you know a perceived lack of foot speed Mobility um those types of things so it’ll be just interesting tonight to see how all of that shakes out and again no matter how it shakes out uh there’s going to be you know people chiming in on it on social media uh all over the country this will not just be a little Grizzly story honestly like GG Jackson is kind of just a Grizzly story you know uh Jaylen Wells is just a Grizzly story you know DJ Jeff is on this roster that’s just a local story but Zack Ed is gonna be on the sports center tonight for one reason or another either because he was good or he was bad or he was whatever but Zack Ed is going to have a prominent space like they’re building blocks around Zack Ed tonight on on Sports Center so it’s uh obviously uh a big a big night for him and a big night for the franchise again you can watch it all on the grind City media app this comes just days after the Grizzlies formerly announced that they had signed Zack Edy and Jaylen Wells to to their rookie deals Zack Steels it’s on a rookie scale because he was a first round pick so it’s going to be he’ll be making something around $5 million per year for now Jaylen Wells deal he was a 39th pick so it’s four years he gets 7.9 million it’s basically the same deal bronnie James got with the Lakers so the two top picks are signed and available tonight and the man reportedly set to coach him it’ll be a new face on Taylor Jenkins bench this season Tomas ISO I think that’s right I think you got it Tomas ISO I’ve been watching YouTube videos on this guy seems to be one of the rising stars in international coaching circles 41 years old he’s from Finland and he’s been the head coach of of Paris basketball just LED them to a Euro Cup Championship he finished the season his team did with a 126.80 point8 that’s what Paris basketball the offensive rating was this season that would be a better offensive rating than any NBA team has ever recorded in any any NBA season in the history of this world okay I like that that’s a stat that’s an offensive Mastermind that’s what you tell me print that I offensive Mastermind his Paris basketball team they average more three-pointers per game attempts than any other team in the league and they also led the league in twoo field goal percentage he’s been called an offensive genius by by people way smarter than me how you like hey you like having an offensive genius on staff another one I do because that’s and and you ready for this six other five other a total of six new assistant coaches when you look at Taylor Jenkins on opening night you know whoever starting in Center we’ll figure that out later but they’re going to be six faces on that bench that you didn’t see last year that’s a lot of turnover there’s been speculation all offseason about you know staff changes and what we find out is that basically everybody is gone other than Taylor Jenkins Anthony Carter and Patrick S does that concern you at all or is that just normal like hey it’s time to shake things up no I yeah I never really like H to be honest I never really think too much about like what this I mean obviously it matters right like this is very important to your franchise but it’s not something that I ever like pay super close attention to like the assistant coach turnover um around the league so no I’m not concerned all because assistant coaches in college basketball we talk about them so much differently than we talk about them in the NBA because they are largely like they’re recruit recruiters and or not largely recruiters but they’re often recruiters and um so there’s like something tangible you can point to with them like this assistant is prioritizing he’s the lead recruiter on this he got this done it’s very hear this all the time like this assistant got this done this assistant was the lead recruit recruiter on that thing whereas in the NBA we don’t really talk about assistant coaches like that at all they’re not um they’re mostly Anonymous unless they’re famous former players and I mean like you know who knew did you know Taylor Jenkins before Taylor Jenkins was the head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies I you’d probably heard the name right but like you know like he’s a mostly Anonymous guy until he’s an NBA head coach so NBA assistant coach aren’t household names um so we don’t spend a lot of time discussing them but six new ones is um is that’s unusual let’s just put it that way it’s it’s unusual let me run you through them real quick Tomas ISO I just told you he is the Paris basketball coach uh modern Innovative offensive genius all that stuff he is going to be the lead assistant on Taylor Jenkins new staff and um will be reportedly coaching this no Jason March will be coaching the summer league team Jason March is coach Vernon just text us that site was wrong that said that Tomas was going to be the head coach of the sum there was a report that that said he was going to be coaching the summer Le what saw Jason March is going to be coaching okay so shout out to Vernon for setting the record straight on that but um you’ll see him on staff um with Taylor Jenkins this season Joe boan is another new assistant he’s been in Minnesota with Chris French Noah lar Ro is a new assistant well regarded Player Development guy he’s been with Integrity hoops of this stuff had been reported previously um but it was all formally announced uh this weekend and Eric Schmidt Grizzly’s head video coordinator last season he is now going to be on the bench and like you mentioned Jason March formerly head coach of the Memphis hustle um has previously coached summer league will be coaching summer league in Salt Lake City he’s now on the staff with the Grizzlies no longer head coach of the Memphis hustle I don’t want to speak for Jason but I’m happy for him um I think I think he had I think he was looking I think he was ready for a change maybe not looking for a change but ready for a change that g League life is hard yeah it’s a hard it’s a hard life like i’ um you know if you’re an assistant coach in the NBA do you know what that entails you’re on private planes and you’re in five-star hotels MH you know you’re everything is done in a first class way when you are in the G League it is the exact opposite I cannot tell you how many times before we got great direct flights Memphis to Loria or at least direct flights Memphis to Loria I used to have to fly through Atlanta twice a week like every week during the season I was just like just I got to go to Atlanta tomorrow I you know and I’d be connecting in Atlanta and I’d every once in a while get on the plane when there’d be a g-league team getting on the plane with me and I’d take my seat and they’d walk right past me to the back and suddenly it’d be like oh man that guy was an All-American at Ohio State 2 years ago now he’s in 41b in the back of the plane flying across the country commercial and then getting ready to go play a game in An Empty Arena that’ll be streamed somewhere and like that’s a hard life yeah relative to what you are used to because often these guys like let’s just keep it with say in Ohio State player you’re at Ohio State it’s the same thing you’re flying private planes fstar hotels packed Arenas National Television like cam Spencer’s life is about to be very different all right he just spent the past year playing for the you know best team in college basketball on National Television every game impacted Arenas basically every game like flying and and and lodging in a first class way that’s over for him you know assuming he spends time with the hustle it’ll be commercial flights and connections and the backup planes and Courtyard by marats and Hampton in and you know I don’t know but it’s just a different lifestyle alog together and I can completely understand why if you’ve been living that lifestyle for a little while um you know you might like to to you know do something a little different and now Jason March getting on Taylor jenkin’s staff you know allows him to to do something different so happy for him and and you know it is interesting it’s a a pretty diverse cast of characters and it does suggest that um the way the Grizzlies play on some level will look different because if you are bringing in somebody who is considered one of the great young offensive Minds in in basketball um you’re not just bringing him in not to listen to him are you you’re not just bringing him in not to have input not to have his his fingerprints on all of this stuff so um it’ll be interesting to see what that looks like and you know what it looks like tonight but we finally got confirmation this weekend Taylor jenin staff this upcoming season is going to look a lot different than it has looked in previous Seasons than it looked even as recently as uh as last season so 8 o’clock tonight grind City media app you summer Grizz In Action For the First Time Zack Edy in a Grizzlies uniform for for the first time when we come back turn our attention to USA Basketball they’re out in Las Vegas getting ready for the Paris Olympics and surprise surprise Anthony Edwards was the star of media availability yesterday said he already considers himself the number one option for Team USA wonder what Kevin Durant LeBron James Steph Curry think about that In fairness that’s the clip that’s gone viral Anthony Edwards you do a little digging said a lot of stuff yesterday that suggest that maybe he was saying that Viral clip you know with his tongue firmly pressed into his uh cheek right uh either way it’s a funny clip we’ll talk about it next USA Basketball it’s Gary Paris show presented by orthos South Grizzlies fans know it’s the team that gives you the edge Big River Steel does too and much like the Grizzlies have recruited Legend Talent we want you to be part of our team are you ready to be part of something legendary then visit www.big rer steel.com that’s www.big rver [Music] steel.com when it’s all on the line you turn to the strong the stable the unwavering to those with a history of raising their performance to meet the moment it’s true in basketball it’s true in banking Grizzlies checking from Pinnacle play hard Bank easy open a Grizzlies checking account with at least $100 and a recurring direct deposit by August 31st and you could receive a $200 direct deposit bonus into your account details at Grizzlies banking.com member FDIC [Music] [Music] I think we have the college basketball title Futures yukon’s number one I really like Houston I’d have them winning it all but you can’t be giving Drake jerseys what is wrong with you maybe the Drake Cur is stronger in college basketball long how long has he been with riding with Kentuck riding Jersey and S retired the odds couple with Rob fer Lang Whitaker John Roser and CJ hurt live Thursdays at 2 pm on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app [Music] welcome back Gary Paris show presented by Ortho South Norton uh herd from Team thad’s going to join me a little later on in the show peach jam coming up get started later on this week I’m going to be traveling to uh Augusta Georgia fly into Augusta it’s always confusing it’s a little bit like a Memphis West Memphis type of thing there’s Augusta and then there’s North Augusta and North Augusta just like West Memphis totally different state so uh you you fly into Augusta Georgia you stay in Augusta Georgia but then you cross the state line you’re in North Augusta South Carolina peach jam going on team Thad will be there Norton herd to talk about it with us he’ll be here later on in the show also confusing they call it peach jam Georgia Peaches like Georgia Peach what are we doing I do West memphians identify as memphians or or canans I think they might have used to I don’t know if they do anymore where are we where are we at on West Memphis they’re doing well over there they are yeah you’ve been a Salin lately I you know not as much as I’d like to yeah they D West Memphis is thriving right now it looked like I drove through there looked like it was thriving it’s nice over there that’s the whiffle ball capital of the world it’s nice over there man they you know uh they they they make some incredible whiffle ball players in West Memphis Arkansas I don’t know how they do it exactly but but they they they get it done so it’s a little bit like that Memphis West Memphis Augusta North Augusta either way most of the best high school basketball players in the country will will be there almost every relevant college coach will be there I’m assuming Penny Hardaway will will be there at some point nordon H going to be in studio with us he’ll be here around 11:20 uh in the meantime USA Basketball has convened out in Las Vegas uh where the team is pretty regularly being compared to the 92 Dream Team this is um been suggested that it’s the greatest collection of basketball players we’ve assembled since 1992 it’s certainly among the most decorated and so LeBron James and Steph Curry and various other members of the team met with the media yesterday in Las Vegas and Anthony Edwards emerged as the you know the viral Sensation that he has become among other things he said that he considers himself the number one option for USA basketball and that Steph and LeBron and KD and everybody else will have to learn how to fit in around him do you think he means it or he’s just being funny um I think he yes I think he believes it I think he’s being funny but I think he truly believes it I think I think I think he’s being funny I think he also truly believes that he should be I think he also knows that he probably won’t be and even suggested as much uh deeper into the media availability the clip that went viral was him with a smile CU he’s got this El just a perfect smile like he I saw somebody on Sports Center one of the host say this weekend I think it was zuben mahy maybe um was in studio and they were talking and said if you could invest just like in in a basketball player maybe even in a professional athlete I guess right now Caitlyn Clark would be a good thing to invest in Angel Reese looks like a good thing to invest in but the point was if you could invest in somebody like the whole package the on the court stuff the off the court stuff the marketability the smile just the way he looks everything Anthony Edwards would would maybe be the guy cuz he’s obviously undeniably great on the court a 22-year-old superstar but he is awesome in interviews he’s naturally funny like naturally hilarious and and um never hesitant to tell you what he thinks about anything and he’ll just talk to you in a way that I don’t think all professional athletes approach press conferences like he’s not there just to answer whatever question you have in the most boring way possible like he’s there to talk with you and have fun with you and interact with you and that always comes across so he’s doing that thing yesterday and he goes viral for saying and that’s the headline Anthony Edwards says he’s the number one option but it sounded like he was just being funny I think he has the confidence that he really does believe he should be or could be right but also later in the interview he says things like when you have Steph LeBron and KD you just have to put two of us regular guys out there with them and we’re going to be fine so he has this unique ability to be confident with at while at the same time showing humility like he consistently calls Kevin Durant his favorite player of all time and still talks about getting butterflies with the idea of just getting on the court with him and playing with him like he’s never played with Kevin Durant that’s his favorite player I didn’t realize this to I was reading about it the first NBA game Anthony has ever attended was an Atlanta Hawks game he’s from Georgia M so he’s just like a kid growing up in the Memphis area he goes to an Atlanta Hawks game to see who KD in the Thunder yeah yeah that’s his that’s who he wanted to see that’s who like you know there are kids who come to FedEx forum because they want to see John marant or Desmond Bane or jiren Jackson well Anthony Edwards used to be one of those kids growing up in Georgia and he went to a Hawks game not to see who was playing for the Hawks but to go see Kevin Durant so he has this unique ability to go viral in the playoffs by cooking Kevin Durant and yelling at Kevin Durant but then just as soon as that’s over the competition’s over he’s like yo yeah I got him but that’s my favorite player of all time I got nothing but respect for that guy and so that stuff comes across as well when he’s talking yesterday but the clip that went viral was I am the number one option for USA basketball and he even said that might sound funny to you guys but it or it might sound weird to you guys but it doesn’t sound weird to me that’s the way I think it would be so it’ll be interesting to see exactly the push and pull because he’s one of only two guys who were on the previous USA basketball team who were invited back Tyrese halberton being the other yeah I’m annoyed you’re annoyed by that uh you’re offended on behalf of jiren Jackson Jr yeah I’m annoyed well okay here the thing is is I just had always assumed that he was going to find his way on this team because like I’m surprised that Jo and qu Leonard even Anthony Davis are actually going through with this and playing I just figured that some of these guys like would would forego it just to rest I think this is one of those where nobody wanted to forego it because it seems something like something special like something different like this is the last time I think you can reasonably say this is the last time LeBron James ever plays in the Olympics yes and if you ever want to play on an Olympic team with LeBron James and Steph Curry let’s just keep it there let’s say Kevin Durant too if you want to play on Olympic team with LeBron James Steph Curry Kevin Durant three of the I don’t have a list in front of me let’s call them three of the top 20 players of all time just so you don’t have people arguing about it but it could be top 10 when it’s all over but like three of the all-time greats you ever want to play with them represent your country on an Olympic stage well then this is when you got to do it I think going to Paris is part of it too like you know you’re not going to I don’t know I guess any place that host the Olympics would be an awesome place but Paris Paris right so I just think this the reason none of these guys backed out or chose rest or all of like I don’t know that they invited anybody who said no I don’t I think everybody they invited said I’ll be there if healthy I’ll be there because this seems to be a a unique situation something that um seems different than than other Olympic teams and other Olympic Games you don’t think we have any issues cruise to a gold medal oh I don’t know that at all yeah no I mean the the competition’s as good as it’s maybe ever been at this point um I mean you got star power all over this thing right and and these other teams these other countries they tend to you know have more time to play together they’ve been playing together whereas like you know these guys just they really do just show up in Las Vegas like this past weekend yeah and then it’s like all right we’ll play we’ll practice a little bit we’ll play a couple exhibitions and then it’s off to Paris like do you realize LeBron James and stephh Curry are going to presumably be starters on this team mhm they’ve never played together right you know right that’s crazy outside of like an allstar game or something like that yeah I mean we saw what happened in feebe and obviously this is a different team but I mean we know Canada is going to be good uh Serb has got the best player in the world you’ve got the two giants in in France and it’s that that they’re the host country with wiim banama and Rudy goar so like there’s there’s star power all over this thing sure it’ll be fun yeah it’ll be uh it’ll be f fun and I I think more likely than not what you’ll see is there will be a Steph Curry game yeah and there’ll be a Devin Booker game and there’ll be a Joel embiid game and there’ll be a Jason Tatum game and there’ll be yeah an Anthony Edward’s game I don’t think it’ll be one of those where it was so clear the best player for the United States was the same dude every night they did kind of say that last year when USA basketball and it was Anthony Edwards they were all like you know well we don’t know who’s who but once they got going it was like Anthony Edwards has emerged as the leader of this team as the guy on this team I don’t think that’ll be the case here like LeBron and Steph will be and KD will be the faces of it but I don’t know that they’ll be the best players and I don’t know that it’ll be um it’ll regularly be the same guy I mean you’ve got some of the greatest and most talented basketball players of all time many of whom are still very much in their primes Jason Tatum just won a title right any any of these guys could go out and score not any of them but like like I don’t think Drew holiday is going out and scoring 35 for you but like most of these guys could On Any Given night against any country go out and get 35 on you and I suspect that’ll be the way USA Basketball unfolds out in Vegas right now the other headline that came out of it LeBron uh gave media availability and just explained that he was happy to take a little bit of a pay cut to keep the Lakers um out of that second apron he sort of compared it to a marriage he said like when you are in a marriage with somebody you’ve got to work on it and both of you have to give and compromise a little bit and the implication was they they’ve given a lot to me they drafted my son 55th and it’s not a quid proquo type thing but it seems I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in the you know same two week period that the Lakers used a Draft pick on LeBron James son LeBron James was willing to take a bigger pay cut reportedly than he actually took if it meant getting Klay Thompson and still took a pay cut to you know save the Lakers front office ownership group um some money by keeping them out of the the second April he also was asked specifically about Brony and he said yeah you know he’s aware of the conversations that are happening but he’s really not that tuned into it and he also does not care he just does not care what the world thinks of how he got to the NBA or why he’s in the NBA do you think that’s even possible to genuinely not care no I’m always like just confused by that when people say things like so and so doesn’t care or I don’t care because it’s just impossible for me to imagine not caring if you know the entire Sports World is out there debating your ability uh debating And discussing your place in basketball I don’t I know how you would not care about that but LeBron seems to suggest bronnie does not care he’s not caught up in it he’s not bothered by it he knows it’s happening but he’s just um focused on trying to develop and be the best basketball player he can be with little regard for anything else his debut this weekend wasn’t great you see that did you see the graphic that was I don’t know if it was Sports Center or one of these like big patients that F out a graphic but like usually you see it it’s like uh it’s like johnar uh you know uh 25 points uh a 10 assist uh two steals something like that and br’s the first thing you see is 21 minutes and it was like I swear to God they did it like trying to make it look like it said 21 points like it was just lame and so he’s getting clowned for that I’m sure it was just a typo I’m sure it was just a typo by somebody and you know it was just a a mistake that had nothing to do with nothing but yeah like everything connected to him now like oh it’s all Amplified yeah yeah like I have I I I don’t even know what other rookies really played this weekend or what they did I I I gather dton connect hasn’t been that great either um but like I’m very aware of like what bronny James did because I’m going to be very aware of everything that he does um he has uh some knee swelling not going to play in the or didn’t play in the Lakers second preseason game but is expected to be back in Action later on this week so that was the big headlines outside uh you know emerging from Las Vegas with USA basketball and Anthony Edwards um identifying himself as the number one option in LeBron James speaking on bronny James and explaining exactly why he was willing to take a pay cut from the Los Angeles Lakers when we come back we got a new Dear Jane let’s go these neighbors so these people move into a neighborhood mhm and their neighbors seem like the nicest Neighbors in the world but at night things are getting a little weird and this woman doesn’t know how to handle it exactly I’m going to run you through I’m going to read you the whole thing Bennett then I’m going to let you tell tell us how you would handle this situation it’s a Dear Jane coming up next Gary Paris show presented by orto South Mike did his favorite uh black films of 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hit me with it okay this is a wild one all right tell me what you would do with this situation here’s what this lady wrote all right just going to read you straight from the top Dear Jane my husband and I moved into a new house last month leaving behind our apartment in City Life in favor of a much more spacious home in the suburbs done that before okay sounds like sounds like my life to say it’s been a culture shock would be a big understatement I remember that feeling but I vowed to myself that I would embrace the positives of suburban life and made a big effort to introduce myself to people in our neighborhood specifically our neighbors on each side there isn’t really a huge sense of community where when you’re living in a high-rise apartment building and that’s something I was really excited about in our new move the couple on our right they’re sweet but very elderly speaking to them requires a very raised voice if that makes say they can’t hear you know they’re old they can’t hear it happens to the best of us you know so uh you know that’s what they that’s what’s going on with them and I confess the woman rights I was a bit concerned that my visions of backyard Hangouts with our neighbors were going to evaporate when I met them thankfully the couple on the left were just a few years older than us very friendly and seemed incredibly eager to welcome us into the neighborhood on our first weekend in the new house they hosted us for a barbecue and invited us over to spend July 4th with them how nice that’s awesome that’s sweet said we could use their pool whenever we wanted oh wow Y and it honestly felt like my sitcom style dreams of neighborhood best friends had come true oh man how sweet That’s great yes but the night of that barbecue we heard some horrifying screams coming from their backyard I have never really understood the term blood curdling but this is but this terrifying noise made me realize exactly what they’re always going on about in these movies I’m not joking when I say I ran out of the door and into our yard to peer over the fence and check that everything was okay but there was nothing to be seen the next day I went around to make sure nothing was wrong and when I mentioned the screams to the neighbors they looked at me with complete blank stairs and they said they said they hadn’t heard anything and asked if it was maybe a nightmare by that point I was so nervous and frasa that I just sort of shrugged it off days later the screaming started again once again I ran outside once again there was nothing there 2 days after that bright light started shining in our bedroom window on and off almost like a police search light from a helicopter when I looked out it seemed to be coming from their backyard but when I went outside it had once again disappeared again I went over to ask them if they’d anything and again I got blank stairs then the screams came back again last night I know I sound like a crazy person here but I can’t help but feel like they’re playing some kind of Twisted prank on us there’s no way that they’re not hearing the same screams that we are in fact I’m surprised the whole neighborhood hasn’t complained at this point they seem so nice on the surface so I feel ridiculous even blaming this on them but this whole thing is really starting to freak me out I’ve told my husband I want to call the police and have them check things out but he is worried doing so might alienate us from the neighborhood entire do you think I’m being insane or do I have a legitimate cause for concern Bennett what do you think’s going on here dude I don’t know why would why would there be blood curling screams coming out of their backyard what’s the light too I don’t know what’s the light all about I don’t know I don’t know what’s going on I don’t know dude this is like like let’s start with the let’s start let’s start with the the most obvious possible explanation the aam’s razor of this deal okay I don’t know what that means aam’s Razer I believe I believe is a theory based on the most the most sensible answer explanation for something is the accurate one right so if um but what’s sensible about what’s going on here okay so so like for instance let’s say um you it snowed last night you see footprint in the snow walking from the driveway to your front door M you see a Amazon package sitting on your front steps what can you reasonably conclude from that an Amazon driver delivered a gift right that that would be the most sensible explanation for what would be the most sensible explanation for this she’s having bad dreams she thinks this is real oh yeah the she’s having bad dreams she this this is all IM she’s imagining all this yeah she’s waking up and she thinks all this stuff is happening cuz she’s just disorient or whatever but this stuff isn’t really happening it’s just in it’s happening she’s imagining this stuff that’s the most obvious explan except she says she’s talked to this about her hus with her husband and her husband’s not saying baby you’re just having bad dreams he seemed the the letter seems to imply he hears this stuff too and sees this stuff too because a lot of the letter is like and then we saw this and the light came into our window I don’t take from this that she’s that she because I don’t take from this that she thinks that this is just in her head I think the husband needs to take more initiative here I think the husband need to take more initiative here too yeah I think when it’s like scary stuff and screaming and and things of that nature I think that that’s when the husband has to step in and and make sure everything’s okay I don’t I yeah you know I think you got to step in like if I heard something like I put a lot of stuff on my wife and like even with the neighbors and stuff I’m like hey can you go I’m not good at that kind of stuff not but like I think when it comes to like scary stuff I think that’s when the husband’s got to jump in and handle it don’t you have to okay if all this stuff is happening we all have phones that can record immediately why don’t you need to record this stuff why not you need to record it yeah next time it happens get your ring camera here’s my solution let’s put a camera outside yeah and let’s also the next time this happens let’s record this and then the next time we walk over to the neighbors and we say did you guys hear screams last night and they go what are you talking about we didn’t hear anything you go here’s what we heard yeah you didn’t hear this well this is concerning that you’re not hearing this but we clearly are we’re going to take this to the authorities and get it checked out you guys want to come with us you guys want to help us with this well that’s I mean that’s a little aggressive is that aggressive that’s aggressive I thought I thought that was a way to make it like no we’re trying to solve the problem with our neighbors we’re not trying to point fingers okay no no I wasn’t pointing that was my way of not pointing fingers that was my way of saying I don’t think it’s you guys but like you guys want to help us figure this out oh yeah yeah yeah okay okay I was putting my arm problem here yeah yeah like like hey I know it’s not I know you guys aren’t the weirdos no but look what someone’s doing in your backyard but like this is wild stuff we got to figure this out and it feels like it’s coming from your backyard but it’s wild that you don’t hear from your backyard are you not concerned about your own backyard we need to let come with me let’s talk to the authority I don’t know how is that the way you do it dude I really don’t know there you know we moved not too long ago and I’m so glad that we have cool neighbors because that’s like the biggest fear is that you move somewhere you want to be comfortable and you have a awful neighbor we have good neighbors we have good neighbors too and and I’m so glad I would ha to be in this situation our kids can go our kids will go like same type of deal go in their backyard that kind of thing I’m talking about go our our neighbors to our left like when our kids were younger would literally buy snacks for our kids and keep in the pantry and like Oliver and Louis when they were little they would crawl through if we couldn’t find Louis they would be we we knew they over there they would crawl through their dog door and go into their pantry and get snacks or Popsicles or whatever and then come out of the drwing door like that we have those types of neighbors they they they they buy things for our kids for when our kids just happen to come over and whatever so like having good neighbors is important it’s very important I wouldn’t want these people yelling in the backyard all the time no I think you got to go to the cops at some point and it doesn’t matter whether you feel like you’re like at some point peace of mind is important yes at some point it’s like I don’t care if I’m alienating myself from the neighborhood all I’m doing is reporting dying every night yeah there’s something weird going on and that’s all I’m doing is trying to get the weird thing to stop I had to I called the authorities one time there was a there was a I called the authorities one time uhhuh I’ve called the th plenty of times not so one time there was this dog somewhere it wasn’t one of my close neighbor house but it was somewhere near enough and it would be the middle of the winter like you know 17° outside and this dog just be barking all night long every night first off it’s annoying I could hear all night secondly it’s going to die it’s freezing yeah and I felt like I I just I really did call I don’t know if I called 911 but I called somebody and I was like listen I’m not trying to get in my other other people’s business but there’s a dog clearly outside first it’s barking non-stop I’m trying to sleep that’s you know but that I can deal with that but like I like dogs mhm it’s cold is that okay to be leaving a dog like so can you guys go I called the cops on my neighbors or somebody whoever it’s risky it’s risky GP I but I felt like I was doing the right thing as a dog lover I felt like I was doing the right thing and then I did I called uh I called hotel security one time on a couple I heard a fight oh yeah I mean it sounded like if if physical altercation yeah yes it sounded like you have to at that point I I just called the front desk and I said hey let’s once again I’m not I don’t want to get anybody’s business but it sounds like the room next to me it sounds like maybe somebody should check on them yeah you know click right and then I heard them come up and knock on the door I heard all that I was actually nervous like when they leave does the guy come knock on my door think it was me yeah yeah but I just you know I chain locked it and whatever good I think you got to go to the authorities I think you go back to your neighbors one more time with video or audio evidence and if they aren’t willing to talk to you about this now if they just or staring at you blankly at that point you saying well then I’m just I’m going to take this to the authorities and see they can figure it out because obviously this is a and see where it goes from there I think but you just can’t keep living like this you can’t live like this not in your own home yeah not in your own home you you pay good money for this home you shouldn’t be scared at night I think I think you got to take it to the authorities yeah yeah number two big weekend in the WNBA Caitlin Clark did something no other woman has ever done in basketball before and guess who else did Angel Reese isn’t it wild that these two women are both delivering yeah it’s especially Ang too I me she just broke Candace Parker’s double double record yeah yeah so Caitlin Clark recorded the first rookie triple double in WNBA history you ready for this every woman who has ever played in the WNBA has been a rookie at one point they’ve all had an opportunity to do this all of them uh Diana trasi AIA Wilson Candace Parker Britney Griner name whichever every one you like they’ve all had an opportunity to do this they’ve all been rookies they’ve all played games nobody had ever recorded a triple double as a rookie until Caitlyn Clark did it this weekend in a victory high-profile Victory on CBS it’s America’s most watched network is the network of stars and then Angel Reese one day later 13th consecutive double double not just a rookie record that’s a WNBA record nobody’s ever done this what Angel Reese is doing right now what she’s still in the middle of doing right now and nobody ever did what Caitlyn Clark did this weekend until Caitlyn Clark did it this weekend these are the two arguably the two most famous women to enter that League ever arguably just because of where they had lifted college basketball and all of the attention on them Caitlyn more than Angel but obviously both of them are super famous at this point and they’re both delivering I know particularly Caitlyn had some ups and downs early but like she’s legitimately now proving to be one of the you know best players in the world as a as a rookie and Angel Reese is proving to be one of the best players in the world as a rookie I mean it’s I didn’t know how this would register this new emerging WNBA but it whether the attention Caitlyn and Angel brought to college basketball would translate to the WNBA I was worried on some level not worried but I thought you know maybe it just won’t matter as much you know we’ll just find something else to do but we are watching this stuff and talking about this stuff and keeping up with this stuff and it is primarily because of those two women like how about this there is no game that Caitlyn Clark or Angel ree can play right now that I don’t have to I I don’t have to look for it I don’t have to watch it it’ll find me people will tell me I’ll just it’ll be impossible to miss I’ll know how Angel Reese did I’ll know how Caitlyn Clark did that’s where we are with the WNBA particularly those two women right now everything they do creates headlines and they’re doing incredibly amazing things on the basketball court consistently historic weekends uh for both of them yeah this past weekend number three Democratic leaders growing number every single day continue to ask insist the President Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let somebody else take on former president Trump in the 2024 presidential election President Biden as recently as this morning said he’s not doing that do you think when you go into polling place on a election day do you think your options the two big options are going to be Donald Trump and Joe Biden or are you starting to move off of that I think it yeah I think it will be um I’m kind of surprised I I don’t know what else you would have done I probably nothing but I’m kind of surprised that he keeps or the campaign keeps doing the um the whole hey it wasn’t a great debate but I’m I’m ready to go but I would have just like not talked about it at all like they keep talking about the debate and how bad it was I didn’t understand the purpose of doing the interview on Friday night with George Stephanopoulos because it’s uh it accomplishes nothing it’s almost like a to put this in sports terms when you are the University of Memphis and say you schedule a game against Austin P but people already think a certain way about you all right there’s nothing you can get do against Austin P to make people think differently about you it’s either like you can go beat Austin P by 30 and people be like well of course you beat Austin P by 30 you’re supposed to right and but then if you mess up against Austin P it’s like well God here that didn’t go so it’s like you can’t win like what’s the reward for doing this you do it well nobody cares MH because it’s everybody will just assume it’s like oh it’s a golfball interview um selected by your Administration you might have had the questions in advance that was another controversy sure he went on radio and the radio host had to acknowledge that she was fed questions by the administration they fired her oh wow she got fired uh because she didn’t disclose that you know it was supposed to be a like Hey we’re having the president on we’re going to talk you know we’re going to talk to him and she had to subsequently acknowledge oh yeah they we use questions that they gave us preapproved right preapproved questions so um it’s like if you do that it doesn’t prove that anything even if you do it well it doesn’t prove anything uh or disprove The Narrative that is being attached to you right now which is that you are too old to do the job that you are to diminish to do the job there’s nothing he was going to be able to do in that sit down interview on Friday night that would alleviate any of those concerns and the truth is he didn’t knock it out of the park even if he knocked it out of the park it’d be like so what you know we all it doesn’t change what we all watched doesn’t change what we’re all watching every day and so I didn’t understand the purpose of that the truth is the only thing he could do to alleviate any of these concerns is do another debate and kill it I don’t think he can that’s the pro I don’t think he can do it I wonder if they will he says he will to try to just get yeah if if you’re going to do another one I would do it quickly that way you have if it’s a disaster again then then you like you leave no choice it’s like buddy MH he did say in an interview this weekend this is what makes me think that when we vote in November I I will not be voting for Joe Biden I don’t mean I’ll be voting for Donald Trump I think it’ll be somebody else interesting he did say he continues to say I’m not withdrawing I’m going to be the next president of the United States I’m going to defeat Donald Trump again he keeps saying all these things but he also said to George Stephanopoulos you know I am willing to listen to you know trusted confidant you know give me honest feedback and the honest feedback is going to be you do not need to run this race and the way that I’ve seen people because all this stuff is I don’t want to say it’s all coordinated but before Democratic leaders go on television and save big headlines to the world they’ve said them to each other right and I I saw somebody say this weekend that this is the way they’ll convince him to withdraw they’ll say your legacy is secure right now here’s what your legacy is your legacy is you’re a lifetime uh you know public servant who has done incredible things and you are the person who made Donald Trump a one-term president that’s your legacy right now and then you completed four years and when it became clear that somebody else was better equipped maybe not to run the country but better equipped to win this election um you stepped as sign to ensure that Donald Trump was still a one-term president that’s your legacy right now that is you can die that’s the Legacy if you run this race and you lose this race and they start filling up Supreme Court seats again and and really continue to change this country in ways that people on the left say is the end of democracy whether it’s true or not that’ll be your legacy you want to risk that if somebody puts it to you like that how do you argue with them I think he will I I I I’m I still think that he’s going to be the nominee I don’t think he’s going to step aside if he is if he continue if he continues to be the nominee and he’s on the ticket in November it will be only because he ignored everybody advice yeah he ignored everybody except his wife maybe and let pride get in the way and I think it will negatively impact his legacy I don’t think he can win this election I I I see even friends of mine people who I know are like-minded continue to tweet things like you don’t abandon your candidate and you know the Republicans would never abandon their candidate because they don’t and so why are the de it’s not about any of that it’s about you got to win an election mhm what the people keep telling me every time I turn on TV is that this is the a very important election you know democracy is at stake that’s what they say whether it’s true or not I don’t know that’s what they tell me I don’t understand how the same people who tell me that can think that it’s a good idea to to run a man that did you see the poll this weekend 70% of Americans do not believe he can believe that he needs to that he’s too diminished to do the job 70% of Americans that’s not just Republicans that’s not just people that watch Fox News that’s also me I don’t think he should be working as the leader of the Free World into his mid 80s particularly when you could just go back and this will happen to me someday too right it might have already I don’t know we can’t do things the way we used to do them forever right go watch a debate clip of him from even four years ago and then watch one from two weeks ago they don’t look the same no it doesn’t they don’t look the same they don’t sound the same right it is what it is and if they continue to reject that undeniable what seems like an undeniable truth it’ll cost them you know it’ll cost them if if they lose this election with him on the ticket it will be their fault they’re the ones who allow he’s the one who allowed this to happen I I still I don’t you know I don’t know but I I’d be surprised if two months from now that we are still sitting here talking about Joe Biden’s going to be the the nominee I don’t believe he’ll he’ll on the ticket we’ll be voting for I don’t know who you’ll vote for who anybody will vote for but the options I think will be different than they appear today we’ll see interesting times is it yeah it’s wild time what a world we’re living in what a crazy crazy time what a world number four hey Paul SK he’s on top of the world he’s on top of the world man that dude’s got it made he really does have it made yeah named an All-Star yesterday yeah 22 years old is the first player in history history to ever be the number one pick in one year and then in the subsequent season be selected for an All-Star game name all the best players in the history of baseball nobody’s ever done what I just described until Paul skes did it beat the Mets this weekend have like he’s a little bit like Caitlyn Clark Angel ree doing things that have never been done and he’s now sitting here caught up to the big leagues less than two months ago he’s 5-0 with a 2.12 ER in 10 starts 78 strikeouts only 12 walks he’s awesome against the Mets this weekend he didn’t even have his good stuff he was struggling in the first inning you could see it frustration on his face M you see this all the time with pictures it’s like they know they know in the bullpen they know in the bullpen before they even get on that mound whether they got their good stuff or not and you could see he didn’t have it and he still just overwhelmed them he had to pitch out of some trouble early but then he got in a Groove and just overwhelmed them this is a real opportunity for Major League Baseball too um if they’re smart make him the starter I think so too this whole thing reminds me of strawberg it’s a little a little bit it’s a little bit like that like he was supposed to be awesome and he is yeah strawberg obviously encountered AR injuries arm injuries later in his career but he was hyped as as the next great thing and then very quickly he was the next great thing and skin is exceeding I think all the expectations it’s a wild story I think most people know him he was at he went to the Air Force out of high school who skin he wasn’t even a catcher I mean he wasn’t even a pitcher they he started pitching I believe in his second year at Air Force they were like this guy’s got a live arm let’s see if we can pitch and it was so promising so quickly that that is when he transferred to LSU the way I understood it if he would have returned to Air Force he would have been locked into like a service commitment that would have interrupted his professional career so he had once it became clear this guy’s got Major League Baseball Talent um he had to get out of there yeah so then he goes to the SEC has an incredible season wins The College World Series most outstanding player finds liby Dunn how about that if he never living the best if they never discover that he can pitch he never leaves air he never meets liby Dawn how about that how about that I wish you made it Paul I wish somebody would discover I could you also saved this crappy franchise like you’re the savior of this crappy thing you watched the Pirates Mets game yesterday I know I know nobody else did but like you know the stadium the stadium is mostly empty you watch the Paul start field everybody’s there jam-pack sold out I don’t know if it was actually sold out but it looked sold out sure he’s the star he’s the draw you get these every once in a while doc Gooden early in his career Fernando Valenzuela you’re probably too young to remember that one but Fernando Mania that was a real thing strawber was a real thing and now Paul SK is a real thing he should start the All-Star game if they’re smart it’s the same thing the same argument people were making about the Olympics and klyn Clark like this is who people want to see um don’t don’t shy away from it embrace it put her out there yeah um and let her grow the game same thing with skines like hey there’s this 22-year-old Phenom that even non- Baseball fans are starting to be aware of Let’s uh let’s put him on the biggest stage we can put him on and that’s as the NL starter in the All-Star Game on the mound if they’re smart they’ll get that done I am all the way back in on baseball you’re back here oh yeah and ju once July rolls around it’s like well Yankees and Red Sox beating each other beating each other up all weekend and the and the Orioles just Cru had a nice West Coast Road Trip a Al you playing the Mariners this weekend the Oakland A Oakland this weekend I I had on one of those games although they put up 17 runs in one of those games I I had on one of those games now the Orioles are great yeah Mets are back to 500 Mets are back and Paulk is awesome we’re back baseball’s fun baseball’s a lot of fun I’m having a good time with it me too me too wait till you hear this story number five you think that’s a great story wait till you hear this one what’s going on all right so there this guy like 23 years old and um dates this girl girl’s name is Lauren Johnson guy’s name is Bryson John Rivers all right just a normal young couple dated in high school and then you know went their separate ways H but would best I can tell was on again off again relationship you know toxic okay but can’t quite give each other up for whatever reasons anyway it becomes a violent relationship and this guy was convicted of beating her up like kidnapping her and you know driving around a car won’t let her leave beating her up he was violent with her physical physically violent with her and beats her up and like multiple inst this isn’t just like some one time Chris Brown Rihanna thing whatever you know y not that that’s okay obviously not but it’s like this was a pattern of abuse physical abuse and eventually he was arrested for it and he was charged with um various crimes and he was being held on bond his bond was $250,000 he was being held in Nashville they had just gone to Nashville for like a you know little vacation getaway type thing young couple like young couples do and it got really violent there and he was arrested and charged with crimes and he was in jail on a $250,000 Bond they couldn’t afford to bond him out he was he’s been in jail for got it you know six seven months now well the judge they kept going back to the judge trying to get the bond lowered and the young woman’s father who is a doctor kept going to these Court appearances he lived in Mississippi the young woman was from Mississippi she’s a college student in Mississippi okay and he would travel to Nashville to be at these hearings and he would consistently in emails letters verbally in every way he could say it he would tell this judge and anybody else who was involved he’d say this man has been beating up my daughter for years and if you let him out of jail he’s going to kill her that’s what’s going to happen if you let this guy out of jail he will kill her that’s what’s going to happen all right so about two weeks ago bond gets lower to $150,000 from 250 down to 150 suddenly that’s manageable for the family they bond this guy out with conditions Bond it out soon as you leave you got to go get an ankle monitor and you’re not allowed to leave the state and we got the Monitor and that’s like step one you walk out of here you go straight to the ankle monitor Place get that done and then uh you know check in with us and you know you have all these restrictions on what you can and cannot do well he leaves jail and did not go to the ankle monitor place right did not report anywhere nobody ever heard from him again so at some point the authorities in Nashville they call This Woman’s father and they said uh Mr Johnson we just wanted to make you aware that um the young man who was in jail for beating your daughter has been bonded out and we are not required to let you know that but we are letting you know that now because we can’t find him we thought he was going to get an ankle monitor he did not do that we cannot get in touch with him now we do not know where he is gets off the phone he calls his daughter can’t get her oh God went over there security camera smashed place is a wreck this person got out of jail lowered his bond got out of jail and immediately like went to kill this one jeez they found her body in a car and the dad who’s a doctor helped authorities with the removal of the B it was bad and he was talking about it pretty plainly and they the media was asking what did you know what did you see he said my daughter looked like she’d been punched 300 times Jesus that’s what it looked like you know this guy beat her to death I told them this what happened I said if you let this person out of jail then uh this he will kill my daughter and you did it anyway you lowered his bond you didn’t have to do this you lowered his bond now my daughter’s dead and so I only bring this up not cuz it’s a fun story but this is something we’ve talked about previously and it’s it’s a big topic of conversation in this area because it feels like every week There’s a story about somebody committing a violent crime in the city and then if you keep reading long enough you’ll find out that they had already committed another violent crime and they were out on bond at the time or early release and it’s a real divisive uh or it’s a big issue in our country because it’s become a political issue and In fairness it’s more of a it appears to be more of a right-wing issue than a leftwing issue but it like this is a point I’ve made before it should not be a right-wing issue it should be a everybody issue like um you know violent people aren’t just killing Republicans you know it’s Democrats who get shot and carjacked and all that stuff too and so one of the things I’ve consistently said and I don’t even know if this aligns with everybody else who you know votes the way I vote but I’m a big believer and like violent people should be off the streets and I guess among the reasons I wanted to bring this up is because often when we talk about this it’s a local story and it is a let’s just it’s a person of color and I’m just I’m always aware that how it might come across as an old white man talking about a young person of color well they should have never let him out of jail I can come across in a way that I’m not com compl comfort with and so I bring this one up because um this isn’t a person of color this is a person who looks just like me or who looks just like my oldest son right and so just in the spirit of being consistent on this like this person should have never been out of jail he was being held on a $250,000 Bond and it could not be met he was going to stay there until a judge lowered it and to a place where it could be met and now a young woman is dead because we let somebody who clearly should not have been free Go free like this is a real problem in this country yes it is like every day somewhere in this country somebody who has a history a pattern of violence is committing another act of violence in this country and often it’s just because of the way the system just spits people back out you know you you you release somebody early from jail or let them like where do you know it’s not like there’s in this case is different than what I’m about to explain but like you hear somebody get arrested for carjacking right and uh and they they go and then they’re bonded out and they’re right back out on the streets Well’s not like there’s a you know $40 an hour job waiting on them you know why were they carjacking to begin with right because they don’t have options like this is like you would a lack of Hope is an incredibly damaging thing to a human when you feel like there’s nothing no hope for you anyway like well what like what else what when you lose hope you lose everything and so it’s like all right I’m out now you know don’t have a job can’t get a job got you know legal stuff piling up y what’s my way out it might be the same thing I was doing you know it’s just a cycle right and so this is just one where I I I wish I I I I wish there would be more political pressure putting put on the people in power who have um the ability to do things like this and not do things like this because there’s a judge in Nashville now who’s going to have to answer for this they’re going to put a camera in that person’s face or you know a mirror in that person’s face they’re gonna have to look at themselves you really are responsible you made a decision that cost somebody their life like that’s what you did you did not have to do this you lowered this spawn and now somebody is dead and it’s not like oh I can’t believe this happened the young woman’s father told you it would happen yeah he came to you and he said I know this young man I’ve been watching this for years I’m telling you what’s going to happen to my daughter if you let this person out and they let him out anyway and within a week roughly he’ went and and killed this woman just a awful awful story that has already started to get some national headlines it’ll get bigger as uh you know things like this do but just we knew who this person was he had already showed us who he was and uh you know then you let him out of jail and and he showed us again yeah yuck yuck yuck what an ugly story about halfway through it I realized I probably should have just picked another topicy no it was important yeah I don’t know it’s done now Norton herd the head coach of Team Thad they’re going to peach jam later on this week we talk basketball with him he’ll be in studio next Gary Paris show presented by oros S shall we talk about our favorite NBA Finals MVPs number three is a little bit of Canadian history cuz it’s the first and only NBA championship that the country as a whole has I’m going to go with kawh Leonard’s second Finals MVP I still get my little heartwarming about it and I was there watching it watching every game imh with Lang Whitaker and me Kelsey R Johnson on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media [Music] app if you look at it as far as the uh the number nine pick over the years there’s been some pretty good players that have surfaced at number nine of course Dirk nitzki who won a championship there’s been a lot of great guys but who knows if there is a great guy in this draft hey Grizzlies fans be sure to tune in to gisby where the panel and I break down all things 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31st and you could receive a $200 direct deposit bonus into your account details at Grizzlies banking.com member FDIC [Music] [Music] welcome back to Gary Paris show presented by Ortho South peach jam getting started in North Augusta South Carolina later on uh this week and among the teams participating in IT team than from right here in Memphis and the head coach the man who runs the program is Norton herd Norton herd how you doing I’m doing great I’m doing great another week to prepare for peace jam and uh so so that’s always a great thing how many is this for you now because I you know I I think people know that while Penny was running team penny that was the the Memphis ebl team you guys um operated then with another on another shoe circuit now you’re with uh on the Nike ebl circuit how many Peach jams is this for you now so this is four for us so that’s a good thing because we only been uh with Nike five years right and one year was Co so we we have continue that myth is great staple of being in peace jam and it’s not easy in all to get a PE JM B so uh it’s four straight years this year we get a little more time to practice cuz usually it’s right after the fourth so it give us a few more days I always tell people like if you’re a basketball Junkie because it’s drivable like um you can you can drive it I mean it’s a good drive but you can get there um if you’re a basketball Jun it is an incredible place to be because you are watching the next great things um all Under One Roof and basically every college basketball coach is going to be there um one day or another um it really is a unique event in the sense that it’s it’s the same place every year everything’s familiar It’s all under one building and you can go gym to gym and be like okay here’s a lottery pick here’s a lottery pick they’re all over the place for sure for sure like you said it’s nothing and Gary you do everything college but you’ve been around I do middle school high school college NBA I never seen anything like the peace gam outside of like the final four or maybe NBA playoffs is is incredible it’s like you say G’s in the same place but I don’t know if you have realized they keep building on yeah they’ve added they made it bigger and bigger because it got it used to be a little thing and now like it’s sold out every day there’s fans it’s standing room only every basically every gym every day they’ve had to grow it to keep it basically Nike told them you’ve go to we’re going to have to move this if you don’t make it bigger and they said we ain’t moving this we’ll make it bigger they they’re adding on nonstop non-stop like you said the peace Jam I think for the Augusta George they say the two biggest things of the year every year is the uh the golf tournament and peace jam and so it I mean Gary I don’t know how far you going there because I know you do a great job of going and doing what you got to do but if you go downstairs like it’s it’s incredible when the teams how you pull up you come through first about ballet in your car then which this stuff means a lot we trying to save time with a lot of kids unlimited food they have put Barbie shops and stuff have you seen that lately barber shop and store I mean the experience get better and better and it’s nothing like it and like you say it’s the best players in the world like you just won like I had just played Donovan in them years before like every year when I’m watching college sports all the next big stars we have played against already in NBA um we were talking you know off off camera and it’s funny like the perception people have of Augusta Georgia is entirely from the Masters and when you watch these Masters commercials it’s just aelas and it’s beautiful and everything looks pristine and that is not actually what Augusta is at all Augusta I’ve talked to vett about this before Augusta looks like South Haven it’s like it’s like if if if Augusta National was in South Haven just off of Goodman Road that is what Augusta Georgia looks like you probably or Germantown Parkway that’s what like it looks like just string of restaurants and strip malls and stuff like that and and G I don’t want to say this because I have to be down there and I love the people of Augusta but I haven’t even seen the side to look like is greatest Germantown Parkway yet hold over the res not listening to this but I haven’t cuz I think gertown Park where we only talking about the look in the restaurant I think it’s a is a high quality of uh stuff I put it it looks like Goodman Road from like Highway 51 to to the interstate where you got like a Ryan Steakhouse over here and a Apple bees over here and the McDonald’s over there that’s what that’s what Augusta Georgia actually is it’s not it’s not Augusta National is it’s little place but it’s it’s not Augusta George is a a totally different deal all right so tell me uh what kind of team do you got there are years where you’ve thought you had a team that could go down there and compete and and maybe win it what kind of confidence do you go to Augusta with this year so so this the thing here to make peace Jam is a is an honor right uh only 24 make it so I never you know how comtent I am I never say we’re just going to win it cuz it’s that tough it’s a kind of like make it to the NBA it’s about your pool it’s about your draw it’s about you know we haven’t seen the kids for six weeks until the day I haven’t seen them since Memorial weekend so that’d be a big thing too they go back to they High School play them team camps sometime you get a different team but I think my team has been really uh good and overachieving this year uh Gary because you don’t know a lot of my team outside of Jasper for us to be 11 and four really would you know Jasper couldn’t play a couple games really Oakland soldiers no one only beat us by two points here in Memphis last year team had five six people that people think could go to the NBA and so I think this year team got some of the same statistics in everything record wise status wise so I think they play really good as a team and I think we can get in there and shock some people we’re definitely not the favorite but I think we’ll be in the mix well 11 and four on the wbl circuit that speaks for itself phenomenal right right um Jasper Johnson you mentioned him is 6’4 guard ranked 13th in the country according to 247 Sports he’s a festar guard yep between eight and yep um how good is he Jasper is really really good uh Gary he’s actually about in you’ll see when you got a Jasper about 66e growing uh he’s a combo guard he can play point uh he got offers from everywhere uh Memphis Kentucky North Carolina uh I’m not sure Duke yet when I talked to John sh we talked about I don’t know if he got a official offer from duke but pretty much everywhere else he he does have an offer from and uh he’s really good and I think this team this year I played him up last year and he was a baby I think this team fits him are kind of like the 76 with IRS and he’s able to do his thing and then we have a bunch of tough guys around him bunch of athletes around him bunch of guys that can make open shots around him and I think that helps our team jail but I think Jasper I’m G be real with you I think he’s the best and on some S I think he’s the best guard in the country okay I think he’s the best guard in the country right now um and so he uh so would you say you sell him today for the first time since Memorial Day everybody’s back here getting ready to practice and then travel to Augusta later this week yeah so I haven’t officially seen them but I know because I have everybody confirmations people will be landing while the show is in people will be driving in so everybody get here today between like most people get here today between like 11: and one and then we got practices evening so I will see them this evening for the first time you mentioned Memphis basketball has an offer for Jasper like basically everybody else in the country obviously that’s a big topic of conversation always in this market people care deeply about it you’re close to it um what is the perception of Memphis basketball among High School Elite prospects right now obviously the conference has been downgraded with uh the loss of Houston and various other programs um this past year there was some incredible highs early then it went the wrong way what’s the perception of Memphis basketball right now University of Memphis basketball right so the University of Memphis basketball I think is is one of them schools where the basketball program is a high major basketball program so when you’re dealing with certain type of schools that this team might be mid major this team so m is one of them unique things like unlb and certain people is a high major Gonzaga High major basketball program with the right people and right coach I think uh they like it I think as much as you know you got whether you like or don’t like Penny whether you agree or disagree with his uh you know his records or game he want he still resonate with kids because they wear the shoes and all of that they still you know kind of like people that have done it before so he still got the edge on then he got swag you know what I mean and then if not the kids don’t their parents definitely still especially you know parents from the inner city that’s what I’ve noticed like when we’re at peach jam or other places more so than the kids the parents freak out about Penny because they grew up watching him you know I I am now the father of a 21y old so I am and I also grew up watching he’s a little older than me I grew up watching Penny Hardway and for people around my age that’s the ones I see really like get their phones out and want to get a picture yeah p penny I’m going to be real penny is a big deal and and not saying that and I know the subject ain’t about this that people in Memphis are too hard him I’m not going to say that I’m going to say wherever you at if you like let’s say LeBron stayed here after a while if you saw him every day you probably wouldn’t appreciate it but if you see him at peace Jam or somewhere like you say when penny comes in the gym people taking their phones out people trying to get pictures kids players so I say that to say Memphis is still in a good place from my understanding they have nil now that I don’t care if you run the University of of Third Street if you have nil right now the game have changed you’re gonna have a chance of getting somebody so I’m glad you brought that up how much is that a topic of conversation among uh you know prospects these days the money that is available to them you are coaching young men right now who will have hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more placed in front of them very soon yeah very soon some of them that I already have from years uh years before that now that that’s a big deal I have college coaches that tell me like that’s the I mean you don’t want it to be like this but it’s business but that’s the first or second question now uh and you got to think about this y’all know like when the NCA tournament first start right and some teams that don’t make it next thing you know three four days or two days later you have seen a kid that just got in the portal already at a school he haven’t even visited that school you know what got that done y I mean I’m talking about he might did a virtual tour like it was just it was a it was it was it’s a money thing so at that point he started saying listen I don’t care how this town look for what I just got offer the long as basketball situation so I think it has to I mean y’all know how the world go for good or bad or or or or whatever money is just a kind of a you know to a person like me I feel like money is important it’s not the most important thing in the world but to a lot of people money is the most important thing in the world I still if I’m a top Prospect would look at how they’re playing me cuz some of the bigger schools Gary they have paid people two 300,000 and they ain’t played them that’s right you know kind of like a guy you know I want to make this with a lot of money you know what I’m saying he just cuz he give you that don’t mean he really love you get what I mean and so I had one parent the other day and it kind of blessed my heart Gary it’s a lower level parent and I was saying well if this school was to give you 100,000 and that school isn’t what would you do and the parents said I’m going be real with you we don’t need we’re not willing to make a bad decision for 100,000 we want our kid to go somewhere we’re good people at we got a better relationship with this style and uh you know we’re not struggling to the point that we have to just make a rational decision for 100,000 so I I don’t hear that too much I can yeah I know well I’ve had coaches tell me and the coaches are they understand it some are frustrated by it but I had one coach in particular tell me the thing I don’t like about this world I he said and they always preface it by saying I don’t mind the kids making money because they you know they need to say that yeah they got to say that but it’s like I can’t one coach tell me he’s a sec coach he said I can’t outwork people anymore in the recruiting Trail I used to could you know if I if I’m recruiting Jasper Johnson I can uh I show up at every game I get there early I’m under the goal I’m texting the mom I’m texting everybody I’m in touch with you and I can just be present I can go to a school I can outwork you and I can make it clear hey I want you more than anybody else I’m here more than anybody else now I can do all those things but if somebody shows up one more money I’m on the wrong side of this thing right now I need to be able to sit down with with Jasper Johnson and I don’t mean him specifically just but somebody like him and I need to be able to say we have $2 million and if if because if I don’t say that somebody else is saying that and it’s it’s a hard thing to overcome and and you know I respect the decision you just laid out where a parent said we don’t need money as much as we need our child to to to be happy and where he wants to be I like it I actually think as a parent of a college age son it’s important to let them make their own decisions guide them but let it be their decisions um but I also understand why a different family might say this can pay off our house this can pay off our cars like this is real money that might not be there in two years let’s take it now I understand both sides of it oh no for sure you hit it on the money I kind of feel sad for that coach well I ain’t gonna feel sad for nobody making millions of dollars but what I will say no because even on my level I kind of have gotten kids because we have worked hard you know I went against penny at one point this and because I could outwork for certain prospects and even on the I mean on the a level now you got certain programs who call they s giving out nil deals and you got certain prep schools right now so it’s getting like Gary I never thought you know I used to try to stay away from Agents I’m be real with you I’m just old even though I’m young I’m a old ball Co I just love hard work getting in the gym so I us holl at the agent when they Senor in college or somewhere now I’m recruiting a kid and at six you got to talk to my manager at I’m like what you know so uh I still think it’s a way that you can outwork people I still think basketball is a sport where it is enough diamonds in a rough that you could find and I feel like once you get in practice with what you got certain coaches can still get more out of their kids but he he extremely right like right now especially if you’re a high major school well he shouldn’t really be mad at nobody but his school cuz they should have well that’s the thing but he was he was even like in my own League there are coaches who have access to twice as much niio money as me oh you know in my own League that’s the bigger problem yeah he was like he was like it’s not that I don’t have any it’s just I don’t have as much as other people in my league and it’s it’s hard you know what’s funny Gary I’m not g to say anybody I have ever witnessed anybody cheating okay okay but some of the best guys who were known for cheating and when I mean cheating they were giving money I don’t know if that’s really cheating but they were helping out now that it has became legal some of these same guys that we thought was Big Fish none of it has became legal they can’t keep that’s the thing well it it’s it’s when you’re when there’s only 10 guys out there handing out money it’s a Lou now everybody’s handing out money no the the idea of a recruiter on staff like oh he’s a player getter those jobs are almost obsolete now like you know who the player getter is whoever got the most raise money cool with the boosters right that I would be more interested as a head coach hiring an assistant coach who is a great like he’s great with the boosters he fiser guy fundraiser guy you need a fundraiser you have to yeah and I think this has also exposed boosters because you know boosters you know you love them and they used to walk around with this I do this and now since you got to raise money some of the programs that you thought were big fish and and and and having money they’re getting exposed like some of the people oh this SEC school all now niia allowed in this certain schools like well like I’ll tell you one school that got caught up in this now they’re fixing it but they got left behind for a little period of time UCLA M um you might have seen mck Cronin there was a press they was bad at UCLA this year they had a press conference at one point and somebody asked Mick about having seven or eight freshmen because they getting their brains beat in by older teens and he said are you asking me Mick asked the reporter he said are you asking me if I’d rather had uh fifth year transfers and the guy’s like well yeah I guess so he saids of course but U you know this is just like think of you know I’m sure the Cincinnati Reds would have loved to have had sh Otani but he doesn’t go to Cincinnati he goes to the do his mixed point was we don’t have the money in place to pay these players right now and we’ve got to get that fixed and they got it fixed and now they got a top 20 team but even at UCLA where you just think things will just run themselves suddenly he didn’t have money to go out and compete with these other schools and you wouldn’t you wouldn’t assume that about a place like UCLA no no you wouldn’t but I think it get tricky too Gary because I think even some of the boosters are trying to learn how this go because you got to think about let’s say this boosts will give 20 this one give 100 200,000 and I know these guys are billionaire but you know B at some point they’re probably thinking like how long am my family going to really do this or is it worth it you get what I mean cuz this is I mean I think schools got to have now some of the higher schools are trying to get like not I’m talking about the ones who trying to win championships they’re trying to get like five million a year you know and I’m hearing it might have went up now because oh the number is a team they’re I tell I tell you that this is what I heard from a coach now this was like a year ago when I heard I heard about a year ago if you had about 2 and a half million for your team like set aside about 2 and a half million that was tip top of a sport you were you’re running with the Dukes and the Kansas at that at about 2 and a half million now I hear it’s six or seven yeah cuz now you got to give like I heard Alabama’s got $7 million in nio money he’s doing really good I got two kids there I heard Alabama is at the tip top of this thing and I’m up there with Arkansas Kentucky Louisville Kansas but Alabama is the one that isn’t a traditional basketball power but they’re spending money like it yeah I’m sure they making so much off football too that they can slide some up but you know that might make sense Gary because now they’re starting to say that like a few years ago where you could get the best player when it first started people just happy to get money you get a players like 200,000 now I’m hearing little marks between 800,000 1.5 oh like great oore just got 2 million that’s the one went to went to Washington um and that’s crazy he’s and some of the guys wasn’t even Hawkins got 2 million Illinois Kansas State they say David Jones got offered uh and I don’t like to do rumors but I’m in the loop enough with with with certain people they say he ain’t got off which I think if this true was a crazy decision but say he got offer like 1 point something million 1 point2 I don’t know it’s wild that he walked away from that to for whatever it is he’s getting you know and I don’t like to say this publicly but I just love all kids and if you want to bet on yourself that’s cool but the turn down in this 1. something million to be riding 12 out a bus rides G League I just I’m not his agent I’m not his manager I’m not his father and I do wish him best I just don’t think that’s considered a Sound Decision uh in the world and I’m not trying to criticize or anything like that it appears and we say this as respectfully as we can say it appears he left money on the table and that’s a not you know that’s a w that’s not a normal thing to do for people of his age hey before I get you out of here Last Thing Before I Let You Go um AJ Deans number one player in the class of 20 25 he’s a reclass I think he was I think he’s now in his appropriate grade he had he had uh you know he was older for his grade and then he reclass so now I think he’s back where he ought to be I saw him last year at peach jam you’ve coached against him he was here in Memphis I I there’s a number one player in every class every year there has to be they don’t all look like future Hall of Famers all the time when I see this guy that’s he looks like if you tell me he’s the best player in the world in five years that’s not crazy to me he’s he’s special right yeah really good him the last two number one players him and Cooper Flags I think they’re and I don’t really say a lot of people are Pros like people say but I think them two are have a real chance of being a NBA Allstars like a lot of years uh probably within their second or third year uh AJ the banser uh is really really good really and we beat him up we did a good job and that’s why I’m like oh but he became AJ in the fourth quarter on certain plays uh and he playing with with Tyron Stokes that might be in the same thing but he’s really good though he’s really good and we’re hoping to see him again in the final four or something and and give it another shot at it I hope so peach jam starting later on this week team that is going to be there so you uh everybody getting in town today traveling down on Thursday yes sir I’ll be traveling there on Thursday too so I’ll see you down there yes sir that’s Norton her from Team Thad I appreciate you being here Buddy Team Thad going to Nike peach jam this week North Augusta South Carolina we’ll come back wrap it up with gp’s carry out it’s Gary Paris show Pres by orto South shall we talk about our favorite NBA Finals MVPs number three is a little bit of Canadian history cuz it’s the first and only NBA championship that the country as a whole has I’m going to go with Kawhi Leonard’s second finals MVP I still get my little heartwarming about it and I was there watching it watching every game I IM ho with Lang Whitaker and me Kelsey R Johnson on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app we have another Edition this will be the third edition of The Debate Club you guys are going to sell a shoe to Mr Bennett Doyle our producer over here let’s oh yeah that’s all these I’ve seen these saw these on social media too it’s a perfect house shoe I know like it’s not even a house shoe I bet you they’re really comfortable you know you heard of Unis sex this is uni foot oh my God the sneak Fest show live Tuesdays at 2 p.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app look at the score look at the score he does this hey look at the though number three right before I walked in the locker room Danny a pull me to the ass said hey Tony Allen come here let me give you a little basketball etiquette when you’re down 40 do not do a ingame wind meal it’s just just disgusting for the game the Chris Vernon show presented by Caesar’s Sportsbook live weekdays at noon on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app now for a limited time the new $1.99 crispy tender wraps are here at Sonic who could deny a crispy chicken tender with bold flavors like Hickory Barbecue and cheesy Baja and we can’t forget the crisp lettuce and melty cheese to make 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listening to him for so long like do back in radio and everything uh yeah I could listen to him talk hoops no it’s been nice get to know him like he’s uh you know he’s he’s a real you know important figure in uh basketball in in the city like you know there there’s very few great basketball players coming through here who aren’t going to at some point have a relationship with herd or team that and so you know he he’s a he’s a big player in the city a big player in Grassroots basketball across this country and it’s always great catching up with him appreciate nordon herd coming in studio let’s wrap this up with gp’s carat it’s time for gp’s carot one final segment filled with stuff to take with you it’s not everything you need to know but it’s most of it what did we learn today a bunch of stuff but we mostly focused in the opening hour on summer Grizz because because uh that gets underway tonight they’re back they’re back it’s a summer I thought I like our we are so back I like our I like our team I think our team’s going to be awesome well think about this you have a top 10 pick in Zach a two-time national Player of the Year and a guy in gii who might have been a top 10 pick had he been in this draft I think star power I think we’re loaded star power got some two-way guys got some other draft picks we’re loaded I think we’re loaded I think we’re loaded so we tou so we touched on that and also six new assistant coaches on Taylor Jenkin staff confirmed this weekend Jason March will be coaching the summer Grizz tonight he’s now on Taylor Jenkin staff no longer coaching uh the the Memphis hustle and um among the other assistants I was running through the names and then we got sidetracked by something but uh I don’t think I ever got to the name on the list Patrick Matumbo new assistant coach you know what that means does that name sound familiar to you not he’s not related to the great he’s not okay he’s not but what’s hilarious is if you go to his Wikipedia page it actually like a part of it like it says personal life and then you go to that part of it and it says is no relation to D kimbe Matumbo it he but he does get asked this all the time the guy imagine working in basketball your last name is Matumbo yeah how many times do you think he’s had to say no we’re not related a million one million times one million times Patrick Matumbo has had to tell somebody he is no relation to D kimbe Matumbo but he’s on the grizzly staff now let’s go let’s go oh fired up what’s today’s biggest game summer Grizz benett you ready to pick a I think I’m ready I think I’m ready you ready to pick a summer Grizz game I got to find some summer league scores let’s see here who we playing tonight the Jazz the stupid Jazz we’re in Utah I figured you’re just playing the Jazz I don’t know we’re at the Delta Center going to play the Jazz at 8:00 it’s on grind City media app tonight they don’t have the number posted over at espn.com let me see if I can get us again disrespectful it is disrespectful NBA Summer League games oh buddy if you thought that was disrespectful wait till you hear this we’re underdogs it’s a true Road game it is a true Road game yeah not everybody has to open in a true Road game in some that’s very true Jazz minus 5 and a half hold on this is hold on what the wait who’s on That Jazz team can can we get it I know Kenny Lofton I know Kenny Lofton that’s the big match up Edie versus Lofton yes you know cuz you know Kenny can sometimes make it tough on thesea big traditional centers we know that about him if kenth lost and just come out and cook Zack Ed that’s not going to be fun is it I hope Zach Cooks his ass me too I really do me too me too all right okay let’s see who’s is I don’t think Walker Kessler is he playing I hope not no okay Max Haith okay uh he was uh played at Texas before that played at or Robert little shooter great good player I know he’s a good player but I mean come on Armando Bott okay all right all right now I’m we some Bott Zach now I’m intrigued now I’m intrigued oh Walker Kessler is on this stupid team wait hold on a second the casuals are the casuals are talking about Kenny Lofton versus Zack Edy I’m here for Zack Ed versus amondo Bott you ready for this one Kessler’s not playing how about Zack e against Cal filipowski okay I forgot that they drafted Kyle he fell in the draft for a lot of reasons for a big reason I guess he fell in the dra he might have been groomed that’s what they said that’s what they said allegedly they allegedly said he might have been groomed by a old old that woman yeah do you see her though I saw her I saw her I could see how you’d fall for that you know I mean I knew you good if he were actually groomed that’s not great is it you have to say that’s not great no that’s bad bad we don’t condone that that’s bad that’s bad we don’t but I could see how you could fall for it you know okay I mean if Walker Kessler plays like they got some size bro they got size they can throw at us they got Cody Williams too but you know what we got Zach e and Trey Jimson who played a lot of NBA minutes last season they got Bryce Sall the J look at the summer Jazz dude the summer Jazz are loaded I mean it actually makes sense they’re like a rebuilding team it would make sense that their summer league team would be loaded with Talent the summer Jazz are loaded yeah but they don’t have nothing to prove we got something to prove do we have something to prove I think we have something to prove what do you think we’re trying to prove oh well I think Zack Ed wants to go out and has something to prove cook folks yeah yeah yeah I mean he like we talked about it he’s forgoing the Olympics to participate in this summer league like he’s got something to prove he’s ready doesn’t Cal filipowski have something to prove yeah but that’s he he he’s not going to be able to can’t prove stuff yeah he’s not going to be able to he he can’t he ain’t going to be able to go Toe to Toe with back e I’m just saying serious all I’m saying is I could see how you could fall for that yeah you know oh yeah I didn’t know what you’re talking about first I get it I get it I don’t condone it no I don’t either it makes me uncomfortable yeah but I could see how you’d fall for it I I could too I’ve fallen for lesser things I could too listen man this is simple give me the summer Grizz this is a team of Destiny we’re competing for a summer league championship I know we’re competing for a Vegas Championship but I’ll take a Utah Championship in the process so do we get a championship by the way for Utah it’s only like three games I think we should I think we should there’s got to be a trophy there got to be troph there’s got to be some kind of trophy involved in this Utah league so give me the Grizz to cover the five and a half and I feel great about it all right Bennett says give us you got play our guys give us those points give us the Jazz are loaded I didn’t realize I need our guys to like play real minutes tonight this can’t be like a test drive like let’s let’s let’s play Let’s play this out I I feel like I need to apologize to the summer jazz no they’re loaded I didn’t I didn’t I was unfamiliar with their game now I’m familiar oh we’re up against it tonight I’m I’m actually after going through this little deal right here I’m way fired up way more than I was before this is a big one this is a big one we’re kicking it off the right way this is a big one tonight 8:00 grind City media app what are we watching on TV I I guess we got to watch Monday Night Raw don’t we after money in the bank this weekend money in the bank was fun money in the bank was fun dude money in the bank was fine yeah it’s Tiffy time she’s awesome man the uh the um what was it did you see Andrade throw dude onto the ladder uh was it Carmelo did you see Andrade throw him off the top of the ladder on the other ladder it looked like somebody almost died like La Knight or somebody like somebody looked like they were really hurt they were doing a lot of violent stuff Carmelo I think Carmelo took a big bump in that one but I don’t remember who did on Dr th help me out yeah it was on D tossed him off the ladder onto the other ladder it was like a suplex on the ladder yeah yeah that was a good one the whole thing was fun did you see The Botch did you see The Botch the the the Damen priest Rollins yeah Damen screwed that up I went I went immediately went Twitter searching for it to see and I didn’t really see a lot of people like I was tweet I was doing searches for like WWE and messed up and that kind of stuff and nothing popped up but it’s like confirmed now among wrestling uh enthusiasts yes they screwed that up yeah he was clearly supposed to tap out there the the ref like I don’t I mean I don’t know what you do if you’re the referee like you can’t you the thing’s supposed to go a certain way if you count to three Rollins is the champion and that is not what anybody had planned right so I don’t I don’t know what you do there besides just not count to three and you just got to explain it after for the fact do do I do I remember it correctly it was like one two and it was like they stopped is still laying down shoulders down yeah so it was tough I like Damen priest you could tell he was bothered by it too like he knew he screwed that whole thing up solo pin Cody rhods is that where we’re headed next Solo seoa versus Cody rhods I’m gonna be honest with you you’re bored with solo I just I need to see a little bit more in ring I like I like everything he’s doing outside of the ring and this whole bloodline everything like in ring I think there’s a little bit to be desired little more to be desired he leaves something to be desired like that ain’t Main Event level I’m just being honest we need Roman to come back and and handle this I know that’s happening like if I’m going to be honest with you I’m not so sure Jacob Fatu shouldn’t be the leader of the bloodline right now he took that RKO and just popped right up maybe he needs to maybe he needs put his name in he acknowledges solo as his tribal Chief I think that’s a Miss oh I think that’s a mistake on his part I think he could be the tribal the the what is it the fill in tribal Chief fill in tribal Chief I think Jacob Fat’s got a case he’s a wild one he’s crazy he’s got those wild eyes he’s got wild eyes at fad does yeah he’s wild he’s a crazy one so tonight on RAW 7:00 USA we get it’s the it’s the the first episode since money in the bank can’t wait for that and then uh I told you I was going to finish the bear this weekend I didn’t but I’m close are you finished oh no I don’t know am I making you nervous about the time no I’m good go ahead go over to commercial pill.com de Michael Cole’s got a new piece on the grizzly assistant coaches from this weekend so if you haven’t read that yet demichel Co commercialappeal.com what’s on tap for tomorrow well tomorrow is Tuesday so we’ll be looking back at the Grizzlies first Summer League game that’s tonight in Salt Lake uh City Chris Verner joined me in studio can’t wait for that enjoy the rest of your day there we are I’ll enjoy mine am I making you nervous no no no no something weird was going on I didn’t know what happened you keep looking like I’m not like I I got a clock in front of me to I’m getting out of no no let’s go ahead I’m getting out of this talk to again tomorrow at 10 till then be careful be kind be good rep your hood
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they just doing some freak ish ..lol
Watching from Toronto Canada. Cheering for the Big Maple.