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Are the Timberwolves Contenders?

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0:00 - Video starts 4:44 - Peter King speculates Bears will trade back two times, to the 8th pick. And bring in a haul of 9 first round & second round picks in 2025 & 2026 draft. Would you do this? 24:24 - Is Lebron's era in LA a success or a failure with only 1 ring? 42:42 - Do you believe Minnesota Timberwolves will hold on to the 1 seed, will the Warriors make the play in? 1:08:00 - Shelton against the spread 1:17:00 - New EA Sports college football game will pay athletes $600 for their NIL to use in the game. 1:23:00 - Which Free agent Running back would take? A. Saquan Barkley B. Tony Pollard C. Josh Jacobs D. Derrick Henry E. Austin Ekeler Join this channel to get access to the perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBAK1zxiH-uuU7TvblsKLGQ/join SUBSCRIBE on iTunes: http://apple.co/2oJH8d3 SUBSCRIBE to get the latest Dead End Sports content: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=deadendsports Follow Ken on Twitter: @Kennithbinge Follow Shelton J on Twitter: @sheltonjones33 Follow Raf on Twitter: @Feefo247 Follow Nicky Dusse on Twitter: @wesisi11 Follow Spike Lou on Twitter: @IamSPiKELoU About Dead End Sports: Dead End Sports is the place where sports opinions collide! Every Tuesday and Thursday at 9 P.M. ET, we recap the week's biggest news stories in the #NBA, #NFL, #MLB, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's what we want. 25, I have 120 plus points. That's what we have in one of the time. Three, let's go to the end of the season.

What's the most important? It's like five. They got a hell of a team. They call a lazy.

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Hell no. That's all your love. Oh, you know what I'm saying? The kids are still out of the mat.

Oh, shit. Oh, man. Damn, which one of those was hers? I just, I was, I was, I was, I was.

Yeah, you did. That's what I was like. That's why I was like, that's why I was like. We back on for another week.

We had some basketball after all started in two plays. So, we are glad. God forbid we got to talk about what the basketball. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah. So, anyways, so we thank you guys for being with us. Let's do it quick.

Like, show us quick. Yo, yo, yo, yo. I'm gonna blow a bullet up. So, y'all already heard of it.

Cut it myself now. This is my goal. Please, yeah. What music?

What's your problem? What music? Oh, okay. Anyway, anyway, the meet-up day, man.

We sound like this jamming. Jamming, bro. Y'all chill out. Y'all chill out.

All right. Well, if we are, yeah, they keep it. Got real, not too Julian. I saw your message in Patreon.

I think that was you. Without ladies' episode. Kanye. So, new episode of Mr.

Mysolow is ill on is out now for the patrons that went up front about 18 minutes ago. And yesterday, the second episode with all due disrespect dropped where I posed the question is Kanye West to be a fan. They I said on the part though. That even half of it.

Y'all really want that sign up for the Patreon and make sure that you're tapping in with Nick Ken and myself, man. That ain't even the half of it. You don't get the uncutter all. You know how Nick can get that.

Oh, man. You already know. I'm going to change that up. But yeah, I saw your comment Julian.

I'll reply because I think you made some really good points. But anyway, you guys are not here for that. Also, there's a third episode we already recorded that product. So, that would be dropping in March.

So, yeah. Anyway, cool. Patreon out from the problematic boys. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to take that as a compliment. Safe. Anyway, so let's get into it, man.

We are in basketball season, but there was some NFL news that dropped because we do have the draft upcoming right? Yeah, April and calm our stuff or whatever. We got, you know, that's the, uh, whatever. I was going to make a slavery joke.

I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. But Peter Kane, Peter Kane who's plugged in to certain things. Well, you got to be careful with Peter Kane because he, uh, he hears stuff.

He reports stuff, but he values his relationship. So take that for what it is. So he ain't going to go too, too far. He's going to be very, I'm reporting just, you know, what I know of what I mean.

This is me, not something I mean, told. Right. He's trying to be very vague. Yeah.

He rarely going to go controversial. But with this one though, he speculates that the Bears would trade back two times to the eighth pick and bring in a hall of nine first round and second round picks in 2025 and 2026. Wow. He's the smart move.

Oh, well, that's a smart move. It's a smart move. Is that a smart move from a franchise that passed up on Patrick Mahomes and first of all, first of all, a lot of people passed up on Pat Mahomes. So let's wait.

Let's be parenthetically passed up on Pat Mahomes and the show. I would say the Sean Watson, because he was a known commodity at the time. I understand all that. Um, so would you do that?

Would you risk doing that again? Would you risk me and like, no, people are saying this is the number one quarterback prospect in the last however many years there's always the Bears and I'm going to be like, you know what, I'm going to go. You know what? Yes.

It's a smart decision. It's a smart decision because just like they made the move last year, they didn't know that they were going to have the number one overall pick. Right. And now it looks like like an extra like a genius decision.

And now if you're talking about in the next three to five drafts, you have multiple first round picks. That makes sense because if guess what? If we miss on, uh, uh, Caleb Williams now, we'll get the next generational guy down the road because it's not like Justin Fields is complete trash. It's not like he's Trey Lance, right?

I was saying it because Trey Lance, but the guy was, no, no, no, no, I'm saying that because I was a Trey Lance guy. He was a guy. He was. Right.

Um, I like the arm. I knew that the mental wasn't there. He hadn't played enough football, but that's not necessarily the case with Justin Fields. It's just a thing of fits.

You know what I'm saying? I think he still has a ceiling that he hasn't reached. We've seen flashes and I think we're all young players regardless of sport that we're talking about, I got to see something. You got to show me something even if it's not consistent, we know that the Bears organization has not been consistent.

So if you can move down multiple times, get draft picks in the next three to five drafts in the first round, to me, you make that move because you know what? Even in this draft, if you move down to eight, you're still going to grab another talented piece for this current Chicago, Chicago Bears. So to me, that is the smart play to play the long game because you have no commitments to Justin Fields. You don't.

If you trade back, you have commitments. No, you don't. How? I'm trading back now after we signed it.

No, you're at the very least. No, at the very least, I got a franchise tag tag. I can't go. I can't trade back and pass up on Caleb Williams and possibly Drake May when two of the prospects that they've seen in the last couple of years, I can't trade back and be like, you know what?

I miss those two, but maybe I'll get the next two. Really? Yeah. Every year that there's always a top quarterback.

But you said something earlier that stands out and you said generational talent. Every year there's not a generational talent. I agree. And you don't, you know, this is not mad.

I'm saying all the time, you don't play with fire. You did play with fire last year and it benefited you in the long run. They won. They struck gold.

They traded. Got, they got, not only did they get a great player and DJ Moore, they got the number one pick this year with the generational quarterback in Caleb possible anyway. You have to decide it's one decision to make whether it's Justin Fields or Caleb Williams. That's your decision.

If you just decide to stick with Justin Fields, I don't know if I trade back twice. It's on what that eight slot holds, but I will trade back at least once. If I'm trading back from Justin Fields, I'm trading back thinking that I have my quarterback. Oh, yeah.

I don't need the first. You're not doing, I don't need the second. I don't need Drake. So I can't trade back, get more collateral.

And now I got more to help Justin Fields. You do. Yeah. That's my thought process.

But yeah, my problem with that would be is I'm not so that Justin Fields or Matt Eberfrues, I would fuck you say his name. I'm not even so that that's going to be my coach for the long term. So if I do trade back out of the number one pick, I'm giving him now more time when he's saying, oh, I got to develop Justin Fields. I got to get another offensive coordinator.

And we just got all of this talent. I'm not doing that if I'm the Bears, bro. I want to put you on the clock. I want to put Justin Fields on the clock because your contract is up.

I need to take advantage of one of those first two picks. I'm not trading all the way back to eight or nine and helping build a team around a quarterback or a coach that I don't know that's going to be there for the long term. You put your trade back and I think you're something to the eight pick. I just did a lucky bro.

They already have the eight pick who the Bears. I want to say they have nine. So you would have eight and nine. Oh, then what do they want to do?

I don't think they do. They have two first round picks. I want to pick an eight person eight or nine. So if you trade back to eight, you have eight and nine.

I was going to say, according to this mock draft, Jay Jay McCarthy. Oh my God. Absolutely not. I mean, you load up on picks and then you can go to get the white one.

That's one of that. He's not the move. He is going to break the draft. Yeah, they didn't because the best is the second round third round.

What about you? He's going to be a great backup. You grab at that point, you grab my league neighbors. You grab, you know what I'm saying?

We know I'm guessing junior golf. He's going to help Justin Fields. Correct. Look, regardless of whether the quarterback is, you're going to need weapons.

Right. If you trade that pick, you're keeping just a few. No, no, no, no, no, just because you're going to quarterback. You're going to win.

That's your man. If you trade that, that's your guy. Why? Because you have a Williams right there.

Yeah, you take your general. You said, you're right. You don't catch him coming out next year. No, ain't no general.

You're going to raise him. You're going to do this. So if you don't want to take him and you trade back and go all the way back. No, no, I didn't want to say quarterback take him and then I think they should fire it.

even if it was anyway because who's driving at eight? Falcons. They're saying the five is going to trade up. Well, now they have.

Oh, they should. You have a foul. They want to go to the back too. I know they do, but they have been rumblings that they're willing to take Justin Fields.

Well, that's it. Yeah. And that's what he's saying. So they would give them the number one pick.

No, no, no, no. No, the Falcons will give them number eight. The Falcons will probably get them. They would give up for fields, probably a one or two and another pick for next year.

And then they'll have eight and then they'll trade that one for something else for something else. That's what they're saying. So all that means is the bad. All that means is the bad.

All that means is whatever we're saying, whatever else. It's just like Peter King said, all that means, if you're saying what the Falcons do, the bears move down to eight or nine and they already got the night. They would have to because if Justin Fields is going to Atlanta, Atlanta will be giving something up to be just a field. Yeah.

If Justin Fields goes to Atlanta, they're gonna give up. If Justin Fields goes to Atlanta, they give up the eighth and a one and a two. That's what Peter King is saying. Yes, because if the what he's saying is if the bears straight down to eight or nine next year, they position themselves to have three number one picks.

That's kind of nice. It does sound nice, but it's just two tools. Like I said, it's just and in the next year, you got two ones and two tools again. That's next to the house.

But Justin Fields. That's a hard for if you. Yeah. And I can get Kaitlyn with you.

And if Justin Fields can play, you get the right OC. Right. You might be all right. You got all that young talent.

If you hit on the pitch, of course, you've got to have somebody know how to draft. I was looking at something interesting. I'm into I forgot what I did with it, but Kaitlyn Williams, I mean, Justin Fields stats were really similar. I think over the last 10 games to Lamar Jackson.

They had like the same stats. Crazy. It was 20 games. I'm not.

You saw that too. They're stats were almost. I'm not doing that. What you say to that spite?

I'm not doing that. But it's fair to say that it's not fair to mention Justin Fields in it. And I'm watching it to say that Lamar had arguably the best defensive football arguably. That's right.

The top three defense top five defense. Like Lamar. That's what super duper. He's a lot better than just it's also fair to say Mark Andrews is the top three tight end in the league.

It's also fair to say that. That's they flowers. He was hurting what you wanted to see. I understand.

But he's still a man. And DJ more would add up to flowers. These are more is better than flowers. Even better.

That's better. That's better. That's better. I don't think this is a bad player.

I think they have a bad coach. This win. Did you hear that? Well, I don't know Chicago.

That's what I'm saying. He's been horrible. He's not good for Chicago is what I'm saying. I don't think he's terrible.

But I don't think that he will work with the dude they have in place. No. There's definitely a clip of you saying Justin Fields is terrible. You were.

You got it. You going to tear me. You got it. I'm not going to say good.

Would you wear a black or just a field. I'm not saying just. I really think it. At least that know how we're in regular season game.

That's where the line is. Man. I don't say so. I was out of win regular season games.

That was a forefront pick. That's just a field. That was a second pick. That was a forefront pick.

Just a field. What's the second pick? You don't have to go nippy again. Oh, that.

No, no. I'm not a deck supporter at all. Don't try to paint me as such. I'm just saying I would take him over just the fields.

Yes. But I do feel like if Justin Fields got out of Chicago because Chicago is not a good brand organization, then he may be able to be better than he is. I did say he was terrible throughout the season. I will admit that.

All I'm saying is if he left Atlanta, if he went to Atlanta, if he went to whoever needs a quarterback other than Chicago, then he has a chance to be good. Chicago has a proof of that. Look at that, bro. It's the same guy.

Same guy. Same guy. I don't even want to. I'll let you read that with go ahead.

Seventeen games, man. And the last seventeen games. What was the stats? The last twenty nine total touchdowns down forty one hundred yards.

Twenty yards nineteen giveaways eighty four rating. Jackson twenty four total touchdowns down forty four hundred yards. Fifteen giveaways ninety four rating. What wins?

What is the win? What is the win? Lost college. That's team.

Yeah. I understand what you guys are saying. Justin Fields could have taken the Ravens to the same peak Lamar Jackson did the season. I'm saying that.

That's not the same. Okay. I'm saying is if Justin Fields has had the ability that John Harbaugh has given that organization, we can look at Justin Fields different today. I don't know.

I'm going to ask him more. He has talent. He does. Not as much as it's the more Jackson.

Well, Lamar Jackson came into the league and he wasn't very accurate. He was better. He was better. He was better than Justin Fields.

You're one of two. These two should not even be mentioned in the same conversation. The one Jackson has two MVPs. Okay.

And Justin Fields don't have a five wins season, but Justin Fields has the ceiling to hit that. I'm not saying that he does. I'm saying he has it. I'm saying he has it.

I don't listen. Yeah. I can. Like I said, you know, and I'm not once again, I don't think he's as good as Mar Jackson.

But what I'm saying is, you know, he's not. Yeah, I know that. But in different circumstances and we'll be talking differently. If he had more, like you said, if you had better coach, you know, a defensive at least you might be talking about, you know, some of a little different and you surrounding him with talent.

You finally put in town and it plays. That's the one thing we talked about. First up, you guys, my question to you too, if you are in the decision-making capacity in Chicago, what's your decision that you make? Like trade Justin Fields, or do I bring in a new quarterback and start over with the same coach that will win Justin Fields?

I'm in all honesty. For me, where the bears are now, I'm taking the pics, which is the reason why you keep it and keeping. Um, I have to see what options are on the table. But me personally, I believe that justice still has a very high ceiling.

And we just had and I'm talking obviously as the bears organization, we haven't done our job to make sure that we're allowing this quarterback to grow in the best way possible. Um, obviously as a GM and as an owner, you're always going to believe that you're doing your best to have that type of growth. But if we're looking at the reality of the situation, they haven't. You know, last year was the first year, remember, I went into the preseason and say, hey, look, I think I might like the bears because DJ Moore co-comment, you know, I saw the weapons that are Tyler Scott, you know, I saw the weapons that it just, it ain't come together.

You can have all of the weapons, but if you don't have a scheme, that don't mean nothing. So again, they got, you know, they got a lot of, they have a lot of moving pieces. And he personally, if they pay me the half a million dollars a million dollars that they pay a GM, I'm keeping Justin. And I'm trading back and I'm getting a whole bunch of future first round picks.

And you'll be fired. I'm just going to say, if you don't win next year, what happens then? Yeah. Because Justin's contract is, though, so you got to resign him or franchise check, whatever you want to do, you got to fire the coach.

Now I got a new coach. You just fired a coach this year. You would invite a coach if they don't have a good season this year. To me, you know, what constitutes necessarily good season because the playoffs, no, for them is not necessarily wins and losses.

It's about how are they performing in this year? That was this year. But you fired the coach. So now it's my culture and development.

Their coach is still there. This is it. This is going to be the second year in it. No, it's been much longer than that.

Am I wrong? Matt Eberfus has been there for at least three or four years. So now if you go into this year where you guys, oh, we had a good season with a couple of games, Justin Fields Show flashes, but we still didn't go to the playoffs, you can't do that again next season, especially even after you traded draft picks, if he doesn't have a good season this year, he's getting fired. When did they?

Yeah. Yeah, he's going into a second year. He just completed the second year. That's what it is.

He's going into a third year. I would have fired the coach. If I was a kid left for me, this year. Yeah.

I would have fired the coach. It would really depend on where they felt like the development of the quarterback was. But me personally, I think that Y'all said Justin Fields' development was good though. I thought he'd be a decent, but my is I would start over.

I would go ahead and draft Caleb Williams because I do feel like he's a general race hotel. I saw and the fact that once again, you start over on that Ricky contract, I would test the the fields and I would trade that eight-bit wheel around. Before we move on, what would you say is Caleb Williams biggest not? Because for me, it's mental toughness.

They say that about him, but that's the same. I didn't say it that way. The way he was off the field stuff. That don't really bother me.

What I'm watching for you is a quote. I'd rather be at home watching Netflix with my dog and my family. That don't really bother me. What I see on the field is what I'm most impressed with.

And the fact that he was driving a Latin team this year, that team was void of talent. And even though he was a lot of the sheep, I can't remember his name. Yeah, he had a couple of players. I'm not saying any of them.

Okay. They had Marcia and Lloyd running back. They had some talent. But what I'm saying is he was dragging that team at times.

He was playing behind those week. A lot of pressure. He was getting a job done. He's even in losses.

He was playing. Would you take him over to that? No, he's not. He's not a generalist quarterback.

No, he's not a generalist quarterback. You say it without getting rid of Taylor Hertz now for him? He's right now. Would you take him over to that?

No. And you can't, the reason why you can't say it. He's been to the Super Bowl. He's not a Super Bowl.

He's been to the Super Bowl. It's not a generalist. It's not a generalist. It's not a generalist offense.

Taylor Hertz is not a generalist offense. You made it to a Super Bowl. a place you say when I heard generational talent you would have read that right gotten further than that press I don't ask you all want to know his ain't a heart of generation we don't know of any of our yet we don't know the big I tell you what I tell you what I tell you what I tell you what producer James right just right just know he's been a startup he's been a starter three years and NFL I haven't made it to the playoffs I want to know his generation of talent he's gonna fight you generate that yes no I don't think I don't think all the court I said I started to tell but but I went take my chance okay now from USC is general rights hotel I say could be we don't know we really don't know but I rather take my chances with him over a player that has not made it just feels they made it playoffs let on to Super Bowl like like Taylor hurt his dinner has an evil but I'm a bad guy alright we're y'all funny Stephen a Smith I didn't hear this clip but you know Stephen a is always a potting about something but he said he is losing faith in the Lakers and interesting I was listening to a podcast was one of the joints on the Cowboys volume thing and and I really skip over this but I wanted to hear this because they were talking about Garvey Hamm this was in January I asked whether or not he's his job is in jeopardy so I wanted to hear if they had any inside information this was after a bad loss of the heat without Jimmy Butler and they were just really just talking about his rotations his insistacy game management you know yeah it just kind of all over the place in terms of defensive scheme this and so they were looking at some of those things that may get him out of the bottom left and etc. So since then they started to play a little bit but they started to kind of consistently make games ain't been on it that role last year but their number 10 or number nine I think now well who is players are we'll be it looks like anyway that's not you know that I think they'll get it going but the question is with one ring would you view LeBron's tenure in LA as a successful one a hundred percent because not his tenure with the Lakers has been successful because not every not every free agent that has gone there has garnered a championship and championships it's not like they're growing trees at all you know saying look at just the last 10 years how many teams have won a championship the fact that that LeBron is in his lighter stages of his career and has won one it was worth the price that they paid to get him whatever you're paying him on and off the court worth it they brought him back to prominence look at how long it was between championships from when LeBron wanted to the last time Kobe had one one it'll actually shock you I'm not gonna say that y'all got the Google's y'all's on the computer right now go put it in the chat also did you see what I had since y'all on IG the Lakers this season this season and LeBron's 21st season in the NBA when LeBron is on the court they're plus 91 when he's off the court they're negative 110 and year 21 so he must be off the court a lot but all you know what that being said what that being said yes any owner will do anything that it takes to if you tell any owner in NBA hey look we guarantee you one chance in the next five years everyone is gonna take that deal so as basically you're saying that in a difference all the way but the comparison I have is what the Rams did yeah 100% they would do it again the Rams with mortgage all of that draft capital again whatever it's a it's a big market it's you know Colin Conhart always says it's an I 100% agree when you are dealing with a transient city meaning that there's so many things to pull people's attention right talking attention time talking this we talk about the other major sports brands that are in that same city you damn right I want your attention so I'm gonna mortgage whatever I gotta do to make sure that you glued to my TV so much of my programs my entertainment so yes the Lakers would do it again yes it was worth everything that they did to get that one championship I lost something when he said transient I ain't no way we got that word out all I was trans all that I was coming to you and you saying to beat you what you got shelter I agree with you people on the fact that it was worth it but not for the same reason you met more for the box all the championship to me was was nice but still it was a bubble championship so it's kind of you know how y'all know how I felt about the bubble I felt like there was an aspect by it and I wasn't alone a lot of people thought that way but just the fact that but a lot of I think that way everybody that was in that bubble they all even matter for them you always looking at it from the inside you gotta get it from the fans for space because that's where it matters most is that I mean I get what you're saying but there's players there were outside the bubble that didn't even play in the ball so that therefore to me you didn't you didn't face all the competition so it don't really I mean it matters but it don't it's just like this insides and tournaments same thing it's kind of like it weighed but it did but the point of it is in the box office it made all the difference in the world a legacy of primetime they still even today when they're mediocre everybody's tuning in and it ain't about AD it's LeBron also so in saying that you got the biggest name in sports with the biggest team in sports that's the perfect marriage and that's what it's been this whole time I disagree I think that since it was a bubble championship like you said as the Lakers we didn't get to cash in on the home playoff games the finals games we didn't get to cash in on those things that's what we brought LeBron here for it and every other season outside of the bubble we in the 10c when the playing tournament I got a wonder of AD is healthy when I bring LeBron to town I'm expecting a like perennial finals Western Conference Championship a year eight I don't know beyond what year it is bro I brought you to town to win not to struggle to be in the play in game but they went to the Western Conference finals last year they did luckily luckily luckily they did you hear you hear that I said well I was like two games in the first two rounds right if I'm Jenny bus the owner of the Lakers I'm happy that they did go to West Conference but my expectation is for that to happen every year not just in the bubble we planned in Orlando and it ain't no fans and I can't make no money off this and all you lucked up and did it last year because it was a week away well we a week Western Conference and you left up and you want to have the cameras to stay nice who won the championship I think it was the way it was a Western team right the Western Conference what did you talk about how was it week it was week in the sense of LeBron James and a mediocre team drug themselves to the West of Colorado times as LeBron James drug to the conference we're talking about we're talking about the rotation of the Lakers I'm bringing LeBron James in and I'm signing up to pay him all of this money to be LeBron James uh-huh here what you're talking about needed to happen I don't need to be in the play in games doing 10th 11c wondering if we're gonna make a blast just like this year so it's our irrelevant right now they're not there never be real if I'm a little brawnist of the face I'll be smooches was barking was there and it was irrelevant they were always relevant the Lakers will always be with me brawn James I shouldn't be as relevant as I was with smooches barker I should be a lot more relevant they are because LeBron is the face of the second all we talk about is him struggling yeah I'm gonna make the story are they gonna make the play last year yeah they still made the Western Conference and at the end of the day LeBron has been there four years and out of those four years he got your championship he made the playoffs three out of the four years and one Western Conference when I pay a free agent to come in I pay it to be something like Shaq not like LeBron yeah but you're like no it's relevant when you when they went and got Shaq was 24 years old we talked about not even in his prime yet you're pretty prime shambly you got LeBron you got end of the road LeBron yeah and you're the same you got the Lakers paper end of the road LeBron yes it is that's why he's there and they got rain and they got rain on him yes and they still sell out they're still selling out this is like you guys there I know the Lakers and the franchise and what they bring to the table I'm just saying I would be satisfied if I were in ownership and this is what I got out of the LeBron Jara what would you be every year I don't want to be in the Tennessee but like you went to the finals wait wait wait wait I'm confused so you're the owner you sign LeBron James you get a ring and you're not satisfied yes that's true because I want to be more relevant LeBron went to eight then eight finals straight right if I'm the Lakers I signed LeBron because I want to be in the finals every year no that's not the LeBron that you signed the LeBron if you wanted that you should you should you should have been you should have moved heaven and earth and do whatever the Miami Heat didn't got him to LA then that's number one number two is this who would you say is the face of the NBA right now today windy hell no joke no I don't know I don't know I'm not even what why not he's close yeah he's right there's only the one that I would say okay cool everybody ain't nobody else you're tuning in for LeBron James yes this article this article is I tell you right now watch basketball that's only reason why nobody's tuning in to watch LeBron yes they are yes they are yes they are no right here no no crazy in the New York Times in New York Times in New York South say why LeBron James let I call him along and nobody put anybody put a lot of people on my own play bro they did they do is only because he played well they put up for LeBron because there's the brine fans period LeBron James why he's worth a hundred million dollars in the Lakers win or lose if all he did was went back to my game that would be more than up but his value goes beyond the court that tells you right there tell me nothing it does like LeBron James has a hell of a marketing campaign yes great and I understand why he's LeBron James but you don't watch basketball anymore to see LeBron James but yes you yes I hope I'm off top five as I hope you did at least for my power okay okay nobody to watch LeBron I play anyway you tripping you you're way off the rocker LeBron let's give the don't know nobody but LeBron nice it's not you they know stuff curd never people shoot by the you realize there's still people who like save their money up to see LeBron just for that one time they come in yeah trying to do that last run during the door and New York Nick fans were at the garden and they were excited like they were hoping LeBron would just do a game winner or something because they were like this gonna be the last time we'll be able to see Brian look he came to see Brian look show I mean excuse me sailing they were hoping in year 38 that old man could steal muster up one more game but it would be like oh man I heard he was great all this time and now I get to go see in play so what's the difference with Ron when you go see Steph Curry when you go see other bad ways like crazy to see Kobe and his last company even on Kobe was beating down even on my just with the wizards next was still going to see Mike and Michael was not Mike anymore and that's my point based off legacy not based off legacy he's our check it for now I thought I'm saying they're not checking for him to do like he was doing in Miami or Cleveland or when he was in his prime only checking for him because of his resume correct and that's all I'm saying you don't go check you don't go check for Anthony El was because his resume you think he's gonna do some spectacular he's a phenomenal presence in the game right now damn I can't believe what I just saw LeBron James is no no longer doing I can't believe what I just saw in the audience is yes and I'm a breeze something up I want to say that I shared this with Sean may have not this is the longest active streak of school old man said no no it's not old people said that's not old people said the longest active street scoring ten plus points a game this is not what I said that's on here Devin Booker 25 Games bank Carol 26 games a I do not.

Or I don't imagine because he could be a potential face of the league. That means that no one's done. Yeah, it's a 35 games. They'm lulu 39 games.

Trey Trey young 48 games. Jay deal just Alexander 40 games scoring 10 plus points a game. Right. The honest 57 games.

Kyrie 79 games. And be a hundred and 67 games where he scored 10 plus points. Do you want to know how many points or how many games will burn his score 10 plus points? You mean the person who's considered as the second greatest basketball player ever.

And this was published January 25th. So obviously this is a little old. So this is beyond January 25th of this year. Yeah.

LeBron has scored 10 plus points in every game for 1,191 games. Hey. And the next closest person is Joellen V with 167. That is why he's still the face of the league, bro.

That's the same. That's 21 years. He has never scored less than 10 points in a game. Bro, people are not showing up to watch LeBron James.

What's in point? You just brought up Anthony. He's average. He's average.

He's amazing. And I'm not taking anything. That's why he's the face of these games. When we're talking about people showing up to watch exciting basketball in 2024.

It's not LeBron James. You're going to show up to watch. Yes. Yes.

The same Anthony Edwards that may or may not hold on to the number one seat. Y'all think that's going to happen? The same Anthony Edwards that may have to go up against LeBron James in the first round? Yes.

Who you think have a buzz in the seat? Have a what? A what's in the seat? Who didn't come to see the house.

Who's a household name in 2000? Everybody want to see that, bro? They're going to see LeBron. LeBron is still the biggest basketball.

This is his name. On the front. They showing up for to see what the possibilities not. What Anthony Edwards could do.

No, no, no. No, no. They want to see a 40 year old and what a 40 year old is doing that has never been done before. He's going to never been done before.

He's going to go 10 points another time. That's what's going on. He averages. He's going to be average.

He's going to be 10 points. He's going to be the same. He's going to do that though. Ain't going to be no mesmerizing dunks.

It ain't going to be no. No, you're watching. You're watching 41 year old man out here compete and doing. He's doing a great job.

He's not going to do what he's talking about. No, he's not. No, he's not. He still plays a full court game.

Meaning that he'll grab a rebound push the ball. He's not going to be full. I had a question for Spike. Spike is LeBron James, a top team.

And now you're infected with top 15 player. He's a top 15 player. He's a top 15 player. He's a top 15 player.

How are the top 15 players? The top 15 players. When you get to the top 20 people aren't checking for like 15 through 20 at all. Tell me the other 15 through 20 players or the ones right in his area that they're checking for.

Give me those players. I see all in the chat. They say that I'm a novice fan and who don't watch enough. But tell me who else in tier 12 through 15, your people are paying for tickets to see.

You saw like a shot. I'm a cancer. I'm a cancer. You know, Don and Mitchell is probably probably an epic.

He's probably like 90. He hired a 12 to 15. Give me a turn on the ball. He's not.

He's not. He's not. He's off the seat. Just show up to see right now.

You can stay home. You can come back when football sees the start. What you saying? You crazy.

You crazy in a mix. Okay. Where do you have LeBron? That's crazy.

That is crazy. He stopped. He stopped. He stopped.

He stopped. And last last question. Let's talk about the Timmoo. So we were watching a game.

Yes, it's a car bar because Spike. I'm trying to say Spike. I was saying he ain't watching games since Vancouver is like. They're cool.

But they were playing the books. Yes. Had a lead to halftime completely went crazy and blew it. Yes.

Got back with his sister. You said this is why you don't believe in him. Yes. So are you concerned about them holding on to the more and see?

And if they do hold it, are you concerned about them in the first round? It depends on who their matchup is. So they definitely don't want to see the Lakers. I think that they can bully the Golden State Warriors, but obviously they still have championship medal.

So that's just no cake walk. I think that they'll probably hold the number one seed because Denver is not, Denver don't care about the number one seed. Denver cares about being healthy. When you are, when you've already won a championship, it's not about quote unquote being the best, get to the dance.

And when we get to the dance, we'll be fine. When did that change? Oh, because the Warriors always wanted to. But the Warriors were a different type of dynasty.

The Bronx changed it. Because it was like the Bronx. You just need to get out of the Bronx. Yeah, I just need to eat.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pre pre Miami, yes.

I'm saying. But in terms of where Denver is right now, I don't think that they're really concerned with getting the number one seed. They just want home-coded advantage as long as possible. Get their healthy.

OKC and Minnesota, they're gunning for the number one seed because what they're trying to do is establish who they are in this league and set a bar so that way that they can always be measured against their own bar. I think Minnesota will finish number one. They're healthy right now. Obviously, Edwards is amazing.

But breaking down that game, Ken, and we saw it live together, you saw that Minnesota, and this goes for all younger teams. And obviously, I don't know Minnesota got some vets called Carl Anthony Town's event, but he has no playoff. Nothing. Rudy Gobert hasn't done nothing in the playoffs, but he is a vet.

The only one that you can really rely on is my Connolly. But my Connolly is also a diminished version of what he once was with the Memphis Grizzlies, right? All that being said, when it gets tight and those possessions slow up. And at the end of the day, when you're playing playoff, I'm playing you potentially seven times.

I know what you want to do. I know what your strengths and weaknesses are. How are you going to overcome those things? We saw systematically Milwaukee get stops and buckets when they needed to.

Why? Because the only person on that team for the most part that doesn't have that championship medal is they. Everybody else for the most part, Robin Lopez or Burke Lopez or the both of the Lopez's, they want a championship there. Y'all just we already know how to 50 piece in a championship game to seal it, right?

I know Chris Middleton and they play, but at the end of the day, can that core, they know what to do. And Doc is one of championship. You know how we feel about Doc. I feel like everybody feels about Doc.

And at the end of the day, they have championship medal and the Minnesota Timberwolves do not. That's the reason why I say I don't believe in OKC going into the playoffs, depending in that first round, who they match up against. You say OKC, it's your turnovers. Either one.

They're both young teams that have not gotten the ass who put in the playoffs yet. They're talented, immensely talented. But what experience are you going to draw on when the when what you want to do gets taken away? And then the second thing you want to do gets taken away.

Can you get your third, fourth and fifth option? Can you do that? They have no they look at what happened to Sacramento last year. Yeah.

What happened to him? Well, you think OKC is going to get it. I think OKC is going to win the number of C. But they say the game's a bottom though.

No, they're tired. They're tired right now. I think in the East, OK, I think in the East, the difference between one and two is the same as one and eight's boss. Oh, got you.

Yeah. Yeah, boss and seven years. Seven and a half. Yeah, that's seven and a half.

And one to eight is seven and a half in the West. The problem that they're both going to face though is they're going to fight to the finish. They're both going hard trying to get number one seed playoff start. These other teams like you said, they're already now ready.

Let's let them up. And y'all are trying to run down the stretch. Y'all don't know they don't know how to pace themselves. They're not ready for the seven game series.

And those that seven, eight, nine team this year's flip flop. So you got like those teams that would normally be at the top at the bottom. But these guys, they pay themselves and they get ready for playoffs and they go out there and do what they supposed to do. I'm scared to death.

If I'm Minnesota scared to death for playing go to state because you got Steph. If you play Dallas, I'm scared to death play Dallas because you got Luca and Kyrie. If I'm playing a leg because I'm scared to death because I got LeBron and AD. These are all playoff teams playoff metal.

These guys are ready to go. And we young and experience. Yeah, you got a couple of people with some experience, but these guys aren't really like, like, they can't be ready for that. So yeah, they can't ready to defend a normal.

No, not at all. Not against the likes of those guys. What type of playoff success has he ever had? I asked.

Yeah, they ain't got to defend this year. That's the Mississippi. So y'all would expect them, y'all would bet y'all money that they would lose their first round game. Depending on the match up.

Yeah, it still depends on the match up, but I don't have that faith to bet my money that they win it. Yeah, 100%. Even as a number one, it doesn't matter. It does not matter.

It's probably not matter. They got some experience, right? They have some experience. They played, I mean, they played last year down.

Who do they play in the first round last year? They did that play in game. That's what they would bark and all about. Yeah, because they won that game against Paul Jordan.

Who do Paul Jordan? It might have been the Clippers. Yeah, that's still not enough. That's not enough to go out to pressure being the number one seed or even the number two seed against those.

Y'all say because they're going? Yes. No, because they're not talented. No, it's shouldn't be talented.

It shouldn't be talented. You got to be talented. In the playoffs. They played the nuggets.

No, who did they beat? I think they all played the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the nuggets. Minnesota got swept by the nuggets.

No, they didn't beat the nuggets. No, they didn't beat the nuggets. No, they didn't beat the nuggets. Who did they beat?

They played the nuggets. The Clippers, the Clippers, it was. That's why I thought I remember Paul Jordan. So that's experience, bro.

It's experience in a play and game, but not in the playoffs. No, no, no, they got some other nuggets in the first round. But I'm saying they haven't won anything. So, no, no, I'm one more.

I'm one more. I'm saying they need to get to the playoffs to get that growing pains and experience of losing and suffering the feet. And he's saying they played the world champions. That's what happened.

I'm saying that I'm saying that I'm saying that it was an experience of winning in these big games, but these, like I said, this is different. It'll be different of you coming in without the pressure of number one seed. I was a seven or eight seed as a Minnesota Temple of theme. I ain't got no play.

I'm playing with House Money that point, but if I come in at number one seed and I got to play still, I feel like I got Anthony L was a young superstar. I got cat who feel like he revolutionized the game. He said that I did. He said that.

And I traded for gold beer. If I get the number one seed, I feel like I deserved it. I'm not saying that I don't like if I'm going to see that as a GM or the owner. I think I should win this series.

I feel you. Yeah. However, if and I don't bet, but if I was a betting man and you're going against the Lakers, I'm only on the Lakers. I'm going to put my money on you.

Okay. See, we got a correction in the chat. Okay. Thank you.

You know what I'm saying? And here's the thing. So what you were going to Minnesota does have more experience than OKC does, you know, again, depending on the matchup, Minnesota should and could win their first round. I don't know who it's going to be just yet.

Okay. See, I will put more money against them than I would Minnesota because they have zero playoff experience and all of them catches young. I was saying, I put my money on SDO with anybody. So I still would take OKC over.

So it's shade of best player between like all the players from Minnesota and Oklahoma City. I don't think she is bad. I'm here in experience. I'm here in not knowing I'm here.

They need to get beat. And then I yourself and say you're going to say SGA who doesn't be any of those qualifications. Over those, I was saying I know those two squads. I still think that he is the best player in the.

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