The Phoenix Suns suffered a disappointing 107.96 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on the road this past Sunday. Since February 8th, they have won only five games. They are five and 12 and are currently in 11th place in the Western Conference, but they are less than two games outside of the play in tournament. If the Suns don't make the play in tournament, what should they do this offseason?
It don't matter if they make it or they don't. The same rules apply for their offseason. They try to come in direct. This does not work and I told you guys that the Phoenix Suns were not going to work because they never had a point guard and they went and got Bradley Beale and Demi Booker and KB and that does not work.
They were basketball perspective. I know they went and got Trey. What's his last name? Lyskate Cat.
Trey Jones. They went and got him, but that wasn't enough. He's not really a starting level point guard for the whole year. Like, can he play spot?
Starting point guard, but it's of course, but he's not a starter like that. But it's a rap kid. They can't even cast the Dallas Mavericks and they are decimated by injury. And this team is fully healthy.
I don't know if you see the interactions between KD and Booty-Hoser. KD is out of it. He don't give a damn about this team. He obviously didn't want to get traded to the Warriors.
He obviously didn't want to get traded mid-season. So that's the reason why they moved. But at the end of the day, KD is out of there. This was a dumpster fire.
David Jones needs to be fired based off of the egregious moves that he has made. Because from a basketball perspective, this is a big game. Yes, James Jones. James Jones.
And it's Ties Jones. It's Ties Jones. It's a point guard. Yeah.
But yeah, it's a rap kid. Let me ask you some. Why are you giving KD so much bill? This is where I wanted to conversation go ahead people.
So because my thing is this with KD. KD is a year. What? How old is KD?
KD is almost wrong. LeBron 40 years old. Right on do that. No, no, wait, hold on.
But I give LeBron the same bill. I'm not putting all the weight of the franchise all LeBron's shoulders anymore. That was young LeBron. That was young KD.
At this version, when you get to this age, is KD, you perform at a high level. And everybody else, like you need to find that other guy that you put the weight on their shoulders to carry the franchise. The older guy just playing your game and be productive. KD has always done that for his entire career.
I always got on KD when he was younger and OKC got on KD with Golden State. But at this point in his career, this is the twilight of the career. Can you just play at a high level, which he's doing that? So to me, it's the Phoenix Suns that have wasted another great year of Kevin Durant, not the other way around.
Hmm. This is great. Okay, Bradley bill, no trade clause. Was that Washington?
Washington. Yeah. Go ahead, Smite. I see why Russell Westbrook had the type of relationship that he had with KD.
Like it's all coming to fruition more. I understand if for what you're saying, the sense of the team may be built wrong. But I have arguably one of the 15 best basketball players of all time. We're just talking about skill set, sample.
It's something I need a seven feet talk to shoot from anywhere. And time after time after time, all he's did is underachieve. And then you giving him the same belt out of the mainstream media, give him and that he expects him. Everybody is like, Oh, I did my job.
Sometimes I didn't enough, bro. Sometimes you got to show up and do more than what's expected of you and be the leader and be the person that people think you are. That's my team. Because you hold the rights in the face.
Don't don't don't bring up the rent. Carmelo is not as good as Kevin Durant. Don't do that. From a scoring standpoint.
Yes. I don't want to go on a standpoint. Yes. But we talk from an overall player standpoint.
If I have Kevin Durant on my team, bro, I'm expecting to win and do things and everywhere he goes. If he ain't got Steph Curry and he ain't got Draymond Green and he ain't got Clay Thompson. He can't get it done. And it's time people still like calling him out about it.
This ain't old James Jones. This is on Kevin Durant, bro. He did this in Brooklyn. He did this in Oklahoma City.
He doing this sitting now in Phoenix. People argue that Devin book is one of the top two guards in the league. No one argue. No, no, no, no.
He real quick. He's because I know it's Nick. He's not going to call him number one. That's fine.
And he good enough to play out of position. You know, he got Kevin Durant on my team. No. This is way too much Kevin Durant, bro.
This is only him. This is his fault. Just like, uh, Brooklyn was his fault. And Oklahoma City was his fault.
Brooklyn was not his fault. They were a successful team that a pinky toe. Did it allow them to get to the crowd. That's what he's doing.
He hit the shot. He hit the shot. He went over time because of him. We're going to take you on that.
And here he won the game. Here's the thing about Kevin Durant. So don't put me in the same category as the mass public media because you could before you was on the show and can't get a test before Nick was on the show before shelter was on his show. I called out Kevin Durant and I will always talk about the series that he had against the Memphis Grizzlies where he went down the stretch and missed big free throws.
He missed big shots. He Kevin Durant has been a disappointment outside of the Golden State years when it comes to winning championships, right? I don't disagree. At that point in his career, I held him at that standard.
So if we're not going to hold abroad, James at the standard of the way, the way the world at your shoulder to win a championship, got to give us a bell to KV. Because at this point, he's not, you can't, I don't disagree. And there's pride? I threw every dart at KV.
He's no longer in his pride. He's just playing at a high level. Seth Curry's no longer in his pride. He's just playing at a high level.
So you know you're going to bring some reason into this conversation. Yeah, man. I mean, everyone, people talking about something, you can't blame Kevin Durant but you gotta blame him even if you talk about there's no piece around him because this nigga wanted It's not just got traded down nowhere. He asked to go to Phoenix.
So you can say him and Deaf and Booker are saying, this nigga knew that before he got there. And when he got there, he didn't make it happen. And they had to get it happen. And they didn't stop.
The same way he named his blame LeBron. He didn't trade for Bradley Bill. But hey, he didn't get it. That's like, they say not to happen.
Because the same way he blamed LeBron for us, he did not say, no, I don't want Bradley Bill here. So now, can you take some of this too, man? And I'm not saying like it's all with him, but majority of this shit is funny because how is this a track record? Because the track record, bro, it would be different.
Thank you. He was just like, oh, this is the first time he got there. And he really did nothing. He didn't do it.
Okay. See, like Spike said, he ain't doing it, bro. He's like, okay, see the championship. And when you win it, and then, because the same way you hold LeBron to that standard, he's a top 15 players.
We're talking to him. He was saying, look, look, we're talking to him, but he didn't win it. You didn't win it. LeBron went to multiple championships and didn't win.
What are you talking about? Like, when you had a win, he has won it. But he has won it. The championship for a Booby Gibson was the best player on his team.
Besides. I got you that thought of it. Because if you say LeBron, what was that team? What did Katie win with?
No, no, I'm saying I was just, you didn't let me finish. He LeBron went to a stack team to win, just like, hey, do you know what I'm saying? Like, like, what are we talking about here? He didn't know that when he cleave you on a stack team?
That was a stack team to compare to what people said. He said he said he said he had a shot. And the average of it. Through 56 games, KB is played 37 minutes shooting 52.6%.
So let's ride out of the 53 for the field. He's shooting 42% for three, 83% for the free-door line. 63.11. What did I have?
What did I have? The team is going to 11th place. Game is going to our division. Game is going to our division too.
What the fuck did he? Game is going to our division too. It don't mean it. James Harden never led a team to the finals, as the best player.
Oh, man. So that's why that's why. That's why, you know, when Steph was never his number two. One of the greatest basketball players in the history of basketball was never his number two.
Steph was one B. He was one B. He was not even number two. He was number two.
He was number two. He was one B. A top ten big band of all time. Jaylen, all those girls, they were the best player on that team.
Kevin Durant. OK, so that's what I want to hear about. The CD, the average. Who's ranked higher all time?
Who's ranked higher all time? Who's ranked higher all time? Because of Kevin Durant. Yes, Steph was ranked higher all time.
They got two rings without Kevin Durant. What the fuck do you mean? He got two rings without Kevin Durant. If Steph had only had two rings and didn't have the other two with KD, he would not be ranked high as he is.
Let's keep it. He does. The goal is to say where is not to raise that. You can't raise that.
You can't raise that. You can't raise that. You can't raise that. You can't raise that.
What do you talk about? What do you talk about? I'm saying the pedestal that y'all put Steph on, it's based on a foundation that KD helped build. That goal is to say where does not happen without KD.
I think it's it's my biggest business. I'm saying that the foundation, of course, is the players they drafted. But the foundation of the dynasty is built on top of Kevin Durant too. They don't have the dynasty without Kevin Durant.
No, you win without Kevin Durant. No, I'm trying to get it. No, I'm trying to get it. No, because again, these comparisons don't make sense, because it's not KD in that scenario.
It's a top 50 player all the time. So it's not. You're not making any action. I'm spiking wild.
And Jalen, and Jalen, and Jalen, and Jalen, this is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. I don't know if this is P-Folce Point, but like, what I feel like is what we're going to do in revisionist history is that people are going to shit on Kevin Durant's legacy. Like, he wasn't as good as he is, even till this day.
Like, of course, I'm not taking blame away from him completely as far as like, yes, has he failed in certain moments in any part of his career where you could put a lot of blame on him as the best player? Of course, he could do that with a lot of players. But let's not act like he is not a top 15, top 20 all-time player. Let's not act like he didn't help build that Gildensay Warriors dynasty, because they bent him.
They bent him to come there. They bent him to come there. And let's hold on. Let me, let's talk about the best years the Brooklyn Nets have in the last decade have come off for Kevin Durant's tenure.
They don't come off anything else. Because like, like, people mentioned that toe, that toe, that toe on the line, they could have went to the Eastern Conference Finals if it wasn't for that toe. Because he made the shot, his foot was too big. Pause.
So my thing is when him going to the Phoenix Suns, this makes the whole thing, we're taking out one part of the big blame is, because we're just two things. One, Katie has always told you he is not a leader. He does not want the leadership role. He's been told that he's been told that I know it's crazy to sound like because we always say the best player to be the leader, but he has never wanted that.
He's always, I just want to hoop. The other thing is, where the hell is this energy for Devin Booker? I thought this Phoenix Suns team with Devin Booker's team can. I thought that Devin Booker was supposed to be one of the best players, one of his position, if not the best players position.
Why are we not talking about Devin Booker? This motherfucker was up to O in the NBA Finals and didn't steal the deal. As the best player on that team, that's what y'all say. So we're talking about Kevin Durant in this team with the Phoenix Suns.
Where is the case that he made about Devin Booker and his things? Again, Kevin Durant does deserve a piece of this pie, but it's not a majority piece of my opinion, because he, like people said, came to that team as the mercenary. He's not the heart and soul of the team. Just like y'all say that he wasn't the heart and soul to go to state.
That was Steph Curry. That was Steph Curry. That was Steph Curry's team. They always say that.
So that's what I'm saying. You can't have it two ways. I'm a few a couple of things you just say. So first things first, I don't want to get a ton of line.
She's the next day I have five minutes to win again. So I'll have bullshit y'all talking about with Tony Lin. You have a whole overtime game. Did they shoot LeBron?
When LeBron had... Everyone's out. He's so excited. What are you talking about?
Man, they can do this. I'm saying when LeBron was in the finals and he had an amazing game one and J.J. Aw, Smith, that shit up. And that whole overtime game, he still had overtime win.
Can't do this shit, bro. Do this shit with them Kevin Durant and the J. Because it wasn't the time they could compare and KD and LeBron. And they would have hit.
So now we move in different... We move in the polls. Can I show a question right before? Because like people said, don't confuse us with the mass media.
Can anybody ever in this group as far as I'm doing this? Ever compare Kevin Durant to LeBron as far as they are on the same level? No, but y'all giving him... So why?
I don't know why. I don't think anybody in the right mind would say that. It was that conversation taking place. But we never had it.
That's what I'm saying. We all want to say. I don't think the four of us, or five of us, have never had that conversation. Exactly.
Because we know what it is. That's what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.
You clearly are. That's what I'm saying right now. It's about Kevin Booker. You're not even in this conversation.
He is. Everybody involved has a piece of this entire pie. What I'm saying is Kevin, the rat out of the players has the smallest piece of the pie. Out of the players who have the biggest piece of the pie is what's the name?
Bradley Beale. Partly not doing this. In the history of basketball. In the history of basketball.
Let me see. No, I don't. Bradley Beale is the odd man. He's the odd man.
He's the one that don't fit. He's the one that they put on the bench. He's the one that, hey, you know what I got to change your game for. What you just tell me about ever mobile.
He don't have the same thing applies to Bradley Beale. The exact same. I'm not giving Bradley Beale. He may be a scorer.
Just give him over your talented and ain't tapped into that talent. Bradley Beale ain't tapped into the four talent in the one of years. They're going to get Bradley Beale. It's the same thing.
They traded for him and he don't fit. The person that deserves the biggest blade for this league is the executive of top. What's his name? I want to call him.
I think it's all right. So nobody. Nick's not making me try to take away from him being the top 15 blade of my same disc. No, Nick, you can be a top tier talent and steal fuck up and be held responsible for your fuck ups.
All right. I want to correct you. Nobody taking away from his talent. Let me interrupt you real quick.
The little just said that Scottie Pippity is just as good as Kevin. All right. But even when you say that it's on the executive make the mix is not making moves without Katie and Devin Booker have input. You think it was going to trade Bradley Beale without any input.
They could have nixed that shit immediately. Just the same way, Katie nixed this trade this year to the Warriors. He nixed that shit and they stopped it. And he got a new trade cause.
He was like, no, we're going to respect the winner. Katie takes fault in this. But you're going to get a big piece of that vibe. You're going to my point as far as, yes, there is a piece of pie for Kevin Durant to have.
But Devin Booker is in this conversation because we're talking about the Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix Suns were built around Devin Booker. Yes, Mark. No, no, because ever since they traded for Katie, ever since they traded for Katie, they haven't been just built around Devin Booker.
It's built around both of these niggas. And I'm going to build that. But Katie made a decision to go there. I'm saying Devin Booker has some laymen in this.
But it's not as big as Katie because Katie made a decision to leave Brooklyn and go to Phoenix. He made a decision to do that. And he's better. And Kevin Durant is better than Booker.
That's unquestionable. But my thing is, I can't give Booker a bigger piece of the pie than Kevin Durant if he's better. The context of Katie leaving Brooklyn was because Brooklyn was like fucking Dumpsterfire when he left. Because he ran a dumpsterfire.
No, he did not. He was the only stability apart of the Brooklyn Nets because Kyrie didn't want to take the vaccine and Harden was built like Luther. And that's what he was like. I can't win.
Katie went to Brooklyn and he said, I want to play with Kyrie and a guy Kyrie. And then Kyrie did that bullshit to talk about. He also said that I want to play with James Harden. And they brought James Harden in.
And he stopped pulling James Harden shit. He always does. I mean, Katie can't be absolved from orchestrating these teams doing the behind the scenes shit, acting like I got this much power. And now when it's on me to make the team succeed, oh, I just want to play basketball.
You can't have it both ways. It don't work that way. And that's the reason why he gets the majority of the blame. In his last two situations.
And you can even add OKC in it because he was the one that decided to leave when they were in the finals. And almost there, he's the one that decided to do that. All of the situations that he's been in is because of him. That's why he gets the majority of the blame for all of this.
And even you are the you talking about Brooklyn, Brooklyn being a diversifying. Yeah, OK, all right, the scene was bad. And I go this nigga chose again. He chose Phoenix Nick and he like he had Miami and Phoenix as the two options he wanted to go to.
He chose Phoenix. He allowed that trade to go through at the trade. We all woke up to that trade. And we knew that he wanted to go to Phoenix.
There was 28 other teams he could have went to. And he chose Phoenix. So you chose this destination. You chose this.
You chose this. You have to take blame in this. And I'm saying major piece of the blame. Because you are a big piece of the scene.
All I'm saying is this. I'm not absolving Katie from any blame. I'm not saying that he is blameless. And I'm not saying that he's innocent.
And he's done nothing wrong. He has done things wrong. I eat going to Phoenix in the first place. But what I'm also trying to say is that there's context for everything that we're talking about that doesn't paint that paints him in a light where it's like I can kind of see how you got to that point.
Even though you still made a bad decision. And even with that context, Devon Booker is still a big part of the Phoenix Suns. He's the only one that's going to be left after Katie leaves and what they do with Bradley Bill. And this team will still be built around Devon Booker just like it was before, just like it is now, just like it will be afterwards.
So that's what I'm saying. I don't understand how he isn't a part of this conversation when we're talking about the Phoenix Suns at home because Katie's basically out door. So I'm like, we can have this Katie conversation. But legacy wise, I will always defend Katie legacy wise because he is a fucking all-timer.
And we keep on talking about him like he's a Scotty Pippin. No one can do it. The reason why Booker is being absolved for this version of the Phoenix Suns is because nobody gives a fuck about Devon Booker and more everything he lost to finals. That's just, he's just falling from grace in terms of and coverage, and part of that is because they are losing.
Katie is and has always been a superstar, even coming out of Texas when he came to the league. And he's going to have and garner the most attention on anything that he goes to. And as everybody said, he wanted to go there. He also wanted Bradley Bill there too, which then that's the other issue.
So he pushed for Bradley Bill because he wanted to say in roster construction. So he's number one, Booker too, Bradley Bill three because he doesn't want to wave his straight and no trade clause. Oh, you can leave with the GM. I think the GM, I mean, you know, I think he could not have pulled the trigger.
So maybe he's third because he did go get Bradley Bill and he should have known that it probably would not fit. You cannot pass up a chance to get Katie, especially at the way he was playing at the time. It sounds like a no-brainer, but it just did not work. This other move that he did not work.
And Fifo rightly, as he said it, stated before, he said it wasn't going to work. But I think what's next for them is what Ishmael is saying. Booker, Booker is next. Katie's out of there.
I don't know how he's going to get rid of Bradley Bill, but now moving forward, this thing will be built around every Booker and make that conversation about Booker. And whether or not he truly can be that guy on the team will be answered. And this is why one of my flowers, we need to have a segment about giving my flowers. For what?
I've been told y'all that Devin Booker wasn't that negative for years now. He was an over-hyped score at best. He's a life-game Bradley Bill. He's a rich Bradley Bill.
That's all that. He's a rich man's Bradley Bill. He was the only one that showed up in the finals. Was he?
Yes. What happened? What happened? He gave four to six kids.
Chris Paul, as Chris Paul is often known to do, sit the bed, bro. You blame it on Chris Paul. It's 45, what he went to that final. He went that old week.
He's not playing that old week. He doesn't have to play all the way. He's got to play all the way to the finals. If Devin Booker had a solid number two in the finals, they would have had a chance.
He had his number two. Wither away throughout the final. He ain't going to play. He ain't going to play with old.
And he ain't going to play with old. He ain't going to play with old. I didn't even play with old. My thing is Chris Paul is the highlight of the Phoenix Suns era of the last 10 years because before he got there, it wasn't doing shit.
It wasn't doing shit. And when Chris Paul got there, he led them. He helped lead them as the leader of the team in my opinion. It was final.
He wasn't instructed well enough. He helped lead them to the finals, though. Booker didn't get them there. No, the Booker teams that he had, they were not good teams.
No, they don't team the best player. He's always the same thing, bro. So then I'm so glad to set that down. Because then why?
Because exactly, we were talking about this right now with Kevin Durant. You're blaming Kevin Durant. Well, at least one of y'all are blaming Kevin Durant for not being the leader because he is the best player. But we know there's contents where an I didn't say it.
I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Wait, wait, wait. I'll clear it.
I'll clear it. I'm saying you're I said I'm talking about Luke. I can clear it up. I'm not blaming him for not being a leader.
I'm blaming him for not being impactful. You read these stats off to me. And you're talking about a team that's in the 11th seed in the West currently. Yeah.
So you read these stats to me. Don't mean shit. I don't give a fuck what Kevin Durant doing. And he's still ain't being impactful enough to lead his team to at least a play in.
And that doesn't happen. It's Roger. OK, OK. And real quick, Ross, the roster I was talking about.
The book of rosters where the ones before Chris Ball got there, not the roster that went to the finals. It was a couple of years. I can name it. There's a whole bunch of things.
I can name it. Go ahead. I'm saying I'm not saying you're wrong. This is a bad roster.
But players like Kevin Durant, the expectation is even if you're not a leader, your talent will supersede all the things that are wrong. That's why I pay Kevin Durant Kevin Durant money. You can shake your head all you want to. I'm just saying that's what supposed to happen.
When I was here. I'm like the right. We're here. We're here.
We're here. We're leaders do that. Leaders overcome. He's not a leader.
CP always over. Now you say I see I see more and more while Russell West was going to fuck with him. I don't know about what was the rest of the day. I see every day why he would take his hand and why he wouldn't fuck with him.
Because all that shit you're saying knows is like that's that's that's that's little just just the last episode we were on. I think we're the Lakers and number two in the West. And now he was just number two. So right now the sons are like again.
And they're coming here. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish.
The sons are one game out of the 10th spot to be in the playing tournament. So it's time next week they could be in the playoffs. Me. They could be in the game.
Me. Me. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
You thought it all with something that was deceiving. You know, broader. You know, I'm going to run or I'm only bringing up to say that the rankings and the list is just I said currently currently right now. I'm looking at.
They can get into. How much you got to do to play in and make it one of the playoffs as much as I got in. Thank you. Thank you.
So no. I got a spike. That was very good. The playing behind that.
That's crazy. It's fucking crazy. And by next week they'll be in the playing tournament for about it. And that's because they're going to get in there.
As long as they get in there. I mean, they got two games doing it. They better show it with two games. He'll get his arrest.
He should have picked that trade from Miami. He should have went to Miami for Jimmy Love. That's what we're going to best like with sauce. Well, if we if we get in the playoffs, I don't think we're going to get in the playoffs.
I don't think that we're easy out for anybody. Yeah, me too. I'm with you. I think you got to be the first to be a easy out.
I mean, the next thing is going to be the second round. You got to bring up the Knicks. Just like I'll bring up the Saints. You got to bring up the Knicks.
Hey, but I'm watching my team. What? Whatever. That's what you're saying.
I don't care. We're just like the Saints. You put that same back on your hands. Talking to those words like that.
As you guys the Saints. I want to hear none of that shit. All I'm saying is I got Katie fucked up. Katie deserves more.
Katie got Katie.