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A highlight from Part 1: USAs World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and The OC 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
"Coming up, an unexpected two -part podcast cameo from me. It's next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we turned over Sean Fennesey and Amanda Dobbins' big picture feed to Brian Raftery. It's a narrative podcast called, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. You can find it on the big picture starting on Tuesday. And it is an idea I'm really excited about because it came from a class that I did as a senior in college in 1992. Me and my friend Horgs talked a movies professor into doing a special Vietnam War movies class where we watched basically every Vietnam War movie that had been made up to 1992 and then tried to write a big picture term paper about it. And the thing that was really fascinating about that class and something that stuck with me was just that whole concept of Hollywood reinventing the entire Vietnam experience under the premise of, Did We Get to Win This Time? So we got Brian involved and he turned the idea into an awesome, awesome podcast. I even went and dug up the term paper that I wrote 31 years ago. I thought it was gonna be horrendous. It wasn't bad. I was kind of proud of myself, retroactively 31 years later. Anyway, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. It is gonna be in the big picture podcast starting on Tuesday. So that's one piece of business. Second, new rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 300th movie that we've done. It's a special one. We're doing National Lampoon's Vacation. It was time. Meet Chris Ryan, Van Lathan. Yeah, and Van was pushing for it because we wanted to do Christmas Vacation during the holidays and you can't do Christmas Vacation. If we do National Lampoon's Vacation, super fun. Can't wait for you to listen to it. And we'll be running the video at some point on the YouTube channel, youtube .com slash Bill Simmons, where we put up a whole bunch of rewatchables podcasts in case you missed it. Boogie Nights is up there now. Goodfellas, Independence Day, just a slew of them. So if you're bored and you wanna throw on some rewatchables and watch us make fun of each other, there you go. Last but not least, I don't wanna say this is the most important, but it's certainly the thing I spent the most time on. Our documentary that we did about the G League with Religion of Sports and Ringer Films, we combined, and it is premiering on Tuesday, August 8th. It is called Destination NBA, A G League Odyssey. It's really good. We immersed ourselves into the G League season. We followed Scoot Henderson, Gabe York, Ryan Terrell, Mason Jones, and Denzel Valentine. And the big question was, what is this world like? What's it like to be in the G League? And I am really proud of where we landed with it. And we even have, much later in this podcast, Gabe York is gonna come on. He's one of the five that we followed, and he's gonna tell us what it's like as you're holding on to your dream in your late 20s. We try not to spoil the doc too much with Gabe, but I really liked him. He's probably the guy that jumps out of the doc in the most sympathetic way. So look forward for you to watch it. It is prime video, Tuesday, August 8th, Destination NBA. A G League Odyssey. You love basketball, just watch it, it's good. So there you go. This is gonna be part one of a two -part podcast. Gabe is coming up later. My daughter Zoe Simmons is coming up later because we did a whole bunch of OC stuff on the Prestige TV podcast. I was even on two of the episodes. But I ended up watching season one of the OC. And my daughter was watching with us and loved the show. And she was born a year and a half after it premiered. So me and her broke down season one from the perspective of what is it like when somebody 18 watches the OC, a show that is now two decades old. The anniversary was actually August 6th. And what she liked, what she didn't like, what people aren't doing anymore for her kind of audience. And we just dove into it. So that is much later. First, coming out of the gate, I'm gonna open a six -pack because we have a lot to discuss over the past three weeks, all the stuff I missed. So that's gonna be part one. And then part two, which is gonna go up later on Sunday night, me and Rossello doing this evergreen idea that we've always wanted to do. And this seemed like the perfect time because nothing's happening in basketball. So that's gonna be part two later tonight. Part one coming up. First, our friends from ProJax. What's up? All right, I'm taping this. It is Sunday afternoon Pacific time. And I'm gonna open a six -pack. There's a bunch of stories in sports and culture that happened over the last three weeks. I was just writing stuff down, things that would have been fun for podcast segments. I was just like, man, I wish I could have given my thoughts on that. Just gonna rip through them. So I have six and then maybe a couple bonus ones at the end. The first one, the biggest one, was the US women's soccer team, which lost today in penalty kicks to Sweden, scored zero goals in the last two games, scored one goal in the last three games, and that was off a corner kick. You could feel from the beginning that something was off with this team. It was all the ways. You knew in a checklist of what are the red flags? There were just red flags galore. And the only person who was really calling it out in time over and over again was Carli Lloyd, who was doing the Fox studio show. And she was the one person in the horror movie who knows the house is haunted. And everyone's like, shut up. You're not being patriotic. You just wish you were still on the team. She was right. She was right from the get -go. This team, you could see it before the Vietnam game when it was like, look at the new Nike suits. Look at these new suits. And they're all like styling as they head into the locker room. And they're running commercials. And every player has a commercial. There's players who've never done anything of that commercials. And the vibe was just off. They only beat Vietnam three -nothing in a bracket where goal differential was gonna be super -duper important. And that was a huge red flag. And we did the usual thing that we've been doing since 2019, 2015 of, oh, well, they almost scored a bunch of times. Oh, well, if that had gone in or some bad luck. There was just an arrogance to this team. Like they were carrying themselves like the defending champs, the same way like the Denver Nuggets would go into next NBA season. Like we're the champs. I was like, yeah, you are the champs because the season just happened. The World Cup happened four years ago. Everyone's four years older or wasn't on the team. And you could see they wanted to build the team instead of around the identity of, here are these new up and coming awesome stars that are gonna be in your life. They were really latching on to Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan's 34, Megan Rapinoe's 37. I think one of the differences between the discourse with women's sports and men's sports is that in men's sports, we grasp for angles. And if somebody is disappointing in some way, we really go nuts. Like think of how James Harden's been treated over the last 12 years. So he's one of the 35 best players ever and has taken just an incredible amount of shit. Oh my God, the playoffs, look at his game log. Oh, he choked again. Alex Morgan, who scored twice in her first two games in the World Cup in 2011, she scored once in 2015 in seven games. She scored six times in 2019, five against Thailand in a game that was 13 to nothing, one in the other six, and then scored nothing in the four games this time around. If you take away that Thailand game, she has scored two goals in the last 17 World Cup games. This is the striker. This is the one who's supposed to be the most dangerous player in the field, who's supposed to produce goals. And she hasn't produced goals since the mid 2010s on the national level. And yet it's Alex Morgan. She was supposed to be the next one. We got to keep propping her up and pretending she's a superstar. She's not a superstar. She's really honestly never been a superstar. She certainly hasn't been as impactful as somebody like Abby Wambach was. So you have the team built around her. She's got to play. They play her the entire game, game two, the entire game, game three. She plays like 95 minutes in this game today, and they don't score goals. And the announcers just won't talk about it. It's like being on an AYSO team that your kid's on, and the coach is playing somebody at striker, and everyone's like, why don't they play Sally at striker instead of the coach's daughter? It's like, oh, you know, the coach's daughter. She's got to play there. So you have that, and then you have Rapinoe, who's 37 years old, who's just, unfortunately, great career, legendary, true legend, huge big time player. And when you hit your late 30s in soccer, it's a wrap. She looked like Yudana Rapinoe, not big Rapinoe, and comes out for the last 25 minutes of this game and can't do anything, and then misses the penalty kick. That's the thing. If you're beholden to past performance, you can't expect to succeed in the moment. And I did feel like, what were this team's strengths? Speed. They had Sophia Smith, who really was bad the last three games on the left wing. Like, she just, she couldn't even connect passes. Trinity Rodman, who's a beast. Lynn Williams, who's super fast and athletic and had some really nice moments the last two games. And then Alyssa Thompson, who's the prodigy, who's the, you know, potential tiger or LeBron of this team. 18 years old, best high school player I've ever had. They won't even throw her out there. But this was not a team that could connect passes. They weren't, like, especially creative. The coaching was just bizarre, and we'll never see that guy again. But it was like, the one thing they did have was speed, especially the forwards, and they just threw that away. And Alex, you know, couldn't do anything. So now they're out. It's the most disappointing finish of the last 25 years for the women's team. And it reminds me in a lot of ways that 2004 Olympic basketball team that we had, the USA team. And I tweeted this, I think after the second game, because that was a team that was between eras, like this one was, where all the best players on that 2014, the ones in their primes, weren't that good, except for Duncan. And Duncan was completely banged up. He'd played so many NBA games the last couple of years. I think his knee was hurt. But, you know, it was Iverson and Marbury. The talent, it just was a between eras. And you had guys on the bench, like LeBron and Carmelo and Wade, who were four years away. Kobe wasn't on the team. And it just felt generationally, like we caught that team in the wrong time. The style was wrong. And we learned all these lessons and we moved on. 2008, we win. There's a documentary about it. But this team felt like it was between eras. The Alex Morgan, Rapinoe era, which was basically done. And then you have this era coming up with Rodman and Sophia Smith and Alyssa. And, you know, it's just four years from now, we'll probably be fine. But they need to re -imagine this. And I think if you're gonna learn any lesson from this, it doesn't matter what happened four years ago. It's the World Cup. It matters what's happening now. So that's one thing. Second thing. So Jaylen Brown gets this huge contract, $304 million. Some people seem surprised that it was that much money. Chris Ryan even took a shot at it when we did our library watchables. Hurt my feelings a tiny bit. Mainly because I didn't really have a comeback. Rosella did something on his podcast about how this actually makes sense. This amount of money, when you think of how the salary cap has climbed just since 2015, and it's gonna keep climbing. And there's this world you can go into where you think about just how much everything is gonna cost in the NBA four or five years from now, that Jaylen Brown at $70 million isn't actually gonna be that intimidating. The same way we feel about Tobias Harris for $40 million now, or Klay Thompson, $40 million now. Yeah, you don't really wanna pay $40 million for Klay Thompson, but you can survive it. And I think that's gonna be where the Celtics land with Jaylen. Here's why they had to do it. They're the favorites on FanDuel right now. They're plus 470. The thing that made them the most special and has made them the most special for the last five, six years is the Jaylen Brown -Jason Tatum combo. They've been incredibly successful. The team itself has made five conference finals in the last seven years. They came super close to making the finals last year. I have now gone into the what if zone with that Celtics team where what if Tatum doesn't hurt his ankle on the first play? Do we beat Miami? They were close is the point. And when you're that close, you can't fuck around. This is not Bradley Beal resigning with Washington for 50 million a year when everybody knows you can't get past the eight seed with Bradley Beal. This is different. You're trying to win a title. You're trying to keep all your optionality open. The thing that's a little scary about it, nobody seems to totally know if he wants to be in Boston. This is something we've discussed on this pod. It's been floating out there. The fact that he wasn't happy about landing in the Kevin Durant trade rumors a couple years ago. And just in general, where the league is now, where as Woj called it, the transfer portal, where people get their contract first and then they decide what they want to do. And I think for the Celtics, they know they bought themselves a year with Jalen and they are still one of the favorites to win the title. And a lot of it's going to depend on health and Porzingis. You could also, I don't want to make the case, but you might be able to make the case that Brown had a fucked up hand last year. Cause he did. Cause he sliced his hand open. It was bleeding even during the Philly series. And maybe that was why his ball handling went sideways. Listen, you got to do the contract. It just breaks your brain. I remember a million years ago, Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports say every year they would have like a salary issue. And they would talk about these guys are making $1 million a year. And it seemed like so much money. And now where we're heading with the money, plus the NBA is the meteorites deal. The moment any of these guys becomes unhappy, what do you do? Because you're paying Jalen, let's say you're paying him 55 million a year. Plus he is the trade kicker, which the team has to pay. Right? So if he decides after a year, you know what? I'm tired of being the scapegoat. Everybody loves Jason. I'm like the middle brother of this team. I want my own team. I want to go to Houston or Atlanta. You got to trade me. What are the Celtics going to do? On top of who would want out, you don't have a lot of options and you turn into what the situation Portland's in with Deem. And then on top of it, it's so much money. It's impossible to get any sort of a fair trade for the guy. So they had to do it. And optionality the that comes out of it is frightening. I remember in the early 2000s, when the first time the contracts kind of went nuts and you would see that people get signing like six -year, $100 million deals, seven -year, $110 million deals. And the Celtics really, really stupidly traded for Vin Baker. One of the worst trades of the last 30 years for Boston Sports. A trade so bad, you knew it instantaneously. And I wrote a piece that you can probably find somewhere in the ESPN archives about it, where I compared it to the end of Thelma Louise when Harvey Keitel is running toward the cliff trying to stop the car from going off the cliff. That's how I thought about the Vin Baker trade when it happened. Then it happens and you just had this salary albatross. It's a salary cap league. And you're like, wow, we just threw away 20 % of our salary cap on this trade. There's going to be a couple of those that are just franchise killers. And whether that leads to them bringing back the amnesty clause, who knows? I wish, I've made this, I've had this idea before. I wish that they had a rule in there that if you drafted a guy, every year that he stays in the team, you get rewarded in some way from a salary cap luxury tax type thing, right? So Jaylen was 2016 draft, this would be his eighth year. Maybe like after the seventh year, because that's usually like the third contract. The guy stays in the team, maybe each year after that, he doesn't count for 2 % of the luxury tax, up to like 30%, something like that. The point is the Warriors should be rewarded for keeping Draymond and Klay and Curry from a tax standpoint, that they were that smart to draft those guys, keep those guys together. They should be incentivized, the players, to want to stay with them because there's some luxury tax stuff that the team gets. And the team should want to be incentivized to take care of those guys because it's also beneficial to them. I just wish they figured out some version of that rule. Anyway, Jaylen was always signing for $304 million. Talk to me in a year, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Next thing, I missed the running back pity party. This was crazy. The running backs all got together and they were really upset about how much money they made. And I don't know what to tell you. There's too many running backs and not enough running back spots. And I don't know if you're trying to build a responsible salary cap team in a collectively bargained era, why would you spend $30 million over two years on a running back unless the running back was awesome? Nobody even wants to spend more than $11 million on running back. So I knew that this was crazy when Damien Harris, who was on the Patriots, who I thought was really good. He's maybe not an elite running back, but a good running back, right? Somebody that if he had been on the Chiefs, he easily could have started for the Chiefs. And he signed with the Bills for like one year, 2 million. And when that happened, combined with Pacheco on the Chiefs' seventh round pick, they won the Super Bowl with him. It's just, this position's devalued. I work on this player, I've been actually working on it the last couple of weeks where I try to rank the players for blue chippers, red chippers, pink chippers, honorable mention, and have this whole point system. And so quarterbacks, Mahomes, who's the alpha of that position, he's worth 10 points. And you could even see this in the point spread. If Mahomes gets hurt, the Chiefs are 10 points, nine points, whatever, less than what they would be as a favorite. They'd switch to an underdog. And you go on down the line. Jalen Hurts, I had him as an eight. I had Joe Burrow as a nine. And you go on, you keep going down, and it's like, Geno Smith's probably a two. But then you look at some of the other positions and you have to value them the same way the salary cap values them and teams value them. Guards, they aren't worth that much. Running backs, sorry, they're not worth that much. My top running back was three points because ultimately running backs don't really matter that much. In the last like five, six years, I would say Derrick Henry was the only running back that you could definitively say, this guy almost won the Super Bowl. Like he was that good. Other than that, you know, it's plug and play, quarterbacks, it's receivers. It's much harder to find the number one receiver. Every team needs one. It's much more tangible if you don't have the number one receiver. And it's much easier to just kind of scrap together the running back position. And yet people went nuts about this. We ironically had this in the NBA with centers. You know, Vucevic, who's a really good offensive player, he signed for 60 million for three years, 20 million a year. And Jaylen Brown's going to make $52 million a year. Is Jaylen Brown two and a half times better than Vucevic? No, it's just, he plays a way more important position. You can only play one center at a time. You can patch together the center position. You could have like Isaiah Hartenstein for $8 million. You could, you know, get Robert Williams for 16. You don't need to spend what Phoenix did on Eaton where they're paying $8 and $30 million a year at center. And you don't really need to do that. You kind of feel obligated if you don't want to lose the asset. But I think the NBA is going to go this way eventually where unless it is Jokic or Embiid, the center or Bam Adebayo, it's a bonus. You could argue that was already an overpay. They gave him a huge extension. The Lakers just gave Anthony Davis $60 million a year as an extension. I would argue that's a little frightening. I feel like you could patch together the center position. What really matters in basketball is having the creator. And this was the argument five years ago with Luka versus Eaton for the number one pick. And I made this argument. It was like, go look at who wins the NBA title every year. It's always the people who have the creator. There's somebody who's on the perimeter of the ball in their hands. Even Jokic, who wins the title this year, he was a creator. He's not a typical center, right? He's basically their point guard on offense who could post up. So this happened in the NBA. Nobody went nuts. And this is happening in football. And is this where football is. If you want to make the most amount of money playing in the NFL, I don't know why you would be a running back. I would be a cornerback. I would be a wide receiver. I'd be an edge rusher. But if you're a running back, you know your shelf life's probably like five, six years. You know the money is not totally gonna be there. Now they're in this, like you have people like JK Dobbins, like, I might hold out. It's like, really? You didn't barely even play in the field. Barkley said he was gonna hold out. And then, you know, probably looked at it. And the money for Barkley is like 10, 11 million. That's unfortunately the market. So you can't fix this. They collectively bargained it. And until we get to the next CBA, I don't know how you fix it. I thought it was really weird. It felt like people had nothing to talk about. And it was like, ah, let's feel bad for running backs. All right, let's take a break. And then I'm gonna finish the rest of the six pack. All right, picking up on the six pack. We're gonna talk a little more football. I talked about the running back pity party. This is a different kind of party. The Jets optimism, which has just been stunning to me over the course of July. I have Jets fans in my life. These are people that usually have no hope and are very reminiscent of the pre -2004 Red Sox fans, just assuming the worst at all times. Why does God hate us? All that stuff. And now they have this crazy optimism based on the fact that they brought in Aaron Rodgers, who I did not think was very good last year, just throwing that out there. I wouldn't say he was bad, but for Rodgers, he was bad. I mean, we thought Rodgers was, he was the reigning MVP and we thought he was still one of the five or six most impactful players in the league. And I don't wanna read stats to you for the next six minutes, but deep balls, he was bad. Turnovers, he was bad. Leadership, he was bad. And the case for Rodgers coming back would be, well, he's gonna be rejuvenated. The Jets, New York City. This is his team. He got away from Green Bay. He's got Hackett back. I get it, but he's also at an age where we've really only seen Tom Brady succeed at a high, high level at the age that Rodgers is at. I was trying to figure it out. I have my QB ratings and I had, you know, the top tier is Mahomes and Burrow and Allen and Herbert and Hertz. Those have to be the top five. Then it drops off and it's Lamar Jackson and Lawrence. And then Rodgers, probably a hair underneath him with a chance to play himself up with those guys. But from what we saw last year, I'm not ready to put him there. So he's the 10th best quarterback in the league, probably. 10th or ninth best quarterback in the league, probably. Well, they have no offensive line. And I don't understand why people keep glossing over this where it's like, hey, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, he's one of the best receivers in the league and Breece Hall's going to come back and the defense is really good. And it's like, yeah, the offensive line is terrible. Beckton and Dwayne Brown, sure tackles again. And then you have Robert Salah as the coach, who I cannot say I thought that Jets were crisply coached last year. Whatever he was doing with Zach Wilson was insane. No idea if that guy's even a decent coach. So I'm already worried about your offensive line, the age of your quarterback, and the competency of your coach. And that's before we get into the hard knocks curse, because for some reason they're doing hard knocks, the incredible Super Bowl hype already. And then we have the schedule, which is the AFC East has just got screwed by the schedules this year. The Jets, just for quarterbacks in 17 games, they got to play Josh Allen twice, they got to play Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson. And then they also have to play Miami twice. We'll see what we get out of two this year. And then a really good Pats defense. And then Denver, who knows, they might be rejuvenated. So Danny Dimes, they have to play him. It is a brutal schedule, so you have that. And then on top of everything else, you're the Jets. I was there with the Red Sox before 2004, and this is probably just as bad, where you just think the worst possible things can happen is all the time. You're not allowed to have optimism when you're Jets fans. You can be cautiously optimistic. There was an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episode once, season 10, episode seven, about being a Jets fan. And it was called, I think, the ugly section. Nick Kroll was the maitre d'. And part of the episode was about, he would put these people in different sections of the restaurant, depending on how attractive they were. But there was this other plot, Larry's buddy who loved the Jets, kills himself. And Larry becomes convinced it was because of the Jets, that the Jets killed his friend. This was only a couple of years ago. So now they get Aaron Rodgers, and everything's good. And they're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't see it, guys. I don't wanna step on my football stuff too much, but I'd be shocked. And Lombardi points out the defense that everybody's ready to compare to the 85 Bears. Lombardi said they had two turnovers over the last eight games last season. So that means something too. I am dubious, to say the least. If you're gonna tell me a tortured franchise actually turns it around this year, I want a tortured franchise that doesn't have expectations. Because the Lions are another one. Everybody's ready to put them in the Super Bowl or close. And the only case for them is just pretty explosive offense. They couldn't stop anybody last year. And the NFC is terrible. But that's another one where is that a fan base that should be super excited and have a ton of hype? The one that's kind of lurking that fits in this group is the Browns. Because the Browns are actually super talented. They're in a winnable division. Burroughs already hurt. And I think they're four to one to win the AFC North on FanDuel, something like that. Their over -under is, I think it climbed up.
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"And if the Blazers come Friday morning are sitting there with Brandon Miller or Scoot Henderson and no other player that's going to make them better. Because if that's the case, there's going to be a discussion in that Portland front office with Damian Lillard. And look, this is not breaking news. I mean, Lillard told me this in March. He's told other outlets this in the past. Like if they are not in a position where they can compete for championships or at least compete at a reasonably high level, he'll sit down with Joe Cronin, who he's got a great relationship with and discuss the best possible options. And that's why I think teams are like Miami are waiting for right now. And I don't I don't blame them for that. I mean, Bradley Beal would make Miami better, but Damian Lillard is such a better fit, like such a better fit with that Miami team. Yeah, it makes sense to wait. You know, we can talk about each team waiting specifically. To me, it's just, you know, we've done this for a couple of years with Dame now, and the risk you take with waiting is big, especially if you mention the scenario happens in which Scoot Henderson's taken number two. And I think, you know, if you follow the betting markets, that's looking more and more like a possibility that Charlotte takes Scoot Henderson second, in which case then Portland becomes more amenable to trading the third pick. And whether or not Portland is making a smart decision by going out and getting a Pascal C. Occam or whoever the case may be, someone that makes the team better, but not necessarily a contender. championship Now, all the teams putting their eggs in the Dame basket are left with him staying in Portland, where he has needed like he's needed he's needed like every single last thing to go wrong before he's willing to say, I want out. And now you're going to roll that dice again. It's not a good free agent market.
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"Most violent hockey team ever. That was guerrilla warfare at its highest. The Danbury Trashers wanted to win at any cost. He wanted to break every bone in his body. Literally throwing them like a rag doll. Going bananas here at the Danbury Ice Arena. They can't restrain them right now. So are they heroes or villains? You decide. I don't know what to say and I don't want to get shot. There's the FBI side, there's my side, and somewhere in the middle is the truth. Listen to The Fighty Pucks on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You and I are going to have a problem. You understand what I'm saying to you? Welcome to the jungle. Last thing on this deal is kind of an ancillary part of it. As we said, Miami didn't really get all that aggressive for Beale. I think it will be different if Damian Lillard becomes available. I think Miami would get ultra aggressive to try to extract Damian Lillard because I believe down in Miami they are the idea of a Damian Lillard, Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo core. That's pretty appealing. That is worth going into the second apron for. That is a nice mix right there. A really nice mix of talent that does a whole lot of different things for you. So with Lillard, as I reported this a little bit on Monday, Portland is not looking to deal the number three pick right now, but they're also kind of trying to thread the needle. They're trying to use other draft capital and some of the young piece they have on the roster to get a win now type of player. Two guys they've been looking hard at and talking about are in Toronto, Pascal Siakam and Oji Ananobi are two guys they've discussed with the Raptors. But to this point, as far as I can tell, the Blazers are not looking to deal that number three pick. I think a reason for that, Rohan, is look, there seems to be a debate about, at least in Charlotte, about who should go number two, whether it's Brandon Miller or Scoot Henderson. I honestly believe like at
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"Was there was value in the middle of 2022 when, you know, he was still a guy that didn't have this albatross of a contract hanging around the Wizards heads, hanging over the Wizards head. So but. And then you give them the no, I don't even want to get the no trade clause, the no trade clause. Insane. Insane. You know, it's blame Tommy Shepherd, blame Ted. But Ted Leontes signs off on that, too. Like that's got to be on him. That to me is on ownership for sure. At some point, you can't. Like where is Brad? Where's Bill going to go like that? That he's going to get a deal better than the five years. Two hundred fifty one. Like that is the carrot, not the no trade clause. You don't give a guy like that. I wrote this like Bradley Beal got what Nicole Jokic, Jana Stendekumpo and Joel Embiid do not have. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy, but. I just I don't I don't like the speed with which this deal could have been. I understand that in the new under the new CBA rules, it gets even more complicated come July 1st to do big deals because the money teams are allowed to take back shrinks a little bit and it just becomes overall more complicated. So maybe there was that in the mind of the Wizards that if we don't do this deal now, we may have to take back more bad contracts just to get off this Bradley Beal deal. So I can understand it from that perspective, but there's just nothing here. There's no meat on this bone. It's just a deal that removes a bad contract off their books for the long term on the Chris Paul side of it. So as we said, this deal is not official because, you know, the Wizards are going to try to find a third team to facilitate that will give them something back in exchange for Chris Paul. If they don't, there will be pressure from Paul's representatives to waive him and cut him loose so he can go off and handpick the team that he wants to sign with.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"bradley beal" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Want to talk about Washington and what they got out of this, which quite frankly is nothing like what Washington gets out of this is they get off the final four years and $200 million of Bradley Beal's contract. Landry Shamet is fine. Maybe he gets more minutes in a depleted Wizards rotation. Second round picks are fine. Maybe you can package them to get somebody else down the line. But the prize in this was getting off the contract. I'd been hearing for, for weeks now that the offers for Bradley Beal, they just weren't there. Like they, even if Washington had been able to open things up because, you know, without a no trade clause, I don't think there would have been overwhelming offers. Like we saw last year when Donovan Mitchell hit the free agent or hit the when Rudy Gobert hit the trade market. In those circumstances, you had two teams desperate to acquire those players. You had Cleveland that viewed Donovan Mitchell as the missing piece. You had Minnesota that for whatever reason at that time thought Rudy Gobert could push them into the top four in the Western Conference. For multiple reasons, those teams didn't exist during these last couple of weeks as Bradley Beal's availability became more known. That being said, what do we think of the return that Washington got? Is it worth it or was it worth it for them to do this deal now just to get off of the final four years of Beal's contract? Listen, I want to preface this by saying I don't think it's Michael Winger's fault. He just got here. He had to clean up this mess. It's a disaster for Washington and the way they mismanaged this situation. Just a reflection on the entire franchise. The last five years, they have one playoff appearance and they lost in the first round. For them to see that and still give Beal the full supermax. Again, you're not bidding against anyone when you offer a guy a supermax. You can just offer him a max.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"bradley beal" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"They effectively traded Chris Paul, who was not going to be on the team next season. You know, for financial reasons, mostly he was more likely than not going to get waived before June 28th. Landry Shammet, decent player, seventh or eighth man in the rotation, second round draft capital. You can have your opinions about second round draft capital. I don't think it amounts to much. Yeah, you can do what the Suns are doing and package a bunch of these picks and, you know, call it the equivalent of one first round pick. But, you know, the second round is a complete crapshoot. So they got him for a very low price. But I just keep looking at this roster and I'm seeing Bradley Beal, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, DeAndre Ayton for now, and even in the most optimal of circumstances, which is all of those guys play 65 plus games, which we both know is, you know, I don't know how realistic that's going to be given the injury history of some of them. I don't know how good that team is, like they can score a lot of points, but some of the skills of Devin Booker and Bradley Beal overlap, you're going to be playing kind of a weird, probably three guard lineup most of the time with Beal, basically as your small forward, which puts you at a disadvantage in some situations there. You don't have a wing defender, which in this league you need. And if you trade DeAndre Ayton, and we'll talk more about that, if you trade DeAndre Ayton, you're talking about going into the playoffs, you know, with Denver and Nikola Jokic in front of you, with the Lakers and Anthony Davis and whoever is alongside Anthony Davis in front of you. Memphis, if they get Steven Adams back, that's a team with some front court muscle. So you're going to have a pretty strange lineup in my mind that you'd roll out there every single night.
AP News Radio
Giannis triple-double helps Bucks outlast Wizards 117-111
"Giannis intend to kupo notched his fourth triple double of the season and leading the bucks past the wizards. One 17 110 to kupo delivered 23 points, a season high 13 assists, and ten rebounds as Milwaukee played a night after seeing a 16 game winning streak come to an end. Javon Carter was 6 of ten from three point ranges scoring 20 points and drew holiday added 19 points. Milwaukee was 22 of 49 from beyond the ark. Bradley Beal had a game high 33 points for Washington, which clings to the final play in birth in the east. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Randle scores 46 as Knicks rally past Wizards 115-109
"Julius Randle tied a career high with 46 points as the Knicks rallied from a 19 point first half deficit to beat the wizards one 15 to one O 9. Jalen Brunson hit a shot with 42 seconds to go to give the Knicks the lead for good, Randall was happy with the way the Knicks handled adversity. It was a big one for us. We needed this, especially coming off the break. We know there are a team that gets all the fast start. So they did that. And we responded. The Knicks out rebounded the wizards 43 to 34 in a game that saw 19 lead changes Bradley Beal and Kyle Kuzma each scored 23 for the wizards. Craig heist, Washington.
AP News Radio
Beasley, Clarkson lead Jazz to 120-112 victory over Wizards
"In double figures with 25 points as the jazz beat the wizards one 20 to one 12. Jordan Clarkson chipped in with 23 while Lori Morgan and had 21. The jazz shot 49% from the floor and they had 16 three pointers on the night. Bradley Beal led the wizards with 30 points they shot 56% for the game, but were just 7 for 21 from three point range. I'm Craig heist.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"bradley beal" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"This is like a franchise guy who will dominate and come in and put you over the top to win his championship. I don't know for a while. I just kind of haven't felt like he's asserted that guy. I think he's very, very good. I think you're right to assume that he's not a one a dominant superstar. That's not what he is. And that's not a knocker. I mean, that's very, very, very incredibly rare. Right to be that. But he's absolutely fantastic. But I think it's a combination of things. I think you've got he plays for a team that not a lot of people go out of their way to watch. So there's a little bit of that mystery there to him, right? Where you've heard the name a lot. And you haven't necessarily seen a lot of what he's done. So you assume he's just absolutely fantastic and this guard that is just taking over games left and right. Again, he's very good, but I don't think he's that guy. Then I think you've got the availability piece. His name has been in rumors for so long. It's the availability that makes it exciting. You know, it makes people really pump them. Oh, imagine what this team could be with Bradley Beal. I think that because we've been hearing his name in rumors, I mean, it's been, it feels like forever at this point. So I think that adds to fans of other teams looking at Bradley Beal and saying, this guy is fantastic. If we get him, we're great, you know, that type of thing. I think that element gets mixed into the analysis of Bradley Beal. Yeah, I think there's also a, you know, I teasingly call them points, Twitter, where it's like you see guy scores 30 points. He must be great. I also think there's this assumption of, well, we score a 115 points as a team. We get 30 point score. Now we score a 145. It's like that's not how it works. You don't just throw that on top. Hashtag math. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of the wizards,.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"bradley beal" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the NBA front office show. It's Friday game four tonight. We've got a lot of NBA news to get into. I'm Trevor lane. You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore lane over on Instagram at Trevor lane NBA. Joining me Keith Smith, that Kate Smith NBA Keith big, big night tonight. How are you feeling? Are you nervous for tonight's game or feeling pretty good or where are you at right now? It's weird. And I don't mean this at all to be like, I'm too cool for this. So yeah, I don't get super nervous like that, but I'll have like nervous energy as we get closer and still, I mean, we're 5 hours from tip as we record this. So I tend to be a little bit more relaxed, but as we get a little closer, I'll have that kind of nervous energy going, but excited but yeah, we'll see what happens by no means do I think it's a lock the Celtics one. I think they have a great chance, but I wanted Stephen Curry on the other side. That's nerve wracking enough to be going against that guy. Well, we should mention, and we spent time yesterday kind of breaking down where the series is without everything. So we don't need to re dive into all of it. But we did get some news today that Stephon curry is expected to be okay for game four tonight. Whether that means he's 75% or a 100%, we don't know, and that will certainly matter for the warriors, but just the fact that it's not like he's going to miss this game. And I think that's, even if you're a Celtic fan, you don't want to say stuff very missing the game. You want everybody out there healthy. And all of that. So great news. That Steph Curry sounds like he'll be a go for game four. Yeah, let me guess as we'll know very quickly if he is himself or if he's kind of limping through the game or what the deal is. So yeah, well, we'll know pretty early on. Okay, so I want to talk a little bit about NBA expansion Mark Stein got into it a bit today and we can briefly discuss here. But first, maybe even more important here. I threw out there on Twitter for front office show fans to hit us with team names should LeBron be successful in bringing a team to Las Vegas. So Keith, here are some of the responses and Keith has not seen yet. Has not looked. So I've got one that actually, this one had like the full uniform all made up and everything. They've even got Bradley Beal in a Las Vegas Jersey. The Las Vegas venom is what they have. Kind of like that..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"bradley beal" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"This is one that we heard a lot of the 76ers stuff and a lot of other teams, your Boston Celtics, being teams, that might be interested in Bradley Beal, but man, if he landed in Miami, that's that gets pretty interesting in terms of perhaps putting them in another tier compared to what the rest of the Eastern Conference. Yeah, for sure. Now, so we're all on the same page here. Beale has a player option, but he will decline that. Almost guaranteed he will decline that player option. Which then will make him a free agent. And the reason why I hope to climb that is in extension for him is not as lucrative because he's not coming off a high enough number necessary to get in there, so he's probably going to decline that. That gets him to the full max that he can get to. Now, whether that seemed like that be a lock, that was going to be with Washington, and that's where he would stick. Now for what it's worth, let's be fair. He is continually said he doesn't have any interest in going anywhere. In recently said that too, surely before he was shut down for the season maybe even been right after, but he basically said, no, this is where I want to be. For Miami to get a Miami does not have cap space, they have no path to cap space. This would have to be a sign and trade, which then that means that Washington would land into a scary Beal rather would land into a four year contract versus the 5 year he can get with the wizards. Just to sneak peek, probably later today, I'll have a piece up on spot track that outlines all or Bradley Beal's contract options. If you're interested in reading something before that's posted, I just wrote one about Tyler hero. And all his contract options in my guess is maybe Tyler hero factors in here a little bit. As part of a trade package for Bradley Beal because you start to look at and say, you got to get their match in sour wise, you get to get their talent wise. Do you really need Tyler hero if you're the heat if you're going to get Bradley Beal? Sure you'd love him for depth reasons, but you've got to start to build up a trade package. So very curious to see how this would come together. I never never count Pat Riley out, never count any ellsberg out because those guys are as good as what they do. Has anybody there, but let's see, and obviously, first though, be able to have to say, he wants to be Washington before this can happen. Yeah, and so far, every time this has come up, every time we've hit that kind of decision point for Bradley Beal, where people have been starting to speculate, might he actually leave Washington. He's ultimately said no. He's ultimately said no, I prefer to stay and then off they go. And then wizards move on and they try to build around there. I still think that's probably the most likely outcome here is Bradley Beal once again. Recommence to Washington says I want to stay here, does a new deal. And that's where we go from there. But that doesn't mean that teams aren't going to be positioning themselves to be a landing spot. Should he start to consider really going somewhere else? And Miami could be interesting..
WTOP 24 Hour News
Spencer Dinwiddie Excited to Play for Wizards With Bradley Beal
"Spencer Dinwiddie is excited to be heading to D. C. The wasn't really stood out. And it was a place that I wanted to go to being familiar with Bill in his game matching up, you know, both age wise and, you know, play style wise, you know, so it just became a fit that popped on the board. Pretty recently and and I'm blessed to be here. The veteran was limited to three games this past season due to an A C L injury. Meanwhile, look at Don Cheech agrees to a deal with Dallas remaining
Winning Plays
"bradley beal" Discussed on Winning Plays
"They have banned Jimmy and but now like, you know, Duncan Robinson intentionally going to be out which would be a huge loss for them. Oh yeah, you know, and unless unless you're oh can can you know, reclaim his bubble self or maybe he might be out the door. It just seems like wage. The East is very much open. And, you know, we, we've talked about 4 for most of the last year, or so, how we felt that the Celtics were like a borderline like 845. See like maybe they're going to get home court, but you bring people into the equation. Even if you lose all those guys that we talked about and I think very quickly you were talking about a top-three team in the East off, even it again, and you'll find like you said, you'll find the veterans, you'll find the pieces after that guys will want to come and be a part of that. And yeah, it will, it will be a surprising turn of events this summer. It would be really great to see. And burn record this and about two hours later. He'll be traded to Golden State. Yeah, I know exactly. I'm not sure if somehow this happens, if this week, this happens where Bradley Beal ends up on the Celtics, it would I will be, I'll say I'll be pissed off..
Winning Plays
"bradley beal" Discussed on Winning Plays
"Because I think obviously, Jared Allen's restricted. Frank Kaminsky, no thing reached. Run interactive Olympian JaVale McGee? Hey, maybe I'm in. He the guys got Championship experience. He right. I mean, he's, he's shown that. Like, he, I mean, obviously There Was, You know, the, the reputation you had is younger player. Maybe that was, maybe it was well deserved for right now. I mean, he he won titles and Golden State, right? Like the guy, I mean, even if he's not playing necessarily, he could be a month, just a, just a guy, you could plug in again, you could start him for ten minutes claim, ten minutes a game, right? Cuz that's, that's all you're really looking for with these centers, especially when you have out bulb is unrestricted. Never going to say no no bond and I have a real so you're getting rid of taco and you need you need a little bit, some of that fan draw. You could could go with bobong, enes Kanter. No thank you. Aaron Baynes will probably be available. He's got a blue team option that troubles likely going to decline. So yeah, again you have a nice pic of your over the hill. Slasher tenders will be out there. One of those guys will take next to nothing to play for you in that scenario..
Winning Plays
"bradley beal" Discussed on Winning Plays
"The NBA draft is this week, everybody. But in Boston is all about the Brad's Brad Stevens in his first Seasons, at the helm of Boston, front office. Bradley Beal is maybe I think it might be more than maybe be rough, but possibly probably whatever you want to call it forcing his way out of Washington, we're to sift through the rumors, find some truth, our version of the truth, whatever you want to call it off. What is your version of the truth of Europe? How much are you believing? This is great. This is great for us, it's a great way of something to talk about his great flicks. It is it. What's the, what's the real Factor one to ten? This is.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"bradley beal" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"As the Wizards fan, you suddenly go. Well, you're killing our returned. I don't want what that team has to offer or that team isn't going to offer as much or or if they say, I only want to go to one team, then your your leverage goes down right off. Then maybe you're getting Less in return or you just feel spurned by the fact that the player wants out, this is not the worst case scenario. For the Wizards, the worst case scenario for the Wizards is Bradley Beal, says nothing else plays out. The rest of this year and then walks as a free agent 4-0 return, that is a much much bigger blow than Bradley Beal getting traded somewhere else. So long as it's not great hearing hey Superstar level player doesn't want to be on your team but you would much rather have the player. Let you know ahead of time. Hey, I'm probably going to go that way. You get something in return, rather than just half the guy would walk away and get nothing. Yeah. And you'd rather do it now it's because it allows you to really set up your season for what you're you're going to be, which is what we're going to talk about next. But also 34.5 million is a pretty big number that's hard to move in season, unless you're take it back, a similarly, big contract. And the team is just set up with two big contracts because what you don't see in season generally wage is the trades where it's two, three, four players for one because, well, two or three maybe, but, but when you get into three or four, those are very unlikely because what ends up happening down, there is one the other team has said roster spots to take all those players in and if they don't then they've got to clear a roster spots another way. So just it gets very complicated to make those big salary trade off season. So you'd want to do it now and then is what I kind of alluded to before..
News, Traffic and Weather
Plenty at Stake for NBC as COVID Olympics Opening Looms
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
News, Traffic and Weather
COVID's Impact on Tokyo Olympics Teams
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
The NBA Show
JaVale McGee Named to Team USA Olympic Basketball Roster
"J- avail mcgee's an olympian. That's a world. We live in so javale. Mcgee is going to be replacing Taken one of the roster spots opened up kevin love and bradley beal dropping off of the olympic teams for various
The Dan Patrick Show
Kevin Love Out of Tokyo Olympics; US Basketball Now to Replace 2 Players
"That Kevin Love is withdrawing from the Olympic team. So we have Bradley, Beal and Kevin Love not playing. Who are going to be the replacements. Well, they haven't. They have apple amount of players that they can pick from from the pool. Um, I know a player that has been Campaign and behind the scenes of trying to get on this team, And that's Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks. Uh, you know, we heard talk of Duncan Robinson with the Miami Heat the sharpshooter as well. So, uh, Colangelo has some. He has some tough decision to make. But there's there's still a bunch of players that I've talked to behind the scenes about up the upwards of 10. That would like the opportunity to have one of those two spots. So, uh, they'll they'll have a good They only have a good amount of options. Why
AP News Radio
Bradley Beal Out of Olympics for Health and Safety Reasons
"Friday's Olympic men's basketball tune up between the United States and Australia in Las Vegas has been canceled due to health and safety protocols USA basketball cited an abundance of caution in making the decision the news followed word that wizards all star guard Bradley Beal would miss the Tokyo games after being placed into health and safety protocols USA forward Jeremy grant has also been placed in health and safety protocols the Americans are still slated to play Spain on Sunday Friday's women's game between the US and Australia will be played as scheduled I'm Dave Ferrie
WTOP 24 Hour News
US Men's Basketball Team Star Bradley Beal Placed in Health and Safety Protocols
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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"When the olympics start will be the most talented team in tokyo. Hands down no question. Most talented team in tokyo with the roster that they have but this is like a five alarm fire right now howard. This loss to nigeria. I don't care if they win the rest of these pre olympic games which will take place through next sunday. This has to make you nervous if you're a fan of the team because not only is it this. The loss to nigeria. But you go back two years ago at the world championships where you had a us team. That was good. Didn't have probably better team now than they were back in two thousand nineteen but all nba players. They finished seventh. They've been seventh at the world championships. You have the seventh-place finish the loss of nigeria. How concerned are you howard beck about. Usa basketball. It's just an exhibition game. Chris oh no no. It's not just an exhibition game. Stop this team was thrown together over the last however many weeks they had what like three practices. I think i'll ever. Us team is thrown together. What are you talking about. There's no team. There's no no mid season practices for usa basketball. No but the nigerian team has been practicing. What i'm saying is some of the play in the nba though wants win the nba nba. A few of them play in the nba but that team has had time together more so than the team. Sorry brown coaching. that team. That i missed was that a facsimile of mike brown on the bench all season long. What what are we talking about. The warriors have been out for like two months kris k. Okay so two months. that's what matters. That's that's the number three three practices. Also they're still missing. I believe at least three guys because they're playing in the finals right now. Booker middleton chris paul get it. Yes not chris. Ball's not playing a holiday with the the what holland is your holiday. Those those guys will matter especially given that middleton and holiday are to the better perimeter defenders that that team. Usa has and if you look at the rest of team usa's roster. I don't see a ton of great defenders. There there are a few. I think those three guys by the way are going to be exhausted by the time they get to. They may well be. They may will be so. We're going to judge them. Judging when their whole judge when the games matter to strange to me like we don't judge nba teams based on the preseason but we judge team usa based on these exhibition games. That they do going into international competition. I feel like it's thirty. One point favorites. Why why is there betting line on a freaking exhibition better training but a little league baseball. Now country degenerates damn right. I didn't mean chris i'm with. Let's go monday. Nigeria money line. I just. I can't get too excited about this. If they lose the rest of the exhibitions does that mean something. Yeah that might be alarming if they're if they're still struggling to find some cohesion. That could be alarming. But i mean the talent is obviously their talent alone doesn't win on the international stage in style of game is different team ball matters. Shooting matters like yeah. There's a bunch of budget stuff that comes into play. But i i find the panic over this loss or at least the outcry to be a little bit much. So you don't take into account the seventh-place finish in two thousand nineteen. I mean that to me. It's the it's not just as game. The totality of it right. Like and i don't know howard like so in the early two thousands the world kind of caught up to the us ninety to ninety six thousand us. Gold maps then comes the two thousand two world championships in indianapolis and that's seven. The place finish was one of the worst worst outcomes in at least recent usa history. They got it together after that. They hired jerry colangelo. They bringing mike chef ski. They get their act together. Two thousand six two thousand eight then. They run off. Three consecutive years are three consecutive cycles of gold. Medals is argon. Made that like the world's caught up again that somewhere along the way and the last four or five years. The rest of the world has once again caught up usa basketball. I'm trying to understand this. I mean that's close games in those olympics cycles. No question about it. But i can't imagine the oh eight. Twelve or sixteen team losing nigeria. I can't exhibition or otherwise. I can't see it happening. No team and the and the one that followed it were built around like lebron koby. Carmelo enjoying wait. I mean that that groups at another level like as good as this group is that we're seeing right now as talented as they are after k. D. tatum's really good damian. Lillard is great. I mean come arbit- tatum. Bill lillard auto bio levin. Draymond dream ends up there in years but one has won some things. Jeremy grant jeremy grant zach living out of like. These are guys who have done anything in the nba yet. But they're all stars most they're they're also but are they to level of lebron kobe now but do you think is that what you're saying then is that what you're saying to be at the level you need to have like i'm saying the crop to win. I'm saying that if we're going to start comparing the twenty twenty one team to the twenty eight a two thousand eight two thousand twelve teams there is. There is not an equivalent right now. Lebron kobe laurent cobaine weight. And plus what we what. We called olympic. Mellow like carmelo. Didn't have the success in the nba. That some of his teammates did but carmelo in terms of talent level and certainly has resume like that group was at a whole other level. That group is a different level than jason. Tatum bam outta bios. Zach levine. Okay so not saying that you necessarily should have to have that level of time firepower to win an exhibition game against nigeria. Or anybody else. But i am saying comparing usa to itself different iterations of team usa. This one is not that one. This is not as dominant group as the ones we saw in eight and two thousand twelve. It just isn't what do you do like. What's the solution here. Like i mean i jerry. Colangelo deserves an enormous amount of credit for rebuilding that program when it was at. Its nadir mitra chefs. He comes in enormous amount of credit for what they did. But as we sit here in twenty twenty one like it's almost to me howard like the usa basketball rebuilding. The program became cool. Like lebron wanted to do it. Chris paul like dwayne wade. These guys wanted to do it and then they did it. And i think playing for usa basketball didn't become quite as cool as it was fifteen years ago. Like is that what has to happen like does not need to have like a fifth place finish in tokyo for all of a sudden the next generation of a-list stars wherever that may be in two thousand twenty four to come back into the mix and is that the only way this team can win. I mean i think we need to pay attention to the overall context like obviously one. These olympics were supposed to happen a year ago. They're delayed a year because of covid got durant out of it though like that right. It's questionable whether these the olympic should be happening at all still but along the way because of these back to back brutal seasons and everything else like team. Usa doesn't have james harden right now. Doesn't have anthony davis because of the injury doesn't have steph curry doesn't have kyrie irving doesn't have lebron kawai again. If your argument is that the second or third tier it sounds like sounds like insulting. Somehow but if you're saying that the next wave believe after those guys should still be good enough to dominate on the world stage. Maybe but if the point is that the team as best are they still. Are they still able to win. Gold fairly easily. Your probably but a bunch of them aren't on this team right now because of injuries and just the stress of the last year or two so this this is not necessarily representative of the best of the best right now. It just isn't and yes. They should still be good enough to win. Yes the world has caught up to some extent. No the the group that at nigeria's put it put out there last week. Does not leap off the page improbably. Us should've still want it. But again i exhibition game after like three practices. Let's see what happens with the rest of this. This schedule out brought mellow back. I mean he's not what he was four years ago. Eight years ago twelve years ago but the guy knows how to play international basketball. He might have sat. maybe. I guess. I didn't really. I assume that he just want to keep. He didn't kind of like four formerly re retire from the olympics. But it'd be pretty much says like i'm done like lebron kinda did to get talked into it. I feel like. I don't know if i was if i was the usa team would try really hard to get carmelo blake because his style. Whatever it is to the nba is perfect for the national basketball. He's a really good or national basketball player. On this subject damian lillard. He spoke for the first time. Since the hiring of chauncey billips. Only listen to what little had to say about his future in portland. I'm prepared to go in and do my job every year. Like hopefully we make strides over direction and could become a better team a new coach notice. That's where i am. What soured it sounds like. Lillard is at least nominally on board with going back to the blazers. But if i'm a team out there with assets. I don't listen to that response and say well it's over damian. Lillard is back on the same page with the portland trailblazers. If i'm a team with assets i hold onto those assets because it feels to me like the blazers might be one like sixteen to start from blowing that whole thing up with louis mccollum on the way out the door so get the sense now. That seems more likely than not that damian lillard at blazers training camp. He's in ablaze uniform. He starts the season with the portland trailblazers. But if it doesn't work with chauncey billips early and you get close that trade deadline. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see portland decide. Look we've got a. We've got to do something here and opened the door for damian lillard trade. What do you think. I think that nothing has changed. I think that his remarks last week because he sounded a little bit lukewarm. Or just you know you hear one of two things. Well you want to hear one thing if you're a portland trail blazers fan or if you're just looking for any indication that lillard is all in your you want to hear him say listen. I know things are rough right now. But i'm all in you know this is. This is where. I want to be you to repeat all the usual talking points that you hear from players in his position and that we've heard from bradley beal that we used to hear from james harden houston. Which is a win in phil in city fill in the blank with the city. I want to win here. I don't wanna go somewhere else. You know we're going to get this right blah blah. He didn't go down the usual list. And so i think it left open. Some interpretation but getting has changed like the disappointment was clear when the season ended. Some of the things have happened since including obviously the the the train wreck away they went about the the coaching search and lillard. Being caught in the crossfire. There at feeling heat from fans about chauncey billips being selected and so. I don't think we should expect he's going to be rah. Rah right now The trailblazers have a lot of work to do. But we also have not even hit the summer yet. Like there's the draft hasn't happened yet. Free agency hasn't happened yet. There's there's a lot of work to be done. And i think if you're damian lillard which you're probably doing is internally saying here's what i need to see happen externally saying you know what let's let's wait and see i mean you see. He can't he can't say publicly the same things that he's telling say neal o'shea right about what the the state of the roster i i would think that there are some very impassioned debates or discussions being held behind closed doors about what they need to get this thing right and if they can't get it right the he might shift is his stance about staying there long term. But that hasn't happened yet that we know of. What do you think the most interesting potential conversation is amongst players over these next four weeks like i'm kind of curious what jason tatum bradley beal talk about. Tatum and beal close friends dating back to their highschool days both went to the same high school bill with something of a mentor to jason. Tatum actually got him involved with his trainer. Drew hanlin which helped. Tatum elevate his his personal skills and they've talked about how happy they are to be playing together. Played the all star game together for the first time beal last year of his contract. Like you know we've seen these conversations yield real tangible conversation. You'd like to be a fly on the wall on for any of these guys in the next couple of weeks. Yeah i mean look we. We have a history now going back over a decade. If we're to believe that the that the heels were formed in part through team usa activities. You know which is true which is true. That's that's yielded an extra things guy. You know guys who you mentioned. Tatum and bill because they were already friends but guys also become friends through this experience right and then they start getting the ideas about playing together. Like oh hey. This is a lot of fun. Let's do this again in the nba. So there's i'm i'm sure some of that is is happening. It always does. Who else in that group. I mean man. If any of these guys that'd be trying to recruit bam out a bio but he's too early in his in his contract with miami to pry him loose from there And you know the heater still a pretty potent team but you know jimmy butler is up there in miles and outta bios future won't necessarily be there forever. That's the way it goes in the nba. I think tatum has the potential to be like the biggest recruiter. They're like he's about to start the first year of his max level extension. He can recruit bill. But like you can also does damian lillard like. It's great to play in boston. I love it here. Answer some questions of my have a playing on the east coast for the first time. Like i think data might be boston's best asset at this point. Yeah again some of this comes down to bradley. Beal's coming up to that point where he has the leverage to task out because of his contract lillard under contract for several more years and so he's not in that position. So what if it says. Like i need to go like. I don't foresee the blazers being no finish your contract. Just don't see it. i think right. And they would work with him on a deal to sure but directing it is harder so beal can use the leverage of his free agency to say well if you send me to team x. I'm not gonna resign there. Which then blows up that deal and he can direct himself to the team he really wants to be at lillard would have a harder time to doing that. Because he doesn't have free agency looming two to play that card. Yeah well i encourage any reporter. That's in tokyo tatum. Beal and lillard talking to each other. Just take a picture and then let the internet go wild crazy because it will unquestionably last thing for you. Howard the breaking news. This week in the coaching ranks. Is that jamal moseley is headed to orlando moseley of course last with dallas. A really well respected assistant coach there. Who was a candidate for that. Maverick job before. It went to jason kidd my immediate reaction to that higher howard beyond i think being an excellent choice for orlando is that we're gonna look at at moseley and jason kidd on parallel tracks. The next couple of years moseley. There was a strong case to be made that he should have been elevated to that head. Coaching job he'd been considered for other head coaching jobs. Before most recently in new york he had by all accounts a great relationship with luka doncic i understand bringing kit in he's got a history with dallas and as riccar lau said publicly having a player that played the game like kid and having a player that plays the game like don-shik make some sense to pair those two guys together. But there's always going to be as i watched these two situations unfold. I'm gonna wonder you know. Did the mavericks make the right choice. Leading jamaa moseley go and bringing jason kidd in and there's so many variables in this the first being at orlando's in step one or maybe even steps zero of a massive rebuild right there in the negatives right now. I think there's still maybe more fat to trim on that roster before they really bottom out. Yeah and you know you talk about trying to build around. You know markelle foltz. And and jonathan isaac jonathan isaac for so long. They're getting hurt and he's a great player but they've loved writing in a weird way john stays healthy. He's still more of a complementary store right like he's he's a potentially defensive player of the year at some point. He's not a guy who you're building an offense around though and marquel foltz okay. He he got himself back on track in orlando. He has a career now where he didn't have one but he's not a foundational building block. Come on like that's crazy so the roster doesn't have much talent jamal. Moseley's is coming into a situation. Which a lot of first time head coach is committed to which is all right. There's a lot of work to do so You're gonna have to do a lot of development. You're going to have to take a lotta lumps in the win loss column. It's gonna be rough going for the first year or two or maybe three. Let's see how they can get things going. But you know as it has been a certain other like kenny. Atkinson came to look a completely hopeless situation in brooklyn but was known as development coach in atlanta. And sure enough. Everybody who went there. Joe harris spencer. Dinwiddie jared allen versus lower. First round picks. Guys who were you know whether they were reclamation projects whether they were low picks everybody seems to get better the second they went to brooklyn and play kenny atkinson and his staff congenial. Moseley have the kind of effect in orlando can the front office. Get him to kind of guys. That will thrive in that in that kind of environment and carve out careers from cells and carbon identities. Jamal moseley has a lot going for him. And we've heard like many great things about it but we often hear great things about assistant coaches who don't end up panning out so i always. We have to caution ourselves on these things. Because i thought. Brian shaw was gonna be a great head coach and he was. Everybody loved him all the players sung as praises when he was associate head coach under frank. Vogel indiana he goes to denver probably just the wrong guy at the wrong time but he hasn't had another shot since then but that went really badly. Brett brown was really great in in some respects for the for the early years of the process and then suddenly. It seemed like they'd hit some sort of ceiling. Eager kokoschka of had been talked about for years is a great assistant. Coach didn't work out. Swells head coach in phoenix. David dale bumpy ride in memphis and then disastrous in new york. We just don't know like luke walton. Another example like there are plenty of coaches who as their when their assistance. We hear and see the best of them and then you know some of them be go on it and have great success coaches. I mean tyler has been fantastic. Mike malone has been fantastic money williams. Nick nurse dwayne casey a lotta longtime assistance. Get their shot and then you know it. It works out in a dozen. It's all contextual. It's all just the opportunity you have the thing for dallas is. They went with a guy who has experienced jason kit. That experience was not necessarily good experience. Like i think most people around the would look at what he did in milwaukee in brooklyn and say. I'm going to steer clear. Maybe you'd rather have the the unproven. Jamal moseley versus the somewhat proven jason kidd but. I don't think we'll know what the right choice was there for a while yet. Because it's it's gonna take some time before we can evaluate moseley as head coach. I maybe jason kidd learned something in two years as an assistant. I mean that happens. You know working with lebron for entire for two entire seasons working under frank vogel maybe picked up some things that'll be useful to him as a head coach. Moseley to me. The key is giving him time. Like you've got to be committed to moseley for a minimum. I think of three years and more likely five years. And then you see what you have in head coach. You mentioned gore. I mean it's worked out for phoenix. Absolutely but i do think he got hosed out there i mean he only had one year on the job and that year was without deandra aiden chris. Paul had devon booker of course but that was not a good team that he was coaching. There i gotta get moses the because you want to see what the guy can do when you put that team in a position to win a great example to me is james breglio in charlotte. I mean berea. Was one of those guys assistant coach elevated to head coaching position in charlotte. Not great first couple of years there but when he was given players and chance to win he did pretty well. I mean up until lamelo ball went out the horns were really good team and i think they will be a good team. Going forward in part because of the borrego is a pretty good coach. I want to see this magic team. Invest heavily in jamal. The you're the guy developed these guys and we'll keep you around no matter what the won loss record says until you get a chance to win then you judge like brett brown six or seven days since brett brown left but i can see the for letting go of brett brown. I mean they had a talented team and to a degree the underachieved. But you've got to let the coach get a roster on that level before you really make any decisions about whether they can coach. Yeah well and that's the thing about. This is what set up says apart. I think the good organizations from the bad ones is that you you decide when you choose a guy. Especially if he's a longtime assistant not a guy with head coaching experience. And you've said we believe in this guy. This is somebody who's got a great trekker record as an assistant. We're going to first opportunity. It's your obligation to when you say investment. Yeah it's time investment. It's a give them all the tools to succeed. Give him the time to succeed. You've decided you believe in him. So stand behind that have the conviction to stand behind that and take some bumps along the way you know maybe maybe memphis and or the knicks should have stuck with david physed longer. You know we had heard nothing but great things about fiscal coming out of miami. Initially we may yet you know. Find out that he. He can be great head coach in the right situation. Maybe those worth rights situations. He might be one of those guys though. I love physios and assist one of those guys. Though the just the temperament is always important. Like the government like memphis yet. Some battles with market assault didn't work out your plus new york. You just might be one of those guys that doesn't have the right temperament to be is based on what we've seen a memphis in new york might be better suited for these ranks but if he succeeds in l. a. I think he'll get another chance right. Maybe i think the point being though that if you as an organization have identified a guy instead he we believe in him then. Okay then believe in him. Stick with them and make sure you've given them enough tools to succeed Is it a pulling the plug at the first sign of of struggle and that's what happens in the nba. too often. is that seems panic. You know the fans turn. There's some minor flare up. Oh the coach and player got into it. Whatever it may good teams that can happen on as well. And it's it's just. It's the way franchises. React so you have to know whether or not the guy is is is right and then stick with them. And so yeah. Let's jomo's should get a nice long here. She got a ton of latitude in orlando given where they are as an organization given the state of that roster. Yeah i agree. Howard enjoy milwaukee looking forward to hearing the conversation with the lazarus on friday. You can check podcast. Right here on the crossover feet again. Make sure you listen to howard's interview. Spencer dinwiddie from last week. It was really really strong. Enjoy -joy the mid west our. We'll talk when you're back on the northeast always a pleasure. My friend the newest player in the pre nba basketball landscape is overtime. Elite elite will begin playing sometime in the fall. And we'll be headlined by some of the top now. Former high school players in the country players would be paid minimum one hundred thousand dollars with some making north of that and have access to high level facilities training as well as educational programs to help. Get a better grasp on that. I'm joined by brandon williams the head of basketball operations for overtime. Elite and kevin ollie the former. Nba guard uconn. Coach was the head coach and director of player development bread. And i want to start here with you. Just kind of give me the ten thousand foot view overtime elite. What are the objectives. What what what was behind the formation of this league. I think any of us. Chris who've been around for a long time i've actually seen Sort of the downside of young players who entered into professional ranks to this point. It's been the nba Who are not ready. And so what does that mean you know not not ready to form and be stars or is it just not ready to be great teammates or is it not ready to be good partners. is sort of all that you know the idea that the work day is much longer than they know. And that there's more responsibility to be in a professional athlete The responsibilities to families and communities we just have to do a better job preparing them and here was an opportunity to be part of a program that wanted to address all that. It's not just about being a good player. It's like we wanna address the whole athlete. Hope so on. Three levels were hitting basketball. Easiest thing understand. I think businesses in our world is education And then there's brand you know. These young people now are moving at a speed that we aren't as older folks and they want to build things An earlier age particularly off the court so building a brand is important something that can last well beyond their tread on tire so we're hitting it in basketball business brand. That's that's that's really thirty thousand foot view. Kevin what attracted you to this job. Just like his dad is the whole person being able coach them from a mind body and soul Experience and understanding the mindfulness athlete I've seen it from a pro level. Got up tune into play thirteen years with twelve different teams so i understand like the different trials and tribulations you go through with a player not saying that these players are gonna go through that but is getting them more prepared if they do come into some certain situations where it's not typically going the right way. How can they manage that situation. So what they do today can echo into tomorrow and having the ability to kana paint on a black blank. Canvas is what a really attracted to me to to this you know. Ot league program we can take the player really shape the curriculum you not with teaching them about subjects. But we're really teaching them about themselves as well from media training From mental health issues. All the different things that come involved because we all know chris is stress. You know from success is a lot of pressures is a lot of people pulling at you. It's a lot of people won't certain things. But how do you deal with that from a player's standpoint where you can play when you get on the basketball court and half clear and not be caught up in the distractions of off the court issues. Um as desks desks were really kind of vocal. Spirit to give back in it and how these kids you know. Have these players be available at the moment of truth to make the right decisions and that was very important to me. Kevin as you mentioned you played in the nba brand. You played in the nba. As well i wanna ask both of you guys and kevin. I'll start with you like if this was available to you as sixteen. seventeen year. Old looking back. Would you have founded attractive with a definitely founded attractive You know i kind of thought the box anyway. I was from chris. Shaw from from from south central and i chose connecticut. So you places that. I didn't even know nothing about growing up. You always thought out the box and never wanted to go down a path that everybody was going down So i was always curious. And i think that's how my mom especially my mom. My dad raised me. So i definitely been curious of this situation. No no speaking now without you know took it. I'm not sure. But i think it really gave me another option to look at it and this is what we're trying to do not saying that the ncaa is wrong overtime. Leaders wrong or right. It's not about that. It's about if you really care about the student. Athletes you give them as much options as possible. And i think this gives the lee student athlete. Another option and i think you know it's a very Great option for them to have and if they choose overtime league we're going to give our whole heart to make sure they're developed on and off the basketball court chris i- jumping after coach It would have been interesting. Chris but i certainly would not have been a candidate i would. Let's just get that right. What what things that's important. We sit down going through just grassroots community and we spent months just talking to people educating about. You know what we're about who we are. Each of us has a reputation in some other space. Not here The this program isn't for everybody is not the right fit for everybody. We are cherry picking and a lot of ways. These are players that feel like they are destined for professional basketball. There are a lot of sixteen year olds. That don't know that yet and their parents aren't convinced that yet in people that support them. Don't don't feel that confidence yet. They may be another year away or two years away but this is not. This is not the right path for everyone. Twenty four athletes roughly twelve per class. We're looking at juniors and seniors and the truth is at this age. What was really funny about scouting them is everybody's skinny and like a lanky and underdeveloped and still has like a mountain of upside to you know to to get through before you can really see who they're going to be but you know if you have a young player like brand williams who's just dreaming of being an nba player but does not much certainty. That's even realistic We gotta be very careful about this approach In taking because there there are risks but for those that that have already established in this deke. They've established a day of separated from their class. You know jaylen. Lewis has an example the most recent example. He's he's he's elevated in separate. The draft isn't tomorrow though so there's still a lot of work to do but he's already in front running physician and it gives everyone low confidence that this is the kind of investment and the kind of pet that would make a ton of sense for players like that. Let me follow up on that brandon. Because you're you're entering. What suddenly become a fairly crowded space in terms of leagues like this. You know the g. league ignite is one season in but they've had a measure of success. We've seen jalen green probably a top pick. Jonathan kamenga top five or six. Then you have the ncw with this. Recent ruling allowing top players to make money off their name image and likeness. How does how does the elite separate itself from that group. Why think i is. We start a little bit sooner so the g. league zone a great job with what we call it a year the prep year that year. That a recent graduates would be going to college and they've already been hacking the system you know going to italy or china So so there's a market for those players and we want an alternative to college for for for us though. Our players are seeking an alternative to high school so we are a school but we think about the resources that were bringing to the table first of which being an nba like environment You know start coach. Ali coach lehto in a robust set of staff. I mean scouting staff a high performance staff administrative team. Our goal was to simulate an nba organization for for young athletes at sixteen seventeen eighteen. Th there there is no other environment. Like that. And i think the big way that we separate with high school athletes Is that both domestically and internationally. We're able to put twenty four of them together in a building. So what we're selling is the best competition for these guys starts at home. I mean every day in line coaches don't minister drills administer competition aspects of practice and getting ready for games but when you look to the right and left and i noticed as a player. There's no weak link. I mean everywhere you look. There's somebody that's doing what you're doing and possibly doing more. Because they they are not just dreamed about the into the league or to the high level. They're on their way there That's where we've been able to. I think create a little separation from others that have tried or looked at something. Like this kevin. How do you approach this job. Do you do it in a similar mindset and you had at uconn where you have young players you also you know yukon. You had to keep them academically eligible you to follow that pretty closely. I mean is there is it a similar mindset or do you take a different tact. I think you just let it be you know. Similar is not. It's just whatever comes you say yes to it and you cultivate hope from it I never coached high school players. They was always you know graduated from high school. And now they're freshman's This situation is a little different in in was recruiting for two to three years. This situation is a little different. But you know from me. Chris i love the unknown about it. And that's the space i live in. Not just wanna make sure that. I have the space incorporate something in these players that they can just think about it can build from a have a foundation so when they make the transition they have every tool in the toolbox to say okay. Oh that's a problem Assess it let me be able to correct it. Let me obsessed. Let me be aware of it and i think that's the difference between you know coaching a high school kid in in the college. Kid i mean you get able to mold them a little bit better and then you have to understand where they at. Now you know back then. I didn't have social media. We didn't have social media now. These kids these players are building their brand a little bit earlier and now you just meet them where they are. And i can't wait to get them up on campus get them up until atlanta just continue to build a great relationship. Welcome spend time with the one on one in. This situation is going to provide us to do a lot more skill development that i didn't have a really good opportunity and it had not one say good opportunity. I didn't have the best opportunity. Because there's so many things we own a row recruiting You own a row fundraising these different things. Brandon's taken care of in. Dan porter is taken care of. I can just really coach the player and work on his skill development on and off the basketball court. So it's really given me my own lane. So i can really perform my job. Mama job is really breaking down and relationships it starts. Relationship is start with trust. Stars will hold is spending time with the the young student athletes on and off the basketball court and pushed them to greatness and the competition is not on. our side of competition is with him. You know can you beat your previous best bestself. Can you be better than today you know. Can you be better tomorrow than you were date. And that's what i'm coaching. And that's what i love to do. And i think we're going to have some great young man as open as biden has going to be vulnerable going to try to reach for the sky. In the sky is going to be ob- you is not going to be limits. I can't wait to get up to atlanta. We've been having some many camps. Chris has been wonderful to get back on the court with the guys. And i'm looking forward to the next mini camp and dan looking forward to getting them up to atlanta. So we really can go to work. You know when. I was was talking to brian. shaw a couple of months ago. Kevin about how he was coaching. The ignite you know it was a lot of pro stop. He was trying to bring to that team. Are you taking that same. Approach you trying to coach them like their nba players or something different. No it's nothing different is just. I'm building pro. Habits in every situation is going to be different. Chris this is going to be some guys. Come in you know. Say for instance like a. John montero will we got him and he you know is a little bit more advanced than some other players because he's been a pro- already and then it's going to be another situation where we gotta talented guy might not be able to get quick but these opportunities we can go at our own pace we can sit down and talk to them but we're really teaching and building pro habits and those habits is going to translate over to them being great pros when that opportunity come invest in the nba are the euro league so every day you know we are building like a practice plan like more of a college practice plan nba practice bandwidth doing drills. That i got from my numerous stops in the nba. You know we're doing sets in the nba. Then we gotta understand that sixteen years old as well you know and maybe sometimes you gotta you know kinda doubt it down a little bit. But i'm gonna let com. I'm going to let that go. i'm not going to focus on one of it. I'm not gonna say oh. We're doing this process. 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Divers inventors patent and unleash economic opportunity. Find out at invent together dot org learn more and take action today brandon not to continue to compare this team to the ignite but when i talked to sharieff abderrahim about that i mean. I had asked him about the sustainability of that team. Given how much. Money was being poured in to pay some of the players. And he bobbed and weaved floyd mayweather trying to answer that question. Because it's it's hard to commit to it without say a television contract more sponsorships and things like that when you can you speak to kind of the sustainability of this because we've seen startups with an influx of cash. Get get in big the first year. But then peter out. I mean what needs to happen. Four overtime elite to become a long term successful program while has got to answers. I think you know a concept. I mean we're we're selling on the ability to develop young players and have a more more pro ready right. So this is. This is the path we are offering basketball development. Call it professional Business development And we are also like leveraging. What is an incredible media platform that again. The things that we like to call a distinguishing factors. That's a huge one. So not to bob and weave one. We gotta be good ass. You know that. That's how have long deputy spurs the spurs. They were good for really long time. And so we've got the that there were good at this note. No pressure on kale right The the the second piece though is you know and this comes from my my time in the nba. It just wasn't that long ago where it out of chicago. Pre-draft combine interview. If i said. I wanna build my brand. Everybody in the room was like smirking and like you know what. What are we talking about like. It's about basketball basketball basketball And you know if you are young team developing and not winning a lot of games truth is you can't sell just basketball because your basketball isn't great you got to sell personalities and stories in that there's something that people can invest in in fall in love with other than like the final score like otherwise. The sixers had no chance right any any development team yet to buy into a story and for us. I think we have a chance to create stories but we get a chance to show those stories because we have a platform. So it's it doesn't take much. I mean i'm not a social media guru. But when i got recruited for this job haven't been around the block a little bit certainly from an nba perspective. I heard a couple of things. I really got my attention. One was fifty million followers That's eyeballs and we all know that that Business follows the eyeballs in whatever in whatever respect. The other was which is unfair. Because i think that number changes month over month but it started at one point four and not set maybe one point eight or one point nine billion with a b. billion views of content a month that overtime in some ways has found a way to the heart. The mind of young people It is being communicated and solid as you know the generation z. sort media and content engine We are doing an amazing thing here which is developing young talent in a pure way that we want to make sure that they are prepared. Top to bottom to do well on the court to do well and communities to do well in business but then there's this other thing which is they want to be known like. No player wants to play in an empty building. Everybody wants to play where it matters. They wanna play. When nick can rock and like the building and just like recognizing their talent. We're just artists. And one thing that is kind of showcase. By one event that that overtime overtime the media company producing s called. You see it on youtube to. Is that over. Hundred million people watched that. I mean that that's not an insignificant number that players that are going to play overtime. Lee will have the opportunity to be known The the opportunity of bring brick big brands to the table and support this platform If not already indicated by the kinds of investors that that have shown interest but the brands that are coming to the table our sustainability is going to be showing value delivering value to not just the athletes but to overtime visibility. I would imagine great for them but can you monetize it. Can you make it so this league is in the black or does it need to be in the black every year. Well my the good news is as a basketball man. No different than a different than the is Get a budget. My job is to be fishing and and spend wisely. I i'm not. I'm not asked to sell tickets or generate revenue that's for a tremendous And in successful a business operations Our job is to make sure that what we are delivering is high is a high level product That you see the growth and development of our young players. What's there recruited. We gotta make them better. They need to be able to perform and probably the best testament of our success is going to be our nba. Gm voting with this pick right but with a coach saying like they did a nice job. This guy was. Well coached testament to takeo and the rest of the coaching staff. That if we're doing that will prove successful. Because guess what the next crop of recruits when we're in the gym like we're not chasing them. There's sort of meeting us at at minimum half way. We need to keep bringing high level taliban and developing talent to prove successful and i have a tremendous set of partners across academics and across content media. That will will do their part to elevate our business. Can you expecting to tap into some of your. nba relationships. I mean as you mentioned thirteen teams in twelve seasons. You've made a lot of friends over the years. We're going to see like san preston sitting in the crowd for your practices as a whole so sam and so many gyms that i know you know Kevin durant and all these guys are destinies in overtime. Just having them be around. We had our first minicamp. Ray allen showed up and not only showed up. He brought his son to work out with guys. Just it was just amazing. does just see how the branches that we can continue to pull up on and they continue to pull on us and be a partnership in. This thing is going to be great. Are you expecting to have kind of drop ins. Durant's involved with the league. You expecting these guys. Just be around. Which i would imagine would be both a resource for you but also an attractive quality to this league definitely. Definitely we going to build a place where it's going to be hopefully a development premier development destination for everybody and you know hopefully katie can come out and work out with guys and russell westbrook and james harden and all these guys that we know and i know i had opportunity to be evolved. Then it's kinda beat a veteran guys We want them to be around. Because it's not. Just me sean. It's also watching tape like these are the different drills and look how k. d. and look how chris paul is using the pick and rolls and now they're showing up that's a that's a big big bang for us with us growing these young talented student athletes To get them inspired to the next level and they're doing a great job done only gonna do. I coached him. Chris a coach me on a day to day basis. I'm open to that and we just really want to have a love affair with guys and and the end of the day chris. We want appease the basketball guys. We wanna play the right way. We want to share a basketball. We wanna run. We wanna have fun. We want how to join the game but it can't just be me me me. It has to be weak. And i'm wanting to teach guys how to be involved in any system they get drafted about. They can be a part of a productive system and be a productive partner in in the community as well no matter what city they when they arrive to the nba brandon. Before let you go. What schedule gonna look like i mean is this team playing. Just walk me through kind of what these kids are getting into. And what kind of schedule you gonna be able to put together so schedule that that is really interesting for everybody. And i wanna try to illuminate. But i've got to be careful we are still contracting with some teams But for the audience the think about it in buckets. We're gonna play independent prep schools. That's going to be a significant part of our schedule. We are a high school so we are looking to schedule. Some of the top independence that you would typically no to have a national schedule can travel that have the ability to be mobile. We're scheduling home and away with with With those folks and it looks like net set as an example It looks like you know. Folks that are playing for a national title Arizona florida california. So it'll be a widespread travel schedule for us. We're also looking at European competition so think about junior euroleague as an example. Some of the best clubs the Insects as an example Where we can get a collection of sixteen to nineteen year old elite talent to compete against us. And then as i mentioned earlier on the show we really feel like the best competition is gonna come internally and that's where our league play Comes into effect so we are looking at our group of twenty four as three teams of eight. There will be standings you'll be able to track will compete against each other. That'll be a significant part of our schedule as well. We don't want to overstep our guys one of the things. We really wanna correct leading science. Guide us here. is is minimized the wear and tear. Nobody's while still developing and preparing for a professional level place so a schedule of maybe thirty five. To forty games is our target. We started september Training camp will will begin Play by mid august. We'll be done by by Late march is how we see our schedule shaping up i'm looking forward to it brennan kevin. It's a really interesting concept and hope you guys have a lot of success with an. I'll certainly be watching a lot of. Nba people will be watching but brandon. Stay out of a set of massachusetts. Kevin has like some basketball. Ptsd from all those bc. Matchups i'm sure would probably were so tough. I don't remember kevin. It's not real like talk about it. But lita past. We'd be six thousand. That's not very nice. That's hovering kevin brand. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it all right. Thank you chris. Thanks so much.
Terry Meiners
Nigeria Wins Historic Upset Over Team U.S.A. In Olympic Exhibition
"Men's Olympic basketball is up to eat. Well, um, it didn't start off well over the weekend, they had their first exhibition game against Nigeria in they lost What? 92 87. Team USA goes down, So we got that going for us. Wait a minute. Isn't Kevin Durant on that team? The guy that carry the Brooklyn Nets on his back. Of course. Kevin Durant. Bradley Beal Bam out of bio. Draymond Green Game. Dollar is on their Jayson Tatum. They've got a pretty good lineup. So they lost to Nigeria. Wait a minute. There's some Nigerian players who are actually NBA players. Right there are and there are a few NBA players missing from that team that are still playing in the finals. No Djourou HOLIDAY. No Chris Middleton know Devin Booker. But the Nigerian squad does have three guys from the Miami Heat roster. Also one of the Sacramento Kings, a guy for the Minnesota Timberwolves and one of Donovan Mitchell's teammates with the Utah Jazz. Good for them. Congratulations, Nigeria. I think they taught a valuable lesson to our Guys on USA team that always thinks it's going to just steamroll everybody. I hope so. Because the last time the U. S, the U. S men's national team lost an exhibition game. They finished seventh in the feeble World Cup just a couple of years ago, so Hopefully they right the ship and we don't have one of those performances in the Olympics.
The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"bradley beal" Discussed on The Cedric Maxwell Podcast
"You know, you know, you know, bother me man, bother me anymore. You don't joke me more on social media? No, no, you don't know what you mean, what bothers me about what Tatum said that he wasn't joking about was that oh, that's not, that's not part of my pay. Just, you know, when they, when the question was asked, how much input are you going to have on, on the next steps? This offseason that's, that's a that's not above. I thought my page now granted, maybe he knew what was going to happen. Maybe the last thing he wage. It was people to think that he had anything to do with with with Danny leave it and and and Brad transitioning to the front office but the same time, it's like, well, don't you want to be in those conversations? Don't you want to have some input as to what this team's going to look up? Or do you just want to chase, you know, being an MVP candidate and and and putting up great numbers? I don't know, honestly I really don't know because you have to talk about that. Nor does he talk about his relationship with Brad Stevens? Nor has he took a bread? My first NBA coach and my first four years, thanks for everything buddy. Like, we're more than 24 hours removed and he has a set of single thing about Brad Stevens. His only comment was ballbusting with Evan Turner. Why hasn T come out and say, congrats for anything serious to say about this transition, about this important time. And, you know, in the franchise guys, I just want to take a step back and talk about Mara golf with their stem cell. Research has been amazing. I went and did an evaluation and I end up getting a shot dead. And I'm hoping right now, I'm going to be back from the court. These guys were brilliant. They communicate well they give you an education on what it's like and that is what really to me one me over because not only were they going to give me an operation of procedure, but they were going to educate me about this procedure and not learning and being comfortable. That is how you get well and that's how you become partners. And my big shout out to those guys. They did a fantastic job. Check them out at marigot. Cool..
AP News Radio
Embiid Leaves With Sore Knee, 76ers Lose to Wizards 122-114
"Bradley Beal led seven players in double figures with twenty seven points as the wizards avoided elimination by beating the seventy Sixers one twenty two one fourteen in game four of the Eastern Conference playoff series Philadelphia leads the series three games to one the seventy Sixers lost big man Jo Ellen be late in the first quarter with a sore right knee Russell Westbrook had another triple double with nineteen points twenty one rebounds and fourteen assists the seventy Sixers were led by Tobias Harris with twenty one Greg heist Washington
Wendell's World & Sports
Clippers Look to Avoid Another Playoff Meltdown vs Mavericks
"Los angeles clippers. Where do we go from here. What's happening with the clippers. They lose the series. Let let let let's call. Let's play is the worst case scenario game. Now here's your host. When do what happens. Man playing this game if the clippers lose four row in their swept in the first round of the playoffs. What do we do with this team. You're not you're not trading paul. You can't improve yourself in the draft because to acquire paul george. The clippers gave oklahoma city. I think all of their first round choices until the year twenty four sixty six. What are we going to do with quiet. Leonard what did the legacy mean for quiet. Leonard what do we do with tyler. What are we going to be doing to team here. There's nothing that we can do to improve it bradley. Beal is not going to the los angeles clippers. There's no major upgrade that you can have. That can improve the los angeles clippers for next season if they lose four to the dallas mavericks. And i don't even think it's a situation where we're dealing with lack of talent. I don't want to call lack of hard. I don't know what the hell is doing. The los angeles clippers but right now multiple things going on where we thought. I shouldn't say what what i thought were just like You know this that and the other that wait a second here. Wait a moment memento. There's some really so much stuff really need to look into that. I don't know that can be fixed. I don't know if all of a sudden turn into an alpha dog. I don't know if paul george can turn really into that playoff p. side kick one eight option that they did. I don't know.
AP News Radio
Simmons Leads 76ers Past Wizards; Westbrook Injured
"The seventy Sixers are up to nothing in their opening round series after clobbering the wizards one twenty ninety five Ben Simmons had twenty two points nine rebounds and eight assists one game after becoming the sixth player in league history to record fifteen fourteen fifteen assists I knew you know I six was the first game I noted in the system so expect me to to file my guys and get my guys shots they'll fall asleep a lot of times no I came down the floor and I did have a lot of masculine beat also had twenty two points and Tobias Harris added nineteen wizards guard Russell Westbrook left the game in the fourth quarter with a leg injury Westbrook finished with ten points and eleven assists Bradley Beal had a game high thirty three points for Washington which host game three on Saturday I'm the ferry
WTOP 24 Hour News
Simmons Leads 76ers Past Wizards; Westbrook Injured
"Points a game wizards go, Logan says. I'm not gonna say this is your fault. But the, uh well, you know what the Sixers playing good defense, the Wizards or not Right now, one of 7 to 83 Can the Sixers in control of this one just under eight minutes to go, Davis Bird thons fouling out of this game with you. No points, two rebounds. Russell Westbrook is out with the hurt his ankle. He has gone back to the locker room. Bradley Beal has 33 points. But this thing is pretty much over one of 7 83 Joel Embiid Ben Simmons each have 22 on the night for Philadelphia looking and take a 20 seriously before they come back to Capitol wondering on Saturday, which, by the way will be at the 50% capacity. So about 10,000 fans in the stands at the Wizard's going to need it is they're gonna be down. Oh to the
AP News Radio
Harris Scores 37, Leads 76ers Past Wizards 125-118 in Game 1
"Tobias Harris and Jo Ellan be let the seventy Sixers to a game one victory over the wizards one twenty five one eighteen Harris scored twenty eight of his game high thirty seven points in the first half villainous scoring void within beat on the bench and early foul trouble and be was whistled for three thousand the Sixers missed fourteen of seventeen three point attempts in the first half leaving it up to harass and be finished with thirty points despite sitting at a huge portion of the first half Ben Simmons shot poorly but contributed fifteen assists and fifteen rebounds Bradley Beal had thirty three points for the wizards who take on the Sixers and Philadelphia on Wednesday I'm Dave Ferrie
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"bradley beal" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"League in scoring Bradley Beal, D Lt'll. Jolan beady, Honest round out the top five other than Steph. Who is the most reliable scorer on this list stuff? Well, because yeah, I would say deal or Damian. But they're both rely on my price. Say that Do you not see? I'd say Damian Lillard. Yeah. I mean, when I first read this, I said maybe Joel and beat because even if he has an off day from mid Ranger from from from outside the arc Least even go inside. Just bang around and, you know, get 20 points. You know what I mean? But I think history has shown us that Damian Lillard, especially when he's motivated and like pissed off is fantastic. I want to say Damien was a day. I'm going to say the same thing. I mean, you know, Yeah, they were all great. I mean, it's like, you know, trying split hairs here, but Um, you know, Bill Well, you've seen Yonas get shut down, right and then beat had a quiet one last night. That's right. But Damian Lillard even when they start double team, and I remember in the postseason was that a couple of years ago? Maybe his last year, actually. He just He could just rip it rip them off. Yeah, he is. It's also easier with a shared. It's a shame, though it really is a shame that he Portland hasn't put the right front court. They have a great backcourt. Obviously, Yep, but the front court is just it's just always lacking, but it's fundamentally flawed. The backcourt you can't have a backcourt guys, a six ft. No sense. I don't know how they and I like CJ McCollum a lot. I love them from his days at Lehigh when I watched him, But I mean enough is enough. This six Ft. 3643 doesn't work in the MBA. Not now, that's like 1990 like 54. All right since returning on May one from a wrist injury, Mellow bull, averaging 15 and six but the Hornets in just three and five while currently holding the tie breaker for the eighth seed in the east, So Had the 33 37 Hornets met expectations this year. My answer is yes, Number one. They obviously know their draft choice. So you know if he doesn't get hurt, all right? Hey, wins. Rookie there with his eyes shut. His numbers were just his progress was beyond impressive..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"bradley beal" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"W M v P Chicago This is sports. I'm Kevin Winter entering this weekend in the N B, a team that trailed by five points with less than 10 seconds to go in the game. This worst seven and 23,498. They had 23,498 losses that only seven victories that's silly. And on Saturday night, Damien Village back to back threes. The Blazers stunned the Chicago Bulls tonight. Bradley Beal and Russell Westbrook, two Threes and 3.8 seconds and the Wizard Stump the Brooklyn Nets Your final in Washington D C. 1 49 1 46 295 combined points, second highest scoring gave analyzed 25 years. Russ goes 41 bill goes for 37. Durant had 37 Joe Harrison 30 No James Harden in this when he sat out with a left thigh contusion fairly closes on a 31 to 6 running. Indeed, they beat the Pacers or 19, 1 10. No Joel Embiid, Utah this afternoon had its season best 11 game winning streak in the embassy come to own clothes. Denver got a Career high tying 47 from the cold. Yokich. They beat Utah 1 28 1 17 Patrick Reid wins the farmers insurance open and ongoing right now. Indiana Joe We could have history. Leon dry cycle of the events that oil or says six assists, one shy of the NHL record set by Billy Taylor, the Wings and 47 Wayne. Screening, and the first enormous move of the NFL off season has been made. Jared Goff traded to the Lions Matthew Stafford down with the ranch. What does it all mean?.
KTKR 760AM
"bradley beal" Discussed on KTKR 760AM
"Thanks to Ric Bucher for stopping by a few minutes ago talking MBA with us and no shortage of big story lines. Tonight we have the Lakers falling short against the Sixers. The Nets could be in the mode for another star player or somewhat close to a star. And maybe that star is Bradley Beal. I mean, probably not Bradley Beal, one of going someplace else. But after tonight, clearly Bradley Beal could be having the James Harden path of I want out. And now, Iet's all going to be completely unfixable after what happened following the Wizards lost tonight. So the Wizard's lose tonight, which is you know, listening is what happens. What the Wizards do they lose to New Orleans 1 24 106. Bradley. Beal has a huge game doesn't shoot very well shoot, you know, 17 out of 37 but still goes for 47 points. There's pictures of him sitting on the bench at the end, and he just looks completely done with the Washington Wizards. Now it could also be your read into his body language. He's just sick of losing their losing tonight. They're getting smacked their three in 10, and he's upset. Well following the game, his wife come. I Adams from love and hip hop and then started dating Bradley Beal and now they're married, went on Twitter and just wrote sick of it. So this is just about directly following the Wizards loss to New Orleans. She just goes on Twitter and right sick of it. Now, I'm wondering if you're going to find out tomorrow. She's going to say no, no, no sick of the new cast of this television show war or sick of of of being, you know, inside the house all the time ago of it, Or is she going to say yet? No. We are sick of what's going on with the Washington Wizards, and we want out. This could be the beginning of Bradley Beal going along the James Harden line of okay. I'm really done here. John Wall got out. Why can't I get out? I gotta go someplace else. I got to go someplace really soon. Nix. There's someplace I really need to get to a team that maybe need somebody that can score 30 points a game Next. There's got to be a place for me to go where I could go on. Enjoy the rest of my career. Knicks. It's gotta happen. There's got to be a place for us. I like that. There was a graphic from Stat Muse 13 40 Point games by Bradley Beal Since the start of last season, the Wizards are one in 12 in those games this year. He has scored 47 60 41 39 points and four of those Wizards 13 games. They lost all four of them on and to be fair. Westbrook didn't play tonight. Really? Hodja Mora has been out. They've had a ton of guys out because of covert protocol. So that hasn't exactly helped them to establish rotations or give Beale any help whatsoever. But clear that the frustrating is mounting that shot of him with his arms draped over the chairs. Just sitting on the bench. Staring into space is about Aziz telling as you can get. Yeah, he looks like he's completely done like I am completely done with what's going on. We stink. I want out and look, that's what athletes do. Now. If you really want out, you burn the bridge, right? You got to say this is it? It's not fixable. I don't know that I should be around the team. I want you to trade me. Here's where I want to go. This is how it works. Now you can like or not like it, and I'm not the biggest fan of it. Because it basically rewards behavior that that that is not the greatest in the world. But this is kind of how it's done This if you want out that now is the time to do it after what's going on tonight. You want out this is it. Go out and do it and we'll see Bradley Beal could be the next James Arness forest where he could wind up going. Twitter. Right? How about a Fresca? Mike? It's swollen Dome will continue to follow this story. KNICKS If anything develops over the course of the night tonight, But coming up next, a big story out of the NFL, the Texans have their head coach. Now what happens for just Shawn Watson? Heard the good news about covert 19 vaccines. They're here, but you could do more than wait for your turn. Here's how stay at least 6 ft away from folks you don't live with, And it's risky to be indoors with him, too. And masks. Well, they protect both the person wearing them and the.
WTOP
"bradley beal" Discussed on WTOP
"45, powered by Red River technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red 10 15 years Rob would fork Alright Del. Generally we have to watch Washington trying to dig their way out of a big halftime deficit. Tonight, though they took a 17 14 lead into the break. It's a lead that they still hold now. Midway through the third quarter. It has been a rough go of it since halftime for this Washington offense. They've gone three and out twice, but Alex Smith a strong first half. He threw two touchdown passes one to Terry McLaurin on the game's opening drive of their first opening drive touchdown of the season and also found Logan Thomas for a touchdown in the back of the end zone right before halftime to give them this advantage, So they've done a good job against Jalen hurts in terms of his passing, but Hertz has run for both Philadelphia touchdowns tonight. And just trying some trickery Now is are the Eagles as they face a third and short now trying to cut into this Washington deficit. Win tonight for Washington brings Tom Brady and the Buccaneers to FedEx Field on Saturday nights as the NFL to this evening has announced the lineup for wild card weekend. The Baltimore Ravens will play on Sunday afternoon against the Tennessee Titans. They are in the playoffs for the third straight year of the Ravens, and it's the second straight year they'll face Tennessee. The Ravens wrapped up their 11 and five regular season with 1/5 straight when they dominated the Bangles and Cincinnati 38 to 3. They rush for a franchise record. 404 Yards. That is the most in an NFL game since 1950 the New York Jets did the inevitable. Tonight's. They fired Adam Gates after a two and 14 train wreck that caps his brief two year stint. And the Wizards to win. Oh, now in 2021. They had the next 1 23 1 20 to their second straight win Bradley Beal with 27 points to lead the way, but Thomas Bryants, the hero in this one with the game winning dunk to finish with 21 points. And 14 rebounds in college basketball. G W avenging that loss to do came yesterday with a 75 73 victory Today. Navy A winner over Bucknell for their fourth straight win, and James Madison Lake collapse, They fall to Morgan State and then fall below 500. Rob would work w zero p Sports Rob Thank you, and still ahead. We'll tell you why A D C school teacher, former teacher Is under arrest tonight. And 17. We're keeping it local. We're keeping.