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Wolves suspend Gobert post-punch for play-in game vs. Lakers
"The Minnesota Timberwolves suspended center Rudy Gobert for their play in game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday after the ten year veteran threw a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson in an argument in the huddle during a timeout in the team's regular season finale. Gobert took a swing at Anderson and hit him in the upper chest in the second quarter of Minnesota's game against New Orleans on Sunday when the flustered Timberwolves were trailing by 12 points. The Timberwolves rallied to beat the pelicans one 13 to one O 8 and take 8th place in the Western Conference. I'm get some cool ball.
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"Must have seen it. It was like four minutes left. Ingram did that spin move he does and Edwards just dived in front of it and just pickpocketed with his whole body. Like you just kind of read the move, beat him to the spot and just stole it without fouling him. Which I don't know, that's not a play you see very often, right? Somebody reads a spin move and just steals it. The one I noticed it was like 71 69 because the other frustrating part is that towns got his fourth foul with 8 minutes to go or at the 8 minute mark of the third quarter. And one of the officials in this game was having a pretty tough go of it. Yeah. But and it was funny because towns goes to get in front of valance units kind of in that trance like not full transition kind of like a soft transition and players do this all the time. They just kind of get in front of the other guy fall down and then get the call and the officials have the tough game went to call it a charge. Luckily the guy in the baseline saw what happened, but at that point you're like, why are you fucking around with this? Like why are you even putting yourself in a position where it shouldn't have been a charge anyway and then he gets his fourth foul and he's out of he's subbed out of the game. And at that point it was like 71 69 and Anthony Edwards had a drive past everybody, then there was all this help on him. He makes the perfect pass, then he hits a three and I think the Ingram block that you're talking about is he was already in the air as he got off of his feet almost undisciplined, Ingram thinks he has them, and then he strips them like on the way down. No, that was a different play. He did that. He had the block on mccaw and traffic. Now he just call her help one. The McCollum's help one is like, oh, I mean, I retweeted it because it was so nasty, but I mean, even off that strip, then he turned it over, but then he got the and one when it was turned over again. So you're right. There were some messiness into it. But there were stretches where he had to kind of do this on his own. And those are the special players, and that's why, again, I think he has a chance to be one of those guys. I thought this was actually an awesome win, considering everything that happened for Minnesota. It's still great today. Yeah, that was a rise to the occasion game from him, and it wasn't perfect, but I think that's why we both like them. He just, I think he sensed the moment, he realized that the season was going sideways. The whole team, like it was weird for a team that just had an altercation on the bench an hour earlier. The team was like, they're all standing there pulling for each other. It seems like they really like Kyle Anderson and prince and absolutely. And the Edwards saying, how can you not like that guy? And what towns came back in too? I mean, he lit it up from the outside. He was trying to go 5 out small, herb Jones. I think it was playing them at that point. And if you just don't have enough size, like I got to understand, when towns is hitting his shot, it's a brutal spot for the opposing coach to go, you know, what do I do here? But the funny thing is that when towns was out, Gobert's already gone, they brought a night for a stretch there to play center. That wasn't working out defensively by going kind of 5 out. It allowed all this room for Anthony Edwards, which kind of gets back to the go bear point of scrolling Edwards up. And again, these are all like long-term things that maybe Timberwolves fans don't want to hear about because today was so awesome and getting that win. But that's the part of just the basketball fit where you go. Man, isn't it cool when you have towns on the outside or just attacking and no one else is there on this team in the middle? That's why we hated the trade to begin with. I mean, we can victory lap this. We've been victory lapping it for 6 months. I hated the trade. Really despised that I didn't understand it. I didn't think I made them a contender. I thought it was going to change their style of play in a really weird way. Was it sold on towns to go bear it all? You could see even in that second half today, watching them with towns as the center, that's the best thing about him is he's this weird center who can guard 5s on one end and then spreads everybody on the other end. I thought Gobert napping out there weirdly open things up for them. The refs kept towns in the game. Town should have fouled out with like two minutes left. He missed that lay up around the rim, and then he was trying to get the rebound and just crashed into the guy and knocked him too feet backwards. And I think if they had called that, I think Minnesota was going to lose. New Orleans really screwed that game up in a bunch of different ways. And I think that they have to win too. They have OKC now in the 9 ten. Okay, C is has to be one of the weirdest playoff teams we've ever had. Josh giddy leading the
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Edwards leads Wolves rally past Pelicans, after Gobert punch
"Ingram's 5th career 40 point game wasn't enough to keep New Orleans out of the playground tournament. Instead, the pelicans finished 9th and will host the tenth seed thunder on Wednesday. Minnesota's win was marred by an incident on its bench in which Rudy Gobert punched teammate Kyle Anderson and was removed from the court. The Timberwolves earned the 8th seed and will visit the 7th seed Lakers in a play in game on Tuesday.
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"Oh that's a great one, yeah. It's funny those things that you remember so clearly. Like I remember I don't know that it was a great thing health wise to be ten years old and just walking around the nursing home lighting up everybody, but that's what I would do. I would just get up and relight everybody, which I think is probably frowned upon now. The intent and just sitting in a nursing home and then reading readers digest because you're so fucking bored. But we were watching the news on a little TV set and remember you gotta remember like my first thing was loving those sixers teams because it was doctor Jade. It was Moses and then this Charles Barkley guy comes along. So I know this is always weird and everybody hears this and can't understand why I'm from New England, but when you're impressionable you're a little kid, that's what I love most of anything. Fucking love most Malone. And I'm like, wait, the sixers got the first pick with this team and they could have Moses Brad Doherty and Charles Barkley and it's like, no, no, no. Not only are we gonna trade Moses Malone for Jeff Roland and cliff Robinson, the former Harlem globetrotter, not uncle cliffy. They traded the number one pick, the rights to Brad Dory for Roy hinson, who played a hundred games, a hundred games for the sixers. It's the most brutal combo trade in the history of the league, I think. It doesn't get nearly enough credit as one of the worst trades in American sports history. Now, I did talk to somebody who was involved in it later on and they said, you know, there were some things that we needed to do to kind of shuffle around that you guys didn't know about. I'm like, well, yeah, ten, I definitely didn't know about any of those things. It's kind of like, okay, so that was your only option. Think about that. Think about trade. How about just take Brad Doherty? He was sitting right there because he's drafted him first. Yeah, and they were like, you know, he had some back issues. You're like, what was Roy Henson's? What were his classes at that point? I forgot to mention the Pao Gasol trade, which almost goes with that same, but that trade almost felt like it was the league was fixed with that. Well, that was the other one that I always want to point to because it's funny, retroactively that one feels like it's not as bad because but what you have to remember is I've never heard of a trade, at least in all my years of talking to teams. It's not like I'm some reporter, but whatever. I've never heard more teams pissed off after a trade of my entire life of talking to people in the league. It was three weeks before the deadline. Nobody knew he was available. Nobody knew he was available. That's what people were so mad about. And everybody kind of knew, they're like, oh, this is a tough one to figure out. But they go, you know, if you're gonna do this shit, take some phone calls. Like, figure out what the market is, pretend. This is an early wrapped up to LA. That's terrible. I've never had teams more upset than that one. From a Utah standpoint with this Gobert trade, Danny did this in Boston. All the tea leaves were pointed to this. We were talking about the Utah bloat up potential on this podcast on your podcast and ringer MBA. The rice O'Neal warning shot for a first round pick. By the way, how do you give up a first round pick for Royce O'Neal? Didn't they watch the playoffs? He couldn't guard anybody. I actually think he's like the only guy that can potentially guard you. You could have guard anyone on Memphis though. I just wanted to give it up a first for him. But so now they do this trade for Gobert. Now they're all in on when penama. Add them to the list with San Antonio. OKC, Charlotte might be in there. We'll talk about Charlotte a little bit. And now they're saying, no, no, we're probably going to keep Mitchell. I just don't believe them. I don't believe them. I don't know how you do this trade and then don't trade Mitchell. I think Mitchell has to be traded this summer. You have to. So you're saying, fucking do it. What's the point? You could have a great tank season. Next year in the year after, Mitchell's not going to be happy there now. He was barely happy there anyway. Now they just traded Gobert for three bench players. They have a bunch of picks that they're probably not going to do anything with. So unless this is like a Portland situation, where it's a combination reboot, but then you're also using the assets to make the team competitive again. I don't think Danny's going to do that. You and I watched him in Boston forever. Danny is like, I want to win the title. If I can't win the title, I'm blowing it up until I get the pieces to win the title. I thought Mitchell took a huge.
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"Crap and they had to take Alonzo mourning's contract back and all that stuff. I was like, that trade is terrible. You can't have, you can't feel like you have to trade Vince Carter that badly that you actually not only made your team wear short term, but you didn't even get cap flexibility. Good picks anything. I hated that trade. T Mac for Steve Francis, katina Moby and Calvin kato, it was just an insane trade. Can you think of Orlando knowing what we know now in 2022? And T max on the block, what would it have been, that would have been more than the Gobert trade, right? That would have been like 5 first and two pick swaps. But everybody was a moron in the mid 2000s. Your guy Barkley, that trade was reprehensible the moment it happened. To Phoenix? Yeah, hornacek, Tim Perry. I like Tim Perry a little bit. Now that trade was like, wow, you just traded one of the best 6 guys in the league. You got nothing back. What are you doing? Two firsts for Eddie curry was iconically bad immediately. Remember that? Yeah. Because then they also had to pay Eddie curry too. Yeah. And we're paying him 60 million. And apparently the Eddie curry thing with the nicks was, well, nobody wants to do this deal. And we don't want to do the deal until we get this heart test thing done in Isaiah was like, we don't need you to take any hard tests. Right. Now we're fine. We'll look the other way. This is a personal one for me in house, but when Washington traded the 5th pick in the O 9 draft for Randy foy and Mike Miller, I actually thought house was going to just leave. Just leave the country. He was so upset. I was upset for him. It was the draft with curry and Rubio, and it was a really good draft. And it was just insane where Washington's going. We're so close. These are the last two pieces. Mike Miller and ready for and we're good. Now it's time to compete for a title. That was insane. The second Chris Paul trade, which I guess was the best they could do, but just felt like, man, Eric Gordon, who I really like. Eric Gordon's got to be awesome because Chris Paul had somehow become undervalued. And then my number one, I hated this trade. It still makes me mad. I can't believe it happened. 1996, Dallas trades Jason Kidd. For Sam cassell, Michael Finley and AC green. And it was because he wasn't getting along with Jim Clemens, they were running the fucking triangle with him. And it still is infuriating to me that they didn't understand what they had with Jason Kidd and they just made like the classic three quarters for a dollar trade. He was like 22 years old. In all of those cases, I was instantly revulsed by the trade. If that's even a word and I felt the same way about the Gobert trade. My first one is the one I, you know, it was just I remember being at a nursing home visiting my grandmother and I was ten and it was 86 and it was the Moses Malone..
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"The greatest. 2015 Gasol, O one and O two to kembe. 2002 1001 David Robinson, 1989, Robert parish. And then we'll remove Wilton like all the great centers ever. I just wonder how Gobert's going to age. I mean, you could argue he was probably more impactful two years ago than he was this last year. Because he wants big guy, you're right. It's not an argument. He's not getting better. Well then you think, okay, now I'm locked in to him in towns as two of my three best guys. My other guy is not 21 years old yet. Now, we just talked, we talked about Tatum for four playoff rounds in a row as Tatum's played declined and declined and we talked about like, well, Tatum's 24. Here's the arc of these guys as they hit their mid 20s. They're always better, 27, 28, 29. Edwards four years from now is going to be 24. So for this to work, first of all, he has to send to become like a Michael Jordan level talent as a guard. He's got to be like a 30 points a game guy. Then you have to figure out Ken towns and Gobert play together. We already have real questions about town. So they just extended for even more money. We don't even know towns did some of the dumbest shit in that playoff series that you and I have seen in a basketball series in the last 20 years. And there's real questions about, can you win 16 playoff games with this guy and win a title with how erratic is in some of the stuff he does. And then on top of it, what are teams going to do against Townsend Gobert when they're out there together? It just feels like constantly they're going to be putting them in space and trying to beat them one on one. I have no idea if these guys can play together. So if I'm making this trade, when I'm giving up all these picks, that's I kind of want to know can these guys play together? Do you think they could play together? I'm not positive. We're ten minutes in, we haven't talked about the basketball part of it. Because I always try to figure out a way to like, oh, okay, what would I argue against myself right now? And we know that regular season healthy Gobert, although I would say he's declining, or at least showed signs of declining last year from pico bear, maybe over the course of the regular season, it's like, man, you can not drive on this team. Look at all this size. Anthony Edwards takes the leap that we all think he's going to take and that he's special. Maybe they flipped D'angelo Russell. You know what I mean? At some point, maybe they win like 56, 57 games, like on paper. See it. Okay, hold on. But on paper, I could rattle 6 or 7 teams I might like at full health better than even Minnesota right now. That's just not the way things work. Two of those teams are going to have major injuries. So maybe they sneak up and all these different things. Like there's a basketball part of it and maybe everybody's happy and ants the kind of guy and they love it and it's like, hey, this is awesome. We're all cool with this real young. This is funny. He's French. He tells, you know, like, who knows? Maybe they're all happy. Maybe all those firsts don't mean shit, all right? Maybe it doesn't mean shit. But you're absolutely right. From a playoff basketball standpoint, a league that seems to not want to have centers out there at the end of playoff games is going to be paying like 73 million for two of them. Yeah. How about this? The last couple of years, 2025 and 26. It's a $100 million just for those two guys. And we haven't given Edwards at the max extension that he's going to get after year three, right? Now you're all time locked in and you have no way to improve those three guys. So if it doesn't work, what happens next? Towns ask for a trade or town starts getting shopped around. Now I have to make another trade to fix the situation I'm already in. And this goes back to something you and I have talked about a lot. I thought of you when this happened. This is a classic new owner syndrome trade. Classic. Timberwolves get these new owners. They have a little bit of a moment in the playoffs where at least it was fun. They had a fun series against Memphis. New guys in charge wants to make a splash. His guys telling he hires Tim Connolly gives him a lot of money. Tim connell is like, I think we can get Gobert. And what is the new owner go? Do it. Whatever it takes. I'm all in. Let's get them. Whatever it takes. Well, we might lose all these unprotected pics. What about 2027 and 29? I don't care. Just throw them in. We're always going to be good. I'm going to spend money, those picks. They're all being non lottery picks. This is a great trade for us. This is what happens with the new owners. We've seen this over and over and over again. New owners don't have patience. They want to get the big splash. They want to buy the yacht. Take everyone on their yacht. Look at my Rudy Gobert. Yeah. Easy. Have you seen it? Come on. Yes, sorry. We're going to go bear trade. Have you seen Rudy Gobert? This feels like the Rudy Gobert back porch, okay? Like when I bought my first property, a humble little condo in West Hartford Connecticut. Yeah. Okay. Her great stories about that place. Right. I bought a $2500 restoration hardware fire pit thing..
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"I go into the west next year, feeling like I'm competing with everybody else in the top four. No, it has Davis. It has to be Davis LeBron. It's like we are giving up an insane amount of assets, but now I know we can make the finals. Like, to me, that's the barometer for all this stuff they gave up. I don't see any other way to think about it. Give me some examples of other trades you hated initially and still don't like it. Give me one second on that because I just wanted to follow and go bear stuff really quick. 30 years old, he's made the second round three times. Utah lost 5 of their last 6 playoff series with him. It's been three all star games since defense support of the earth three times. Second tima NBA wants 13 mom bay three times. Utah was 13 and 21 in their last 34 playoff games. He kind of got, I don't want to say play it off the floor, but they kept them out because they kept them out there, but the clips and Mavs unlocked something that made it seem like there is actually a solution when you're going against Rudy Gobert in a playoff series. And by the way, not just that, that regular season game against Golden State when clay went off and clay in the postgame Bill was like, we wanted to try to get go bear in every single thing we could. Right, all right? And then the times you saw a Chris Paul and you'd be like, oh, here we go. And it's not even like specific to Gobert. It's almost every one of these centers. But I don't want to hear about the regular season plus minus. I don't want to hear about the assistance. We don't care about that. Right, go ahead. How about this? Do you care about this? Here are the centers. 30 years old and over who made an all NBA team. That weren't like Shaq hooking.
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"Any trade for the last 30 years that I've hated for a team. That did it for two days. Wow. I've looked at what they got. I looked at my feelings for can you win with Gobert for the reasoning behind it? And I just don't get it. And I rarely plant my flag. I feel like I'll point my flag really hard when I feel really strong about something. Like Luca was a good example. Luca fun and three, I just didn't understand. I played my flag in that. I hate this trade for Minnesota, I hate it. I can't defend it. We'll go through everything they gave up. But that, my initial reaction was, what is going on? And then I looked at it for 48 hours, and I'm even more confused. If you had told me that they just gave up two unprotected picks with everything else they gave up to take Colbert and his money back. I'm still not positive, I love it for Minnesota. And I'll go on all the reasons why, but that was my initial reaction. What was your initial reaction? What is it now? I hated it then. I hate it now. I don't know if it's the worst trade in 30 years. That seems aggressive. No, I'm saying I hated it the most. And I'll go through some of the other trades, but just I vehemently dislike this trade. It depends on how you feel about Gobert, right? So, you know, whenever you'll talk to a team and you try to think like, hey, are you go bear guys or are you not? I think we all know what this camp has been for a few years. I remember the first time truly understanding how insane his impact was on the floor over the course of a season. I remember Zach low one time calling me because it was an ESPN and he's like, hey I'm doing some different things. He's like, I like to just check in with different people and he's like, did you see some of the scope air stuff? And I go, yeah, I thought something was wrong when I saw the on off with him because it was so dramatic and it was such a significant number that showed you what his value was. And so I felt like I defended him a lot. I don't like guys that you don't have to guard. All right, that's like a fundamental belief I'm always gonna have about basketball players, I kind of want you to be able to score sometimes. And I kind of want to have to worry about it a little bit. So as this has played out and you started asking around about like a Gobert market for however long, some people loved him. And then there will also be other groups that would be like, look, we like them, but our fucking analytics department comes down the hallway screaming about how amazing this guy is. And I think that's part of the Gobert divide in the confusion. So there's a really quick part of this from Minnesota where you're like, maybe it's okay. Maybe they have a nice little run here for four or 5 years. Maybe these picks they loaded in. It doesn't really matter because they all end up being in the 20s and we talked about for years. They can all be a little overrated, but now I think they've sort of shifted to be completely undervalued, but it's a very, very dangerous game to get into when you start kicking these picks years down the road unprotected when we've learned if we've learned anything the last couple of years, you have no fucking clue who you are going to be and who your Ross, who's going to be on your roster a couple years. And what stars are going to be at that roster. Exactly. So to say, oh, we're going to be good. That's what Houston thought when they started trading for Russell Westbrook. That's what Brooklyn thought when they traded for harden. That's what, you know, Milwaukee's a better bet because Gianna seems to be the kind of personality. It's like, I fucking love it here. Trade whatever you want for drew holiday. So the only part of this that I can understand is that if there was such an analytic drive from it and Conley's awesome, you know, the new guy running it in Matt Lloyd that he brought in from Orlando. These are really good front office guys and I know that they're opposing field goal percentage at the rim is like 67%. It was 25th in the NBA. They wanted to kind of fix that. But then what? But then what? Okay, cool. Maybe you win a ton of regular season games. Maybe you're four seat, but Bill, I'd ask you this, like you just locked into this, move this many unprotected picks and you're gonna pay Gobert 47 million in 2026. Are you guaranteed next year? Are you gonna pick them? Can you sit there today in July and say, I guarantee they win a first round series next playoffs? Let's talk about the price, let's talk about how we feel about Gobert. And then let's talk about how we feel about Minnesota now locked into these three guys. So the price, 3M protected picks, 23, 25, 27. A swap, unprotected in 26. A top 5 protected pick in 29. They gave up Vanderbilt in this trade, who you and I really like. I would value him what? If they were just trading him before the draft, could they have gotten a pick in the 20s for him? I would say, yeah, right? I would say yes, I really like Vanderbilt. A lot. 4 million, 4.7. Beasley and Beverly were too expiring. That I don't know. I feel like that Utah is probably going to be able to flip. Well, you got to trade somebody for the money. I mean, I get it. Kessler, Kessler was the 22nd pick in 2022 in Baltimore. I was also a first round pick. So 5 first and a 22 first plus Vanderbilt plus two good expiring. So you've traded all of your trade leverage. You have no trade leverage left at all, except for D'angelo Russell, but nobody really wants anyway. That is a prohibitive insane price. We thought what New Orleans got for Davis, both you and I thought was too much, but we understood it from the Lakers side because now you have Davis and LeBron, you can win the title. I don't feel that way about Minnesota. I don't feel like giving all that stuff up for Gobert and having Gobert towns and Edwards who's not even 21 years old yet. I don't think that locks you into anything. Can you make round two? Maybe. Sure. Let's say round two. Is that worth trading 6 first round picks? I just, I just don't think Gobert is worth that. I had him because he isn't trade by a list. I've had him in like the 40s. This isn't a mystery. All right, the only people that be screaming listeners right now have only looked at the numbers and said, hey, here's a number for you. 7 straight regular seasons to 7 straight playoff seasons. The defense got worse. And it's only going to continue to get worse. You know, he's somebody you can attack if you bring him away, which isn't fair necessarily to him, but he's somebody who you can like, look, I thought he held up pretty well in some of that weird switching shit when his entire perimeter defense for you saw it as a decided other than O'Neill to stop playing defense. But that series against Dallas to me, like I liked Donovan Mitchell, some little things started going off being like, come on, man, are you going to be one of these dudes? We talked about stopping in two way guy. Even the clippers thing. It's not entirely fair to go bear to be like, hey, protect the rim and then also run out and close out on Reggie Jackson in the corner. Like that wasn't, but the problem is you never have to guard him. Now, is he all of a sudden to become more of an offensive player? I don't want to hear about his 15 points a game. I don't want to hear it. I went through it. What's your defensive efficiency per 100 in the regular season? What is in the playoffs? You've got worse all 7 years. Why is it going to get better now at his age? Why are you like, if I'm going to pay somebody $47 million in 2026 and I'm going to give you all these unprotected picks. He's going to be 34. Right. The player's part of it sucks, which is why they should just be able to trade picks for the guy you want instead of also getting rid of some of your own depth in this. That's the other thing I hate about trades in the NBA where you're like, do you guys even want some of these guys that were giving you? Because we'd like to keep one or two of them, but we can't because of the trade rules with the CBA. But if I'm doing all of these things, I have to know like, okay, I'm a lock to get in the second round and compete..
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"Coming up, I'm serving you a little Sunday NBA brunch. Some eggs, some breakfast potatoes, some toast, some orange juice, some of those breakfast buns with the coffee cake crumble thing is, oh, and a whole bunch of MBA. That too, it's all next. We're also brought to you by the ringer, podcast, network, we're hitting Stranger Things pretty hard on the ringer verse podcast, House of our Mallory and Joanna. They already broke down episode 8. That is up. I guess the final episode of season four, they're going to be breaking that down as well. I did not follow what was going on in season four of Stranger Things. All I know is my son sent an alarm for 6 a.m. on Friday morning. Him and my daughter watch both episodes on Friday morning and they were very upset afterwards. And no spoilers, I just, my son doesn't get upset that often and he was very upset about something that happened. That's all I know. I'll have to listen to how Sarah and find out what happened. Also, a new rewatchable is coming on Monday night. Me and Brad Brian koppelman, we did misery. The Stephen King book turned into a classic movie that when captivates an Oscar. You can find out some of the streamers. It is one of the best thrillers I think of the last 35 years. Featuring an indelible performance back at the Bates. So we cover that on Monday night, had a lot of fun doing that one on this podcast. So much NBA happened for someone I said, fuck it. Let's go late Sunday morning Pacific time, let's just get this out. We have the Celtics and Durant, most importantly, the Gobert trade, 25 other things that happen. We're going to cover it all. It's on the next first, our Friends from. Project. All right, Ryan masso is here. I'm just going to start your late Sunday morning as we're entrenched in the July 4th week. I'm going to start you with this. I think I hated the Rudy Gobert trade more from Minnesota. Than.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
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"Riding on game four on this one. All right, let's move to some news. On the jazz, willing to listen on trades for Rudy Gobert, but not so Donovan Mitchell that is pretty consistent with what we've been hearing. That they would consider moving him. Of course, Rudy Gobert's contract is something that teams will have to factor in four more years. Max deal, that's some teams will be willing to pay that, but still very, very high impact player. There's going to be suitors out there. It feels more like we're going to push towards a Gobert trade being executed here this summer. Maybe it doesn't happen. Maybe Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are both on the jazz next season, but this franchise, the coach changing over, it feels like there's more change coming to this team. Yeah, you know better than anybody how I feel about this stuff when there's a lot of smoke. I tend to be all right. There's something here. We're hearing. I mean, it's now getting to be just about every day. We're hearing something about Gobert. Part of that is, I mean, whether you put it on him or the people work for him, then he doesn't exactly always keep things closest to the vest. I will say, though, when he does make moves, they generally tend to come a little out of nowhere. So Gobert is Chicago, the vucevic stuff that we've heard, I don't know about all that. But it was a surprise at all if he gets moved. It wouldn't shock me if there's some different team that jumps in on him that we haven't heard even worried about. And says, hey, yeah, we think he easily guy. I do think though it's going to be important if you trade him. It can't be for like a rebuilding package because you still got Mitchell so you're trying to still be competitive and keep him happy too. So we'll see. But I think you're right..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"gobert" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Was a report from woj that he is unnerved out of a Mitchell is, by this, which how are you, like this has been out there for what? A month at least. If you and I have been talking about it for a month, then either Donovan Mitchell was off the grid entirely for the last month. More like, come on, you're really caught off guard here. Yeah, like how is this that can't be real, but then that goes to, okay, read between the lines, why is this being put out there? Is this Donovan Mitchell and his camp making it known that maybe he's not the happiest of campers there in Utah and then you can kind of see why something because he can't really be that shocked that this happened. Donovan Mitchell's not in the idiot. I'd be very surprised if I think this is Donovan Mitchell letting it be known of, hey, when you're going to talk about the next head coaches, I maybe just a phone call. Let's make sure I'm okay. With the thought process here on that one. So yeah, yeah, I don't want anybody to get too crazy on this front that he was really caught off guard, yeah. But I did think the wording there was funny, and that was very much, oh, okay. All right. All right, why is this being said in being said now? Okay, here we go. Well, and the word is too that the jazz have pretty much a no to any teams that have called about Donovan Mitchell in a trade and that if they were to Tony Jones of the athletic. Right. And he also said that they would take a monstrous offer. To get Donna Mitchell. So they're not looking at moving to him. Unless something crazy happened, which should always be the stance for every player, right? Like, no, we won't trade that guy in less somebody does something stupid. I get to give a couple it shouldn't be. I mean, maybe, but just about a good player, yes. That should be your default should be, you know, no, you need to blow us away. No, we're not going to have a conversation with you. You come with your come with your first best last and we'll discuss all at once. Right. Yeah, exactly. And that's going to come into play later with a little story that we've got on the Sacramento Kings and their draft pick. We'll get to that in just a moment though. Rudy Gobert. He is appears to be very much on the market. Very much available few teams that are after him already, the Toronto Raptors being one of them. I mean, this is a big contract for a guy that some people still say can get played off the floor, come play off time. Limited offensively isn't a creator, but is an incredible defender. So I don't know how wide the market is going to be for Gobert. I know teams want him, but from a roster building standpoint, can you make a championship caliber team with Rudy Gobert making over $40 million per season? Yeah, Dane, I'm glad you phrased it that way versus can you build a championship contender with Rudy Gobert. Because clearly you can. Yeah..
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"But I think we've had impactful defensive guys every generation at that position. I'm with you. I would much rather have the bam Jaron Jackson draymond type of center versus the Gobert thing, because it really does seem like the smartest teams have figured out a way to at least attack him in small stretches, Gobert. But when you're just talking day to day, he's almost like an NHL defenseman. Like when Chara was playing like 35 minutes a game. Where he can, he could just skate around and impact every game, pretty consistently in a pretty unique to him way. But I'm with you, I still feel like there's ways to attack him. And we've seen it happen too many times with them. Where teams went small and they needed to catch up and they just did it. The defenders were like, no, no, what about the times when they went small? And they didn't catch up. We never see the clips of those. I get it. Yeah, and I don't know who it was. And I'm not doing this necessarily to even be combative. I mean, geralt Obama would put down as one of the, you know, maybe if guys from teams or whatever, send you a text about something, and you're like, oh, okay. You know, like you have it, I'll say something on a pod, and then somebody who I really trust and go, oh, this guy's, he set me straight in a couple things where maybe I had the wrong take on it. And I know he hates this one because he and I have argued about it before. But I saw somebody else saying like, look at this point for possession, defensive thing on all pick and rolls. And this is why Gobert never, you know, it's the term that we use. He plays himself off the core. He doesn't. He stays on the court, but I would, I would just ask anybody that thinks that this is a ridiculous premise to watch how some of the better teams and better perimeter guys decide, hey, let's start picking on him. And I don't know. If they get Phoenix next round, that'll be that'll be the proof of what we're talking about. Because they'll attack him in all of the smartest possible ways. And by the way, you can still get a great look miss and then that counts as a win for Gobert. So that's the time statistically when I'll watch your stuff and go, well, that was still a really good look. But that'll count as a win for him because they didn't score. I'm making my throwback 1970s, guys. Starting 5 for the playoffs. I got Brunson. For instance, like right out of the late 70s. Kanchar, Eric white, mid contra. We get it. I know. I still have them. And loony. Who's your 5th on that? Where we can take the 5 guys to just immediately put them into a game in 1979. It would make sense. Probably just her of Jones because of his name. Herb Jones, that's a good one. I'll add him. Kyle Anderson? Yeah, Kyle's gonna be just killing people with that slow shit. The rest of his life. Yeah. I saw him swear in a game and I was thrown off. He was wearing. I had one more item on the agenda. Did you see Durant stuff about back to back MVPs? I thought it was really interesting. I think he continues to be the most interesting NBA player we have with some of his observations. He said, go for it. He thought embiid was the MVP, not jokic. And he said, quote, if you're going to get two in a row, you can't duplicate the same thing you did before in my opinion. You got to step up and do something way bigger than you did before. Just.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Of watching you. I don't like watching Dallas so that Luca as much as I respect Brunson and some of these other guys. Luca now hitting this moment where it's year four for him. He's played in 13 playoff games, 33 9 and ten. And if you go and you look at every great perimeter guy with the exception of curry, but Jordan and Kobe Oscar west, LeBron wade, Doc, KD, Isaiah, LG and kuzi by year four, they've had a moment in the playoffs. He had bad luck. He strains his calf, game 82. And it's like, it's fine. He might miss game one. Now it's like, now he met actually miss one and two. That had those games at home. He comes back, he's not going to be a 100%. And it feels like a lost Alice here. For a team that I think would have beaten Utah, should I give up on Dallas? Are you expecting a Luca Lazarus return? What do you think? I think that injuries nasty, man. But he doesn't go fast, right? There's somebody that has a chance. He's so big. He gets you on his ass. He just works you, he knows every angle. You just can't do anything with him. What's he dribbles? I mean, that's what's so crazy about it. I picked Utah and I think I was leaning maybe doing a zag on everybody by going Utah, 'cause I felt like, you know, Dallas still didn't finish off with the greatest profile. And then I kept thinking, wait a minute. What if Dallas goes small and it turns into a Gobert thing? Yet then in game one, you know, Dallas was trying to a couple different things and go bare dominated this game. Colbert was unbelievable. What he was doing defensively where he show on a perimeter guy or he like jab towards the roll man, but then still close out on somebody. I mean, Gundy was losing his mind throughout it. But I still want to talk about the Gobert defensive thing because I think there are camps here. And I feel like I'm in the smaller camp. And I don't know if you were in it with me, but. I just don't how am I supposed to pick Dallas until I could see what happens with Luca, but I think if somebody can play with that kind of thing, he can because he doesn't have to go fast. These.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"So the big reason, if you're think of Minnesota Memphis, is if there's an Edwards thing going on here that would be like kind of generational wouldn't just be like, oh man, remember that one. This would be something different would be going on. There's a chance that this guy is truly special. You go. Yeah, that's kind of what, wait, what if he really is this guy? Because he had this weird lull towards the end of the regular season, which I still, I'm just going to admit it. There are times where I feel like the D'angelo Russell combo with him, although this has been a better version of D'angelo Russell. Like my thing with the angel of Russell is this. He does the hard things well, and he does the really easy things poorly. And so it can still fuck you when he's going great scoring and dishing and his skill, but then it's like, why can't you do these other little things are a lot easier that can lead to losses. So I've always felt like even though I want a couple scoring options from the wing, I wondered if that ever got in the way of Anthony Edwards and when Edwards is like, all right, you know what? I just think I'm gonna take over here for a little while and then he started doing it again at the end of the regular season and then what he did in game one. This is not sort of more getting absurd here. But could we be on the cusp of all right, I don't even want to say this out loud because I feel like it's stupid. But my favorite example of like, oh, okay, so this is real. It's when LeBron got to that awful calves team to the NBA Finals. They beat Detroit that gets swept by the spurs. That team was not good. I always joked that the LeBron deserves a half a ring for that one. And then it's like, all right, well this is now it took the rest of it took a little bit longer than we thought. And I'm not saying Edwards now is going to carry the Timberwolves of the NBA Finals, but if this is as real as you and I think it could potentially be, then maybe this is what it's going to be. He's that special that I'd at least allow myself to have this thought where other 7 seeds. I'd be like, ah, whatever. You got the first one in Memphis is too good. They're going to figure this out. It turns 21 on August 5th. That's right, same birthday. It's.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"gobert" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"A tough call, right? Because Horford has done it so well all year. Robs, that's not the best part of his game. Maybe both out there at the end of the last game. Yeah, but it's a different rob got put on ice this game. They wanted to spread out Gobert too and they did that. I mean, Tatum missed that step back on them in the fourth there and hit miss another step back. I thought he should have been more aggressive probably blowing by him, but it's tough. I mean, people talk about Gobert and just like how big of a stiff he's been in the playoffs, but you do forget just how much he changes the game. When he's out there, it is so hard to navigate around him. Celtics did a pretty good job. Scored a 130 points on a Gobert defense without hitting a lot of three..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Trevor Noah: Moderna Chief Not a Source You Should Trust
"Day. Trevor, Noah gets the dummy today. Now I've long said, you take Bill Mars earpiece off. You take Trevor Noah's earpiece off. John Stuart any of them. Gobert, you put them in a room with a smart man or woman who's well read, and you'll let him talk for two hours. There will be nothing left but ribbons of them. There will be cut to pieces. By anyone who knows their way around a set of facts and how to argue. They're not that bad. They're not smart. They're funny, and they have good timing, they're good comics. But Trevor Noah is a moron. Cut number 21. And while most of the world is willing to wait and see, at least one person feels comfortable about making predictions, the Moderna CEO told the Financial Times he expects the existing vaccines to be less effective against the new variant of COVID. I think it's going to be a material drop. This was on vaccine efficacy. I just don't know how much because we still need to wait for the data, but all the scientists I've spoken to are saying this is not going to be good. So on the one hand, almost all the only cron cases have been mild so far. But on the other hand, the guy who stands to gain millions of dollars from new vaccines says we need new vaccines. Huh. If we don't make a new vaccine, this disease could be with us Ferrari. I mean forever. Sorry, I was thinking of something else. Now, look, I'm not saying that the CEO of Moderna is lying. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying, I don't think he's the most objective source on this topic, you know? I'll wait to hear what neutral experts say about a new vaccine. People like public health officials or the CEO of Johnson & Johnson. I mean, he's got nothing a game 'cause nobody's gonna buy his vaccines either way, so I trust him. And also, if we do need a new vaccine for this new variant, it's not a big deal. All right, people. I see people online being like, we're going to get a new shot every year. There's no way. Yeah, yeah, you know what? Maybe to not die, you might need to take 15 minutes out of your year.
DeaconLive
Massive "Dragon Man" Skull Found in China
"Have claimed they discovered a new species of human. Dan are you in this article. Oh yes the dragon man. Right they've dame species homo lung g or the dragon man. They believe it's a separate branch of humanity which exists one hundred and forty six thousand years ago. This is what looked like for more information. We'll listen to this article so for more information on this. Let's listen to this discovery of stardust older than the sun to the aren't so all of this took place in australia and this woman's accents really really thick. so keep getting more astonishing. An interesting scientists have now discovered what could be a new species of humans a branch of humanity altogether which existed on this planet thousands of years ago and was not on its way to becoming species the homo sapiens series. Better than i do and for you to see this video gobert to profit radio. Pr p. h. e. t. radio. Click on line for every podcast. Do we have a matching video as well. She's a neutral elbows on the table. My dad would have a fit if she was eating our dinner table. I would get flipped in the air. Slickest finger hit me right near when i would do that. Here you go. What was the species. Exactly where did they live. How did they look. And what happened to this species of humans. Here's a report on all. You need to know what you see is no ordinary skull. It belongs to a completely new species of humans. One that roamed this planet thousands of years ago its discoveries reshaping. Very story of human evolution. The backstory is straight out of a movie. It begins in nineteen thirty three. When i construction worker found an ancient skull buried deep in northeast china. He discovered it near the harbin river in china's hey long province according to a study by the innovation the labor chose to hide the skull and did not mention into anyone. He buried it in abandoned. Well where it remained wrapped and hidden for eighty five years in two thousand eighteen. The labor told his family about the fossil right before he died
The Free Agents
"gobert" Discussed on The Free Agents
"At our phones during commercial. Break coming back in five four right back. We are back and let's get into it because there's a bunch in today's report. It's the up down report all right first one in the down report. Let's see your thumbs in the stream teams thumbs up thumbs down another day another. Nba award announcement. Really good peres won the nba defensive player of the year. The award is go. Bears third deep honor since the introduction of the award. Eighty-three go bears only the fourth player in nba history to win it three times plus joining dwight howard who has three and then ben wallace into be matombo have four. The stifle tower finished with eighty four of one hundred first place votes. Ben simmons coming in second place overall with fifteen first place votes and then golden state's draymond green placed third so legally. You're going to get started here. Upper down on rudy gobert. Winning another dp y sums up. Congratulations convincing victory. There by really well deserved you do mention that. He joins pretty leak company. And when you look at it. He's going to be twenty nine soon in a couple of weeks here. And he is one of the league's most consistent and best defense is and has done for the last four or five years could end up with more than anybody. I think anything. That's beyond the range of possibilities here because you know that the jazz is backbone in. This table is defense. He's there he gets recognized for it. And i consider see him getting better. He grabs a lottery. Bandy doesn't have significant health concerns at this point like he's not an injury prone guy so it gonna play. The jazz are going to be a defensive team for a long time. As long as he's there so i can see him Being the leader of this brecca category. When when all said and done with his career because that's what he's certainly most known for any continues to be impactful on that end last season. The jazz defense slip to thirteenth in the league. Which was surprising for me though. Maybe the bubble had something to do with it there but it was certainly back this year and rudy was fantastic and deserve this award. Would you bet on that. Trae regal bear to win two more. Let's say defensive player of the years from here. He's only twenty nine whenever it is at least twenty nine and a couple of weeks or maybe one you can wrap your head around. And then you're like what voters actually give them more than wallace. That's where i would struggle but it is possible. I mean he's still. An elite defender. Just proved that winning it again. And i could see why could win it a couple more times and there doesn't seem to be voter fatigue for defensive player of the year right. It's more just like hey that guys still awesome a defense. Toss them vote. I mean you know. I think that rim defense is the most important defense out there. I think that going to continue to be the case. And obviously the jazz are going to continue to build around rudy gobert. The defender probably at some point. Ben simmons will get one people toss him a little depot y bone but i think go bear was the easy choice this year. He challenges the most shots at the rim and people are still trying to avoid them. I think that's pretty impressive. It's just that his lowlights stick out so much that people love to dunk on rudy. Gobert when he gets crossed up by. Chris paul and the corner top that sticks out a lot more than you know blocking jamaran dunk or something like that because we expect to some four guy to be able to block some shots. But i don't know if you watch that last possession of game one against the clippers. I know it wasn't during the regular season but that could have been a defensive player of the year highlight type right there rudy closing out in the corner. Kind of just fly on all over the court guys. A great defender five is in play. I would at least say task. Were you shocked at all by how much he ran away with this award. Eighty four of the one hundred one hundred one first place votes there go into them. Quite a significant amount thought. Some people thought might be a little closer between him and ben simmons but in the end it really wasn't all that a little bit for sure i get caught up in what the media saying and tucker did a good job of pumping up his guy in ben simmons and yeah. I definitely get caught in the narrative out there. I'm i'm a sucker. I definitely so Yeah i heard a lot but at the same time. I think we're going to get a good ben simmons game on friday because of it. I i know skeets you. You kind of mock that idea. When joel embiid came up with a forty point performance after nicole yokich got the mvp and yang that it had. Nothing had nothing to do the other. I think ben desperately wanted this thing and maybe we'll get just a tiny bit more ben juice on friday in atlanta for game three. I'm just trying to look at the positive here. i don't buy that. What danny green said about. Ben simmons that this this should go to a perimeter player because the the big man has less to do now in today's game it's the opposite. It's absolutely the opposite. Danny green also. I'm calling him. Dan green from now author dan. I'm going to take a vacation and read my dan green book on the beach but he says that perimeter players have more responsibility than the big guys. It's the opposite the absolute opposite. And that's why i understand you're saying voters don't have ot. I kind of have voter fatigue looking at this award. I kinda just go. Big man. Centric when i look at this award. Although bent does as much as he possibly can a rudy has a little bit more ground to cover. And i think he he does a good job of it because he. That's the only place you can really get physical with. Somebody is at the rim. They don't call it. The way they call it out on the primer which is touch foul at the rim. At least you can be a little bit physical. So i think rudy gets it. I have no idea. I'd i didn't look storage. If he's going to get he just needs to more and then he'll have the ultimate lead while finish twice second as well just going to say. That definitely wants to dream on me. Yeah yeah. Wow i mean does that is he. Then for the whole fee if he's like the old doing defender of all time. I mean i don't know that's it's too early for that. I saw some wallace. Just the doctorate rudy. Gobert is going to be a hall of famer. Oh wow colonists shot he's locking my goodness lawrence man you're gonna see rudy gobert the end of his career. He's going to be posted up with five defensive player of the year. Awards man man defense. I hate it what some people say more like. Maybe thirty eight percent of the game. But it's technically it's a great trophy. We'll say that cool when you see the defensive player of the year trump got some weight to the mvp trophies too. Don't get me wrong. But it's like how it looks a bunch of them there together. I will say though the award presentations are really starting to mail it. Which is left on his seat in his locker. This one so the jazz have already had an award there and it's just like hey go have it. And then Then jingles to save the day once again going up. They're putting up..
AP News Radio
Mitchell Scores 30, Jazz Beat Memphis 120-113 to Go Up 3-1
"The Utah Jazz grabbed a three games to one lead in their first round series against the Memphis Grizzlies with a one twenty one thirteen victory Donovan Mitchell led the jazz with thirty points as Utah's round with three straight wins after dropping game one of the series at home I think the biggest thing is we didn't come into our room right we cannot have you for the women leaders to come knocking like you got a job at the it's not finished yet that's the message we know this message Jordan Clarkson added twenty four points for the jazz or Rudy Gobert scored thirteen of his seventeen points in the third quarter or Utah scored forty one points to grab a thirteen point lead jamarat Cup the Grizzlies with twenty three points and twelve assists the jets can close out this best of seven series in Utah on Wednesday I'm Jim Bernard
Lakers Nation Podcast
Will Le Bron Win the Best Defensive Player of 2021?
"LeBron wants to be he could he could really be the best defender in the NBA some of the plays he made tonight when the chips started to fall against the Lakers things started going against GM and momentum started to swing it felt like LeBron picked up the defense and everybody else as they usually do followed his lead and he made some incredible place and that was I mean amazing, we we say it all the time but thirty years Years old. I have no idea how he's doing this. Yeah, and there's the one there was the one LeBron block that got called a goaltend was not a goaltender. I was horrible. Yes. But yeah, I think you know, it's weird to think of a thirty-six-year-old winning defensive player of the year, but he he's making a really solid case. I think he at the very least right now has to be top three. We're looking at Ben Simmons the you know, perennial have to throw in Rudy. Gobert his name cuz Rudy gobert exists. Yeah, and I feel like LeBrons right in there with those three.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
Has the Pandemic Resulted in the Death of Privacy?
"Last year. Around this time we talked with. Amy webb futurist and founder of the future today institute about how businesses might respond to the pandemic and how things might change in the future as a result of such a big direction. Changing event one thing. She was really clear on. Is that most likely. The pandemic would accelerate the death of privacy. And now amy webb says. Yep that definitely happened starting in school one of the interesting thing. That's things that has happened over the past twelve months that we've really relaxed some of our feelings about privacy and security for a lot of people who were able to send their kids back to school. Those schools required downloading an application and filling out. Pretty private details about your children that ranged from where you've traveled to whether or not somebody had symptoms all of. That's attached to that child's name and it gets uploaded and there was no choice if you want your kid to go to school. Got to download this app to your phone. Which by the way. There's a lot of other personally identifiable information. That's that's attached to it and it's not like these apps for sending purely anonymous data back and forth. We're going to have to reconcile that at some point. And i here's like another interesting set of connections that i can make about the past twelve months multiple times. We've been in situations whether it was the emergence of the corona virus or the insurrection on the capital or the craziness and volatility in the market as a result of game stop trading in previous years our government institutions and our regulators would have stepped in and they would have stepped in to to mitigate what was happening and instead we saw companies stepping in either to provide services that the government couldn't or to regulate in some way one of the things that we saw happen as a result of the virus was something that i call a c. it's like a diaz except companies so rather than it being a distributed. Denial of service gobert denial of service And it happened again again. And i think we are now on a path where we have to ask given what we've just seen over the past twelve months. What role in the future to our institutions. Play and what influence do companies actually have on society. That you know. Maybe they've had for a while but we haven't been willing to confront and does that mean for all of us going forward so fair to say examples of a see dos would be for example twitter banning president trump robin hood shutting down trading when things got really relatively game stop. Aws and yeah. I mean we can. We can rattle off at this point a pretty long list and again our governmental institutions in this country. Were not set up to move fast and break things. There's one way to look at this last year at this time and we talked the virus felt like it was emerging. The problem is that we. We'd like a four month lead time and there just wasn't any action taken so in a way Everybody kind of dragged their heels and failed to make decisions and contingency plans at every level and in every type of business in every school. There's nobody seemed to be prepared. Even though we were essentially watching a slow-motion explosion happening and then in the aftermath of that we saw you know. I don't know there's no other way to to phrase this. I mean we saw a government leadership that just didn't have the chops we had people running the show. That just didn't have the experience. And i think that created this vacuum for google and apple to step in and try to build contact tracing systems and a year later everyday people stepping up to build corona virus vaccine information websites. Because it's been so challenging and there was there was no direction whatsoever and in the interim we've got companies making decisions about whether or not to allow people to do their business or to say what they wanna say. I think there's been a really profound shift that everyday people will start to recognize. That hasn't an apparent yet because we've been dealing with the crisis from day to day
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
Duke has a COVID-19 positive, is eliminated from ACC tournament
"Duke has been removed from the acc tournament because of a positive covid nineteen tests within the program. The blue devils were scheduled to play. Florida state on thursday night they were only four point underdogs so it was a winnable game in an opportunity to keep their ncaa tournament hopes alive. But now will not happen. Florida state advances duke goes home and given that duke remained significantly on the wrong side of the bubble. We now know that coach k. Will not be in the ncaa tournament for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ninety five dukes run of twenty four straight ncaa tournament. Appearances is over its unofficial for now but it will become official sunday. Dead-leg your thoughts. Well the timing is obviously wild right perish. It's march eleventh. Year ago march eleventh. When the rudy gobert stuff happened. You know by no means. Am i saying his repeating itself. It obviously isn't although it has been interesting to see how the reaction to this has caused a little bit of freak out. I want to remind people that this is duke. Is now the sixth team to have this happen to them. This is not the first time a team. This month has been knocked out of its conference tournament because of covid positive There have been others And so because it's too can because it's a it's a conference tournament and it's march eleventh. People are freaking out just a little bit given the given the air but a source confirmed to me that this was duke's first positive in its coaches and players periods since the pandemic began they had not had a positive the entire season. Preseason offseason anything I had a source told me it was a player who do not play against louisville with all this concern then drifts to well as louisville an potentially you know in some uncertainty to a small degree. But really that's not the expectation here Louisville which has quite an interesting bubble case. Oh by the way it's going to get in but that resumes week We'll see You know what happens there. But there's no reason to believe that louisville should be jeopardy from an eligibility standpoint because of what happened with duke
The Lead
Rudy Gobert's Transformation Started In The D-League
"On sunday rudy. Gobert made his second straight appearance in an nba. All star game. Tom make it a second confederate and for years. Now the big man with the even bigger wingspan. There's been a dominant force within the nba. Tolbert defensive player of the year. There was a time when that was not the case. Time when rudy gobert future was very much in doubt. Today the fx christopher come ronnie takes us back to the time when go gobert was uncertain about where it was headed and explains how he climbed his way to the top. They knew that if he could fill out if he could continue to develop defensively and add various tidbits to his game. Offensively could potentially become a game changer in the league. That's their mind in rudy's mind. He always believed that he would took from wondering athletic. I'm under scotto. It's monday march eighth. And this is the league. It felt like something great emotion and ask past. I s not get this. This is here. you're gonna be the athlete. It stays with you so chris basketball fan today. Think of rudy gobert this absolute force you know a guy who dominates around the rim often makes other teams change their style of play when they face him. But you recently spoke with rudy and wrote about how that has not always been the case so take us back to the days when rudy gobert was not yet rudy. Gobert there. Yes so rudy. Gobert was drafted by the denver nuggets in two thousand thirteen and acquired by the jazz in a draft night. Trade played for show les the french league and his sizeable things into the twenty seventh overall. Pick and he came into the league as a relative unknown. What you'll bring to this team. I mean i i know. You're very long and and a defensive presence. What do you think you can. How can you help this team right away right away. Yeah can we. He had worked his way up the international level coming up in france he had to work himself onto the radar of even french national teams. He wasn't really all that known as a fifteen sixteen year old. How long have you been playing basketball nine years nine. So did you grow up playing soccer before he was on jazz team. That had several high draft picks on it. They had derrick favors. Ns canter to former high draft picks. Big men that played rudy's position. They had a veteran and andreas. Who was a veteran presence on that team as a big man and under that regime rudy kind of found himself as the odd man out but the jess drafted him and took him on as a project and he apparently was not the most stylish guy. What he i community league. yes so obviously. When you're twenty one year old seven foot one kit. That's tall and gangly. It's hard to find clothes that fit you. Great i was going to be on. Is doing right now if you see rudy these various nba awards where he's won the nba defensive player of the year. Two times now. He's showing up and looking very much like a stylistic parisian that he probably always wanted to be back in two thousand thirteen when he was still sort of odd man out on the jazz as you put it. He got sent down to the bakersfield jam of what was then the d. league. i from a life standpoint. What was it. Like for rudy gobert. End up so far off the beaten path and you know in one of the rougher parts of california yes so it's a culture shock for anybody. I think who wants to be a professional basketball player to have to go to a place like bakersfield. California bakersfield has kind of a rough and tumble streak about it. It isn't the most friendliest places. Well tonight we are taking an in depth look into black tar heroin and its presence here in kern county. Rudy's coach will void talked about it would be culture shock for anybody. Let alone a parisian arriving in bakersfield. Which is we're like community area where where are rena and everything was based. That is kind of like mess. Mess capital of the world. So i think he was not going to find a croissant sprint. Snow and anywhere around there. The coaches just told him to stay in his hotel room. And just relax tries to be honest. tells hotel for the most in when he wanted to go work out at the gym. the bakersfield complex. Had you know that all that stuff in their facility but it was very much like. It was almost like a private school in that. He went from work to the hotel room. And that's
CBS Sports Radio
Do NBA Players View Rudy Gobert As a Star-Level Player?
"Hey, I need a big man and go bears on the board and he goes with Sabonis. Might give you some insight that NBA players don't really view groovy go bare as a star level player. He's a very good player. But you know, every time he goes head to head with a dominant big man, he gets his lunch like and beat earlier this week and in the playoffs. Sometimes you could be played off the floor because nowadays in the N B a. You need to be able to switch everything when it comes down the money time and even as good as he is As a help. Defender, Um He's just not fleet of foot enough to pick up a guard on the perimeter, at least consistently. Then Donovan
SportsCenter All Night
'New Legacy,' New Lola: Why 'Space Jam' wanted to do better by one Tune
"On on the new space Jam Way Got lots more information on the new space camp film called Space Jam. A new Legacy film stars LeBron James playing himself who has a young son Dong, who wants to become a game developer. They get trapped in a digital world by a rogue A I. And it's upto LeBron Bugs Bunny and the rest of the tune squad to get them out of there against the evil goon squad. It has also been reported that Space Jam, too, will have a slew of N B A and W NBA stars including Damian Lillard, Anthony Davis, Clay Thompson and Shinobu McKay. He also got a first look at the re imagines, Lola Bunny, filmmaker Malcolm Lee told Entertainment Weekly about the re fresh quote. It's important to reflect the authenticity of strong capable female characters also said that this film is a better movie than space jam. All right, let's go. Better than the original space jam. That is a lofty goal. I believe it when I see it. LeBron James, though, is not even on the best team in the NBA right now. As of right now, that title goes to the Utah Jazz. The Jazz are 27 9 on the season. The next best teams in the league have 24 wins, so it was probably odd for them, at least when the two jazz players who are reserved for the NBA All Star game, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert were picked dead last in the All Star draft by team captains LeBron James and Kevin Durant. James said it was because he never played as the Utah jazz and video games when he was younger. No shade. Though the Jazz is most recent game was a lost, however, to the Philadelphia 70. Sixers and things got heated on the court. Mitchell was injected with 30.5 seconds left in overtime. He smashed a cooler as he left the court. Both he and go bear had words for what they thought was bad officiating in that loss. They were then each fined for being critical of the rest. Mitchell $25,000 and go bare $20,000. All the drama. Remember when artist said today? Oh god. McKay was in Space Jam. She's also in this Ah, conversation with Rudy Gobert, as he reflects on the season and his legacy. First of all, we have a great group of guys. You know, Like, Like I just said, when you have a group of a guy that's willing to sacrifice for one another and do all the little things to make each other better. You know, your team just go from here to here and, you know, obviously we have a lot of talent We have. Ah, Very good coach. We were pushing staff and I think we were very dumping a team up with both hands. You know, we still got ourselves. We still think that we are defensive team. You know, I'll just friends is gonna be what separates us from being good for being great. And we just don't embrace it. You know, we have. Ah, Wei have another talent and a lot of guys that can step up for a minute. When it comes to your
CBS Sports Radio
Are the Utah Jazz a real threat
"Once play resumes in the second have Utah off to a tremendous start. 27 9 on the year they're doing it with great spacing, knocking down tons of threes and getting good looks while doing it, So I don't know if it's necessarily fool's gold. I don't think a bill to keep that pace up. Even if it is good looks. But they also played great defense is not a team that is just out there. Shooting the lights out from beyond the arc night in night out. They played tremendous defense. So Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and think about it, too. Where we've come from in a year, you know, a full year almost Um, where Rudy, go bear. Started the shutdown of sports. With Corona virus on the court. And you know, then gave it to his teammate Donovan Mitchell in there was talk throughout the course of, uh, you know, the off season one The pause was happening. The shutdown was happening that Mitchell was upset that there would be a break up with Utah between go burned out of a Mitchell and here we are now a year later. At the old Star break Utah 27 9 and have lost two straight by the way to get to those nine loss is still the best record in the NBA but led by all stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert. So who cares what they get drafted? And some stupid, silly, gimmicky. Way to come up with the an All Star competition would team LeBron Verse team. Katie can't stand that, but anyway. Um, you know in the West Can Utah be taken seriously to beat a fully healthy Lakers team? We don't right now than awfully healthy with Anthony Davis out, but you have to assume he's going to come back healthy. And if he does Will the jazz be able to compete with them? That'll be the big story line of the Western Conference in the second half. Can the Clippers get things turned around a little bit were there you know, and now they've lost three straight. So have a good record, but still don't look like a championship contender. New coach. Same result. Same stuff with the Clippers, where they're not playing as well as expected. Phoenix has done a nice job and the West, but I don't know if anybody really takes them seriously, just yet. They're young team Chris Paul, leading them. And him and Booker been great, But I don't know the sons can do any real damage. Nice to see those from different teams
Get Up!
Zion Williamson, Lonzo Ball, Pelicans Hold off Donovan Mitchell, Jazz for Win
"We are back on. Get up and jay. Williams made his way to take a look at the game of the night last night. A good one between the jazz. And the pelicans and this one was all about ziad. Look at him. Going right equity go back just constantly challenging rudy gobert. He gets his shot blocked more than any other player in the league. But it doesn't matter because it's going to finish at the rim. He had fifteen points in the third quarter. Zion did look at them continuing here and just taking a straw once again. He loves eternal right shoulder. That's his patented move. Twenty-six ten last night for zion who was really emerging clear in his second season. Well let's take you to where this game is decided thirty seconds ago jazz are down by one. And here's the big sequence. J. will often miss from donovan mitchell. Donovan mitchell mrs baruch. I don't know if i call that over to bat call rudy gobert. That just much taller. But since i did it take another look at it here. That's go bear. He does get called for over the bag. Zion would make too so the pelicans of a three point lead in. Here's the final shot. Not a great look that the utah jazz get off. Zion gets the rebound josh. Hart gets uncontested dunk. And that is all she wrote. The pelicans get the win. One twenty nine one twenty four and again as i on finishing with twenty six points. Ten boards five assists. Joining anthony davis as the only players in new orleans history with game with those numbers before turning twenty one years old. They will play again tomorrow night
Get Up!
Jazz Beat Short-Handed Clips 114-96 For 9th Straight Win
"Let's run the floor through some of the good nba action from last night. Let's begin all the utah jazz. That's the biggest story in sports down. Mitchell scored twenty four last night rudy. Gobert at twenty. Three and twenty rebounds. Utah wins again. Rolling past the clippers for their ninth straight victory. Gobert had a huge game dominant on both ends of the floor. The clippers were playing without practically anyone
Game Theory Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"MBS, where was like, oh really go Bears being played off the floor yada yada yada and that was bullshit really gaubert was Utah's best player in that series took a country mile by a million miles and he was literally the only reason that the Jazz were even competitive in some of those games last year was awful for me. It was it was actually it was actually funny because in real time I was like, wow, you know Rudy's play really well on offense. I mean Rudy's playing really well offensively, but he's really struggling against yogesh defensively and then I saw how much yolk is your visceral rated the Clippers and how many issues he was given Lakers and I was like, oh my word Rudy gobert actually played him pretty well in hindsight. I you know, I don't know what to Stats bear in in playoff situations juice. But you know all of the stats and you know regular season situations, they they really go bear defense pretty well in space or he has defended pretty well spaced and you know, maybe that's you know, when you're in the regular season and you get defending, you know, Orlando's guards one night and you know, Minnesota's guards and other night, you know, that can skew that can skew the numbers a little bit off but he was but you know, he was legitimately good in the in the Nugget Series last year was just that jokic was playing, you know all World Basketball. Yeah, just might not have realized in real time that Nikola jokic was turning into like a very clear top six player in the NBA like he's been this year. And and so I think that the discourse has a globe are especially on social media has been has has has been pretty dishonest. I think that he's had issues and 2 Series M. I think that was the 2017 Golden State series and I think that first 2018 Series against Houston first series of Houston, you know like the Oklahoma Oklahoma City series. He was amazing. But then again he was playing against Steven Adams, you know Houston spaced him out in the second round that year 2019. He was really good against Houston the Jazz just couldn't score like they couldn't score at all. But their defense was the only reason that they were even that they're even that they were even competitive and off those games. There were still a five-game Series last year. He was good against the Nuggets, you know, so he's been good in the playoffs and you know, you know, I think I think that, you know narratives are hard to to overcome, you know, but I have no reason to think that you know, I have no reason to think that go Bear Song Isn't going to be good in this postseason, but now having said that if you know at some point, you know where he's got to look at yoga. She needs gotta be like, okay. I have to figure out a way to stop this guy. And well, I have to figure out a way to generate some like it doesn't matter if if jokic goes from forty if it's a 1,000 game down the stretch and and Rudy gets to stop that matters and that's what didn't happen. And that's what didn't happen against against Denver a couple of months ago in a bubble bath. And that's what like the difficult part of this conversation. Is that the Jazz were genuinely one basket away from beating Denver in a playoff series and off hook shot from Nikola jokic doesn't fall then this is an entirely different conversation. The problem is that well, it happened on Rudy..
Game Theory Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"He is struggling to like move a little bit more. So I think if you know, he's thirty-three and he's on the last year of his deal and that deal is Donovan Mitchell sign his third contract. I think the Jazz will call that a win, you know, because if if if you go into free agency may be right now if you look at the free if you look at free agency right now, there is nobody else out of koala and that's on the market and we all know the koala is not really on the market so long you've had an entire NBA basically gear up for the summer of 2021 because the expectation was there was going to be Jana Santa Claus. Bolt on the market Paul George possibly on the market Rudy gobert possibly on the market. There are so many guys that were supposed to be on the market. And now none of them is on the market. So as hell off of the restricted guys from that 2017 draft class to like Jayson Tatum Donovan Mitchell Etc, right. So imagine if Rudy gobert was on the market as an unrestricted free agent home and that's why it to me that the contract doesn't matter the Jazz had to get that done and they had to they you know for for for the Jazz really go Bears weigh two hundred million dollars. He is he is their defensive system. He is the reason he is one of the biggest reasons why the Jazz of 15 and five right now, he's playing at a career level despite back with you know, what Sunday Sunday afternoon may have war against Nikola jokic, you know, so he's you know, he's he's he outplayed his last contract he's dead. Really well heading into to to this contract. So, you know, I don't think the Jazz are losing sleep over over that contract at all. And the other thing is if you lose your job are you definitely not getting Donovan Mitchell back for third contract or your or at the very least your chances are severely damaged and you know if the job as if this 15 is Starters five starters real in the Jazz are actually one of the top three teams in the Western Conference and you know, they can improve on Thursday next year and so on and so on then you increase the chance to keep and Donovan Mitchell for you for your third contract for his third contract in in this is you know, all of them is Big Picture stuff, you know, so, you know to me it's the you know, you're paying Rudy gobert two hundred million dollars and you know, he's dead. He's worth, you know, every penny that to the.
Game Theory Podcast
"gobert" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"Talk about Rudy. Gobert. What? What do we want to know about mr. Gaubert because I thought before today and obviously today is Sunday. I thought before the day that he was running away with the defensive player of the year award. And then today happened today happened. I would not go as far as running away with the defensive player wage. I thought he was running away. I thought it was a significant gap between him and everybody else. So I totally understand why you would say that their top five and defense coming into town today. They're really really good team Utah. They are arguably playing better before today than anybody in the NBA just point blank. Especially now that the Lakers have hit like off a bit of a bit of a malaise having said that I'm still saying Anthony Davis Ford Prince of player of the year because they've number one defense and he's the one the keys the number one defense in the NBA off. He's by far the most versatile defender in the NBA Rudy I think is a reasonable like honestly probably would be second for me right now Myles Turner has a case sneaky class that I've been advocating as much as I can Larry Nance would probably be in my top five right now. He is the whole reason that the Cavs have a reasonable defense. Yep. Right now a top-10 defense, but I digress nonetheless Rudy gobert has been very very good for the Utah Jazz this year and I thought that Utah's games this week. We're kind of a perfect encapsulation of the Rudy gobert experience against Dallas. He was the reason that they just come holy month and utterly annihilated the Mavericks in both of those games and I watched the first one close cuz I bet on Dallas because Utah was without Donovan Mitchell was without a favors and Dallas was getting back Dorian finney-smith was getting back to like Powell. I thought that they'd take that energy and catch you too on the back end of a back-to-back and be kind of run away with that game and that absolutely one hundred percent was the wrong side to be on and in large part. It was because of the incredible grass. City that Rudy gobert holds as a pick-and-roll offensive threat, he is completely obliterated kristaps porzingis in that in those two games like butterwood obliterated him like wipe them off the face of the Earth on both ends. He averaged 23 points and 16 rebounds. He had like three blocks. He had a couple of steals. He was dead thing that people who are Jazz fans and that yell from the rooftops about Rudy. Gobert. He was everything in those two games that people say about Rudy being like a top-12 impact player in the NBA. You'll hear sometimes in this game today against Denver Nikola jokic made him look like a parking cone on defense and
Game Theory Podcast
A Deep Dive Into Rudy Gobert After the Jazz Lose To Denver
"Talk about Rudy. Gobert. What? What do we want to know about mr. Gaubert because I thought before today and obviously today is Sunday. I thought before the day that he was running away with the defensive player of the year award. And then today happened today happened. I would not go as far as running away with the defensive player wage. I thought he was running away. I thought it was a significant gap between him and everybody else. So I totally understand why you would say that their top five and defense coming into town today. They're really really good team Utah. They are arguably playing better before today than anybody in the NBA just point blank. Especially now that the Lakers have hit like off a bit of a bit of a malaise having said that I'm still saying Anthony Davis Ford Prince of player of the year because they've number one defense and he's the one the keys the number one defense in the NBA off. He's by far the most versatile defender in the NBA Rudy I think is a reasonable like honestly probably would be second for me right now Myles Turner has a case sneaky class that I've been advocating as much as I can Larry Nance would probably be in my top five right now. He is the whole reason that the Cavs have a reasonable defense. Yep. Right now a top-10 defense, but I digress nonetheless Rudy gobert has been very very good for the Utah Jazz this year and I thought that Utah's games this week. We're kind of a perfect encapsulation of the Rudy gobert experience against Dallas. He was the reason that they just come holy month and utterly annihilated the Mavericks in both of those games and I watched the first one close cuz I bet on Dallas because Utah was without Donovan Mitchell was without a favors and Dallas was getting back Dorian finney-smith was getting back to like Powell. I thought that they'd take that energy and catch you too on the back end of a back-to-back and be kind of run away with that game and that absolutely one hundred percent was the wrong side to be on and in large part. It was because of the incredible grass. City that Rudy gobert holds as a pick-and-roll offensive threat, he is completely obliterated kristaps porzingis in that in those two games like butterwood obliterated him like wipe them off the face of the Earth on both ends. He averaged 23 points and 16 rebounds. He had like three blocks. He had a couple of steals. He was dead thing that people who are Jazz fans and that yell from the rooftops about Rudy. Gobert. He was everything in those two games that people say about Rudy being like a top-12 impact player in the NBA. You'll hear sometimes in this game today against Denver Nikola jokic made him look like a parking cone on defense and
Kim Komando
Gobert, Jazz agree to 5-year, $205M extension
"Tim McMahon reports that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has agreed to a five year $205 Million extension, the third largest contract in N. BA history behind Johannes on Tennekoon Po and Russell Westbrook.
The Beat with Ari Melber
Trump to hold first White House event since COVID diagnosis
"Trump announcing new campaign rally in Florida and a White House event tomorrow on the very balcony where he of course returned. From the hospital. Monday all of this political reinforcement of Donald Trump's yes. Failed governing model on the virus breaking his own administration CDC guidelines featuring a medically contagious person that will be addressing a crowd which reinforces the largest problem facing trump's reelection. What Nicole, and I were just discussing fifty-nine percent of voters disapproved straight up how he handles cove it. This is a substantive soon on me, it's hitting Donald Trump's reelection. It has bringing as well. Another moment I'm going to show you right now that many politicos thought they'd never see. I'm talking about the moment when Donald Trump's cove evasions get so secretive. So extreme. So basically, information ridiculous there too much for even his ally. Sean Hannity a trump supporter who literally spoke at a trump rally while working as a Fox News anchor who defends trump nightly, but who felt compelled to press the basic question on the president's health about testing, which of course, informs the medical risk trump poses to others right now. And here it is the moment when Sean Hannity asked if trump's been tested and trump ducks and hannity follows up and trump ducks again and handy even goes there a third time and trump talks again. Have you been tested recently. Too. So the doctors today they think I'm in great shape I'm in great shape. and. I'll tell you it took regenerate. It's phenomenal. Have you had a test since your diagnosis a week ago? Well, what we're doing is probably the tests will be tomorrow the actual task because there's no reason to test all the time. There you have it. Have you tested negative won't say. Did you have a test won't say, when did you have your last test won't say. This. Is a tell. Everyone knows trump has covert so it is hard to see a benign reason to hide a negative new tests while the interview itself featured trump understandably showing some signs of the virus. With three debates with Hillary and Or I think I debate They. They. Related the Mike, but I will say this absentee is okay. Because absentee ballots. Excuse me absentee ballots. It's okay to cough. It's okay to have symptoms. It's okay to feel medically week. The problem is the president denying this going forward. To, pose a risk to others he spent the week in hiding while releasing these videos I'm not playing much of them, but they're government-controlled videos designed to suggest the opposite they are edited by your government, a tax payer accents, public appearances we can't journalistically or information to get much out of them but this morning trump did contradict White House claims by saying he might not have recovered at all. And I recovered immediately almost immediately, I might not have recovered at all. From Gobert. That may be another lie and maybe an exaggeration, but it is very different from the story. That we got from Donald Trump's doctor who now claims that not only is he doing great, but it's completely safe for him to return early to public engagements. If this doctor has medical evidence to prove that claim he must release. He's not. and Donald Trump was literally been caught lying more than any politician in history facts won't even say to Sean Hannity that he has tested negative. Now, that alone wouldn't even be evidence because it could be another lie, but it is something it is telling. That he didn't even do that, it would be something. But in the White House where at least thirty four people have been infected and the public's business at stake on this matter of public health as Donald Trump plows towards government campaign gatherings, he is offering absolutely nothing.
The Esports Minute
ReKTGlobal Secures $35M Financing Round to Support Its Growth
"Wreck global defunding around a thirty five million dollars wrecked has quickly become. One of the largest eastwards operators in the world has been acquiring companies all over. He's for over the last few years on the team side. Wreck is the parent company of Rogue Atop Eastwards Organization best known for its League of Legends Europe team who qualified for worlds this year, they also have good rocket league apex rousers as well. They also have Dr Lupo incredibly Popular Streamer Roster for content creators. In addition to those teams and Lupo wrecked also owns the London Royal Ravens in the call of duty league outside of just those competitive teams though his also acquired green lit content, it content studio, full cube of Fan engagement platform, and fearless media a media agency. It's one of the most expansive companies, all of these sports at this point they also have a wide variety of celebrity investors. Those include musical artists like imagine, dragons, Steve, Aoki's Nicky, Romero as. well as athletes, Rudy Gobert Landon Collins and Taylor Fritz. They also brought on the founder of top dog, the rap group top artists like Kendrick Lamar schoolboy q Jay Rock Ciza, and I was shot personally my favorite label out there. So how'd had to give him a shout-out according to wreck CEO? They are also profitable. One of very few eastwards teams who can say that that's likely thanks to the wide variety of other companies they have under their belt. Investment was a debt capital raise meaning the money more. So alone than it is equity in the company and it came from summit partners. Summit is leaving private equity firm overseeing about twenty one billion dollars in total assets. It'll be interesting to see what rex intentions are with this debt capital raise. If I had to guess I would assume they're gonNA use it to acquire more companies in and around. East sports not necessarily to expand more games they already have a big president quite a few of the top games as it stands right now.