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00:00All right. Here's where we sit at the break. NBA standings at the all-star break. There they are
00:06for you. Of course, Cleveland and OKC are your one seeds. Interesting thing in the east, I've
00:12been telling you about the Brooklyn Nets. They are now only one game back in the loss column of the
00:17play-in tournament in Chicago. That's how well Brooklyn played going into the break. On the west
00:23side, Phoenix on the outside looking in of the play-in, which has Minnesota, Dallas, Sacramento,
00:29and Golden State. Do you think Brooklyn will supersede the Sixers and the Bulls and get in
00:36when it's all said and done the way they have? Fernandez has this defense going like they're
00:42they're winning with defense. They're holding teams under 100 points every night. And do you
00:47think they'll jump them? Because people still talk about the Sixers like they're potentially
00:54going to win an NBA crown. They are awful. I mean, Paul George has been a disaster.
01:01And Embiid never plays. The only guy that does anything is Maxie. Now he's not playing. I mean,
01:09do you think the Nets are going to jump those two teams?
01:14I'll give you this. I'll go a little further. I think they're going to jump those two teams.
01:18And I got to tell you, I think Philadelphia might get in as well because I think that Miami
01:26is dropping like a rock. I mean, Miami two weeks ago was in the top six.
01:33They have lost four in a row and they are now in the nine spot. And they're all, you know, look,
01:39it's six games in the loss. It's a pretty sizable amount between them and the Sixers and Nets, but
01:46they've played awful. And I don't see it getting better. Like it's like this Butler thing really
01:52torpedoed their entire season. And I feel like it's like all these guys, it's just coast away
01:58time. Like, let's get, let's just get this thing over with. Let's get the season over with.
02:01And they're not scoring, right? They're not like they're, they're averaging like a terrible number.
02:08They give up a lot. You know, it was funny. We talked about him this week, this very week that
02:12they were in first place in their crappy division and look at them, they're falling apart. And we
02:18suggested on this show that what Butler did to him with his lymphoma was ruin the team.
02:26I thought he ruined the heat, their season, their everything. I thought he undermined Riley,
02:35Spoh. I think his teammates turned on him. They hated him. They wanted him gone.
02:42When he was suspended, they didn't want him back. I think he ruined the heat season.
02:46So the NBA is making announcements. Here we go again with
02:50leagues in this country, deciding they want to move all of their games to Europe.
02:57That is what they want to do. Of course, they have more games that they are going to have out there.
03:03Manchester, of course, Manchester, England, they have announced a multi-year deal to play games
03:12there. I gotta tell you, like, I don't think anybody in, I don't think anyone in England
03:18cares about the NBA. Like, I don't, I don't, I'm kind of surprised at this one. I mean,
03:23that's soccer. They've obviously have NFL games there. They've had some MLB games in England, but
03:29yeah, I don't, I don't know about this one. They're just looking to go everywhere at this
03:33point. It just doesn't end for them. Is this the spaghetti noodle on the fridge? See if it sticks.
03:39I honestly like, they like soccer. They like football. F-U-T-B-O-L. They do not care even,
03:50and like, they go to these NFL games because they have nothing better to do.
03:54Trust me. They don't care about the NBA there. I don't understand. What is the fascination?
04:00I'm serious. With these leagues, all of them, they just are obsessed with playing games in
04:07other countries. I mean, all over the world now. It's all over the world. It's not just England.
04:12It's not Europe. It's not just, it's Mexico. It's Australia. It's, it's, you know, Ireland.
04:18They're going over the pond. Where aren't Germany? Where aren't they playing games?
04:24I mean, before long, like, so as a season ticket holder of the Steelers,
04:29I'm losing games now. They get nine games, say goodbye to one of them. They're going to Ireland.
04:34All right. How many people can afford to just pick up and go to Ireland for a Sunday football game?
04:40And then what? You're going to have to take off Monday, right? How are you going to get back from
04:44that game and make it to work on Monday? You're not. So I don't understand why they're so obsessed
04:52with it. Like taking away our games that we pay all this money to go see. I mean, now we're not
04:57going to go see them. I don't like it one bit. I mean, sure. I'd love to go to Ireland and drink
05:04beer and go to the game. And you know, I won't, I'm not going to that game. It's just not happening.
05:10Some guy asked me the other day, can I have your tickets to those tickets? Are they applicable to
05:15Ireland? Of course not. Of course not. That's just another way for them to make money.
05:21They'll offer you a first chance to buy a package to go over there.
05:28They already stole my money for the playoff game they never had at home.
05:32They already stole that money. Tell them to put that towards it.
05:35Tell them to put that towards it. Here's another trick they have going on. Now they're like,
05:39now you can auto renew your season tickets and pay in four installments.
05:44Like I just give me the bill for the season and I'll pay it and stop sending me 5 million emails.
05:52Like, honestly, they're so painful. They are so painful. They really are. The NFL,
05:57they're painful. I don't know about you. Like I know a guy that has 10 seats at Snoopy for the
06:06Giants. He bought them when they built the new stadium and he has all these whatever PSLs.
06:12He literally told me that it cost him like $10,000 for each seat for the PSL.
06:21And then he has to pay the season. Then he has to pay the season tickets every year.
06:25He pays like hundreds of thousands of dollars since he's got them. Since they started that
06:32stadium, he's paid, he's paid well over six figures in tickets to watch that crappy team.
06:40No one even wants to go to their games anymore. Like they can't, you can't give those tickets
06:45away. You could like give them to your, like as a gift to someone for Christmas, they wouldn't even
06:51go. They'd rip them up. They couldn't even resell them. If they tried, they could smoke a doobie
06:56with them. No one goes to Giants and Jet games. They don't. Those people that you see at their
07:02games, those are paid actors that they hired to sit in the seats. Aaron Rodger fans.
07:13Aaron Rodger fans. All right. I know that we already gave our thoughts about NBA All-Star
07:19Weekend. I want to talk some more about it though. Come on. But I do have for you, I do have to,
07:26whether you like it or not, give you the numbers and the rosters for these games that are going to
07:30take place. So this is tonight, the rising stars. Now remember four teams here this evening,
07:37whoever wins this tonight gets to come back Sunday night and get their ass beat by the actual NBA
07:43All-Stars. So Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond, Tim Hardaway. I like that. They had the Run DMC
07:50guys from the early nineties Warriors coaching the game. I was there when they were playing.
07:55And then Jeremy Lynn will have the G-League guys. That's Lynn's team, which is McClung and
08:02Reed Shepard. They only care about him in New York, just so you're aware. I'll tell you,
08:08just looking at these, I'm just going to leave you that. The team that I think
08:12is the one to go for tonight is the Mullin team. They've got Castle, Edie, Keontae George,
08:18Trace Jackson Davis, Dalton Connick, Jalen Wells. That's the team. I think that first team there.
08:24Oh, great. Whatever you say. That's fantastic. Honestly, who's on those other teams?
08:32Can you read off the players?
08:34Yes. Camara, Carrington, Cooleby, Scoot Henderson. I know that the kid Missy from the Pelicans was
08:42replaced today. He's hurt. He's not playing. And then the Thompson twins.
08:48From the Bulls replacing the Lionel Messi guy.
08:52The one who's on in the one who's in the dunk contest.
08:56He's going to play in the game and replace him. Hardaway has Anthony Black, Tristan De Silva,
09:02Grady Dick, Hawkeyes, Risha Say, Saar, and Cason Wallace.
09:06They're not going to be bad.
09:08That's not too bad either. That's not too bad either. And then you got a bunch of
09:12guys on Jeremy Lin's team. So Mullin, of course, the two best teams are playing each other.
09:18Is Brani playing?
09:20No, Brani.
09:23They should have put him on the G League team, but then he would have taken everybody's
09:27juice. He would have been too much juice.
09:29Yeah, and then they could have got LeBron to coach him instead of Jeremy Lin,
09:33who nobody cares about anymore.
09:35Well, Mullin's team is laying two and a half tonight to the Hardaway team.
09:41Oh, God. Let me guess.
09:43Morenci's betting on it.
09:45Is laying four and a half to the G League team in their game.
09:51Kevin and Joe are betting on it. You can guarantee it. Your boy Primes and V,
09:56Kevin, they're betting on this for sure.
09:59They got their whole paycheck. They're betting on this game.
10:02Absolutely going to be in this. You know KW's going to be involved in this tonight.
10:06Oh, yeah.
10:07The winners will play in the third game for a spot on Sunday night.
10:13Richman and Mullin are the favorites. There's Richman.
10:16Richman actually they have as the favorite.
10:18I guess because they're playing the G League team first, so that's probably why.
10:22Give me Mullin at 185.
10:24I'm taking the team with Eadie and Castle and Wells and Connect and Trace Jackson Davis.
10:30I'm taking that.
10:31Yeah, we did watch him coach at St. John's.
10:35He wasn't much of a coach.
10:37Not a good coach, but he's not actually coaching. He's just there.
10:42I will give you the dunk contest and the three-point contest when we come back,
10:48the numbers, if you would like to get involved with that on Saturday night.
10:54I got Sunday nights too.
10:55Listen, I did watch them play together in San Francisco.
10:59They were great.
11:00TNC, they were great.
11:01Let's go to Saturday night now where we do have a few things for you.
11:06We'll start with the three-point contest for all-star Saturday night.
11:11Damian Lillard has won the last two years.
11:15He is going for the three-peat and he is plus 375 for that.
11:21Darius Garland is 5-1.
11:23You then have Hero, Buddy Heald, Norman Powell, Jalen Brunson, Cam Johnson,
11:28and Cade Cunningham, the long shot at 12-1.
11:32Everyone is on Lillard to three-peat.
11:37All right, so I guess that sounds like it could very well happen.
11:43He's won it twice, but am I going to get anything out of it?
11:47No, so why don't we go with those Heald-Powell numbers?
11:54I'm going to go.
11:54Can I make some money here if I get lucky?
11:57I mean, we just talked about how great Norman Powell has been this year for the Clippers.
12:02Could he get lucky and surprise Dane Time on Saturday night or Buddy Heald,
12:08who can definitely jack threes?
12:11Hero's sandwich isn't bad at 5-1 either.
12:14He can shoot them.
12:16Yeah, I like that mix, those three guys in the fives.
12:21I'm going to go Heald, and I'll take a deep shot too.
12:25Cam Johnson at plus 850.
12:28Cam Johnson at plus 850.
12:30He can hit them too.
12:31I'm going to take one long shot.
12:33I got to take one guy.
12:34And now, what you really have been waiting for, the dunk contest on Saturday night.
12:40I've got numbers for you.
12:43Mack McClung also looking for a three-peat, like Lillard.
12:46He's minus 210.
12:49Andre Jackson Jr., 5-1.
12:52Bezoulias is 7-1 from the Bulls, and Castles 8-1.
12:57Your numbers for the slam dunk contest.
12:59I'll take Castle at 8-1, because I want a big payout.
13:05And I'm not interested in this whatsoever.
13:09And McClung, he's not even in the league, and he keeps winning the dunk contest.
13:13What is happening here?
13:14And then how about he announced this is his final one.
13:18He should do himself a favor and keep doing it, because he matters so little
13:22in basketball now that this is the only thing that keeps his name relevant.
13:27This is the only thing he's got.
13:29Why would you give it up?
13:30I mean, they keep asking him back every year.
13:32Honestly, even he's gone primo on us, the guy that has nothing.
13:36I mean, he's one step away from playing in that TBT tournament in the summer.
13:42I mean, he's got, he might as well keep showing up.
13:44Well, there's some money at stake there, at least.
13:49Probably not as much as winning the dunk contest.
13:51He's got to get a couple bucks for that.
13:53I mean, he's got to make his whole year.
13:56What I want to know is, what has he got out of it?
13:59You remember, didn't Spud Webb and these guys, they got commercials at some point out of it.
14:05Weren't they doing cereal or something?
14:07This guy McClung, he wins what, back-to-back?
14:11He's never done anything.
14:13Have you ever seen him do anything else ever?
14:16When it's over for him, when he wins, it's over.
14:18There's no other, there's no residual.
14:21This is why nobody does it.
14:25The player who wins gets 100 grand.
14:29That's it, 100 grand.
14:31Now, for us, 100 grand would be great.
14:33For guys who make $40 million a year, they are not going to do the dunk contest.
14:40That's what's wrong with it.
14:41They should put $5 million on the table, and then everyone would show up.
14:45Everybody will start doing it.
14:46All right, Sunday night is the game.
14:49Again, four-team tournament, just like tonight.
14:52The winner of tonight will be there.
14:55Shaq has a team.
14:56Kenny has a team.
14:58Chuck has a team.
15:00Shaq has LeBron, Curry.
15:03Remember, AD's not playing.
15:04Kyrie swiped in for him.
15:06Jason Tatum, Durant, Lillard, Harden, Brown.
15:10Kenny's got Ant, Jalen Brunson, Jaren Jackson, Jalen Williams, Darius Garland, Mobley, Kate
15:15Cunningham, and Hero.
15:17And Chuck has Joker, Giannis, SGA.
15:21Remember, Giannis not playing.
15:23He's out.
15:24Trey will be in his spot.
15:25Trey Young, Wenbin Yama, Siakam, Shengun, Katt, and Donovan Mitchell.
15:30Shaq and Chuck in the final, clearly.
15:35Shaq and Chuck in the final, clearly.
15:38Well, that actually would work, because Chuck is playing Kenny in the first game, I believe.
15:46This is the odds to win the whole thing for you.
15:48There you go.
15:48Shaq is the favorite, and then Chuck.
15:51$155,000, $165,000.
15:53Now, Team Candice.
15:53Everything is going Shaq's way.
15:56Candice is the rising star team that gets it.
16:00Right.
16:01Correct.
16:02So, Shaq, everything's turning up roses for Shaq.
16:05He just got a fat new deal from Turner, paying him ungodly amounts of money, like literally
16:13long-term, $15 million per year.
16:16When you got that dropping on your doorstep, the day of the all-star weekend starting,
16:22he's going to win the whole thing.
16:24It's Shaq's weekend, as usual.
16:26It's Shaq's weekend.
16:27I agree.
16:29Chuck will play Kenny in the first game.
16:31Chuck's minus three and a half.
16:35What happened to the jet?
16:36Honestly, can I just come out with it right now?
16:38Because I'm mean, as you know.
16:40Do you remember when Kenny played, and he won titles with the Rockets, and he was a
16:44When did he get bow-legged?
16:47When did that happen?
16:48When did he get to the point where he was bow-legged?
16:50When he had, what, a bunch of knee surgeries?
16:52Have you ever seen this guy walk now and run back to that screen?
16:55He literally is bow-legged.
16:56Have you ever seen that?
16:58Have you ever seen anyone run or walk like that?
17:02Not a good scene.
17:02It's the funniest thing ever.
17:04I am mean.
17:05I'll come right out with it.
17:06You got a weakness, we exploit it here.
17:09Shaq, whose team, by the way, I didn't know they had team.
17:12Shaq is the OGs.
17:13Chuck is the global stars.
17:15Kenny's the young stars.
17:17Shaq will play the Candice team.
17:20And he's going to lay six and a half.
17:21And let me just tell you something.
17:22I'll lay that right now.
17:23They win by 60.
17:25I'll lay the first to 40 wins.
17:27They win that game 40 to 20, 40 to 20.
17:32I'll lay 35 and still win.
17:3535 for them.
17:38All-star weekend in the NBA.
17:42You really can't match the excitement.
17:45I mean.
17:46It's just that.
17:47It's just too much.
17:48In fact, I found a way to exceed it, though, when I come back and talk to you about
17:53the Four Nations face-off that's going to be going on tomorrow with these games.