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[Music] instead of waiting for the next big you might stop running your mouth get out of the house get yourself down and shake it all out tonight here we go it’s noon no media.com it’s chris varn well good morning good morning good morning good morning it’s a tuesday june 17th 2025 edition of the show today on the show tony allen the grandfather join us in studios he does on tuesdays for a tuesdays with tony and we have some unex unexpected topics to talk about today as stephen a smith has taken aim at the city of memphis on national tv this morning we will get to that we’ll also get to what happened in game five last night as the oklahoma city thunder took control of the nba finals in addition to that we will get to all the news and notes of the day we are now just a week and one day from the nba draft taking place to tuesdays with tony it’s kind of nice out but smile let’s do it turn it up in your life won’t you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next big thing to stop yeah yeah yeah yeah hope everybody’s having a good day all right ton of stuff to get to on the show today not the least of which is the nba finals that took place last night as the oklahoma city thunder took control of the series by winning game five and got a monster game out of jaylen williams we will also get to tony’s reaction to not only desmond bane’s trade but also what stephen a smith had to say today on national tv before i get to anything i welcome john roser to the show john roser aka the cologne ranger the body spray bandor sack johnny backpole johnny bearcat the grim roer john asparagus johnny neck carb john lance he’s yogi roser he’s dr thunder hello john it’s a great day shut up devin walker’s here he’s the microphone mangleradilla mr mavjo the reporter the photographer he sucker 93 i’m ready to run out the tunnel like goldberg right now i’m just saying bro but before we get to that point though my guy next to me there’s no reason why you should be up here with those fresh shoes on with no socks but it’s fine let’s get to the top tony allen is here it is a tuesday so tony brought to you by esco when you he woke us up today oh boy when you are downtown and you are at fedex forum you can walk across the street to esco grab you some shrimp and grits grab you some unbelievable food and drinks at esco and some socks they got socks what do you got what do you got they got socks we keep climbing up this tree oh ankles look ankles looking like he been moving in powder too my guy man wow hey look you know how tuesday are you you’re in phase oh no no no no no no no no no we’re moving we’re moving three shout out to my boy dre shorts you know what i’m saying 12 in the building game five last night all right so obviously the thing that is of grandest importance from game five last night is that oklahoma city not only took control but they got one of the unbelievable robin second banana co-star or whatever you want to call him performances of all time in the finals from jaylen williams one of the big questions going into this was are the you know you know there’s shay gilas alexander what about these other guys are they ready to be what they need to be in order to be championship level and he answered that with a resounding yes last night he was unbelievable and i will get to some of the historical perspective on that but i will ask the panel first at any point after they had been down what as many as i think 18 or 16 or 18 uh certainly 14 uh by halftime um when they cut it to two it’s a two-point game with eight and a half minutes left to go did you ever think indiana can do this yes i did uh if you put andrew nimhar on the bench and put in tj mcconnell never thought those words coming out of my mouth he was a disaster last night i mean so that’s what that’s what i felt i was like it is shocking as we recorded last night after the show or after the game i told jacobe i said i don’t think i’ve ever remembered a game where i looked at the box score and next to andrew nhard name it says four turnovers and i remember all four he was a disaster they were yeah i mean he threw the ball 120 mph to matherin he threw the ball to caruso coming out of the timeout right dribbling off his leg dribbled off his leg i mean two two just yeah two just clean throwaways anyways um at a two-point game with eight and that’s look i i got to give credit where credit’s due oklahoma city showed their championship medal last night because that that got tense and you could tell richard jefferson was even saying like “hey this this crowd’s getting a little tense once it gets to two.” and this is the domain i mean the you know that clutch games have been where indiana has dwelled but man they turned up got four straight turnovers in possessions that indiana had that bucket not only did they not get buckets they got turnovers in all four straight and they scored on them in all all of them and just ran away with the game at the end and jaylen williams i got newound respect for that dude bro holy mackerel 40 ball in the finals is something serious to you like yeah yeah yeah i mean having 40 i mean like you say your robin that’s probably the greatest robin performances i’ve seen in a while but what scared me about that comeback when they cut it to two i’m thinking like damn what if they was in indiana with this type of energy you get what i’m saying it’s like once shay comes out the game it’s like you forcing those other guys to be creative you you forcing those other guys to make the offense of something and it’s like we had i remember shay was coming back to the bench it was like shay reporting back to the bench it’s like it’s like damn they kind of like freeze up or they get laxed and and i was thinking if they were in indiana i thought they probably would have pulled it but you can’t have your star having zero points all throughout the what the hell you thinking what’s going on you see what i’m saying zero field goals is crazy i mean come on be aggressive and i think you got to give depends on if your calf hurting or not bro you got to at least shoot the ball make a shot bro yeah but that’s that’s that shows you how great the defense of oklahoma city is like they shut him down they keyed in on him they like they whole offense is if it’s a pick and roll with a switch with chad we might switch that but our normal switches with the guard to guard switches we ain’t switching to be back no we switching to be right up on you and i think his his offense is predicated on miles turner popping and hitting that three opening up some space for the corner now i can get down here and make a layup they on that chris he also cannot and he has talked about in the past where it’s like my i judge how well i play by how many times i get two feet in the paint you think about it last night he not getting in there no and and don’t tell me it’s not available cuz i watch tj mcconnell get two feet in the paint every time he touches the ball he was crossing off hold on now that’s deceiving that’s deceiving because we sagging eight feet up off his ass for what hold on yeah they they they didn’t expect it to they didn’t expect them to get there like they like “all right all right all right all right kentucky.” don’t take away don’t take away from that brilliance away from y’all guys but listen don’t take away from it but listen bro you said they doing the same offense bro and and mind you their offense is potent that that shows you how potent they offense is you could just sub plug and play mcdonald in there and those 18 points don’t call him mcdonald call that name mcdonald call him mcverson how about that tj mcverson tj mcris yeah so 19 tj nash come on mj mcconnell it scares me bro cuz if oklahoma city don’t win this next one you think it could get tense and seven i think it could get tense i’ll tell you that comeback was crazy bro i they had plenty of opportunity to just hit the kill the game away it’ be a 14 15 maybe a three here or a couple stops you up a dub they you sitting your starters in the fourth but those guys keep pushing soon as soon as it’s a make they sprint right back down hitting the three then i just realized how what’s his name uh neith yeah man smith he had one of the greatest dunks going to be forgotten there oh my god and he could shoot the three bro i didn’t know he could shoot i tell you this though i didn’t know he could shoot it like that he shooter you saw his tap tap he said the tap hey also your boy take forever to shoot the ball too by the way who your boy t.j mcconnell he shoot like a wnba that’s focused bro he get the ball he focused he get the ball he like this he be like he’s focused at the three you see him at three no no but his but his game he’s locking in yeah locking in he load that mud up no his game is like and as crazy as this may sound his crazy his may sound his game is like deshawn livingston he he not gonna shoot no threes but i’mma get to this one two three two dribble pull up and that’s cash he told him last night he said they got to guard me now you see that yeah he said they got to guard me boy you is with us he also the screen boy you is with us they should have put him back in the game they should have been yes they should they should have put him back if h could play no if h could play play hallebertton couldn’t do anything he was garbage and nimhar was the team he played for he was in the he was in the dor he hurt like that i don’t know what he what he was after game two he’s up and down up and down he’s done this so many times after game two he was leaving the podium doing the same little limp he’s done this so many times like he’ll have four and then he’ll have 32 nine and eight it’s a roller coaster bro that’s his game so it’s safe to say that’s his game he inconsistent i will say this cuz i see a lot of people keep saying you know he he he might could be the face of the league what league and all that he’s a score he’s he’s a superstar and i bet hey here’s here’s here’s what i’m betting i’m betting he hold a lot to rick out i bet thursday night i bet thursday night hallebertton’s awesome and the pacers win that’s what i bet i think so too i mean and if that happened chris i’m scared because that’s just the eb and flow of the series the bench will be good the bench players the other players yeah quan wallace had not made a three until last night and he couldn’t miss aaron wiggins making threes i love when he get off i ain’t going to lie when wiggins get off i say he killed us no i’m saying i love when he get off in these series because you got to figure bro he’s a x factor bro you gota you got to understand tim tony is sitting at his house with his son in an sga jersey and and rooting on the thunder until he gets caught up in it yes he does i’m trying to figure out why you root for aaron williams brother why the hell you roo for him he’s an outlet for shake you know what i’m saying hey can we please speak one assist can we please speak for one moment about the knee thing because the dunk was awesome he can knock down threes whatever bro he has pulled off it dawned on me last night because i’m a n smith fan too and he has had some unbelievable hustle plays and he was really good defensively when he was the bigger more athletic guy in the new york series he is not the bigger more athletic guy in this series and when we talked about his glow up and we put the picture side by side with and the braids make the energy guy look like he’s going so much harder i.e deari carol back in the day and whatever bro they are killing him the end of game four they got every switch on gilas alexander to n smith and he scored every time and last night nemhard was like “no i ain’t switching.” and nemhard did an unbelievable job he was a disaster offensively yeah unbelievable job on gilders alexander as he has done as good as you can do bro nimart is getting destroyed by jaylen williams destroyed i’m like bro don’t let the don’t let this long hair fool you cuz this dude is getting freed i mean 40 is and not only 40 with like crazy efficiency just any kind of way he wanted it i feel like jaylen williams was scoring so jaylen williams last night you talk about being one of the greatest second second fiddle performances ever jaylen whims last night scored more games in game five than scotty pippen ever scored in his 28 career playoff games listen to this you ready for this like that hey like that ta no ready for this these are the active hey these are the active nba players with 40 point nba finals games okay you ready lebron james stephen curry kevin durant kyrie irving jimmy butler devin booker giannis joic westbrook chris middleton that’s it that’s everybody that didn’t have 40 shout out chris middleton game 40 in a final game big time man that’s in playoffs this is very reminiscent of the middleton 40point game against the suns it is it really is because he is look again who knows what his career will be all of those guys if they said you know what i’ve put my body through so much i’m retiring every one of those guys i just mentioned is a hall of famer facts like they could never play another game chris middleton probably will end up being one when it’s all said and done i don’t know how many all-star games and whatever he’s made but like it is most like middleton right who was the obvious second fiddle to giannis on that team and then came up with this 40 point but i just to speak to that how rare 40 points is in a finals game and especially rare if you’re not the guy right this like lebron and curry and giannis and joic and like those guys are all like jaylen williams is clearly the second best player on his team it was beautiful basketball too it was like three level mid-range three ball getting to the rack i would say i would say the only ones that you would say were clearly the second best player on their team that’s on that list are kyrie middleton and westbrook westbrook had it it was 2012 oh it was back in the okc yeah yeah the okc so but you would say those three guys were the second best players on their teams but so that’s how rare that is right to score 40 as the second best player on your team cuz it’s hard enough to score 40 in a finals game as the best player that’s what i’m saying in a game period it’s hard to score 40 right and and i know we i know we sitting here glazing this 40 right but listen you hate you hate no listen we glazing 40 but i i think i think he had to do that last night uh as hard as indiana be playing man and the way they was digging into the league never giving up never looking you know out of you know focus i kind of looked at shay at that time and i was like “yo what’s shay going to do what is he doing?” he quietly got his game off but shay looked a little tired to me last night he did if you saw him like walking to the free throw line you saw him falling this the second like second game looked a little exhausted i was like “bro is he tired are they throwing a number on him?” so he was like “yo dude you got to come and be a allar.” well one of the things they’re doing is they’re trying to put him in actions every time you know this is what this is what they always do to the great where to start down so he can play both ends yeah we’re finding you not because you’re the weak link defensively but you got to work yes and you got to work and sometimes i i’m starting to see you know and this ain’t nothing i ain’t saying nothing bad about shay but it’s getting to the point when you are that tied like you be left with you be like you always might be the rotation guy or you might be the the the guy that had to you know pick up for the big and you don’t get there and you see the big get a one layup or you know what i mean a lot of times hey how many times do we see him getting stuck on seakum under the basket oh yeah those type of plays could just whoop and and i’m i’m thinking just an extra effort that he probably could go grab like he was probably doing through the regular season i think now the job that indiana doing on him i think it’s wearing on him so they tried to stagger his like substitution pattern too to make him give him a little extra rest you’ll see him go to the bench early see him go to the bench late i feel like tony’s coming to our side he is coming to our side he’s like “oh looked at exhausted.” i was like he didn’t come out of that game thinking oklahoma city’s going to win in six then i all last night i was like i was like they going to win at six but then last night i was like n no no no this going to seven simply because indiana never get discouraged bro they always call back they always fight back man and they ain’t but they ain’t got no reason they got a good dna they got a good dna as a team if you saw 22 turnovers versus any other team in the nba man they have been over there with over their head they have been down 50 balls looking sad man nba team except the pacers bro cuz they going to keep they keep pushing and like you all they were so messy with the ball when you lose points off turnovers 32 to9 to oklahoma city that means you should lose by 30 yeah easy you should absolutely lose by 20 to 30 to them and they did just a matter of being able to take care of the ball like take care of the ball and keep them off the line more cuz they lost the three-point line they lost the free throw line they lost the turnover battle by 100 and you lost and it was still like it was a two-point game with eight and a half minutes left yeah now now if jaylen williams come back and do this again oh my god back to back 40 closeout well no do you get an mvp to jaylen williams do that’s why he might be doing a jaylen brown right now i will say this there’s three games hey there’s three hey because it’s not look 40 is the highlight look at the two games before that though they’re both high scoring nights 2726 yeah 27 2640 it ain’t just a land slab no high efficiency numbers too bro sga that boy about to do the russell westbrook i’m looking at that trophy bro i need that finals mvp bro hey the pascal seakuma yeah sneak up behind by the way he was the only one that really like played last night for the patriots seakum he was awesome he reminds a lot of folks that he can do a lot of different stuff bro yeah it’s like but seakum bro you don’t mess with seak what’s seak i love i love him he’s a champion that i’m just saying like and for the finals right now uh it’s like all right i down’s down he was trying to so it got to come to you but i’m like when’s back like i be wanting that same energy when they you know what i’m saying when they when they both vibing it’s like sometimes he don’t it just don’t look as dominant as it did yesterday i don’t know all right well there’s there’s our thoughts on game five what do you think about the bane trade the who the bane trade man you know uh shout out to desmond bane man got a chance you know meet him sat with him a couple times chopped it up with him a couple time he definitely did a lot for the organization and in the community uh he will be missed grizz nation for sure you know um was hurt but hey man it’s business it’s the nature of the game and uh traveling with $200 million to another city no state tax hey he i don’t think he tripping either he certainly he didn’t appear to be for the videos tripping i will say hey he was a little petty yesterday he was a little he was a little on his rudy gay where with the very loud dap video and this ain’t like memphis and then and then when he got the jersey and he’s like “this the best jersey i ever wore.” like “come on bro you got to wear you got to wear the turquoise throwback it’s a new girlfriend it’s a new girlfriend you know what i’m saying you got you get a new thing.” he was a little he was a little petty about that video so that’s why that’s why kd say that dab the dab was crazy the dab was loud bro i ain’t never seen him do that dab here in my life it may be because the coach may be black but i mean damn like you see the dab yeah i saw it i saw it i saw it that was a yeah it was a little but i mean hey man we he will be missed but uh i mean i’m pretty sure you know zack tay those guys up there they working hard to get something for us next year so uh we definitely got champions in so look they here’s the deal and and we’ve all described this the trade did not make you better and so now the goal is to get better that’s it you’ve got the assets you’ve got the 16th pick in next in in next week’s draft you got the 2026 you know but i mean you have the assets to be able to attain like i mean you see all of these guys get traded not the least of which is desmond bane you just saw it right you have to have contracts and picks and that’s what they have they have contracts and picks to be able to attain and be able to build out around john and jiren jackson jr and i do think that we will judge this when we get to when this offseason’s over right like obviously you can’t lose desmond bane and that big of a piece to your puzzle and then just add what you’ve added right like this is part of an off season this is the first step of an off season of where if you said we’re if you said if if your edict is we want to win and we want to be able to compete at the highest level and we know we weren’t close okay now you’ve made one of the moves right that’s fine but now that ain’t that ain’t that ain’t the move right that get you to the next level right the the moves that are gonna get you to the next level are still to come i ain’t never think that neither i always thought when when they was doing that i was like “well yeah he going to be a piece to a puzzle it’s definitely going to be something else brought to the table.” you know what i mean and they up there working man let’s give them some time man it’s early in the it ain’t even well it ain’t free agency yet so yeah the fun hasn’t even happened and here’s the problem we’ve got what we deal with all the time is most of the national media is from big cities and big and big city national media guys i’ve dealt with this literally my entire career always think that small markets are basically there in service of the big markets and so why are any good players ever at those places right they’re all there to be able to filter somewhere else like the the second you the second you draft john moran somebody is making a photoshop of him in a lakers jersey right have fun he’ll be a laker in four years it’s like what what all right and so obviously this is going to be a big off season for the grizzlies they have decided to build this thing out around john morant and jiren jackson jr and then you have the biggest name on espn with the biggest megaphone and forehead stephen a smith going on national television this morning and saying the following about memphis’s quest to attain talent marcus listen i know y’all got to go you going to tell folks why nobody wants to be in memphis or you want me to do it oh no for for a player like me i just don’t i just don’t think that the the the league like for guys like me i love to be in memphis i embrace it but you got to identify those guys right and it’s not that simple especially a younger guy to identify that wants to be in i want to hear you say why why they don’t why why you think the pe the people the people in memphis is a great sports town great fans great people but there’s an element there where cats like jimmy butler and others don’t feel it’s the safest environment i’m talking to the local authorities in memphis you got to clean some of that stuff up because it’s persuasive to nba players they have talked about it i know they’ve told me okay so let’s just say obviously we’re going to talk to tony about this i watch that obviously i got tagged on it a 100 million times it is so intensely hurtful and deeply irresponsible to go on national tv and say that i have been here for 25 years as have the grizzlies there is not one player outside of pow gasol when the team was going to go into tank mode that i know of that has requested a trade from memphis there is not one player that i know of that has been the victim of crime while they have been here there is not one player that has not ressigned with the memphis grizzlies if the stakes were the same right if the money is the same there’s not one player that has had the opportunity to resign with the memphis grizzlies and has left so to go on national tv and say players don’t want to go to memphis because it’s unsafe like i am a cardinals fan st louis is one of the most dangerous cities statistically there is do you ever hear that about the cardinals did you ever hear oh caleb williams might not want to go it’s i’ve never heard i mean honestly i’m i’m not kidding he said the name jimmy butler and jimmy burr plays in chicago during the prime i’m just saying chief keef have you ever heard that about a city have you about in any in has that ever been a reason definitely the one that gets i mean no has that ever been a reason that has been given on national television or anywhere else has there ever been have you ever heard it in conjunction with the grizzlies as a organization a player left because of this a player didn’t want to get drafted because of this this is the first time anybody has ever gone on like i’m saying i’ve been here 25 years you can say that it’s it’s been a conversation you know that hasn’t made it to that point but you have to look at what’s happened with the franchise and it’s like why has everybody resigned here why has nobody asked to be traded from here why has there not been some kind of terrible stories about things you know about being a professional athlete here right i don’t understand how i’ve never heard that about any other team in any other market ta you’ve been here so the only cities that memphis really bro speak on it bro i mean look you talked to you with your homeboy you played in the league for how long like man one thing for show for certain man i think it’s it got a bad stigma i think the you know the first 48 you know uh a lot of you know senseless violence has been going on but when we talk specifically about the basketball players uh you know whether it’s the college at memphis or or it’s us the nba the memphis grizzly i think the city got a different type of respect for us i think we out the way of all of the nonsense and stuff that you hear on the news uh there’s been plenty of times man where i’ve been in gas stations where you know i just seen some of the roughest of the roughest you know what i’m saying looking like they was probably in mode to do something that time but once they saw it was me they end up taking off the ski mask and and asking for pictures you know what i’m saying you got you got to understand memphis ain’t really what you hyping it up to be stephen a memphis is a real wholesome city man we grind down here we work blue collar people man and we we love basketball and barbecue and other it’s that’s type of stuff that people are scared of that’s going on everywhere you got to realize look at some of these other cities you got chicago you ain’t never you ain’t come on bro you ain’t you ain’t speak nothing about that when the players was playing in chicago can you imagine if they said caleb williams yo i look i’m talking to people and people don’t even want to get drafted by the bears cuz they said chief kee and them boys are lighting up and [ __ ] like come on man like that it it just ain’t going like that and i just think the who the who when i say the basketball players the nba guys i think what what places are you going besides the gym or restaurant you know what i’m saying or some day stuff with your family you ain’t putting yourself in in none of these uh west side of chicago west side of north side of memphis or you ain’t putting yourself in them situations so what you got to be scared of you go go to the facility and you drive home to your big house and that’s it which cost you which by the way cost you nothing less less here than ever like like like like for him to say that i think he just he he helping push that narrative from jimmy butler not want to come here and and why is mike miller here why is tony allen here why was zebo here why is taan prince back here like all these guys were why did marcus morris on that same video say i would love to go to memphis that same video where you say he said i would love to be there he try i think he i think no that’s that what you call that what you call people doing salt shaking he they call that salt shaking he slick hating on the side you get what i’m saying so when you when you see stephen a doing us like that i like what john’s doing do you think players told stephen a i don’t want to go to memphis because it’s dangerous ain’t nobody ever said that ain’t nobody if if anything they they said hey we we get tired of going to that west they like “y’all need some better hotels.” they stay at the higher nca well they stay at the high i’m talking back in the day when i play when i play they hated the west oklahoma city stayed at the western when they were the playoffs they said “man hey kd said he hated the weston.” don’t let the weston be the reason why you don’t come down here please don’t let the western be the reason you don’t come down here man listen come on down here bro it’s cool they didn’t they didn’t they didn’t fix it up they that weston looked exactly the same as it did 20 years ago forget it bro braun was mad cuz we were playing music outside the west that’s funny man but i don’t know why they doing that you have never heard i ain’t had no problems up here and i’m tell like i said no player mentioned that to you never ever never ever do you think you feel more love here than you think like than you than other places cuz most definitely that’s just what i’m saying like when players come they feel more they feel like the city embraces them as like not just hoopers but people too real people i’m talking about and you and you going to have that same type you gonna carry yourself this that within that same standard like i’m i’m regular person bro i ain’t i ain’t above or beyond it’s all look you the crazy thing is it’s like the crazy this is why to me it is so deeply irresponsible talk about somebody that’s been here come on man that’s what’s fair yeah come on to me what’s fair is if stephen a smith said i’ve talked to guys that played in memphis and they blank blank blank just don’t talk to chandler parsons he’ll crap on that’s that’s tia homeboy apparently bro oh yeah yeah shout out man don’t shout him out bro he trying to move us to vegas bro cool dude i checked him on that bro i told him bro ain’t nothing memphis ain’t going nowhere bro be cool no but what i’m saying is stephen a smith had any like again if there was any kind of he’s bothering chris chris don’t like that the perception of memphis you gota be you got to be building the per the perception of memphis is certain and look we have our problems nobody is denying that crime’s a problem in memphis nobody is denying that memphis has got its own problems what i’m saying is we are talking about a very specific thing which is that nba players don’t want to come he is saying on national tv that players don’t want to come to memphis and it’s like if that’s true why don’t why have none of them requested a trade why have none of them left yeah yeah every player has resigned here and it’s not exactly and they’re not all tony allens and zeos everybody guys that were raised in rough areas so there’s a different comfort level for them than there might be guys that were raised in the suburbs yeah right the guys that are raised in the suburbs they don’t leave either mike connley mike connley was not what are you talking about you think mike connley’s ever been in a in tony’s neighborhood mike miller’s from south dakota you got to be actually live down the street no no the one here he did i’m talking about in chicago chicago he would never have been out but you got to be you got to be built a little bit different to come here but i mean that’s every city though you gota be you gota be a little but ask mike connley ask mark gasol ask zebo ask tony allen ask taan prince ask mike miller ask shane patty costa kofus why do john why has no player ever said that none and it hasn’t it hasn’t happened chris but what i’m thinking except for the players that haven’t played here they haven’t played here and when they get here they love it that’s just a possibility they might land here they get to know hey my preferred destination is uh la new york new york chicago but i’m like dude again and we’ve all understood memphis is never going to be the desired location for someone again these guys are millionaires and there’s there’s cities that are more desirable to live in than memphis okay for an nba player with millions of dollars i got it but hey chris why do they all end up loving it here chris chris shouldn’t shouldn’t the guys that’s coming to an organization be thinking “hey i can be a key fit to help us get to a championship as opposed to what’s really going on in the city.” majority of these guys got their own chefs we ain’t got to worry about going out to the restaurant if your whole sole purpose is to play basketball win an nba bro what are you what are you trying to go to a club we got love everybody except curtis we got love everybody except you bro you being a blue monkey eating this buffalo oh i will tell you i was around you hey man i was i was around you your entire memphis career you didn’t have downtime you didn’t have a lot of downtime no no your basketball and and the guys that we and like your days off you’re not like you ain’t just hanging out in the city no i’m in the gym and that’s what these guys be in the gym in this gym right here come on man these guys are are gym rats or what you call them and they also live in bonafide mansions and i think bro you went out to marcus smart when he lived here marcus smart lived in a place bigger than freaking belleview baptist church that was massive i mean it was he had more space than he knew what to do with it he probably lived in a house that probably cost 3 million i don’t know i guess he was renting it at the time but 3 million that thing had probably 25,000 square feet i think kyle anderson was that way when he when he got here cuz he grew up in new jersey then played down in texas and when he got here and he like saw the house that he get he goes wait i can get this how much is this right like what okay yeah i’m cool des that he’s leaving here just bought i i think a lot of these guys when when they they got them big names i think they looking at it from a business standpoint what they can get on the from the outside of the the nba oh like maybe a signature shoe and being one of the biggest nike spokesperson put up the tweet jaylen put the tweet up it has obviously hurt john mor put the tweet up jaw yeah 12 talking about the grizz more than the finals with these cap ass sources instead of focusing on the performances we’ve seen from jdub shay tj seakum by the way shout out for him mentioning tj how this series is going we’re saying something negative about a city team on a national level and i’mma be in that 901 source me yeah solitary steve read that hey i ain’t gonna lie read that solitary steve sorry that was gangster i don’t really condone a lot of this tweeting and doing all that you know but uh that’s cap but okay go ahead he he he stood on he stood on the infant i like that i like that immediately bro i mean hey that’s i like that he literally has a grizzlies logo tattooed on his back so that kills all the noise and that kills all the noise of them saying they trying to get uh little bro up shut the grizzlies trade job you get what i’m saying he shut he killed what you call killed two burners one business that’s where i wanted to run my car into the mississippi river is the whole now or should they trade because then when you press these dumb asses for what well just you know start over and then you know what i mean tank out and then get okay and then what get a high draft pick and that’s how you re you know rebuild right rebuild through the draft do you know the chances of drafting someone better than morant good luck bro good luck do you know the chances of drafting somebody better than jiren jackson jr you got you gonna have to pray to god to get a get a good draft pick to get that like what are we talking about it’s insanity and i got it j we all agree j’s got to play more whatever right also i have tried to attempt to give perspective you know on the spotify podcast i try to tell people bro they were two games from the three seed perception is everything and so now it’s like they’re an also ran they’re middle of the pack team like are you middle of the pack it’s two games two games is the three you are a homecourt advantage team or you’re middle of the pack that needs to rebuild that’s the difference and you started two rookies if anything if anything last year proved you could put anybody with them for sure you literally put the ninth pick in the draft and the 39th pick in the draft in a shitty draft no no no no no when you say it like that though you you put those still won 48 games you would think you would be at the lower part of the terrible i’m talking about all throughout the season we were number two all year all year you get what i’m saying you could put anybody with them exactly so and and if you put dylan brooks and stephen adams with them you win 56 games and hell hell hell chris we could we could take it even further in the perfect world you hell you put durant right there with us we win another 40 games come on down here kd man hey man hey stop tripping i got you kd hey you ain’t got to rear about nothing he’ll take care of you i know i know the one you good homie the one thing nba players do say about ta you probably speak the one thing the players do say about memphis they don’t say about it’s not about the crowd it just says bored they ain’t got much to do a month ain’t a no what’s ain’t no one oak that’s roser spot miami roser roser wants to go to one what’s the spot in miami the booby traps booby traps booby traps going on you know what i’m saying there’s no towel here no towel that’s the only thing i say but like we ain’t got a noo no you can’t go to no boo you ain’t doing that we got change we got change bro we got wings we got barbecue come on down here man but that’s that’s the only thing they say is the board but no no no i’m my problem is going on national tv and saying players don’t want to go to memphis because it’s not safe that has never been said about another market ever hey you could tell have you ever heard that being what about atlanta a topic what about atlanta has anybody said that they know professional athletes don’t want to play in a city that you know of that was not that did not have anything to do with sports well the city that most commonly gets mentioned with memphis when it comes to crime i would say the two are detroit and oakland okay detroit you never hear that about and oakland doesn’t have teams chicago atlanta i mean miami got terrible crime too but you got a bunch of bbls so you guess what you ain’t got to worry about this is the nba bro this these are nba players bro like you said they don’t have those pros and cons right the bbls i should know i’m telling you there’s a list of 10 things that you could list for why nba players don’t want to play in memphis maybe it’s the chicks maybe it’s the foods maybe it’s because i can’t fly my side chick in easily cuz our airport doesn’t have enough flights there are there’s a lot of but crime is really far down bro like again if you wanted to list off reasons why memphis isn’t as good a place for a professional athlete as a myriad of other cities i’m on board with you trump just made it safe too anyway so it’s cool we got the national guard we got we got tanks like come on bro y’all shouldn’t be worried about none of that but my whole thing i’m just confused like man when you look at just the game of basketball and you implement yourself as a superstar into what we’ve been doing what we’ve been building and just our dna of gritting and grinding like do players not want to come here and have to play as hard and then you get a guy like katie or jimmy but when we had a chance to get those guys are superstars like the city would love to have a super superstar you get what i’m saying we never been you know blessed with that j is it be said be say we never been blessed with that type caliber superstar on the wing side of things just to pair him with jiren and and j i think guys need to look at what that could actually be man cuz it actually look good on paper i’m just saying if this had ever been an issue it is he’s creating an issue by saying players don’t want to go there n bro no it is creating an issue it is creating an issue because if that is so then i would just ask why has nobody somebody got to they their contracts don’t end and then they leave no a lot of dudes stay here bro yeah a lot of dudes spend the block and come back here we need to get on i’ve never seen a player in 25 years we have had one trade request a lot of dudes spend the block and come back to the i’m not kidding they love this city boy one player who by the way loved memphis yeah they love this one no no no his his parents worked at st joe once people get here t once people get here they they don’t want to leave it’s they it’s like it’s like a gravitational pool of like when cuz you can say like “yeah i don’t know if i want to go there.” but once you get in the city and you see the love they give ta the zeos the mike collins the jaw the jiren oh you like “hold on now i can i can kick my feet up in this.” and i promise you if they tried to resign luke canard he’d sign the dotted line tomorrow they tried again it’s a different kind of players not if it’s if it’s that if it’s that way for nba players why has that not been the case hey explain to me i want to know too so you can talk about perception but there is a reality it’s not like we’ve been a market for five years we’ve been a market for 25 years yeah and so to say it on national tv is super damaging again if you wanted to talk to a player that had been here but i don’t give a [ __ ] what some guy that’s never been in the city and never played in the city has a perception i think most people trade requesting though is has nothing to do with the cities themselves it’s just a team like kevin durant asking out of phoenix has nothing to do with phoenix has nothing to do with the city of phoenix the other thing i’m going to tell you there is a ton of reasons as i said i’m not crazy there’s a lot of reasons why a professional athlete would rather be in a different city maybe they like the sun maybe they hate taking their trash out and their underwear being wet it’s 8:30 in the morning not that that happened to me this morning but it for sure did or where it’s humid as [ __ ] and it’s you know maybe they like better weather maybe they want to go to a place where there’s an abundance of chicks maybe they want to go to a place where there’s better restaurants maybe they want to go to a place where there’s better clubs maybe they want to go to a place with a better airport that they can fly their chicks into maybe they want to go to a place where they have more i i don’t want to say privacy hell half of them live out in the sticks and mansions yeah they get privacy here bro how about what you want i don’t know do did did kd not want to come here because uh he didn’t want to go anywhere at the deadline minnesota’s on his list now minnesota’s not on his list he does not want to go to say he didn’t want to go to minnesota no there’s a san antonio okay miami and houston what makes those other katie wanted to go to phoenix he wanted to go to phoenix he wanted to go from brooklyn to phoenix now he wants to go to either houston san antonio or miami but he doesn’t want to go to minnesota where anthony edwards who loves him and he loves ant he don’t want to go there why because minnesota’s cold he wants to be in a warm weather city he wants to go to houston san antonio or miami he wants to be warm he been in phoenix but imagine if stephen a said the crime in minneapolis or the crime in la how about that cuz there’s crime like a mud in la but guess what it’s also palm trees what about new orleans there’s crime there there’s crime in atlanta there’s crime in the new orleans winners like it’s like what do we like it’s like very selective and that’s the part that no the thing that pissed me off is it’s never been said about another city in any other sport either imagine if they would have said that caleb williams doesn’t want to go to chicago and players don’t want to sign in chicago because of the crime you would think that’s insane insane also this may be the same and tonyy’s from chicago in the most dangerous part yeah this may be the same person over now now that we really like kind of taking back the layers of it this is the same uh solitary steve that said that was talking about elvis being the biggest thing like i know when he’s talking about memphis right oh i can’t wait to see the elvis sign when i put like this is the same dude that said that they say they say let elvis go he’s like let elvis go like what no all it probably was was nobody brings him he saw a freaking billboard for graceand thinks that we’re all sitting around going “hey elvis you got a new elvis track.” like nobody does that so this is the same person that was that was doing that so for me it’s like okay take it as a grain of salt but also bro don’t go on a national platform and [ __ ] on the place where i’m from the place where we wake up every day and we rock out every day don’t do that bro stood on that he stood on it josh stood on it don’t do that bro jj triple j gohead at stephen a smith tell him hey man been perfectly fine for me up here man yeah you know have you ever had a time where you thought you were in danger as an nb because you were an nba player not because you were a memphian [Music] no i ain’t never been in no like to make it sound like a young multi-millionaire would be a target no i ain’t never i ain’t never i ain’t never you know i always felt like good interactions with people would outweigh bad interactions a million to one for sure like like yeah like 10 to one more for sure like there’s no problem meaning no problem like they more inclined to take care of you to try to push up on you exactly and that’s a fact it’s been it’s been i’ve been i’ve been and you’ve been in man been some d ran out of gas over there on third not too long ago paul paul pierce got stabbed like a thousand times in boston what about you bro he did he had to pull over when he got you had all kinds of players have like he had a quick $9 violent runins in all manner of cities in 25 years i can’t remember one here i’m not kidding for players yeah no do you ever remember do you ever remember a player having i mean john john’s house yeah that was a national thing that same thing happened to travis kelce’s house that wasn’t even that wasn’t even a meimpy that was somebody from out of state yeah that was like country it was a ring of robberies of athletes yeah right like come on bro most dudes they cut like i said most dudes like ta jaws level jiren luke jitty they shitty i’m i’m just saying bro they get love from people here bro it’s love bro yeah and a lot of the star guys they don’t even like they don’t even tony said they come to the practice court they come to games and they go home you see them in the grocery store just sucks cuz we oh they got uh you got the grocery app you get your where you where you go where are you going where you going where you going where you going don’t you was different cuz you wanted to be outside but yeah where you going but i mean during the season i was inside but if you wanted to find marggo soul you could go over to whole foods any night and he’s charging his tesla and walking around whole foods i saw him at cro when i used to work there when i was in when i was in produce i used to be picking the oranges just seeing marcus all vince carter walking through the mud just bro they memphis ain’t on you like that yeah they on you like that like it ain’t it ain’t most of this is a picture what’s up bro you you my man bro woo woo this that and the other y’all cool who take the pitch and you get on about your business bro i ain’t been in no situations where like i ever been scared in memphis like it’s always been love i just don’t understand how all of these guys stayed here for as long as they did and nobody ever requested a trade nobody’s ever had a issue that i know of it’s like what happened how is it again that’s if you want to tell me that that’s valid then you have to give me a reason why that’s valid besides some guy from the outside stayed at the weston and a bum asked him for 10 bucks exactly and then and this place ain’t safe and then you go then you go on national television and spew a narrative that [ __ ] on the entire city right as a whole who trying to fight a narrow send a message to the nba exactly who fight a narrative every day bro that people don’t want to like we fight every day bro about memphis bro we talk about this we fight every day about this so somebody go on tv to just [ __ ] on it it’s like bro what the what are you doing we’re trying over here bro we are trying this city ain’t perfect it a it’s it ain’t perfect at all but the people like us like tony like the people that make memphis memphis bro and the basketball world grizz nation i mean y’all need to get on his ass too oh they’ve been on his ass all day long don’t you oh man we straight up we do have a trade we got a draft trade we got we got a draft trade we got a draft trade let me hear it the uh the pacers have traded the 23 pick and mojave king to the pelicans for what a cool name for new orleans mjave king for new orleans 2026 first round pick that was actually indiana’s it was their own pick so indiana just traded the 23 pick and mojave king for their own pick in next year’s draft mojave king yeah indiana just got their pick back for next year for 2026 sean’s way new orleans is now going to have what 23 and what they’ve got seven already seven to 23 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and for indiana it makes sense to trade their pick because they’re going to have to sign miles turner and they’re going to go in the tax to do that and so why did they don’t need a draft pick this year because all that does is going to add more salary tell you this man i throw a package together for one of those young guys if they’re going to they got all new management they brought in a guy from the sixers they brought in a guy from the hawks trey murphy i’m thinking of it right now i got you chris don’t worry about it i’m trying to improve the roster right now in my head mentally okay let’s see what a perfect fit trey murphy what a perfect fit trey murphy or herb that shoot that stretch he play stretch four and three you know what i mean yeah who oh huber jones no herbert herbert yeah yeah he got to get out of there too he first team that’s my guy i like him right he locking it up i’m just saying like they’ve got like if they’re gonna if again they are they were gonna remake their team for sure because they’ve got all new management right anytime you bring in guys that are not married to the former roster they’re going to remake it in their image right like and so you have guys now as they blew out landry fields they brought in a guy from philadelphia they brought in a guy from atlanta they now have like a bunch of different guys in that front office in new orleans and they’re gonna remake that team right they’re gonna decide whoever like if if they’re gonna build out around zion or not right you got to make that decision we’re building out around zion and i guess we will see what they end up doing but they certainly do have some players there if they are willing to herb makes more sense if they’re trying if they’re trying to read those herb makes more sense than murphy i want her again they’re a reasonable one to talk about hey could you get players for picks from them because they won 20 something games the grizzlies won 48 games and people talk about hey they just going to tank and give have everybody all their good players give me her the the jiren stuff was like why would they trade jiren jackson jr on a $23 million contract that makes no sense it doesn’t matter it doesn’t have to make sense everybody thinks that small markets are in service of big markets that’s the truth but when you win it don’t even matter though right look look at the look at look at the finals win are win that’s come on bro two low market team whatever y’all call it small market small market okay cool but got the biggest names in it what the hell and shay gilly on the biggest platform you on the biggest platform small market on the biggest platform you feel come on bro i i i don’t i don’t even know why they call it that bro if you want an nba team you know what i’m saying it’s probably worth somewhere up there in the hundreds of close to billions bro come up there and perform and and add value that’s all i look at it like add value come on it don’t matter i want to ask you about uh some of your former nba players we got video of them uh scrapping yeah i knew this was coming i want you to speak on this uh jaylen play the video oh wow play the video jaylen i like that speak on your people ta was wait a minute hold on this is lance and dwight hold on is they serious they serious ta serious heart attack boy hold on wait a minute okay wait a minute hold on wait a minute hold on he down he had to get him down too though he like “hold on you ain’t about to just throw me over here i’m come on down with me player.” they’re going to end up kicking lance stevenson out of this league he’s got into a fight twice now i ain’t gonna front i think lance lance’s energy i think and this what turned up the stuff with stephen jackson too but listen i think this was the energy set right here that’s tone that energy in that in that building yesterday was a little off man you know i played in the big three and seeing that you know they do let a lot of stuff get physical like it ain’t the it’s playoff fouls basketball in uh big three so y’all know and so some guys get a little you know they get a little little heated and then it comes you think lance can fight for real i don’t know if he could fight he still he always seemed like a funny guy to be i mean put hey put it again though put it again put it again jaylen even though look lance started it right he stuck his finger in his nose whatever dwight still ended up on top no he stuck his finger in the other guy no yeah not not dwight but look even though bro he still ended up on top pause was this first or that was second this is after he stuck his finger in oh dwight howard strong as an ax but he ended up on top he ain’t looked strong in that fight i know him on the ground man is strong too though man had him on the ground bro man’s had him dwight on the ground dwight’s a strong dude but to my point bro what i’m saying is bro it could get a little heated and that’s all it was some basketball players emotions got fled up and uh is that reggie evans yes reggie evans i bet reggie evans could scrap hey perry jones he punched all kinds of people in the nuts in during nba career that was his game that was his game irritate you get the rebound that was his game put you the guy in the nuts perry jones perry jones perry jones also plays in this league perry jones perry jones at third one of the greatest mixtapes ever of all time i thought perry jones is going to be i thought perry jones mixtape looked like he was going to be like super kevin durant play the clip jaylen i know i just said it to you yeah perry jones he was a part of one of the lance stevenson scuffles from the first game your boy just out there just tweeting where is perry jones been for a decade oh this this is the first one this is this is just during the game who is that this is before the dwight thing that’s a uh this was justified right here though crawford jordan crawford i was about to say you i was like damn is that perry jones now damn wow white throw a ball in his stomach like that this is before the dwight thing cuz they started talking miraculous i’m sure oh see now all right i ain’t going to lie i think lance play the last one jaylen play the last one play the last one there’s one more one more play the last one jaylen is swinging on people he doing that the last clip i just hit you putting his finger damn wow that’s perry jones right there by the way hold on back that’s perry jones with the braids yeah bro wow look at reggie evans there what is your boy doing bro swinging yo i can’t i think lance was really just on his [ __ ] because he just lost to michael beasley in the one-on-one oh okay okay you think he’s been hot since yeah he been he been upset ever since that happened little sensitive because they probably popping [ __ ] up like “yo you just got cooked by mike bees blah blah blah blah blah.” by the way uh i just got a tweet about maybe why stephen a said what he said on this on the show you got a tweet why stephen a said he said well steve ain’t you’re wrong bro you’re wrong a lot of stuff it’s everything is cool down here come on down here and get a a a breath of fresh air come on down here see what we doing down here and you will see for yourself let me be the chaperon hey why do you live here you could live you could live anywhere you could live in boston you could live any honestly you could live anywhere you wanted to i want to live here cuz um this where i’ve called home and um i just don’t see myself going nowhere else where i could you know be this comfortable but why didn’t you move to wherever scottdale arizona anywhere out the way beautiful weather you could go live in miami you could go live in the orlando you could go live down there if you wanted to you could go live in in dallas if you wanted to i’m a meian hey man i ain’t looking forward to none of that i’m i’m i’m bringing a a bright light to the city man i ain’t i wasn’t never thinking about going nowhere else i always once i got here i’m like i’m i’m here it’s up and it’s stuff like even like mel dean anthony mel’s old manager she tweeted like yo when they were when melt was in memphis we all every time i came to memphis a number of it would never like oh i’m worried about this who was that d mel d’s old managers who’s like represent him she’s come to city all the time when he played here because she has tweeted about how much like how much love a stereotype how much love people show when they when they no i’m saying there’s a difference between the pe talking to people that have actually experienced it and whatever the mindless babble he was saying on television is that’s where it’s unfair he’s a free agent by the way coming off an acl so you probably could get him cheap melt i like that energy mel actually played here and i guarantee you tai has actually played here you ask him about ask mike ask mark ask stephen they do a poll bro do a poll bro you can talk to players that played here players that actually put on the jersey there’s been a lot in 25 years we had 27 we had 32 years s 12 go talk to tosan go talk to to json the difference between memphis and new orleans go call dusty hannah any of them we’ve had we’ve had a million players here we’ve had two different seasons where we had guys that we can’t even remember go to trey go ask trey jimson in his house he’ll have a couch in his joel embiid game one autograph jersey that he got at that game i remember you remember that i’ll never forget that we had a season jersey in 92 we had a season where players were getting other players autographs jefferson got we had so many 10day guys on our team that they were after the game getting other players autographs cuz he’s like i don’t know if i’m ever going to be here again hey braun good hey good to see you hey hey take this photo who was that who’s that preston jro let me get a jersey swap sean like yo let me get a jersey swap jersey swap brun with dick you know who dicki is you know who dicki is hey who is the one that i do know deicki i could call deicki i mean look and it’s hey and it’s been even worse man hey he fixed his car come on he always looked like he had a lucy bun his ear for sure he hooked like he had a my man he definitely hooped like he had a lucy for sure do you remember when dylan brooks tried to trade jerseys with kyrie irving and kyrie kyrie gave him his and told him no i’m straight i’m straight i’m straight go ahead kyrie gave dylan his jersey and dylan was like you don’t want it hey go ahead bro you don’t want it going on somewhere buddy going on somewhere get out of here tony will let you get out of here oh thanks for standing up for the city as always be back after this chris varnish what can the memphis grizzlies learn from the thunder pacers nba final series your style of play is not something that you really have to change both these teams love to play fast both these teams love to play uh really aggressively on the defensive side of the ball hey grizzlies fans be sure to tune in to grisby where the panel and i break down all things grizzlies and take a look at the rest of the nba as well the show is live every wednesday 2 p.m on youtube at grind city media and the official grind 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grizzlies have recruited legendary talent we want you to be part of our team are you ready to be part of something legendary then visit www.bigriversteel.com that’s www.bigriversteel.com [Music] welcome back to the chris vernon show on youtube at grind city media and the official grind city media app now back to your host chris vernon from your wy all right we’re back chris vern show join us for the grind city media draft show presented by south casino has actually gotten infinitely more relevant over the course of the past three days we were doing a draft show anyway but it’s going to be on 7 o’clock on wednesday drafts on wednesday that’s when the first round is hear from gcm personalities that react to the draft picks trades and more download the grind city media app and subscribe to the grind city media youtube channel today for all your grizzlies draft coverage i will tell you that i just clicked on jonathan gavon’s updated mock draft today he has the grizzlies taking with the 16th overall pick jace richardson jason richardson’s kid out of michigan state now you want to talk about something that would make me feel incredibly old the first thing i ever covered ever in fact you know what’s crazy i just told william my son about this uh about two weeks ago and i’ll tell you why so the first thing i ever covered is the grizzlies move here i do this event where the grizzlies are going to move here my program director who i told you uh was this guy that was like just always looking for people to do anything on the weekends he was like “there’s going to be something over at the fox and the hound and you know you heard the grizzlies are moving here.” and i went and did in fact i might be the only person that’s ever done an event like this and in fact i mentioned it to him when i saw him at the inseason tournament two years ago gleague commissioner sharif abdur raheem it was me cydney low and sharif abdul raheem at the fox and hound on sanderland i had to go over there and interview them and then of course by the time the team moved here sharief abdul raheem was in atlanta he was he wasn’t yeah he was never he was never even on the team whatever but that summer they allowed you to go if you wanted to like they just sent out a thing like “hey the grizzlies are moving here and we’re doing our pre-draft workouts and whatever.” and the first thing i covered was the pre-draft workouts and they did them at roads college and i would drive over there in the mornings and go over there and they would let me to in to watch the workouts and then like conduct interviews afterwards and the first one i ever did jason richardson versus trenton hassel trenton hassel who played at austin p who had a career he had a career played in the west finals with the timberwolves yeah yeah trenton hassel but um and jason richardson and so you want to talk about old i’m looking at a mock draft saying jace richardson can get drafted by the christmas j that’s when i know i’ve been around too long right this when i’m talking about and and so the reason i told my son that story two weeks ago is because we were watching shooting guards the netflix documentary about gilbert arenas oh yeah and i told william i said ‘you know years ago one of the first things i ever did was i covered this draft workout with jason richardson and the grizzlies ended up taking pegasus third in the trade and then they ended up taking shane badier sixth the fifth pick was jason richardson who they would have taken if he was available right chuck daly was a advisor for the grizzlies at that time he was big buddies with michael heisley he could not have been cooler to me chuck daly was awesome i loved him and especially cuz i’m like 21 22 years old and i’m scared to death i’m like “oh my god i’m getting to interview chuck daly.” he loved jason richardson though in that draft mhm and so anyways i then interviewed jason richardson for a long time after his workout here cuz that was like he’s very well may get picked by the grizzlies he was mocked to go to the grizzlies so uh and to be a very high pick so fast forward that season he gets dra he’s playing for golden state jason rich i go to the locker room to go talk to him like “hey man hey you know because i you know i had sat down talked to him whatever i’m young and i like just gonna say “hey you know and whatever to jason richardson.” and i walk in i’m talking to jason richardson i’m like “hey man how’s your rookie season going?” blah blah blah good to see you again whatever and gilbert arenas is sitting next to him and gilbert arenas looks up at me he’s a second round pick for the golden head warriors he looks up at me he goes “chris chris vernon.” and i was like “yeah how do you know me gilbert?” he goes “i’m looking at your media pass.” you got excited huh i was like “you thought bro.” you thought yeah you thought bro bro i was so humiliated but i was explaining to william i’m like “bro when they say this guy is mega goofy trust me i lived it i mean you can’t get goofier than that that’s f that is funny to do to somebody especially somebody that’s like in their young 20s and he’s like “chris chris vernie.” he tried to act like i was somebody and i was like “hey gilbert.” i was like “how do you know me?” and he’s like “i don’t i’m looking at your media.” of course i’m looked down i got a stupid media pass that says my name on it that’s tough funny guy though anyway jace richardson is the guy that is uh projected to go 16th to the memphis grizzlies um there want to use that pick there are uh something to maybe look at in the draft there are uh there are two wings that are projected to go in this first round that have measured with a 72 or greater wingspan okay since 2016 these are the guys the wings who have gone in the first round that have a wingspan of 72 or greater pascal seakum in 2016 2017 og anobi 2018 male bridges 2019 pj washington and rui hachimura 2021 scotty barnes 2022 jaylen williams and tari een 2023 we don’t know on these guys yet balakuli and jarus walker this year there are two of them that are projected cedric coward from washington state and rashir fleming from st joseph’s they are wings that have 72 or greater wingspans do you know what’s do you want to hear something crazy i can’t even i don’t know why i have not thought about this until you just said that but you know you have these moments in your life where something will trigger some memory yes bro do you remember a couple of weeks ago i told you that i went with my wife and daughter to target on at popler and ridgeway okay and then i went and bought those basketball cards yeah i walked over and they had all these different basketball cards these boxes whatever and i bought a couple boxes and i took them home to go and one of them was the uh bowman chrome universities cuz i was trying to get the cooper flag card yeah right remember that yeah and so anyways i bought these cards whatever and i told you that when i was standing there there was a guy who was a listener he’s like “hey chris you know blah blah big grizzlies fan blah blah blah.” i was like “hey man.” i was like “yeah i was just looking for cards too.” he’s like “i’m going to get these bell mchs.” he’s like “they’ve got the cooper flags in them.” he’s like “the autograph ones are going for like $1,000 because they’re the only card that’s out right now.” and i was like “oh okay i’ll try that too.” and so we start talking whatever and he goes he goes in he goes “uh let me tell you something.” he’s like “uh everybody’s chasing that cooper flag whatever or whatever.” he goes “the best player in this entire draft is going to be cedric coward.” and i was like “what?” and i had totally forgotten that until you just said that and i was it’s such a random thing to say to somebody at target i can’t remember the i don’t remember forgive me i don’t remember the guy’s name it was a passing thing but i swear to god if that guy ever ends up being amazing i’m going to remember some dude in target telling me as i was trying to buy cooper flag cards that cedric coward was going to be the best player out of this draft former washington state cougar yeah he was supposed to go he told me that that’s wild that’s super random it’s a random thing to say somebody on target so he was and i had not thought of that kid’s name until you just said it so he entered the portal and he was going to but he kept his name in the draft he was going to go to duke he would be playing for duke next season but he decided to keep his name in the draft yeah he could shoot man watch the video i watched stuff on he could shoot it how weird is it that somebody said that to me cedric captain bro they real they real draft saying that bro you got you know how deep in you got to be to mention their name bro at popler and widway target you know what i’m saying man you got to be a real the guy told me hey look i and i promise you i will search high and low to find this guy if this guy turns out to be some kind of superstar but yo i got your car bro cuz he told me dang he was like the guy jumper looks good man it does that catch and shoot looks good and he’s a big he’s a big big body too so funny that that’s i had not thought of that name until you just said that he’s like 6667 with a 72 wingspan like imagine if we had a a a washington state wing rotation i know right goes and wells and cow pullman wings maybe one of them will be klay thompson will end up being klay thompson all right you ready for this here’s 16th picks in the draft i know devin doesn’t want to pick 16 but come on you know these guys they’re going to yeah exactly they love drafts they love excel spreadsheets they love you know what i’m saying all right the number 16 pick in last year’s draft okay hit me i have no idea might very well end up being the best or one of the five best no it’s not kawo is it it’s jared mccain jared mccain jared mccain was going to end up being one of the best players out there he was going to be the rookie of the year bro 16th pick the year before keonte george chucker yeah chucker the year before already retired aj griffin damn that’s tough year before don’t draft a guy who’s going to retire in two years year before alper and shenun good play bro two so two of the last four have been mccain and shenun shen did shenun make third team all nba hey uh no no okay year before isaiah stewart okay beef stew yeah year before chuma aiki i thought he was going to be good too kid from auburn yeah he ain’t done nothing just never year before zire smith year before justin patton man year before gershon ubelli he’s back in the league i know he had the olympics the olympics don’t tell lebron year before terry roier is that a long nba career year before yousef nerk uh long nba career other 16th pick include uh nicola vousvich james johnson maurice spate rodney carney how about that shout out legend uh joey graham kirk schneider troy bell yuri welsh yuri welsh by the way hedo turgaloo shout out could play you can hit you can hit the 16 yeah for sure and they like you said they love it they love excel spreadsheets they love the data crunch we also need to yeah we need to get back to hitting draft picks regularly i don’t want to do we went through we went that’s because we went through a span is that why i don’t like if we would have taken if we would have taken trey murphy instead of zire williams you would love the draft no not for this current interview if we would have taken somebody besides jake laravia and david rody you would love the draft we loved the draft when we were getting bane clark and aldama like dudes that can like automatically produce yeah you’re right we did i need i need somebody that can produce tomato hey shout out jake hemato he was in town last year by the way to your point somebody just brought up a he was in town he was in town working out yeah he was working out over at cbhs to your point bro with cam spencer over at cbhs yeah yeah shooting threes why i had to hit him up cuz i went to the post office last week and they go “do you still talk to jake laria?” and i was like i mean i can reach out to him they go “tell him he’s got a bunch of packages here he needs to come pick up.” by the way also wait hold on somebody at the post office asked you if miss joyce she’s a season ticket holder were you closer with jake laavia than we let on well we both deal with mailing basketball cards and receiving basketball cards we all like kind of tapped in together huh like so we all mail from the same post office do you ever cross paths with him at their post office no never have he uses a different name too on his mail he uses a different name he doesn’t use jake la i don’t know the name he uses but i don’t know what his i don’t know we gonna find out he tapped in he was hammed you know what he used to use ta what’s the guy’s name from uh catch me if you can frank uh uh abagnail our player that’s what tony would use at the at the hotels yeah our players got some funny frank abale so there’s someone who didn’t do that that would be that would be his name deb this happened when we beat the spurs in the playoffs frank aale abigail when we beat the spurs that year 20 that 2011 year dude tim duncan did not use a fake name and freaking ron olsen at fm100 they called tim duncan at like 5 in the morning at the weston that’s true and he and he answered the hotel and he answered the phone duncan answered it we won the series bro yeah we won the series we didn’t call him we didn’t do it rod did all part of the game to the point that you were the point you were making earlier about people not leaving jarvis spins he got traded from here spin a block somebody who got fired from this place about six months ago people still see him around the city to this day taylor jenkins might brought that up in the chat he could have easily just packed this [ __ ] up i got fired i’m out of this place screw this place my guy’s still eating torches tacos dude my daughter saw taylor at whole foods two weeks ago ask me if he still lives here he might live in new york soon he might sounds like him and mike brown dude mike brown is so much more equipped to deal with that media though mike brown has coached the lakers mike brown has coached cleveland lebron mike brown has like mike brown is very media savvy he’s been in golden state when they’ve had all those guys and has dealt with a delusion of media members right taylor jenkins has dealt with four people none of which are pressing him in a hard way no no offense to anybody no no offense but i mean it’s just not that’s just the difference in media markets you know what i’m saying yeah like i mean you don’t people there don’t care you know what i’m saying like they they don’t care about if they’re going to make the coach mad doesn’t it feel though i i will say doesn’t if you were a knicks fan looking to get like say you want change doesn’t taylor feel like more change than mike brown as compared to what you just had with tibs i would feel like mike brown is more of the same except not as good as tips i would feel like taylor would be like “all right at least we may do something different now.” yeah like they wanted something different they wanted a change and like this is different we’ll see i guess we would find out if taylor likes playing guys uh short minutes or if that’s a uh organizational edict those play those jokers are used to playing 42 our guys play 28 if taylor gets that job tyler koh’s over there on the bench like i’m about to get some time to get tyler kick time backup point guard minutes baby i am your john kart tyler tyler minutes i’m your john kart all right before we get out of here i’ve got to i’ve got to depress roser one time since he got to walk in today being dr thunder with his chest poked out and everything else i don’t know if you know this but a guy and i will i will divulge this to the listeners i helped because of our old buddy barton simmons who is now in the front office for vanderbilt commodore football right he had reached out to me and was like “yo diego pavia wants to come to a grizzlies playoff game can you help me out?” whatever i set them up with the ticket guys whatever diego pavia was at game three yeah of the grizzlies oklahoma city series right and i don’t know you probably haven’t seen this yet roser but this is why i wanted to depress you diego pavia made it very clear to you and everyone else in this fine state that that whole like flagship university that you always talk about days are numbered here it is diego pavia on with will compton and taylor lean oh snap vanderville’s going to run tennessee after this year like this is going to be the new staple of like college football it’s going to happen here at vanderville do any of you and the boys ever like talk about that like we got to be the state school well we’re in nashville tennessee like we’re in the music city like we need to be the brand of tennessee everyone wants to come to tennessee because of nashville so they want to come to nashville so vanderbilt and then when we have like the most money in nil like why not come here so like we literally just have to win this year and throughout the rest of the year it’ll take care of itself you think vandy will have the most money in the game or i think we’ll be up there but like it’s nashville yeah there’s a lot of big hitters around here they just need a team to believe in yeah that’s all they need they need diego pavio oh oh roser check it out diego pavia saying vanderbilt’s going to be the new flagship they got the most nil all i know is that diego pavia is playing another year at vanderbilt and nico i’m a lever left how about it roser how about it john v so two things one i had no idea that’s what diego pavia looked like you don’t gangster you know what 80% of people you don’t know what they look like so don’t use that especially football players two bro you got your ass kicked on your home field by tennessee last year with nico who was blah all season long except for against crappy teams flagship so tennessee still the flagship gone still the flag yeah and they’ll be better for it um i don’t know i don’t know who their quarterback is now it’s they got that kid from ucla i have no idea who else they have uh but they’ll be fine and hypo we trust as far as the offense goes yeah no that’s vander well ain’t nobody worried about vanderbilt i like him talking spicy i i know i love it you know it reminds me it reminds me of james franklin back in the day when he would talk vanderbilt up and you’re like you know what vanderbilt could be awesome in sports right like i mean because james franklin he had that unbelievable bit where i remember when he came on with us for the first time he fired me up so much he came on with us for the first time devin and i was like “so what’s your pitch?” and he’s like i’ll tell you the exact same thing i tell all of these kids and their parents and their grandparents when i walk into their living room said you’re going to have every other coach in the country and they’re going to come in here and they’re going to talk to you about the next three or four years of your life i’m going to talk to you about the rest of your life woo and if you go to vanderbilt and you play football vanderbilt and you walk away with a vanderbilt degree you are going to be set for the rest of your life and me and rosa were like who what parent is going to listen to this guy and like he had such a good he had such a good vanderbilt pitch he really did he had such a good vandy pitch because you’re again you’re uphill oh yeah but now i mean you got a cranial stadium people barely come to the games you got to do something right that’s nashville’s bumping right now though man it is bumping too much traffic but it’s bumping i’ll be there thursday there’s 100 million people there i’ll be in nashville thursday who you going to go see uh my boy simeino man y’all know i’m a big i’m a big sino fan my guy he’s from your he’s from your part of the world st louis st louis he wore like a 314 chain all the time i wonder where he’s from i wonder where he uh let’s see where he is see what part see where he went to high school where’ smo go let’s see he went to columbia college hazelwood central high school oh yeah hazelwood central there’s a there’s hazelwoods there’s parkway there’s you know yeah it’s my guy i’m going to see hazelwood central he he performs a place called the pinnacle in nashville thursday so i’m going to see i’m pull up on him got to go see him bro i’m about to be hey i’m not going to lie to you bro your boy might be there a lot during the football you’re in nashville dev no no no no dude this is your third trip to nashville in a month hey hey don’t let stephen a know why are you going to nashville on the weekend i’m going to the concert bro what’s wrong with you and i got to go see cam ward but when it’s basketball season we up we here bro we up and it’s stuck you feel me i got to support my guy cam ward nashville i’m about to get another cam jersey too you are yeah my guy just sent me the you got to get the baby blue that’s my so my guy my my my plug i got i’m gonna show you what he sent me he sent me an auto message too i’m not listen right now he just sent me this just got this in so y’all might see me rocking that very soon got the baby blue blue cam war yeah we all in on cam ward bro not all in on nashville we all in on cam ward though that’s wild that you have ditched shador like you have no no i i got if there was a shader jersey in there too i’d be rocking it but it’s a jersey in the store bro you know what i’m saying my shadur jersey is always well you and you could just go to the store it’s nashville div that’s crazy i nashville are you going to get one personalized what’s your favorite number hey wait till you can get a titans jersey that says nashville dev on the personalized jersey i’m going to i’m going to get you a nashville dev jersey and then you can take a picture with a t-r the name of their that raccoon they have in the last hey hey look bro i found i found out i found out deon track i found out bro that i got a plug in nashville so um look he tweeted me the other day he said “if you want to come to a game i any game you want to come to i got you.” what yo i’m about to use my plug bro i don’t know about y’all really yeah hear me said “yo as many games you want whatever game you want come on pull up.” i said “say less i’ll be there for the free for for the for the last year of nissan stadium whatever they call you better just hope it doesn’t collapse on you i’ll be in that i have one i don’t show y’all one depress you might get you might get a bolt in your ass when you sit down.” pause or you’re going to leave the place and you’re not going to be able to even but it’s going to be like monday and you’ll finally be exiting because there’s like one don’t sit on the club no there’s one escalating oh my gosh hey dude nobody has ever been more miserable than me roser and william went to go watch the 49ers lose to the titans on a night game and then we could not get out of the club section because there’s one escalator so roser’s just having to stand there in his stupid 49er jersey in the middle of 40,000 titan fans and just think about us covering this de mo ryan’s by the way covering aj brown with ambry thomas and never sending help over at all the entire second half not that it scarred him that’s tough roser i’m sorry about that bro you appreciate good call demo ryan great job that game go see kam together this year i got to show y’all one depression thing before we get out of here i’m sorry i can do this to to all our brethren that watch this show but play the video all right no play the video jaylen play the video the the which you sent two things which one the last one the last one the last one the last one the last one don’t make everybody depressed oh my god jaylen i’m sorry that he puts you through this i really am there’s a special place in heaven for people like you and a special fans what up here practice gym excited to be here see the new jerseys let’s get it that’s annoying it is jersey looks good though i’m gonna root for him and i i wish him well i like desmond bay three rex i’m very jealous of that nickname i’m always going to like desmond that’s like that’s that makes me sad though bro where’s where’s our ktoous caldwell pope selfie i know right [ __ ] give us a reason to be happy around here give me a selfie video of cole anthony jumping on catavius’s back i’m so happy to be in memphis come on people what’s the little hat the pope wears what what’s the little hat the pope wears whatever that’s called put a grizz logo on it and photoshop it on kcp no rose see this is why you don’t do social media that’s funny he’s going to do it on barack cuz he doesn’t care about poor people hey the midtown is going to beat your ass bro you better stop yeah protest roser no kings roer no kings no kings they’re all in other lands it’s going to do it for today’s show we’ll be back tomorrow thanks to deon walker thanks to tony allen thanks to john ross across the glass thanks most of all to jaylen back in the studio until tomorrow we go [Music]
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15 Comments
Could yall turn Devin’s mic off when you discuss the draft, please?
Ja’s house was burglarized
Memphis is a ghetto fu** fest
Players all live in eads just get a big house and chill out therr
Stephen A. "Salt Shakin'" Smith!
Stephan A been on a crash out mission since he got caught playing solitare at the Finals. He called Giannis an underachiever, he glad Haliburton was hurt and now this. Last time I checked, free agents ain't lining up to play for the Knicks.
@45:00 They think we slow.
It's like politicians talking about Mexico. They have an agenda and it is to help their funders talk down Mexico as some undesirable place unfit for tourism or investment so that they can put pressure on that country to bend over for the benefit of US Special interests. Stephen A. has an agenda as a major broadcaster and it is to talk down Memphis as an undesirable place so that the networks for which they work can cover Memphis less.
Actually they are better now wells can go to his natural position which is the 2 guard and u get 2 legit pg to backup ja people are sleeping on wells
Dev don’t compare halis “injury walk” to LeBron. LeBron is straight up lying about his injuries when he loses
If anything they may not want to come here (Memphis) because it may not be a lot to do, but I don't think they worried about safety because there are several NBA cities with a crime problem.
Good show I hate Chris gave Gilbert Arenas any notoriety him and K Martin was spewing way more hate then Stephen A about our City and Team.
The least Stephen A could have done was blame the correct party for things getting out of hand which is the corrupt judges that let violent criminals out next day on bail. The cops are trying their best to
Remember this day next year, Memphis on the down fall, just watch
Getting his ass BBQ’d 18:55