Think Tank! Raptors need a C! France’s Joan Beringer would not be a reach at 9 because of his reach!
good morning Raptor Freaks alexi outs here and we got the Thursday think tank and it’s the last Thursday think tank before the 2025 NBA draft which will be held next Wednesday and Thursday and well I’m really ramping up and finalizing my top five suggested picks for Messiah and Bobby for the draft and I’m I think I’m ready to lock them in and say these are the five people that I’d most like them to draft i’m not going to worry about the 39th pick at this point i want to make it a wild card surprise but in the ninth pick I have five names that I’d like Bobby and Messiah to target towards uh possibly getting one of them now Bobby Webster did the Hello and Welcome podcast a couple uh last Saturday actually and uh it’s a very good interview if you guys have not watched the interview with Alex and William Lou uh with Bobby Webster at Holt Renfruit from last Saturday afternoon you need to watch it it’s mustwatch for any Raptors Nation people that care about the team if you want to be knowledgeable about the Raptors you have to watch this podcast because you’re listening to Bobby Webster speak with his own words from his own mouth about the Raptors and honestly I wish more journalists down south would watch him so they could understand what the Raptors are doing better because Messiah and Bobby normally when they’re in interviews they’re very explicit and clear about their plans and what they’re trying to do with the Raptors i don’t get why there’s so much confusion all the time i think it’s just partly n I’m not listening i’m not going to listen to what y’all are doing and just act like y’all don’t know what you’re doing and just cause confusion i feel like that’s half the energy of the United States media about the Raptors is that they they don’t honestly put any energy into trying to pay attention and if they do by accident pay attention and hear something they’re going to act like they didn’t hear it with amnesia it’s just how it is so today I’ve changed my top five drastically honestly sure number one is still common malaw watch if common falls to nine just take the Duke center there’s no ifs ands or buts don’t mess around with that but the the signs are that Common may even be a top three pick at this point so falling to nine may not be realistic but I’ll bet I would say this if Bobby Webster has a top five he wants to draft that common Malawatch is on that top five i’ll bet you money that he’s one of those five guys that they have because that’s what Bobby said in this interview with William Louu and Alex Wong he said that they’ve already got their five guys in mind they have narrowed it down and Bobby is very explicit in this interview about what the Raptors look for we look for good character hard worker yeah and a little bit of an X factor a little chip on their shoulders yeah that he said Jamal Shed’s a great example of this that’s what I’m saying there you could pay attention to who the Raptors get and there’s a there’s a certain uh mold there’s a certain type of individual that the Raptors zero in on and yeah this guy’s a Raptor that’s what I say you know looking around the league and people suggest trades and people come here all this time i say “No man green light red light red light on this dude this guy’s not a Raptor he doesn’t have the Raptors characteristics he’s not a hard worker he’s a he’s he’s not a good teammate he’s a toxic person and Bobby let it be known yesterday that all these draft prospects have been coming to Toronto to work out for our team to see if we want to draft them well they’re watching them like a hawk i was exactly right i’ve been saying this for years that Bobby Bobby Webster said for 48 hours when they have the draft prospects around them they are watching them for everything they watch them when they don’t think they’re being watched they said that “Oh you come in and you kiss all of our asses and you’re really nice.” You know we know that you might be prepared by your agent to do certain things a certain way to make the best first impression but we’re watching you all the time we want to see how you treat the server Lex yeah even if he’s wearing a Boston jersey we want to see how you talk to our interns do you talk down to the lower people on the staff as far as the people that aren’t as paid as much or prestigious sure you’ll be really nice to Messiah but what are you doing with Shelby are you nice to Shelby that’s part of what they’re looking at too and uh they’re taking all of this in and they are analyzing things and they’re figuring out who the knuckleheads are who the good toxic the good ones are and the toxic ones are they’re figuring out who’s got that dog in them who’s got that that little bit of extra like Kyle Lowry yeah that he even mentioned OG and Pascal and Fred and he said “These are guys that we selected because we knew they had chips on their shoulder and they had something to prove.” Yeah so I love this once again Bobby Webster thank you for doing an interview with Hello and Welcome podcast it was illuminating you’re amazing guy we You guys cleared the air on your CIA rumors which is fantastic we’re still going to use this even though it was a failed interview attempt but he didn’t actually work for the CIA but that’s the thing he had the aptitude and the smarts and probably the ability to do it if he had gone in that direction but he did it and thank God he’s the GM of the Toronto Raptors that’s what I say right there yeah Bobby’s a badass man bobby lives in Cabbage Town that’s right let’s go Bobby Webster let’s go thank you for doing that interview man you’re amazing so yeah the top five for the Raptors hopefully coincides a little bit with the top five for this guy that I want to put out there again of course Asa Newell is still my second favorite choice for this draft asa Newell of the Georgia Bulldogs please Bobby Webster please tell me that that man is on your top five for the draft maybe the top five that you have is only the really really high lottery picks but I’m gonna tell you right now Ace New is not a reach at number nine it will make you look good down the road i’m telling you right now we want some sort of you know we we wanted a Maxi type player for a while so we got it quickly we want a Claxton type player well this is where we get it in this draft because there’s a couple of options for a player that’s very similar to Nicholas Claxton or even Derek Lively the second as far as players in this draft that have those kind of attributes yeah there’s like two or three of them on my list in my top five and one of them is the cover picture of this chat jean Bar is a 18-year-old kid who’s 6’1 who has an over seven foot wingspan he runs the floor and he’s very Claxton X that’s what I’m saying clax Claxtonesque is what we’re talking about here we want somebody who’s Claxtonesque a guy who can play the five very well and defensively but is also a floor runner and if we can add a three-point shot with this person along with it that’s fantastic and Ace of New Well Jean Barangair they both fit the the the put to the tea but you know what jean is not my number three choice at this point i have switched it up once again joan you are now my fourth favorite choice and my third favorite choice has changed overnight last night it’s Thomas Sorber yeah guys listen i went and watched some more Thomas Sorber from Georgetown Hoya and uh there were some things that struck me first of all there’s parallels to Thomas Sorber with OG Anobi and that is that he’s hurt right now og was very hurt at the end of his Indiana University career and his draft stock dropped and that was part of what you know Messiah and Bobby noticed that this kid’s really really good but some people are sleeping on him because he’s hurt right now and there’s no guarantees well let’s get Dr alex in there let’s let look at him and see what the medical’s like and well maybe this injury will clear up and OG will be a badass well that’s what I’m saying some ways these are really good players to look for players that are hurt at the end of their college career because sometimes they don’t get looked at correctly and they don’t get mocked right i have seen Thomas Sorber the range of 10th pick all the way to like 25th pick but the thing about Thomas is that he has an NBA ready body he runs the floor extremely well he’s an extremely good shot blocker and not only that he has a very very very good passing ability already and to me those are really really good positive things those three things that he’s been hurt and his draft stocks been hurt for that that he should be maybe a top 10 pick that he has a multiple attack blocking uh defense where he will jump multiple times and he will stop people with multiple efforts to block their shot and he’s also good at blocking people from behind from the side every which way he in fact is very Ibaka-esque to me guys in some ways i see Thomas Sorber and I see uh our late our newest version of Serge Ibaka coming to our team if we draft him as he’s very very strong already he’s an enforcer he has an NBA body already and in some ways he would not be that much of our project he’d probably be able to play for us at a very high level within the first two years of his career the other thing I love about him is he’s unselfish and I’ve seen him pass from outside in from inside out and even on his ass falling out of bounds he makes amazing passes to people so he has a proclivity to connect with people and get the ball to the right places and which is something that is really really important if you’re gonna play for coach Rayakovic so I like those three things immensely you know he has some really good post moves and he muscles and he plays with his size and his strength and he makes room for himself he doesn’t shy away from contact and those are some of the things I really want in the player we draft because this is a very talented big man draft and it’d be a damn shame if the Raptors cannot make the ninth pick line up with a center because there are some really really good ones up there and Thomas Sorber has become my third best choice for this draft all of a sudden overnight jean Baringer is uh fourth and I have bumped Noah Aseni out i bumped Carter Bryant out i went and looked at Carter Bryant some more yesterday and I was like you know what man that guy is he’s an athlete but he’s still tethered to the ground in some ways and I don’t trust him and also in some ways I feel like Carter Bryant is being kind of like uh suggested to us by nefarious places that don’t want good things for us so I I’m off on Carter Bryant at this point because he’s not a true center and he’s not exactly what we’re looking for and same thing with Noah Sen i’m off on both of them they both fell off my list in the last day and well my top five officially is as of right now common malawatch as new Thomas Sorber Jean Barangair and Maxim Renault that’s right i bumped up Renault into the that I know it’s not realistic the Raptors will pick Maxim Renault at number nine it’s a bit of a reach but maybe it isn’t maybe Bobby Webster went and talked to Renault and he’s like this kid is so smart honestly you know he’s going to shoot so well from that position and he’s just this kind of player that you know what in some ways we could pick him at nine and it won’t look bad in like the years to come because that’s what it’s all about y’all it’s not about mock drafts and what idiots at Bleacher Report think or dumb asses doing live uh drafts in front of us that don’t know what the [ __ ] they’re talking about no this is about what the GMs of the league see and some of them don’t see things the same way no they don’t and Bobby Webster actually revealed one of the secrets about our scouting department yesterday he was really open kind of telling too much at times is that we don’t have scouts that take care of regions all their scouts take care of everywhere and they all look at all the people all at the same time so that they all kind of have a overall view of the whole entire world of scouting at any given time there’s not one guy just got Europe there’s not one guy just got Asia there’s not one guy who’s just got Africa no they’re all looking all over the place their whole team of scouts and that way there’s no competition between like because this is true this has happened historically in the NBA you’ll have scouts for like a team let’s say the Sixers and you have Adam Sandler going to Eastern Europe and looking for Bo Cruz and you know he he goes there and he’s finds his one guy and he’s like “This is my one guy to make sure that I get my uh keep my job as an uh scout for the Sixers i have to make sure that I sell him better than the other regions for the players that they discover because that’s part of the problem in the old NBA is that at least for some teams still in the NBA is that they have regional scouts who champion their scout that they found the person and they kind of like push them and they argue with each other with in the team about who guy from which region’s better well the smart the Raptors have everybody looking everywhere so they can kind of gauge how things look and the example Bobby used in the interview was Trey Young in Oklahoma and Luca Donuch in uh Slovenia and as far as like you know well look this is the difference and if you had only one guy looking at Luca you know that’s part of the problem with what some of these teams mess up on is that they have specialized scouts for regions and it messes things up so it’s the Raptors have a team of scouts they’re very good i’ll bet you Bobby and Messiah are number one and number two and uh they all watch the same people all together and they all kind of come to their own opinions seeing the whole realm of everything the internet is fantastic for this kind of thing that you can scout the whole entire world at this point without having to go everywhere geographically so yeah it’s very interesting what’s going on here with the draft let’s hear what y’all’s opinions are the phone lines are open for today’s think tank show the call-in show and you can call me at any time during the show today and make your voice heard on the draft and the people that I’m talking about today like Thomas Sorber and Jean Baringer and Maxim Renault these are these are my top five picks i’m telling you this time I’m not even going to care about I had a bottom five for the 39th pick which is still like Rashir Fleming Roco Zakowski Yannik Cohen Neerhousen and Ryan Cal Brener but this is really just like backup plan centers at the the second round pick but I really feel like at that point they should draft the most talented player that they think is available in the draft left then I think that they should flip it this year i think that they should go for positional need in the ninth pick and go get the best talent available at 39 and that is the way they should handle this draft because honestly they could get a lottery pick this is what Bobby said this is an important pick because it’s a lottery pick it’s a ninth pick and they haven’t had many lottery picks in the era of Messiah and Bobby because they’re that good they don’t we don’t lose hardly ever so we don’t end up in the lottery so Larry picks or Yaka Purle Scotty Barnes Grady Dick uh that it’s really just that handful they haven’t really drafted near the top of the draft Harley at all and well a ninth pick is going to be a pretty monumental guy so we need to get a true center a guy that will actually be able to play center for the Raptors in the years to come that’s right none of this stuff none like Koko you know Koko was a second round flyer and well we predicted him we actually had him on our top five suggested list for the Raptors uh we we had suggested Jonathan Mo last year and he picked they picked Jonathan Mthan Mobo in the first pick of the second round so we’ve been right with some of these suggestions for Bobby Messiah to draft yeah we’ve been right at times so let’s hear what y’all are saying in the chat and uh if anybody wants to call me the phone line is open if you you get access to the phone line from being a channel member in our Facebook group our Discord server or on this YouTube channel the phone number is listed right now wait did I put it up with the Let me make sure I didn’t put it up just the way I did i think I might have put it up in the wrong way let me make sure uh but yeah also we have finals game six tonight guys and this is going to be a pretty important game tonight they very much could finish this game up tonight um we’ll have to see what happens um let me just do something real quick guys um yeah you know what screw it we’ll just leave it up there for now that’s fine all right let’s see what Trevor’s saying this morning silence and smile are two powerful words smile is the way to solve many problems and silence is the way to avoid many problems wow I like that yeah you know what listen people are batshit crazy don’t even talk to the ones who are crazy just smile and walk away visit the word of wisdom and silence is a good part to use in that too thank you Trevor for your words of wisdom Commissioner Jay sorry for the technical problems the last couple of days i’m really glad that I got it set up right this this Trevor saying great interview with Bobby he told us a lot he really does i don’t understand why the press the fans the US media are confused about the Raptors bobby Webster and Messiah Jiri are very open and honest about what they’re doing to the point where they’re not messing up proprietary knowledge of what they’re doing yeah it’s crazy man you know it’s interesting bobby was talking about how it’s going to change because NIL and one of the things he’s he said and honestly a lot of what Bobby said is like stuff that we echo here all the time we’re on top of things and he understands the parody of the league he understands that also the NIL is going to change things coming up soon and that the draft classes will be weaker for a little while because guys are going to stay in school and earn that money but one of the weird side effects that Bobby brought up that they’re going to have to think about is you know bringing in new players from the college is going to be totally different than ever before because before kids didn’t have no money they’re coming in and they’re you know you have to do certain things to help young people come into the NBA and teach them things about money about uh the the life of being an NBA player well in some ways these players are going to be coming in with money already because they’re going to come in with millionaires already like Cooper Flag is this year and uh there’s a totally different way of wooing uh young uh young players from college coming up and it’s going to be a little bit more extravaganza because you know in some ways these kids are going to be wealthy already and it’s going to be a totally different kind of game uh to kind of work with them in some ways I bet you this will mess up some of the bad apples before they even get the NBA the instant money in college could actually weed some of them out early with bad behavior or bad stuff happening because the money messes them up so it’ll be interesting to see how the NIL shakes out over the time as far as this effect on players entering the NBA and you know what NBA teams have to do to prepare to kind of interview them and see if they can get them interested in coming and play for them or be a draft pick for them i’m reading this morning that Ace Bailey is not going to work out for the Sixers it’s crazy man this is so stupid the uh this guy is really not a smart person i’m getting uh Ace Bailey you know what I’m saying i’m figuring that out right now so yeah i don’t think he’s gonna I don’t think he’s gonna be a top three pick in the end guys because in some ways he’s showing some of that stupid energy ace Aras Bailey yeah all right let’s keep going in the chat trevor saying “Last dance for Indiana they better bring it tonight.” This is a man this is the kind of day that Tyrese Hallebertton in some ways was waiting for but also dreading listen man you this is like your your reputation’s on the line tonight Tyrese your reputation is on the line forget about Seakum seakum’s proved enough he’s he’s gold he’s good if he has a you know he’ll have a good he’ll have a fine game either way i know he’s not going to get a a bad game tonight but you man you really need to show up and do things a certain way tonight Tyrese i mean your team is fighting for survival and you know the the Thunder gunning for a championship tonight and I don’t know what’s going to happen tonight it’ll be very interesting we do have the refs real quick the referees for tonight’s fin uh finals game six is Zack Zarber is the crew chief zach is very much favoring the Oklahoma City Thunder uh Tony Brothers will be a ref tonight uh he is favoring the Oklahoma City Thunder and David Guthrie is the umpire he will favor the Pacers tonight so that’s that’s what’s up the alternate is Tyler Ford and in the replay section we got James Williams there’s a couple games in the WNBA jenna Renault’s running the game in New York with the Mercury and the Liberty with Marcy Williams and Jason Alabza and uh Indiana Fever at Golden State Valkyries Amy Bonner is the crew chief with Ryan Cisano and Kelsey Reynolds yeah yeah so yeah Zach Zarba Tony Brothers and David Guthrie and uh the two senior refs favor the Thunder with David Guthrie the lone ref that statistically favors the Pacers so yeah I don’t know man i was saying that somehow someway because I I know the Pacers are just a certain way right now i wouldn’t count them out uh in some ways I do have some feeling and energy that they’re going to lose tonight and the championship will be won by Oklahoma City today but who knows i may be completely wrong maybe and there will be a game seven and I guess it’ll be on Sunday that there’ll be game seven and then boom the finals will be over and uh right into draft season right into draft season so there won’t be another Tuesday trivia guys this past Tuesday trivia well this for this season the next weeks will be the first one for the new season but yeah it’s there’s not going to be another Tuesday trivia for the season right now there’s just classic cards right up until the Larry O’Brien goes out and boom our season for trivia is over and Reggie gets his name added to the trophy that’s what’s coming up next so speaking of it’s Reggie let’s see he’s saying that he thinks that they will finish it tonight that uh Oklahoma City should finish the game tonight they don’t want a game seven yeah i mean in some ways it’s like they’re kind of in a good place either way either they finish it tonight like the Raptors did in game six in away arena and u you know they don’t get to win it in front of their home crowd but they done it a game sooner or they lose and they got to go to a game seven and they play in front of their home crowd and possibly win the championship in front of their home crowd so we’ll have to see what happens rick Carlos got a lot of work to do today and the Pacers need to play their game correctly and those Pacers fans they better come with the energy tonight that’s for sure smooth saying game seven’s anything can happen i expect the MVP game from SGA tonight he doesn’t want him to mess around and lose he needs to go and take care of business tonight i don’t know the vibes I feel right now are that Oklahoma City I was saying earlier this week I think Indiana will win this but I’m not very confident in the health of Hallebertton right now and uh I feel like he is going to fail tonight and it’s going to be really bad for his legacy and I I feel sad for him that’s why you don’t do stuff like this man you don’t ever mess with the basketball gods and being you know kind of arrogant you really don’t do this Tyrese because it’ll come around and bite you in the ass in the end seriously good morning Raptor Freak family good morning to you Stargate and Nako saying “We’ve narrowed it down to five names bobby.” Yeah Bobby Webster let it be known and this is like last Saturday they had already figured out that they have narrowed it down to five names so one of them’s common mala watch i know that and um you know it’s who the contingencies are depending on who picks where and that’s exactly what Bobby said it’s like we really just got to watch and see how people pick and then we’ll make our decision from who’s available still you know it’s this is really simple stuff i don’t understand why fans need to make it so complicated and think it’s all this and all that now the Raptors know what they’re doing and they’re very much on top of it very very much on top of it cass is here good morning everybody good morning to you Cass cass has a lead on me right now in the fantasy WNBA fantasy i’m really impressed he’s up by about 45 points over me right now and I’m like “Wow Cass actually is beating me right now.” So I got some work to do in the fantasy league right now fierce is over James right now mk is beating uh Edmond doubled them up actually uh Logical Raptors fanatic is winning his matchup with Kareem and Coolcat is losing now to JP’s Reese’s Nieces so get your WNBA fantasy team set up and yeah Cass you’re doing fantastic man i’m gonna have to do some work since you got the lead now right now on us man yeah let’s go g saying “A Bailey apparently cancelled his Sixers workout and refusing to work out for certain teams shaking my head wow he is going to kill his career before it even starts if this all true.” It’s all true and I’ve heard he’s canceled two different workouts now at this point and he’s an idiot he’s an absolute idiot and this is the kind of stuff that Bobby Webster is looking at people for when they come to the NBA that’s what I’m saying man you know what there’s so many good talented players from around the world at this point young basketball players you got to be the whole package you can’t just coast on your talent and honestly if you think you’re so good that you can just coast on your talent and still be an [ __ ] and all that kind of stuff there’s very rare players that are like that very very rare because honestly the NBA and the machine of it will cut you out like that there’s been really talented players that never got a chance in the NBA so it’s not just about being a good player it’s about being a good person and if you’re not being a good person well you’ll find the door very early in the NBA there’s just because you can dunk just because you can hit a jump shot don’t mean you gonna make the NBA you got to be the right kind of character or person especially with the Raptors that’s a whole other level you could be a Charlotte Hornet and be a knucklehead but you can’t be a knucklehead and be a Toronto Raptor that’s for sure that’s right that’s right there you go cass is saying Bobby Messiah looking for players with the Rozen coat exactly i think that Bobby kind of did describe D Rozen Code d Rozen Co’s that chip on your shoulder that’s uh that never rest always want to work that uh you know character of treating people kindly and humbly but also being a fierce fierce competitor where you are taking it to people always and always striving and working hard to be better version of yourself every single day and that is the Rosen code and yeah I think Bobby described it pretty good on that podcast from Holt Renfruit that’s right uh Stargate saying if we go by Bobby’s interview on what they look for in picking players to be on the Raptors Derek Queen ain’t it yeah yeah i mean we can infer this right there yeah i don’t think Derek Queen’s one of the five no I don’t think he is he’s not one of my five he’s probably not one of Bobby’s five that’s for sure yeah derrick Queen ain’t doing nothing man smooth saying Ace wants a guarantee from the Sixers that he will be picked by them wow wow wow i don’t know what to say i don’t know what to say aras I think the Aras should be underneath your feet when you’re jumping not in between your ears my guy that’s what I say to that wow wow wow very demanding who the hell do you think you are seriously you went to Ruckers what did y’all do in the postseason all right let’s keep going seymour saying “I hope we get Newell.” I do too i like Newell a lot i really do like Newell i mean I think he is really the best choice after Common and it’s very likely Common won’t be there but if it’s a dream and he does drop all the way to us that’s great but I could also see Common going to dropping to eighth and the Nets picking him right before us and then we have to pick our pick right afterwards but I think ASA because he’s young just like Jean Bargera this is the thing those two guys are very similar now ace has got more physicality and strength already than Jeong but Jeong has they’re very similar kind of with their wingspan and their some of their bag like what they do very very similar i think Asa Newule is a better three-point shooter but I think Jean Baron Garrett is a better shot blocker and both of them can run the floor like anything that’s the other thing that’s really important is that we don’t want a slow lumbersome center we want these guys to be able to get up and down the court and they fit that and say so does Sorber too it’s just that they’re different you know we got two Claxtones kind of guys in Newell and Baron Garair and then you’ve got a guy who’s like Sergbaka at that kind of center in Thomas Sorber so I’m telling you man those three guys right there are my favorite picks after Common if we’re not going to be able to get the kid from Sudan Malawatch i think that those three guys are your best choices Bobby seriously Asa uh Thomas Sorber and Jean Barer because seriously Bener is once again he’s the most project of the three he is young and he does need weight put on him but if he gets some muscle on him the frame you can’t go wrong with this frame seriously he has one of the longest wingspans in this draft and uh he’s a true center and he these guys are all shot blocking machines that’s the thing all three of these guys I’m talking about along with Common of course are all shot blockers and rim protectors and actual defensive centers and this is what we need to add is we need somebody to come in after Yakob comes out and hold down the forward around the basket in the rim protection in the paint for the Raptors and so let’s not let’s not get it twisted we’re not looking for another shooter or a wing because we’ve got those guys on our team we’re not looking for a necessarily a dra a point guard at number nine because it’s like look Emanuel and shed are very promising and let’s not forget that we’re using other positions at point guard on our team like Scotty RJ and Yakob so I’m just saying and in some ways the other thing I love about these guys is they all show a proclivity to be able to pass out of double teams and being able to get passes in different play they have a little bit of skill in passing especially Sorber sora is a fantastic passer guys but that’s the thing we don’t want these guys to be selfish black holes and I’ve seen them all be very smart with passing the ball around too so yeah uh let’s see uh where are we here stargate saying “Those are my exact five centers too Lex uh for non-centers I like Rashir Fleming Jeremiah Fears and Casper.” Yeah yeah i don’t even want to look at that i don’t want to focus on that they pick somebody other than a center uh I may be a little disappointed but once again I got to trust them because they know what they’re doing with their job better than me you know what I’m saying so uh I’ll trust them if they pick a non center at number nine but I’ll be kind of disappointed i’m not going to lie i’ll kind of be disappointed right now yeah kind of be disappointed all right let me see where was I that was uh Stargate that said that those are your exact five centers seriously yeah i mean Common Asa Thomas Jean and Maxim those are my five favorite centers in this in this draft those are my five i honed it down i finally figured it out see saying Celtics sold for six billion last year and the Lakers sold for 10 billion this season where is the Knicks is worth more because the team owns the stadium interesting what’s our franchise value we’re worth four billion four billion yeah I’m pretty sure we’re we were uh priced at four billion uh the Knicks are worth the most because they are MSG and it’s the whole network the arena and the team that’s all in the same package so um yeah yeah they probably worth the most out of the whole NBA but yeah these these big prices are crazy and some of these big huge teams moving ownership I don’t totally like it you know in some ways the Rogers acquisition is part of what happened with us is Rogers buying out Bell and becoming the primary owner is all signaling new ownerships all over the league in different places and I wonder why these they’re getting into this maybe it’s because of sports betting maybe it’s because the new TV deals and stuff like that that’s coming up i mean the fact that Amazon’s involved with our our league as a broadcaster now you know I I don’t totally like what’s in the tea leaves that I’m seeing here and it’s interesting that the Bus family is sold the Lakers that is really weird man dr jerry probably would not be happy with Jeanie right now seriously I think the Genie bus has been a bust as far as running the Lakers she’s done a horrible job and I think Lakers fans understand that a lot of them are saying this after this they’re saying that you ruined the team because you let LeBron run the team into the ground and uh I mean I can’t argue with these Lakers fans i mean they’re excessing it from the inside and I can see it from the outside that y’all been spinning your wheels for the most part in the LeBron James Laker era and it’s sad and it’s honestly sad in some ways what happened there we need a stunted growth on the toxicness of Lakers land in the last uh eight years or so it’s really been toxic man really really been toxic uh let’s see uh what else you guys are saying uh Seymour saying “What if we get a center in the free agent pool any available?” you know that that’s less likely because I don’t know why but like it seems like I mean it it you know I hate this doc but it is hard for us to do things in free agency compared to other teams it really is because in some ways it’s the free will of the player choosing and if there’s another team that’s in the league that will pay them similar to us but they have a better tax code i know I playing into this whole trope that it’s hard for us to compete with other teams like let’s take Stephen Adams that just resigned with the Rockets for another three years you know would we have been able to talk to Stephen Adams and get him to come up here over the Rockets probably not so free agency is the players choice and I hate to say it uh and and I don’t want to put our team down but it is really hard for us to entice free agents sometimes in this kind of way that’s why when we get a guy like YaKob who’s so loyal to Toronto Raptors fans start being loyal to him because honestly he could have easily told us to f off especially after trading him for Kawawaii uh he has loyalty to Toronto and he loves us and he’d want to play here for as long as he can so we need to embrace that and honor that and stop being little knuckleheads as far as wanting Yakob to leave because of this and this listen there’s not a whole lot of centers in this league that are available and able to play for the Raptors and Yakob wants to be here so let’s not mess this up idiots and you know what Bobby Webster said in that interview that Yakob is becoming one of the top 10 centers in the league right now and he I can’t argue with him he’s exactly right if you really look at what Yakob Hurle did last year he is one of the top 10 centers in the league so I don’t understand why Raptors fans don’t like him just because he doesn’t shoot threes y’all are idiots you’re absolute idiots seriously real idiots all right let’s keep going randolph’s here blessings beloved raptor streaks most informative gang when you take the time to think you allow yourself to gain wisdom and not just follow your heart that’s desperately wicked you know what thinking things through and uh being methodical is very very smart in some ways people can do unconscious things that hurt people all the time when they don’t really think through their actions and the repercussions of it and sometimes it’s important to get out your side of your own head and kind of think about it from other people’s perspectives big corporations that want to build a big company uh factory on the side of the road out in the country you’re destroying the ecosystem you’re destroying animals you’re destroying the water supply for people near you and you’re only thinking about your own damn self and it’s selfish so yeah think about others think about your ramifications think about what you would be bringing and causing with chaos if you do what you’re going to do and I’m just talking about corporation but in your own life you could do actions that could have irreparable harm to people around you if you’re not smart about things so it is always smart to think things through and take some time and not react in the moment especially in moments where you could get in trouble big big trouble thank you Randolph for your words of wisdom and blessings to Phillips family all the Raptor Freak families that’s right and there’s Koy morning Lex raptor Freak family good morning to you Koy and uh Fiery saying uh good morning fam and happy Thursday happy Thursday to you MJ happy Thursday to Fierce Jr uh Koy saying Bobby says they are looking for three things hardworking great attitude and mental toughness that’s right that’s right these are these are that’s why Chris said Chris Buchet said if you’re a Raptor you are a bonafide person because they don’t even let people in here that are not you if you become a Raptor if you get the Raptor’s red jersey on your back that means you’re a good person in a couple different ways because we sus you out and you wouldn’t even be here if you weren’t that’s right that’s exactly right excuse me seyour saying top of the day to y’all top of the day top of the morning and the phone lines are open anybody can call just so y’all know Seymour’s saying Ace Bailey wants to be a Net and stay in the New York region well he has to fall a lot to get to the Nets boy he really has to make himself look bad if he wants to get the Nets at eight that’s crazy you’re an idiot Ace Bailey you are an idiot you really really want to stay around Ruters and that’s the whole thing you’re gonna base this on you’re going to lose money just to stay around Rutgers man really really dumb guy really really dumb guy yeah that guy’s not on the list for Bobby and Messiah that’s not one of the five no he’s not i can tell you for sure ace Bailey is not one of the five picks that Bobby has that he’s looking at for the draft i love that he’s so narrowed it down he’s like “These are surefire hits Messiah these are Bobby’s top five hits.” Yeah yeah they look good they’re they’re thumping and bumping man he had some stories all kinds of crazy stories he talked about in detail the Kawawaii trade and it’s true when he had to call Kawaii he had to talk to Uncle Dennis first isn’t that crazy he totally brought up Uncle Dennis like three times when they were talking about Kawhi Leonard in that interview yeah yeah uncle Dennis i gotta call Uncle Dennis’s phone and to talk to Kawhi it’s crazy man the Uncle Dennis stuff is not blown out of proportion it’s an absolutely true [ __ ] man i’m telling you right now that dude oh my gosh man all right let’s keep going uh Khloe saying “Jerry Bus bought the Lakers at 67 million and his daughter sold it at 10 billion.” I guess that’s a big turnaround I guess i mean he bought that at when like the early 80s man he bought that at that price in the early 80s i mean I guess that’s a profit that’s a huge profit i mean it is true sports are very lucrative i’m telling you right now that’s why people buy into sports big- time sports franchises make money and uh they can be very very much cash cows for people very very much and the valuations go up go up uh Seymour’s saying Philly ain’t far but it ain’t New York yeah I don’t understand why he would just go Why don’t you just go to the Sixers bro it’s across the river from Ruters and if they they’re already kind of trying to Why would you say I don’t want to work out for you the the market that may be closest to you actually seriously I don’t know if Brooklyn or Philadelphia is closer to where you are with the Scarlet Knights why wouldn’t you just say “Ah I’ll go to any of these three teams New York Brooklyn and Philadelphia.” Why wouldn’t you work out for the Sixers is it maybe because you think the Sixers are losers because they are i can understand that he said “No I don’t want to work out for Daryl my Nick Nurse because this they’re gonna ruin my career i’ve seen what they did to Markeel Folultz and Ben Simmons and Jalil Okafor.” He’s like “No I’m sorry i can’t work out for y’all i I really don’t want you to draft me please even though you’re real close to where I went to school.” Saying “You want to be in the NBA yet you’re deciding and trying to control your fate i don’t know who manages Bailey but way to kill your career ahead of time no I mean this is all exactly true i mean he was already a dubious pick with his frame and his size and the fact that once again a big huge red flag for the Scarlet Knights the fact that they didn’t get the postseason in the NCAA is a huge red flag i really do think Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey are literally red herrings in this uh draft as far as like these guys aren’t as good and they should be coupled with Cooper at the top there’s better players that these are guys that they put in there just to fool some people and kind of mess people up because seriously Dylan Harper may be better than Ron Harper Jr but I’m still saying I don’t believe in him totally i know he’s been hyped way too much in the last two years a little bit too much in some ways i really do think that Smith saying Hallebertton is injured though going to be a game time decision he’s going to play watch and whether he u is successful in playing well or not that’ll be the question that’ll be a question he’s going to play you have to i’m sorry even if you can if you can walk he needs to play seriously and it may look really bad maybe they shoot him up with all kinds of crazy things before the game so he doesn’t feel no pain and he comes out there and he has the game of his life because that’s what he needs to do honestly if he could drop 40 tonight and help them absolutely win tonight that would be huge but I don’t know if that’s what’s going to happen i don’t know what’s going to happen with him it’s going to be very interesting james is saying a huge probability Messiah might pick someone that falls it doesn’t have to be a center i feel even last year we need a center and Messiah picked Jacobe well this is different man jacobe fell to 19 from the TW tens like they everybody had pegged Jacobe Walter for two years before that draft as a to top 10 pick and he he honestly is probably a top 10 pick a over time it’s just that in some ways he got some bad uh press before the draft as far as maybe being undersized and too small for his position because he is short for his position but the thing about Jacobe that nobody realiz is his wingspan makes up for it because he has really long arms for his height and he has a certain kind of defensive uh kind of things and stuff like that no Jacobe has the three things that um Bobby described in the Hello and Welcome podcast it’s just that they were delighted that he fell to 19 and they just had to snatch him there they they may have wanted to pick a center last year but honestly there weren’t good centers in the draft last year if you really think about it after Zack and maybe uh Klingan and at the beginning there really weren’t that i mean Kell Wear he went just before that there wasn’t really a good center at that point for us then but so it made sense but this is what I’m trying to say James there’s a lot of good centers in this draft near the top and uh I think that they should seriously do the positional need i don’t care who’s the because honestly a lot of these young players uh even if they’re really athletically talented or they look really good they don’t translate totally but once again if they pick another position at nine I’ll you’ll guys will be right on that tip and saying “Well they did pick the best available and uh well they must see something in them and I’m going to believe in it because well they know better than me.” That’s what I’ll say yeah clo saying “Uh Bailey already acting like a spoiled kid.” Yeah it’s not a good look this is really a bad time for people to show their ass derek Queen and Ace Bailey really a bad time the draft is in less than a week you idiots uh let’s see james is saying “But we really need a backup center.” 100% we do and we’ll get that we’re going to get that one way or another i really do feel like we’ll get it one way or another i hope that it’s not through free agency it’s just like a really It’s kind of a retread center that’s not that in exciting i mean the the least I would accept is Orlando Robinson returning or something like that like what if that’s our backup plan we do not draft a center at all and uh somehow someway Orlando Robinson’s back on our team next year i might be okay with that that may be the very least that I’m okay with Bobby and Messiah but we’d like to upgrade there from last year instead of having just have O Rob come back or something like that colin Castleton’s another prospect we need to talk about in this whole thing also that may help us with this also but I think depth is important we need multiple guys that’s why I think getting the center just like Messiah said at the end of the season is a priority is a priority that’s right yeah uh let’s see um Nako saying common fierce Jaconis Queen sorry and probably Asa are who I think are the names for you that’s who you think the names are no you’re wrong Naco queen’s not on that list bro i’ll tell you right now Queen is not on that list there’s no way i think we understand Bobby and Messiah a little bit uh better than most fans because of how in-depth we’re watching everything and Queen’s not on that list man i can tell you without a doubt Queen’s not on that list uh Stargate has said that on the Discord a little while ago and I I absolutely agree with them i think that Bobby like we just said like look they’re watching these guys like Hawks gerald did you watch this interview bobby said we pay attention to them so closely when they come up for pre-draft some cases we get 48 hours with them this is what Bobby said and we watch them on everything we’re watching them when they’re in the elevator going from place to place we watch them in every little detail what they do and how they treat people and how they act and if they are having showing any negative toxic uh behaviors or uh aspects of their personality they are absolutely sussing them out like we thought and well I mean we can sus out Derek Queen without being around him in private because he said things publicly that are knuckleheadedness so I can tell you without a doubt you’re saying sorry to me no I’m sorry you are absolutely wrong if you think Derek Queen’s on that list I I hope that Ace is on there i hope I know Common is i know Common is those other two guys I’m not told sure i’m not totally sure now there is a name that they brought in in the last day to work out guys and Igor Deon has been in Toronto this week guys igor Deon came in and got added to the list of workouts for the Raptors at Oio Center so I don’t know if that means anything guys that may mean besides Yakonis and the other guys you just listed like uh Fierce that actually it’s Eigor that the Raptors are looking at to a degree and now let me get uh the list mon’nique has been really good about posting the list on the Facebook chat it’s expanded tj Bomba of Oregon Johnny Broom of Auburn Lamont Butler of Kentucky LJ Crier of Houston Dne Dejon of Memphis Igor Demond of BYU R.J felton East Carolina Dwan Harris Jr of Kansas Chucky Heepburn of Louisville Ryan Nebhard of Gonzaga Clifford Omarui of Alabama I think he’s related maybe he’s related to Eugene I’m not sure Tahad Pedford of Auburn Jace Richardson of Michigan State Aaron Scott of St john’s Alex Tui of the Cindy Kings uh Trey Townson of Arizona Nolan Trayor of France so they did get the kid Nolan from France uh who’s a point guard i don’t like him as much jamir Watkins FSU and Hansen Yang has come in to Toronto to work out for the Raptors also out of China so Bobby said in the interview he’s they’re bringing in like 60 people so that’s a pretty good list right there i don’t know how many people that was it’s like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 that’s a list of 20 uh of their people that they brought in and worked out already so yeah Igor Demon’s on there and so is Nolan Trayor and Hansen Yang yeah they all came in here yeah let’s see blackhawk’s saying this uh actually Ace might be right because Sixers is not right fit however he is effing up his money first rule in business is get the money then sort out the business yeah you can always just get dysfunctional in Philadelphia and leave all these draft picks have done this listen don’t worry hey Markeel Folultz found his way out of there bro don’t worry you can find your way out of there like like Blackhawk’s saying get the money and then you know disrupt things and then get out of there ben Simmons style bro do it Ben Simmons style koy saying “Sending my energy to Pascal i’ll get that game seven.” Yeah it’d be awesome that’d be a dream if like we had a game tonight and maybe Hallebertton is not effective but all of a sudden we see Pascal and our two can other Canadian guys on that team Benedict and Andrew step up big time and carry the Pacers to a victory to earn a game seven against the Thunder in Oklahoma City that’d be fantastic man that would be fantastic we’ll have to see what happens tonight finals game six and of course after the game I’ll be filming with to the point another collaborative reaction to the show to the game and uh you’ll see it tomorrow morning you’ll have it out but uh great work by the producer Arturus who’s in Lithuania our big in Lithuania taking care of the producing overnight while we’re sleeping because he’s on another time zone but it’s been a lot of fun doing the collaborations with Brian and I hope you guys will check it out tomorrow morning after the game we’ll have the postgame reaction that’s right that’s right let’s go let’s go smooth saying Thomas Bryant might be a good option for the Raps as a backup five yeah I like Thomas Bryant i know some of y’all have been dissing him uh in this playoffs saying he’s not playing good defense and all this kind of stuff but the man has good um work ethic uh he’s the kind of guy that the Raptors would probably have a green light on saying “Yeah he could come here.” Uh part of it is we’ve seen him at Rico Runs for many years now in the summer and he’s always busting his ass at the Rico Runs and you know to get to the point where he’s in in the league because he was on the Wizards before and early in his career and he languished and kind of in a really bad place but think about it he had the success of being on the Champion Nuggets and now he’s in the finals again with the Pacers so there’s a lot of good experience in Thomas Bryant and he he’s a player I wouldn’t mind being on the Raptors but I don’t know if the thing is I mean I’d prefer to have Chris Buchet in some ways over Thomas Bryant i know they’re totally different positions in some ways but in some ways they are similar kind of role on the team is what I’m saying yeah backup five maybe i mean if we got Thomas Bryant I wouldn’t be upset but also I think that in some ways if he’s done really good things for the Pacers they might try and keep him in the fold that’s the thing the Pacers are going to try and keep as many of their guys from this year in the fold because they have been super successful this year whether they win or not tonight so let’s see fiery saying “The Lakers being sold i don’t really care.” I don’t either i’m just curious of the upcoming decisions for the playoffs hi does need to step up but I have OKC winning yeah it could very well be sga is going to be declared Finals MVP tonight and they’re going to win the Larry O’Brien Oklahoma City Thunder the first ever championship for the Thunder yeah forget that Sonics championship y’all are going to have to give it up anyway it’s actually kind of convenient if Adam Silver uh expands back to Seattle well Oklahoma City will still only have one championship one that they earned this time one that they earned trevor Jay saying that first quarter of tonight’s game you can tell who’s going to win you know he’s not that wrong he’s not you can usually tell sometimes early in the game the energy but that’s not always true especially with Indiana and the way they were able to steal games at the end sometimes like in the first game of the series we thought Oklahoma City was going to win in the first quarter but no the Pacers came back and won it but you know what Trevor I’m gonna agree with you to an extent on this because we’re going to see how Hallebertton is in the first quarter and that may very much tell us who’s going to win right there no saying I don’t think there’s a way to to Kesler but I like Kesler 108 to 102 for Oklahoma City so you think it’s a six-point win for the Thunder you like Walker Kesler yeah he’s a little expensive and uh I don’t think we can fit him in that’s why we need to get our own draft prospect and do it through the draft because we get him on the cheap kesler’s had a couple years in the league and his value is known now and in some ways it’s inflated and uh you know we don’t want to spend high money on this that’s not our uh attributes our attributes are get them cheap because we get them through the draft and we have them on rookie contracts and uh paying for highriced uh overbloated contracts because they’re free agents and we’re quick fixes that’s not what we do up here in Toronto so that’s why it’s not likely uh Seymour saying home God and SGA will hoist the trophy tonight screen door and SGA let’s go let’s go sga Lou Dort Jaylen Williams and Alex Caruso Elmer Fud yeah yeah it’s gonna be interesting to see what happens tonight i’m still rooting for you Indiana i want y’all to win i want seven games but we’ll have to see what happens realistically there’s a good chance the Thunder will win tonight that’s right there is a good chance koy saying “Pascal will get the Pacers to game seven.” I hope so i hope so i hope he gets them to game seven then he dominates game seven he wins and he’s the finals MVP that’s what I wish that’s my favorite outcome for this whole thing uh Blackhawks saying Thomas Bryant or Carter Bryant because the Thomas Bryant on Pacers is weak on defense thomas Sorber looks interesting he really does make me think of Surge like he has that straight arm block that’s just like surges and is so powerful and he sends it somewhere and he’s a he’s a very determined defensive player and like I said the only reason why his stock has dropped is because he’s been hurt in his senior year and people are kind of forgetting about him and maybe some people are wanting people to forget about him so they can steal him in the mid first round for a really good bargain he’s a true center in some ways he’s the modern age center because he is kind of the frame of Serge but we know that Serge could play center and there was no problems with that and like I said the really added bonus with Thomas Sorber is his court awareness is really high level and he’s able to pass out and get his teammates involved that is something that’s absolutely essential if you’re going to play for Darko that’s what I’m realizing so we you know when I’m scouting these guys I am looking for their proclivity to pass out and if they’re black holes or not and a lot of these guys know when to pass out when they’re getting too uh trapped or doubleteamed so this is this is a really good attribute and that’s why I like Sorber you guys if you haven’t watched my Sorber watch him today and maybe you’ll see what I’m talking about with the the little bit of Ibaka-esque kind of stuff that I’m seeing in there he runs the floor really well too and he’s physical he’s got a good strong body already and he’ll be able to bang with the NBA size guys already let’s see smooth saying “I only remember Allan Iverson being like Ace and he made it.” Yeah Allen Iverson’s a special case you know listen you can’t be this arrogant ass unless you’re a very very special case and I would even argue that Allen Iverson he didn’t fulfill his full potential partly because he was like that seriously you know Allen Iverson was a great individual player but a horrible team player and uh he never won anything did he no he didn’t and that’s what I’m saying in some ways like look and LeBron kind of hinted at this recently it’s not players that win championships it’s teams and you can be the most talented player in the world but you get in the way of your own success because you’re like that and Allen Iverson’s a good example of this allen came as he was uh advertised and he did blow up the league and he was a fantastic icon in the NBA’s history but he was a selfish player and he played uh for himself in a lot of ways and it didn’t help his team to win overall and uh you know what he had that braggadocio and those demands and he he fit it because he had that kind of power but let’s not get it twisted how many other young players have come in the league acting like that and they found themselves the door really quick we don’t hear about them because in some ways we’re not supposed to because they were failures so I’m just saying ace Bailey you can walk that line i don’t think you’re an Allen Iverson bro i don’t think you’re an Alen Iverson you can walk that line that’s right seymour saying it only it’s only players from the States that complain about what team or city they instead of appreciating the opportunity yes yes i mean this may be a byproduct of the pampering of prep stars from being a young child uh in some ways they’re not humble they’re some ways they’re got people that are yes people around them that just kiss their ass like crazy because they want to be a part of their life and their entourage and I want to be your agent i want to be your accountant so your [ __ ] don’t smell i love you you’re so good you know they’re not really reality checks sometimes the family members are the best people for the player because they can tell them their bad stuff without getting slapped in the face you know it’s a problem when players have too many yes people around them that just tell them their [ __ ] don’t stink and they’re just amazing you’re the most amazing person in the world it’s a real problem so it’s important for people to have family members to kind of keep their reality in check and ego in check but not every player has this they really don’t you know so this is this is this is part of it right here this is part of it right here is what I’m talking about they gotta they gotta appreciate the opportunity and you know you know beggars can’t be choosers and you know people that act like Steve Francis you’re idiots you really are steve Francis you had an amazing golden opportunity to go to Vancouver and be the Vince Carter of Vancouver but you totally fumbled that ball bro and now nobody remembers you nobody gives a [ __ ] about you Stevie Franchise seriously when do we ever talk about Steve Francis we could have been talking about you to this day like Vince Carter gets talked about he’s in the Hall of Fame you’ll never be in the Hall of Fame if you had gone the hard route to Vancouver and not demanded to be not going to Vancouver your whole career could have been totally different Steve Francis and you’re idiot you’re an idiot you destroyed a franchise and in some ways you byproduct destroyed your own career because of those demands i’m telling you if you had gone there and you had made the Grizzlies successful and done certain things you would be a legend but alas you didn’t want the hard route you wanted the easy route and this is what you get this is what you get that’s what I’m saying right this you guys can’t do this man wayne saying “Uh morning raptor freaks.” Good morning Sergeant Wayne i thought more about what you said yesterday and I want you to be our sergeant at arms for real wayne I want you to kind of bang that gavvel sometimes because your sense of what is necessary and what isn’t i may need you to be ordering the court and saying “No no no Milbester none of this baseball talk hello too much trade talk right now dude this is not what we do on the RFF.” Sergeant-at-Arms is your title and in some ways I would love for you to maybe regulate the chat in some ways I I I don’t want you to do it in a toxic abusive way maybe a warning way maybe you get in there and you slide a little comment in there saying “Well maybe this is just a little bit too WBC talk mil maybe this is just a little bit too much off topic for this channel.” And uh you know what the trade talk is fine for a little bit but let’s not overabuse having too much trade talk in this space because I do feel like we do value having a trade talk free sta space here and I feel like you have the right kind of understanding of what is right to talk about what isn’t so I I would like to ask you to take this position in the sergeant-at-arms as far as maybe giving a little bit of warnings to people and maybe do it in a polite way say warning on uh say it to Milbester and say warning on the baseball talk Milbester that’s just a good example right there but you know what I’m talking about Wayne and your sensibility about this seems pretty fair on this so I’d like to ask you to do that he’s saying “I’m expecting the Pacers to fight off OKC tonight’s game is on Carile’s strategy and use of his roster at opportune times during the game lots of timeouts tonight.” The really big thing tonight is two things the fans need to come correct once again like they did in the other games and they really need to cheer loud and give energy to the team on defense when the Pacers have played really high level defense they’ve been successful and the other thing is the Pacers cannot let the Thunder get them out of their offensive game that has been a huge problem in the last game is that uh the the Thunder really rattled the Pacers out of what they do so well on offense and they absolutely were ineffective for that and they can’t afford to do that for the 48 minutes all four quarters the Pacers have to be locked in and playing at a high level connecting with each other the way that they have done all season that’s been successful and so they really got to play their style and pace literally the Pacers need their own pace that’s the key to the game right there and if the Thunder can dog them and mess them up with the Dorture Chamber and Caruso there may be some problems here and that that may be the problem but the the Indiana fans can help them a lot tonight so these are the keys to the game to me as far as things they got to be themselves the Pacers have to be themselves if they don’t if they aren’t themselves they’re in trouble and if they don’t have Hallebertton effectively they’re going to really need the rest of the team to step up and be the Pacers the way they’re supposed to be so it may be tough without Hallebertton the guy who’s kind of in the middle of it all so we’ll have to see nico saying “I don’t know how Queen’s interview went.” Raptors did meet with him and Bobby did say “You can’t always be on.” Yeah but you’re not you’re not Did you listen to what he said they’re picking everybody apart and the littlest things could get guys like not even considered i’m telling you right now he’s not considered gerald he is not considered first of all he told us he doesn’t want to come to Canada so why would we even entertain him coming here he didn’t say it outright but he said it let’s just not get it twisted he said it he said pretty much “I don’t want to play for the Raptors.” You can read into it how you want to but that’s just the damn truth and Bobb’s not stupid he almost went to the CIA he can read this interview and say “Okay he said the taxes.” Okay well maybe Queen’s not the guy so his interview went horrible you don’t remember what his interview did he came out and said they asked him one question about Toronto and he only said something negative about it so that’s all you need to know NCO he had one chance to talk to the Toronto fans and the Toronto people and he fumbled the ball and and honestly he also once again I’m gonna say this Gerald forget about maybe possibly not being smart up here which is something Stargate and I have diagnosed him with it’s also that the man has a proclivity to his body looks like a it’s a body that has a proclivity to get out of shape and that he’s not working hard he doesn’t have any musculature on his weird body he’s very much a a a load in the middle and these skinny arms that don’t look like he’s lifting weights and he has a body like Zion Williamson that could easily balloon up and get out of shape very easily so I’m telling you right now he’s not on the list Gerald you can keep arguing this [ __ ] but honestly we are watching this all with critical thinking and we can see what Bobby can see and he’s not dumb we’re not dumb we can see the same thing the man’s got a body that has the proclivity to possibly get out of shape and he’s a knucklehead so he’s not on the list i don’t care what you say you can’t always be on well Bobby wants people that are always on that’s what he said he said “I’m watching them for 48 hours.” That’s right that’s what Carlo is saying yeah they went 48 hours with prospects so they get a complete assessment you know they can have their guard up for a two-hour meeting or workout but they want the prospects to come up to Toronto they want to pick them up there in the airport they want to drive them around they want to watch them like a hawk on every single thing if they got somebody with a intern that’s with them they are reporting to Bobby everything that they heard them say and everything about them that they heard and they’re sussing out any toxic stuff they’re sussing out jawarant gun culture they’re sussing out possible abusiveness towards spouses and family they’re sussing out is this guy an [ __ ] to the waiter when we go out to dinner and take him there you know they’re looking at everything and they should because these are multi-million dollar decisions they make when they put contracts on young players for the NBA and uh I wouldn’t have it any other way than Bobby Webster really putting them through the ringer and everything matters you can say that oh they can’t always be on [ __ ] we want people like Jamal Shed that are always on because Jamal Shed’s the truth of who he is exactly what you see is what you get and there ain’t no secret Jamal shed behind the scenes that is totally different than Jamal Shed smiling to the camera saying “I’m a Raptor and I work real hard.” No no this is what we’re talking about uh Gerald this is the important part of what Bobby does as a GM he analyzes talent and he analyzes what talent should be on our team and uh well I’m glad he’s the gatekeeper because he’s smart on this and he’s probably very very very very very cutthroat and the way he looks at players and stuff is like “No Messiah we cannot do this.” Didn’t you just hear what he just said to that bus boy when he came and got hit the plates from our dinner you know seriously it’s like that it’s like that seriously and these players they’re going to have to come correct and be really genuinely good players if we are going to draft them let’s just put it good players and good people is what I’m saying yeah yeah yeah uh let’s see fiercy saying “Steph White having the back of Caitlyn Clark when reporters look for drama and ask why so much aggression towards her.” Hang on why did they jump ahead let’s see that’s Fiery on that one uh uh and uh coach says “This is what happens when refs don’t blow the whistle when they’re supposed to.” Got to go fam have a blessed day yeah the drama around Caitlyn Clark I’m not totally familiar with right now uh I know that she’s been physical and maybe exor ex uh exuding uh traits that are not feminine and people get all out been out of shape if a female athletes are competing in in ways that men would yeah gender equity once again men can act a certain way on a basketball court women can too and just accept that and stop being misogynist people that say “Caitlyn Clark you shouldn’t be acting like this you should be acting like a lady.” [ __ ] she’s an WNBA player and sure they can be ladies on the time they want to but when they get between those lines they are who they want to be on that court and nobody should designate whether she should be acting this way or that way you’re too aggressive you’re too this [ __ ] let her be her era of Larry Bird in the WNBA right now because Larry Bird was a dick and he was absolutely an [ __ ] on the floor and he was very very physical and he would punch people in the face so don’t even give me this [ __ ] that Caitlyn Clark can’t be like Larry Bird seriously don’t give me this misogynist [ __ ] that’s what I’m saying right there yeah there you go speaking of controversy our guy Zack got in trouble y’all i don’t know if y’all saw this but Zack Edy got a reckless driving charge in Indiana recently uh of course Indiana’s where Purdue is and he’s back home around the university where he played the Boiler Makers and well he was going 110 in a 55 miles per hour zone uh he said when he got pulled over that he was passing a slower moving vehicle and that’s why he was going so fast but it don’t look good seriously that’s over twice the legal speed limit in that area and he got a really bad ticket for that but luckily he wasn’t anything like he was drinking or any kind of weirdness it’s just a reckless driving over speeding charge for Zachi uh right now we got to check in on our Canadian guys but he’s gonna is scheduled to miss the beginning of the season anyway due to injury so yeah Zach caught a speeding charge a reckless driving charge this weekend just so y’all know keeping up on everything here infamous is here good to see Infamous salute freaks why the criticism of cancel workout it could mean that he is a promise by a team cat Steph canceled their workouts as well shaking my head i just think that it’s just arrogant in some ways i mean I get it you’re saying these former players did this kind of stuff too i don’t know to me it’s like well can we read into this different ways like how does Sixers fans feel about this how do they feel about Aras Bar Bailey canceling a workout instead of coming there what is the message told to them that’s what I’m saying i don’t know it’s just in some ways it’s I think it’s bad i think in some ways look you can look at it a couple different ways you could look at it as this they don’t want to come to that team that’s why they’re not coming they uh maybe have something to hide about themselves and they’re not forthcoming because this is the thing we heard Ace Bailey cancel a couple workouts already and in some ways some people are saying it’s because he’s trying to hide who he is so people can’t properly assess him and he’s a fraud and that I mean I tend to believe that you know why won’t he work out for people is it because he’s scared they’ll he’ll be exposed for what he truly is and he’s not that good and they’d rather just have him come in with the error of his uh uh his reputation from Ruters and what he’s got already that’s what you got to ask yourself seriously I mean those guys sure they worked out but there’s been a lot of players that have cancelled workouts throughout the history of the NBA and those may be the very few that are in the league still and doing that kind of stuff i’m just saying it’s it’s suspicious if you have nothing to hide why don’t you show up and just do it seriously you’re playing with your future Ace Bailey is what I’m saying that’s what I’m saying i mean it may be nothing and Infamous may be right he’s shaking his head at us like “Why are you thinking this?” But the optics don’t look good whether it’s he doesn’t want to play for the Sixers or he has something to hide about himself and he doesn’t want to come to workouts so people will see it that’s what I say to that man blackhawks saying if common goes to the Hornets he’s screwed where do you land it matters yeah are they even drafting before us i don’t even know if the Hornets are up there are they i don’t even remember i don’t pay attention to the Hornets obviously it’s like Pelicans and Wizards and a couple other teams are ahead of us but I don’t Jazz jazz are before us it’s like wait let me go through the draft again it’s uh Dallas uh San Antonio Philadelphia uh fourth is um Wizards right and then we go to um like uh uh New Orleans Brooklyn Utah and Charlotte’s in there somewhere charlotte and uh and then us i Okay Charlotte is in there somewhere i I just forget about Charlotte uh Blackhawks saying Hornets need a point guard more than a center because ball is not reliable i don’t know what Hornets need i don’t care honestly they probably need everything bro they need a coach too and a front office uh let’s see nako saying Steph Curry doesn’t think uh he’d be the player he is today if it wasn’t for taking a less prestigious school he wouldn’t be the player he is ace could be on to something what cuz he went to Davidson i mean that was an interesting choice and you know listen Steph Curry’s a special human being he’s not like anybody else you guys need to realize this first of all he’s the son of a former player and he had everything set up for him just like Gary Trent Jr just like Scottie Pippen Jr just like all these juniors Wardell Jr had it too dell Curry Jr had it too guys you know that’s his name right wardell Stefon Curry dell Curry this junior that’s Steph’s actual name and uh listen I mean these kids that are NBA sons have such an easier time getting the league it just so happens that Steph was also a very incredible shooter and you know he you can’t use him to compare to anything else because he’s an anomaly he’s an absolute anomaly and you really can’t use him to compare to anybody else he’s just on a different level in all kinds of different ways and plus you have to understand Steph Curry is only Steph Curry because he’s Dell Curry Jr seriously he could have been a fantastic shooter and an unknown guy and undersized and maybe people went on the radar and did not even notice him and he didn’t even make the NBA so I mean I could say this seriously I don’t know if Steph Curry gets in the league if his name’s not Curry i’m just gonna say that seriously because he didn’t have the right body type or size it’s just like you got to go on luck and think and would he know how to shoot like he does without a father like Dale Curry let’s just seriously think about this guys you got to understand Steph Curry is nothing without his father Toronto Raptor Dell Curry and I say that I’ll say that Blackhawk saying hey Lex got it get it right yakob is a 50% shooter booya yeah he’s a great three-point shooter and what if that’s what he’s working on in Vienna this year this summer he’s over in Vienna bombing threes like crazy he’s like “I’ll show the Raptors fans that don’t believe in me and want to trade me because I don’t shoot threes.” And all of a sudden YaKob has a corner three like he showed for a second last season wouldn’t that be awesome there’s D Rozan Code in Yakob yakob’s like “What they don’t think I can shoot threes?” And he comes back with a three-point shot all of a sudden hey hey that’d be awesome man i’d love him to do that because I’d be like “Yeah [ __ ] it [ __ ] you all you Yakob haters the things you hated him for look at what he’s doing now that would be the best man james saying LaMelo Ball misses so many games he’s getting close to Zion Williamson levels hornets need to move on from him i’m not against that i mean seriously I’m not against that i mean he’s fits that team really well because he’s not a serious player so he should be on a not a serious team but I mean I’m not trying to help the Hornets guys you guys seem like you’re trying to help the Hornets i’m not trying to help them i’m not trying to help the Hornets uh info is saying cancel workout is nothing new it’s strategy calling him an idiot is a bit excessive without the full story well this is the thing we don’t know enough about Ace Bailey we’re seeing different things i’ve seen him play in highlights okay uh but we’re not seeing him like I don’t even think he did stuff at the combine you know I’m telling you man you don’t want to be cowardly in this stuff if you’re a badass you should be out there showing yourself as much as possible seriously and uh the guys who went and played in the five on fives at the combine in Chicago they were smart and brave and you know what some of them their stock went up like Hansen Yang and Maxim Renault these guys went and played in the five on five combines and their stock went up some of these guys who stayed away and kind of shied away I don’t know i mean if you’re an Ace Bailey fan I’m sorry i’m going to bag on him today i’m sorry i’m gonna bag on him because honestly I think he’s a fraud and uh you know what we will see if I’m right down the road when Ace Bailey comes in the NBA i think he’s a fraud and uh you know I think this does not benefit him to do this seriously I don’t care i mean in some ways in some ways it’s funny that he’s telling the Sixers he won’t work out for them to me on some level but also at the same time I feel like the young man shooting himself in the foot whatever his reasoning for why he’s doing this seriously because this is the team these are teams that really have a high percentage of drafting him and you know it’s not a good look it’s not a good look you know uh Blackhawk saying “Noah Panda for the Raptors we can have a panda dick battle.” Okay that sounds crazy but Neil you’re going to get a dunk because it’s childish but it it sounds crazy it does really sound crazy and I don’t know man that sounds really bad man i hope that zookeepers watch out for this like in the zoos you know where they have pandas man we can’t have another panda dick battle here today man like it was just too messy yesterday we can’t do this anymore panda stop having dick battles what is going on here man i like Noah Panda i think that he might be a good pick at 39 yeah but not for the word play seriously Nerland’s Noel there’s another one yep yep let’s go over the list let’s go over the list of Philadelphia draft picks smooth saying ace won’t drop out of the top five in my opinion that’s probably true that’s probably true because there’s bad teams that’ll pick somewhere in there somebody will pick the bus somewhere in there they have to that’s just the way drafts go that’s part of the reason why they manufacture the draft order so that some of the teams at the top will pick the bust and uh well I’m sorry i’m like this i may be completely wrong and Ace Bailey is awesome and well if we come around and circle back to this I will admit it all right but I also want to get the kudos when I’m right when he’s a bust i’m just going to say that i’ll go that way on that that’s right infamous agrees with you guys about him not dropping out of the five i think you’re right i think you’re right he should be top three because that’s where he’s projected right uh Blackhawk saying James that’s why I don’t see Common as a Hornets pick yeah we’ll we’ll we’ll have to see malawatch definitely has interest in at least uh there’s like four or five teams ahead of us in the draft that would draft him would draft him san Antonio’s very interested in him i don’t know if it’s a reach at number two philadelphia could even draft him at number three i know that Utah’s talked about it i know Brooklyn’s talked about it so yeah there’s a lot of teams ahead of us new Orleans could drive Malawatch so yeah we just going to have to see and that’s what Bobby and Mia are going to wait to see who’s possibly going to jump on Common before us or is Common going to follow us we will definitely take him at nine i bet you we will that’s what we probably guaranteed comments like you’re not going to follow the top 10 we will pick you at nine if you’re there yep uh let’s see smooth saying Washington will take him at four if the Sixers pass on him that could be true uh Charlotte will i forgot about them charlotte yeah james saying “I like Broom with the 39th pick.” Johnny Broom okay okay i like that ta uh Pedaphford came here and worked out for us of course he was a very uh esteemed player in the college uh tournament uh Tan Ton Pedford or Tayon Perafford yeah he he seems like a good player i would like to hear more names like Asa Newwell came to Toronto that’d be awesome if we heard Asa Newell came to the OBO center and worked out uh you know I would love that thomas Sorber I think is hurt so he’s not actually doing workouts that’s part of the thing I’m saying we can get a discount on a very good player that’s getting overlooked partly because he’s hurt right now so yeah Trevor saying Dodgers Mark Walter he’s the new owner of the team uh he’s going to remain Lakers Jeannie Bus will remain the Lakers governor for at least a number of years okay that’s probably under the wishes of Dr jerry her father uh let’s see neil’s saying “I can see scenario where at least two teams offer the Raptors two lower first round picks for the ninth pick.” Oh I I could see millions of scenarios it doesn’t mean any of them are going to happen i mean once again I’m going to say this the speculation kind of stuff is not stuff I’m trying to do on this channel uh in extrapolating in in uh abstract ways that are just not really paths that are in front of us right now so yeah these are we can speculate anything i mean I speculate yeah we are going to trade everything for the first pick i mean what’s the point i just say we’re picking ninth and 39 right now if it changes in a heartbeat well we’ll change then that’s what I’m saying they will change it then yeah stargate saying it’s interesting they’re bringing Eigor that’s the first protected lottery pick player they have so far let’s see who else if anyone else they list but that’s very interesting yeah that just happened in the last two days igor Demen coming to Toronto and being around OVO and like we said he’s getting that 48 hour watching you you know Rockwell yeah yeah it’s like Yeah michael Jackson so I always feel like somebody’s watching me that’s right it’s Bobby Webster he’s watching you how you place your fork at your table dinner and uh what do you like chewing with your mouth open that’s right he’s watching you Rockwell i don’t understand and my understand I’m in the shower and you’re watching me oh no this is crazy man crazy all right let’s keep going um Randolph saying “Lex is there any truth to this breaking the Lakers have waved.” Wave two the Lakers have been sold is what it is the Lakers have been bought and sold that’s what’s happened they sold the team to the guy who owns the Dodgers Mark Walters that’s right that’s right uh James is saying Atlanta has 13 and a 22nd pick for the ninth pick is possible on draft night well I don’t like this there’s an interview that uh Stargate I think posted in the Discord server with Jeff Welman of Orlando and he this is the way he looks at the draft right now he says that the top one through nine are the best nine players in the league in this draft and after nine after our pick it falls right off so there may very well be a top tier for this draft that’s the top nine and we need to pick one of those top nine to stay in the value of the lottery and that may actually make it so we do pick best available at that time because it may not be that that ninth best player is in that tier but that’s the Orlando GM saying that the way he looks at this draft former Raptor employee is that the draft is one through nine topheavy and after nine it gets a little shady after that so who knows we’re at least in that nine but we’re the last one picking that and it may be that we’re taking the last top tier top nine player in that situation and maybe it is Igor Deon that he’s here and that’s why he was in Toronto maybe that’s right smooth saying Steve Francis looks scary man he was amazing he was honestly amazing out in Maryland uh it’s really dumb what he did when he did did said he would not play for the Vancouver Grizzlies he really I’m telling you if I hindsight’s 2020 I’m looking at this in a way where he could have really made his mark in a distinguished way more than what he did uh by really taking the tougher road of going through Vancouver Grizzlies he really dropped the ball on that he showed that he’s lazy he showed that he didn’t like a strong challenge that’s one thing that people may not want to come to Toronto because it is the harder road to win in Toronto that’s just the damn truth we’re the Canadian team in some ways we’re not getting a lot of benefits uh like other teams are and players know this from within the machine so it does take a special breed a person with a chip on their shoulder like a Fred Vanble Vleet like a Pascal Seakum like uh you know a Kawhi Leonard for a season because he’s mad at San Antonio uh you know to really want to come to Toronto and go above and beyond because the speed box bumps and the obstacles to get to Larry O’Brien in Toronto are more than on other teams and a lot of players if they’re lazy they’re like I want an easy route to championships I want to go beyond LeBron’s team you know we don’t want those kind of players because they won’t help us in this environment of what we have to do to do what we have to do so you know that’s maybe the biggest reason why people don’t want to play for Toronto on silently they won’t say they’ll say it’s customs they’ll say it’s taxes they’ll say it’s the cold weather but no in some ways some of the players they won’t outright say it they I don’t want to play for Toronto because I know Toronto has a harder time to get to the championship than anywhere else i want an easier chance to get the championship that’s it right there so that’s part of it and Steve Francis didn’t want the harder route well the harder route has more rewards in the end if you’re successful let’s just put it that way that’s true in anything in this world that’s right james is saying the that that way we may be able to get a backup point guard and backup center we’ll diversify and get more picks i mean once again guys you guys are speculating there’s nothing concrete i can’t cover this there’s too many permutations and too many different things that could happen too many of those yeah carlo saying Sergeant Wayne salute yeah sergeant Wayne Strainer the sergeant-at-arms i I would like him to help me out with that that’s right wayne the belt strainer wayne the belt strainer that too much at dinner Kareem and we’re gonna give you a dunk for that that That made me Wayne the belt strainer that’s crazy man that’s crazy i mean you got to do that al Bundy sometimes if you eat the you know the rib steak the 20 ounce you gotta un a couple buttons at the top there on your pants you know Wayne Boltz trainer i get it man blackhawk saying Atlanta Thunder could trade up okay you guys are talking about all kinds of speculation and that’s it no no we don’t do this uh let’s see stargate’s got the helmet for win i like that kareem Thomas is saying this rj Barrett uh hang on rj Barrett hang on where is it rj Barrett is the most talented Canadian to ever wear a Raptors jersey if you’re throwing his name in trade talks you don’t understand his value to Canada basketball this was actually a tell with uh Bobby in the interview with Hello and welcome about R.J This is really awesome what he said too and I love this and you know what he said he basically said “We’re always going to have a player like R.J on our team because they’ve understood now in the recent years of having more Toronto players on Toronto the value is priceless.” And uh it’s made it sound like R.J is not somebody he’s shopping around i mean if you really listen to that interview when he talks about RJ Barrett he’s not talking about wanting to trade him or him not fitting or anything like that he’s talking about how val for the Canadian ambassador kind of stuff for the growth of the sport in the future you know you have a guy like R.J on the team from area to come up and be more more and having R.J on our team it means exponential growth for Canadian pipeline later and uh Bobby let it out of the bag he said having people like R.J and Chris on our team is very valuable and we want players like this on our team having Canadians on our team is very special and important i love that i know some of y’all have said “Well we because they’re Canadian and put them on our team.” What if we get Canadians that are very good and we put them on our team just like what Kareem said the best Canadian Raptor ever RJ Barrett that’s why we need to value him and Bobby does obviously thank God i hear him talking more like me than these idiots in social media places from Raptors Nation that are so quick to trade RJ Barrett thank God our GM is not looking to trade RJ like these clowns everywhere else are thank God oh my gosh I’m so happy about that that was one of the best things I heard him say in that interview you go and listen to him and read between the lines what he said about R.J and you’ll understand what I’m saying yeah kareem saying Messiah and Bobby know what he means to city exactly mlsc is the next generation’s uh RJ’s not going anywhere that’s right this is this is a long-term investment when you have players like Kelly RJ Delano Banton uh Chris B Ken Burch these are long-term investments when you put Canadians on the Raptors because they are role models and they make young people dream whether they’re male or female about dreams of playing in the NBA and WNBA that’s right smith saying “Derek Queen looks like a doughboy man.” Yeah yeah i could see it man seriously that I can see it totally i can totally see it i’m telling you he’s an ixay on no go a you know uh Seymour saying Kenny Loftton Jr type yeah he’s not there yet but he has the potential to be one of those puff marshmallow men that’s right that’s right it’s like don’t cross the streams Ray and Venkman uh because you know you might have to shoot a a Staypuff Marshmallow Man off your team like Kenny Loftton Jr yeah he was definitely not related to Kenny Loftton of MLB no you could tell the body type was not the same genetics at all if that was Kenny Loftton’s uh son that would be weird i’d have a lot of questions i want to see the mother is what I would say uh saying like Thomas Hamilton remember him thomas Hamilton wasn’t he like a race car driver or something like that you mean Zenden Hamilton or uh something like that i don’t know thomas Hamilton i’m trying to remember thomas Hamilton yeah uh let’s see uh ran off say “Lex my gauge for tonight’s game is is that if they call two early fouls on SGA that would say to me that they are helping the Pacers.” That’s a really good gauge yeah I would agree with you yeah I mean it’s Tony Brothers Zach Zarba and David Guthrie you know ref hit jobs on the main star right away at the beginning of the game yeah that’s a calling card of ref manipulation well let’s watch for it i would agree with you Randolph if we see this early well that may mean that even though Scott Foster is not refereeing the extending is coming there may be some extension going even without the extender there cass is saying “Despite sharing the same last name and both being from Ben & City Nigeria Eugene Omoroy and Clifford Omaroy are not related they have different pronunciations of their last name too neither has played players indicated a familiar relationship.” Well you know what i stand corrected and I really appreciate Cass for doing the fact check on this we’re going to give him a a super dunk honestly I’m going to give you a 10-pointer for this because this is super informative and helpful and I didn’t ask anybody to do this but I’m really happy he did because he did clear the air so okay so this Omarui is not related to this Omarui okay I got to remember this may be a very common name over in Nigeria and uh it’s just my own uh North American centricism to not understand this is like Jones or Smith or Williams over there okay okay this is good information in some ways we need to know this because if Clifford is related to Eugene he might actually have had a leg up or he may have had some connection to Canada it could very well be that Clifford Omarui has no connection to Canada whatsoever i don’t think he does james is saying “Lex where did you meet Freddy is that an old pick?” Yeah I did meet Freddy that is an old pick that is a pick from uh 2018 the summer before we won the championship that’s in August of 2018 he was on the corner of Kensington and Dundesz and I was sitting on my front porch hanging out at around midnight on a Sunday night and Fred was filming a commercial across the street at the barber shop and he was taking a break and he was standing on street corner in the dark and nobody knew he was there i saw him i picked him out right away i knew it was Fred Bambble even though he’s 510 and he’s an ordinary size and even though it was dark and there was nobody on the street there were no people around it was like dead and I was just a local sitting on my front porch and I saw Fred standing there and I walked up to him and I talked to him for about 10 minutes he was a really really nice guy uh he he told me I was a real one because I knew all about him and I said stuff like “Fred I hope you resign with us and I hope you’re a raptor for a long long time.” I asked him if he had met Kawawaii yet and he said he had not met Kawawaii at that point in August of 2018 uh and like I said this was just before our championship year and we went on this amazing run with everything that happened six years ago so yeah I met Freddy and you can see I’m taller than him and uh yeah it was awesome to meet Fred and this is why I when Penser started campaign against Fred and saying he was an [ __ ] and all this stuff I said it’s absolute horseshit because I’ve met Fred myself and I can tell you exactly the kind of person Fred Ban Vleet is from just hanging out with him for 10 minutes on a street corner when he did not have to talk to me honestly he could have been a total dick to me and he could have gotten away with it and wouldn’t have been a problem at all but he embraced a real fan coming towards him took a picture with me and it gave me the time a day so that’s why I stand up for Fred everywhere because I know Fred uh from meeting him in person and his energy and he’s an amazing person he’s amazing amazing person yeah it is an old pick it’s six years old now well it’s six and a half years old it’ll be seven years old in August yeah let’s see kareem saying crazy Zakiti and Shadur Sanders uh caught speeding citation the same day the same speed but two different cities yeah these youngsters are out of control in their hot rods tearing it up in the streets you got to calm down youngsters i can’t say anything because I was like them one day too i got reckless driving charges for speeding like that too so Zach Edit welcome to my world let’s just say I was a little bit of speeding man you know that’s one thing people don’t know about me is I’m a ace driver i love driving and I’ve been doing driving for my whole entire life i’ve been one of the best drivers you know if you want to be in the car with me you’re gonna see something i am a stunt driver too i will do stuff that’s crazy like if you seen that movie with uh what’s his name uh Ryan uh Gosling Drive that movie drive where Ryan Gosling drives and does all kinds of crazy stunt driving to outra people i’m like him i If you get me behind a car that is where I’m best that’s like my bread and butter it’s like uh if Kawhi Leonard’s on a court well Lex is behind the wheel of a car and I am a professional driver and I consider myself a stunt driver i can do crazy [ __ ] like do crazy spins and turns and 360s and evade people in fact I’ve evaded the police and gotten away from them successfully with them all chasing me before so this is one aspect about me that y’all probably didn’t know but yeah I’ve been in trouble for doing different street racing down in Florida when I was younger so I know this world Zach Edy and you don’t want to go down it but and thank God you didn’t have no alcohol with you that’s for sure i’ll say that right now that’s right that’s right uh Blackhawk saying “Zack I tried that excuse i got a warning because I used my Canadian driver’s license in the Queen’s English.” All right Blackhawk you can get a duck for that that’s hilarious man that’s hilarious but yeah I love driving man and you know what if you’re riding the car with me feel very safe even though I have all those kind of attributes i’m I call myself an aggressive defensive driver i don’t race people anymore but I can make people look stupid still without even racing them so saying Jazz is picking up Khan for sure conanipple is actually a really good pickup for them so you think the Jazz will draft him that’s probably a good pick that’s probably a good pick for them uh let’s see blackhawks saying fourth is Hornets okay Wizards are six okay i just don’t I man I really I should pay more attention to the Hornets and understand them better I guess let’s see smooth saying four Charlotte five Jazz Washington is six and New Orleans seven and Brooklyn eight yeah okay so that’s the order yeah so Charlotte is picking fourth and that’s the VJ Edgecom spot that they’ve been saying but if one of the other guys jumps in and it’ll be a Ruters guy going to Charlotte then yeah because I could see Common going in the top three all of a sudden and then it bumps these guys down and maybe Dylan Harper is of Charlotte Hornet or something like that yeah we could see that we could see that uh Kim saying Steph will always be the best shooter ever because he’s been shooting on NBA rims since he was four years old the footage proves this yeah yeah i’m telling you right now his father had such a silky smooth shot he was taught immediately as a young person exactly how to shoot correctly for the NBA from his father Wardell yeah yeah i mean seriously we cannot understate just how much being the son of an NBA player it helps you because you’re not learning bad [ __ ] any kind of way and they’re teaching you everything about NBA life not just the skills on the court but the skills of how to be a professional and carry yourself correctly so that you can get in the NBA correctly that’s why Thad Young Jr is going to have an advantage coming up that’s why Carter Lowry is going to have an advantage coming up there’s a reason why family business gets passed down in certain things and in basketball your genetics get your from your parents it will help you especially if they’re two very high level athletes and that is often the case with many of the NBA players many many many of them have very high level athletes as both parents both parents have high level athletics we know that with Grady Dick we know that with Utah Watanabe these are true stories that their parents were very high level that’s right and Andrew Wiggins another great example of that that’s right that’s right uh let’s see i’m going to do the Instagram stories real quick i gotta start getting into my segment sooner i know I’m getting closer to two hours uh Norman Powell is doing a podcast with the ocean behind him in France life is good for Mr powell he’s just living the best life he’s signing a wall and uh yeah he’s just having good time over there in Europe right now he’s just living it man he’s in the offseason and south of France is where he’s habitating right now and I can’t hate it he’s making fun of his friends who had the worst shots his his friends don’t shoot like him that’s for damn sure they ain’t got no shot like him he shoots a silky smooth these other guys are breaking and totally missing the rim in some way so you guys go and decide who which one of Norman Pal’s three friends have the worst shot seriously they’re they’re got the flame out and they’re torching the the I guess that’s like uh um French toast they are torching that French toast up and that powdered sugar is burning up and they’re making that good breakfast for Norman it really is about the breakfast where he is right now he’s been eating that breakfast and showing it off and there’s that beautiful veranda balcony overlooking the South of France and the ocean oh my gosh Norman you living the best life man lindsay Dunn is with a young Blue Jays fan saying “Nice to meet you.” And then she’s sharing a creepy DM that she got lindsay Dunn is putting on blast this guy Tom Thomas Jason who said this message to her and this is one of those kind of Instagram messages that you should not send to anybody hello pretty i’m looking for a honest pretty lady heart to spoil $5,000 every week and also help broke college students and single moms are you willing to wow creepy as hell slid into Lindsay Dunn’s DMs and she’s putting him on blast humiliating him this is what she said to him tom are we talking US dollars or Canadian dollars ah she thinking about it this is hilarious what what’s going on here kellinic is posting foods I cannot describe or name that’s how I know he should be on the Food Network that looks like some sort of egg with a yolk in the middle of it but it’s like got seeds sesame seeds and cabbage or something underneath it i have no idea what the hell that is Kelly Lynn but I do know you’re in Soul Korea that is where you are right now and the cuisine is topnotch and man Kelly stop this man just go work for Food Network Canada already all right seriously you I know that’s what you’re going to do when you’re done seriously Kelly Oolen is gonna be on the Food Network Canada somehow someway i know this i can just predict the future there’s some lady holding up a squid and it’s still alive kelly you gonna eat that live put it down your throat man his plate is squirming around like crazy it’s all the tentacles of squid cut off oh man that’s gross kelly you gonna eat that all squishy that thing’s going to be moving around in your stomach you’re gonna feel it that’s gross man kelly Lin you’re going too far teresa Terresa Res Toronto Tempo president is at a femaleowned basketball themed art gallery you can check it out through October and it is at the local collective and man some of the art pieces are really beautiful man it’s like really beautiful art uh that has to do with basketball and women and they’re really really good man holy crap fine art not fan art that is for damn sure you got that right there’s a flaming basketball hoop it looks so awesome what a amazing art piece such cool [ __ ] at the local collective y’all check it out till October and uh go down there and check it out there’s a really cool basketball that’s been like beaded with different beads and man this is a really cool exhibit uh let’s see what else we got demar Rosen’s got this podcast on Blast what is this podcast what is this podcast the Underground Lounge uh okay is Lou Will on it i don’t know who’s on there okay but either way hey bro let me ask okay I don’t know what the clip says andrew Jones putting those kids to work a Ava is just going through this work man they ain’t letting up on Ava Jones as far as like getting her ready for WNBA career man they really got these kids doing highlevel drills for their age i’m telling you Andrew Jones ain’t stopping man he’s coached from 905 right on into his kids he ain’t stopping this summer he is not relenting he is giving instruction always they got them on the bear crawl all they’re round and around on the ground like that sheds uh pre-draft workout has been leaked in the last day showing what Bobby’s talking about with what makes a Raptor attractive to draft well they’re showing what Jamal Shed was doing last year before we drafted him in the second round that made him so attractive for him to be on the Raptors and yeah it’s awesome man and shed has totally worked out and he’s reposted it on his Instagram because he’s proud of the work you put in to get his spot on the Raptors and where he’s at right now and man you’ve already progressed to a backup point guard in some ways jamal if you were on the old schedule you third point guard still but you are bonafideed the backup point guard for the Raptors and I totally trust you in that role thank God we have a good backup point guard right now holy crap that’s such an important role and Jamal Shed fits it to a tea there’s a modern workout what he’s doing right now he’s doing some sort of step thing it looks like he has a pedal for a guitar and he’s like pushing it down i don’t know what that is exactly there’s Emanuel doing his workout we’re looking at both our point guards working out emanuel’s got big huge heavy weights and he’s in motion and he’s putting in frames yeah you go Emanuel quickly guess where Emanuel is he’s down in Hollywood Florida now with Remy at the workout center where we see Gary Trent Jr frequenting there so yeah he’s down in Hollywood now uh playing pickup ball at Ramy’s workout place in the offseason getting his offseason drills in so you go Emanuel quickly i know you like to go to that Hollywood uh gym down there so he’s been working out hard we’re seeing it all over the place also Emanuel’s put on blast register today for my hometown camps at my alma mater John Carroll School in Bair Maryland limited spots available for Emanuel Quickley basketball camp in uh Bair Maryland y’all get out there and get there if you want it jonathan Mo is putting on blast Jamal shed for his great pre-draft workout video he liked it and Allish Shamsh posting his highlight reel from 905 this past year let’s go Aish and it’s like a nice alioop dunk that he has there raptors have some sort of uh advertisement with Kors i’m going to skip it i don’t care your chill or spill [ __ ] but yeah Grady Dick is saying one it’s one week till the draft and they’ve got eight of the Raptors draft picks from the past they got Jacobe from last year they got Grady from two years ago they got Scotty from his draft they got Jakob they got Terrence Ross Tracy McGrady Chris Bosch and Andrea Banani all in there and these are all lottery picks for the Raptors uh except for Jacobe jacob’s not technically a lottery pick because he’s a little later in the first round but all these other guys were pretty high picked in the draft and their draft classes especially Barnani at number one slim Duck is getting really really into Christianity and his faith because there’s a lot of uncertainty going on in his life right now and what he’s saying is when I am I say I’m alone God says he is always with me have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be frightened and do not be dismayed for the Lord is your God is with you wherever you go joshua 1:9 so yeah he’s finding faith in the uncertainty of his free agency summer and that’s the best way to be whatever is going to happen God’s got your back Chris whatever is going to happen and the Raptors fans will love you either way you know that my destiny is in no man’s hands but God’s against all odds I arise this is what Chris is saying this morning uh he’s also got if a man expresses anger he’s toxic if a man expresses fear he’s a coward and that’s some sort of thing i don’t know the reason why some men go quiet uh they seen too much felt too much and uh yeah I don’t know there’s some different clips that are inspirational here he’s got Sandre O talking you don’t grow when you’re comfortable love Island explained for the bros okay i don’t know what that’s about love Island explained for the Bros there’s the camp he had the slim duck camp last weekend there’s all the campers i love that he put them on blast uh he’s also saying “Une lies the head that wears the crown.” That’s a quote by William Shakespeare so uneasy lies the head that wears the crown i like that i like that uh let’s see what else is on here don’t skip the prayer is what Chris is saying uh dear God you have blessed me in so many ways and I am truly grateful i know your plans are greater than my understanding so I ask you to guide me and strengthen my faith lord I place my faith my family my work my dreams and my future into your hands i trust you completely may you lead my life i love you and I will honor you by sharing this prayer if you love God and are not ashamed of him pass this prayer to someone you care about and see what he will do in your life don’t forget amen i love this man i love this sentiment so much the spirituality and Christianity of some of our players and our Raptor Freak family is very very influential on me it really is i’m really enjoying seeing this stuff man so yeah let’s see toronto Tempo’s putting on blast uh uh an artist and they’re saying sign the pledge so sign the inclusivity pledge that the Toronto Tempo’s been promoting there you go there’s your Instagram stories this morning norman’s still in South France and uh our point guards are working out hard right now they’re very much working out very very hard that’s right colloy saying “Of course Steph is a outlier and most of the time most of the time players that show the same attitude as Ace doesn’t have a standup attitude and won’t succeed.” Well Steph Curry is definitely Steph Curry definitely has a right attitude he’s one of the best role models in the league as far as carrying himself as a pro as a family man as a marketable asset in the league you know all that kind of stuff he’s gold on that like the Golden State Warriors so ah it’s tough in some ways it’s like look put your best foot forward i don’t even remember the story about Steph uh not wanting to do certain workouts was it a particular team he wanted to avoid playing for i mean I could see that i could see that being what happened there yeah uh let’s see um Stargate saying “I think Charlotte will pick Jeremiah Fierce.” Okay that’s an interesting prediction kareem saying “You don’t cancel combines or schedule workouts in the 90s there are players who did 20 workouts like 25 days the grind is real and Bailey is a joker not an ace wow i like how he put that together now you’re not talking about your guy in Denver right all right kareem once again showing that he’s a rim rocka and he is going to go ahead and put it up and get up there and put it down through the rim 126 for Kareem Thomas on the dunk chart i like that he called him a joker not an ace stargate saying “I can’t wait to see the battle dick formation next season.” Oh battle dick formation is awesome because it spreads the floor and it it makes us very powerful as shooters on our team we need more battle dick formation yes and if we have a panda battle dick formation well that just sounds wrong that just sounds wrong yeah kareem saying battle dick formation he’s even made a little emoticon in there i don’t know why you did that we didn’t need to see that we didn’t need to see that i think I’m going to take back your last dunk for that no chance all right let’s see let’s see kareem Bailey a J not an ace i know that was funny wasn’t it that’s why I had to give him a dunk for that is Pedaphford a point guard i don’t remember man i don’t remember let me put look him up real quick i didn’t look at him at all i just remember his name from the tournament right but I don’t don’t really remember his profile that’s why I didn’t really look at him because I don’t think he’s the kind of player that we uh we need right now yeah he’s a point guard he’s 6’1 175 pounds from uh he’s from New Jersey I think so yeah ah I mean you know they could be having these guys come in just you know in some ways sometimes the workouts are for the guys to just get extra workouts they may not be very you know what I’ve also noticed the Raptors sometimes don’t draft guys who they work out they really don’t you know it may very well be that there’s players that they won’t work out because they don’t want to all come all the way up here to work out and they don’t even want to put it on blast or embarrass them but they know enough about them from away without looking at them that they have confidence to draft them so I wouldn’t say that uh the list that the Raptors have worked out at OVO is just who they will consider understand that they will go and dra I don’t think Brady Dick came and worked out for us in Toronto seriously I’m not totally sure if he did you think Grady came up to Toronto before the draft and worked out with us maybe maybe i don’t totally remember but I would say this is just because we don’t publicly know that the Raptors worked somebody out doesn’t mean that they’re not considering them let’s just put it that way you know we’re not seeing Common Ma watch on there well it’s probably because Common and his people in Clutch they may be like “Well you’re not going to be on the board by the time Toronto comes around.” And you know Messiah you already know Common you’ve been coming to Africa and uh seeing him since he was a kid and that’s what Bobby said in the interview with William Louu that they watch these kids from very young and they can’t talk to them then but they’re watching them all they’re on top of it our front office is doing all their due diligence on what their job is trust me we have the best front office in the league we really do sam Prey’s is great but I still think we are we I think we have the best front office uh let’s see um Kareem saying Jeanie Bus is [ __ ] up she thinks she will be involved that will last two years ask Mark Cuban how that worked out for him difference is Mark knew it genie doesn’t i think you’re exactly right Kareem this was the same thing that was promised to Mark Cuban and well how did that work out yeah I think you’re exactly right they they can say this and I don’t know how do you get this in writing or fight it maybe you cause more toxicness because you won’t leave and you maybe Mark Keeban understood if he fought it he’d cause all kinds of problems for the Mavericks but maybe he should have fought it because maybe they wouldn’t have traded Luca that was absolutely the worst thing and Dirk Nitzky Don Nelson and Mark Cuban have all come out and said that trading Luca was absolutely a stupid idea totally stupid i could see this exactly happening with Genie Buzz the same thing that happened to Mark Cuban yeah I think you’re exactly right uh Khloe saying barbecue battle dick small ball menace so you want to play Barnes Barrett and Quickley with uh Jameson Battle and Grady Dick scotty’s the center the power forward is RJ or Jameson Battle it’s interesting emanuel and Grady in the back court and the forwards are RJ and Jameson we could run that lineup honestly we could run that lineup barbecue Battle Dick when we see this next year if we do we’re gonna call it out oh barbecue battle dicks out there i’d like to have the ba barbecue battle yak or barbecue dick yak or yak yak dick i don’t know something like that sounded bad lex phrasing you just said something really bad uh Kareem saying “Zacked doing 110 in a 50 mile per hour zone is a Mini Cooper kind of 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First time seeing one of your videos. Like it so far.
I have been saying for months Khaman is the pick. When we were sitting with the third best odds earlier in the season I knew the winning streak was coming. I was dreading it hard. That schedule after all star break was wild. Darko did everything he could to get some extra Loses but the team fought to hard. The raptors always target guys who have great character, and a chip on their shoulder like you said. Now why is that, well it’s because those kinda guys will give you all they got. You know you’re going to milk every last bit of talent / upside out of them. I see a lot of this in Ja’Kobe walter and ulrich chomche / shead. We struck gold in a garbage draft with chomche. How the league didn’t see this kid coming I have no idea. I watched him and maluach play in Africa and I was so excited for a duo of African bigs. The athleticism/ speed / size between the two of them is wild. Chomche pf and Maluach centre. But now it doesn’t seem like he will drop to us. I think Masai and Bobby tried to move up and the price is to large. We would need the 76ers pick or probably Charlotte to lock in Khaman. When you see 7’2” and 9’6” standing reach in person it’s easy to fall in love.
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And maybe asa I can see us taking. In that order for me to. Also I could see kasparas or fears if they land in our lap