Smile High Morning Show
Mon. July 1: Orlando Signs KCP For 3 Years, Russell Westbrook Interested In Joining The Nuggets, Denver's Current Roster Construction
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(laughing) ♪ Man, the weekend ♪ ♪ That was the show that we have for you guys ♪ It's a good one. Quite frankly, nobody does it better. It's no slogans, guys. Just great radio. No Jeff Gersh, who needs him? We got Alex Becker in. Olivia Williams feeling it. Hey, that's right. Alex with the, always an adventurer. An adventurer in Nomad, a world traveler. He hit the streets with Aloe and Kyle. ♪ Mary Sue ♪ - Yeah, so they went to see the Morgan Wallen, the second show, right? - Friday night, day two. - So they're taking pictures. Kyle's hitting me up. He's like, sorry for not coming in, but can you come and do something for me tonight and hang with me and give me rides and buy my alcohol and stuff like that? And I was like, no, probably not. And then he's like, okay. So from that point on in the middle of the day, about, I got like 100 text messages from a combination of Aloe and Kyle. And like one proper picture from Alex, 'cause he's like a regular guy. And then like, you know, they're like, you guys look like you're having a hell of a time. Was it everything you thought it would be hanging out with those two guys? - Oh yeah. Yeah, I had a really good time that night. Great dudes, couple of great dudes. We had fun. - Great dude. - Probably my favorite artist. So that was the one concert. - He's your favorite artist? - I'd say so. - Wow. Okay, I gotta ask you. 'Cause my wife goes, don't act like you like this guy. You know, his songs or anything like that. She said that to me. And I go, I don't know it, really his songs. Should I know some of his songs? Is he hot right now? Was he hot five years ago? I kind of, I feel like this guy, and don't get me wrong, has taken country music by storm. - Yeah, yeah, he's gotta be the biggest right now. - Why? - I don't know, people like him a lot. It's an upbeat country. - I need a, okay. - And it's just like people can relate. I feel like to his songs. - I need, you gotta play one of his like best. His signature best, okay? And then I need a pop comp. Like Sabrina Carpenter's come out of nowhere. She's got a bunch of hits right now. She's got that please, please, please right now too. - Yeah. - That pop it off. - Top 10 on the Billboard. - Yeah, so like, do we, what do we think? Give me a pop, like a pop or a kind of rock or something that I can understand a comp of someone who's really taking music by storm in the last, last year or two or what? - I don't know, maybe I'll play some of his music and you can come up with the pop comp 'cause one's not coming to mind right away. - No, no, I don't mean in the sense of the music itself. I met on the rise of "The End of Big Two." - Oh, on the rise, okay. Yeah, I want like it like a Sabrina, like it like a tape-- - Is it like that? - Make Ray type deal? - Okay, yeah. - He's a little bit further into his career than those two. - Okay. - Like his first big debut album was 2018. - And that was "Devil Went Out to Georgia." - No, that was-- - Beautiful for the solo stew. - If I know me. - Oh. - And then he put one out in 2021-- - Barbic, he's staying in my white t-shirt. - Yeah, Tim McGraw, classic. - Yeah, okay. - And then one last year, yeah. - Thunder Road. (laughing) - Yeah, it was great, man. It was fantastic. Just a great time with great dudes and great music. - I'm glad you guys-- - And wish you will. - You were able to come through, but that's okay. - You know what, that was like a young man, just like a young man coming in for a quickie I felt so unceeptious. That was like your guys's. I was too old to go party with that crew, I think. - That's fair. (laughing) - That's fair. - I know what you mean. - We was all put together last minute. Like Aylo bought his ticket right before the show. Like literally as we were in the parking lot, getting ready to go in. - That's cool. - Aylo's a good dude. He's thoughtful, he cares. He's got his own stuff. He's life stuff. He's got to deal with Kyle, same. Kind of immature, kind of a brat. Don't really know what really little life is about, yet he's pure in a lot of weird ways. Especially when he took that girl out to the Rockies game, spent all this money on her, had the time of his life. And then in the ninth inning she says, "Who's this girl with the pink hair?" And he's like, "That's my girlfriend that I live with." And it was like, "Alex, stop the show!" - Stop the day. - And the rest. - Like Kyle, stop the day. - And the rest of that relationship is history. No, that's a fun one. Okay, so what do we do this weekend? - Yeah, what'd you do? - Stuff around the house, we had weeds for days and it's still not all the way kind of completed. We had the sprinkler guy come and get us all kind of fixed up. He had to come a couple of times. The yard's like a C-plus right now. We gotta get it back to-- - Room for improvement. - Well, we have the best lot in house, I think in, on the neighborhood, back up to the park, corner, highest point of the Highlands Ranch. You could oversee the mountains, you could see downtown, fireworks, everything, from our house. It's a beautiful thing. But the yard and some weeds, I gotta get it. Take a picture. - Landscaping, huh? - A little bit, yeah. I need some kind of foreign team of three or four guys with a truck and a trailer to come. - Yeah. - And just do it. - Hey, you can just look outside the window. - And I just like boom, boom, boom, and I'm like, how much? And he's like, eh, and I'm like this. I'm like, okay, do it. You know anybody like that? - I don't, but as I was walking in, they got a whole team right outside our window. - And they're like-- - They're getting to work. - My friend. Okay. - It's so for you. - Especially out for you, my friends. - Okay, so did you see, do you know Zach Bryan, right? - Of course he knows Zach Bryan. - Yeah, I remember what Ally, the Hooters girl from a couple of years ago, she really liked him a lot. - The race card, sure. - No, no, the country singer. - Oh, yes, okay. - He brought the girl, the Hock Toa girl, out on stage on Saturday night. - What? - In Nashville, at Nissan Stadium. - No way. - Yeah, you didn't see that? - I did not see that. - How did I not see that? - Yeah, so she was like kinda MIA for like the whole week. She was hiding out and then she shows up. Zach Bryan brings her out for a revival, which is what he finishes every show. - Did they lose it? - Everyone lost it. - Wow. - She's got, what could she make out of this? Like that, like, that MFR is not real, right? She's like all over Barstool. She's made a career out of it now, kind of. - Well. - She's, you know, for as much as she can kind of milk out of the thing, I guess, you know? - Man, she has to sell like pictures of her feet online or something. - Right. Just do stupid stuff that goes viral. - What can she do? You think she can get like 10,000, 5,000, they'll fly her out, 10,000 this and that. She can make, can she make $200,000 off of this? - I think so. - I think so too. I think if she plays her card for it, she can make more. - Yeah. - If she plays her cards right, she could be doing, she could do 50 of these in the next, you know, shoot, month, two months. - The, everyone wants a piece of her right now. - Yeah. - So, you know, whether, I'm not sure where she's gonna go or what she's gonna do doing, like select interviews here and there, but just crazy. - And then finally, we're gonna move on. There's so much stuff that's happening in the NBA, but this is a life and love show as well. So we just wanted to, you know, talk about the week and all that kind of stuff. That was, oh, we went to Boondocks last night, JJ and me and Gianna Olivia was like, "Dad, can I stay home? "Like, don't be mad or sad or anything about it." And I'm like, "I just didn't want to leave Geo." And, you know, and I was like, "Lavey, you don't gotta feel bad for not wanting to come." 'Cause she's cool like that, you know? So she's just kind of staying home. But we went, JJ and I hit that putt putt. I told JJ, "Check this." We give each other one redo. - Mm-hmm, Mulligan. - And it took a tee shot, one, Mulligan. - Right, this ball? - So I told JJ right now, 'cause it's true like him and like Ari or like him and a Fran and it's their best ball versus me. And I lose every now and then. JJ's great, he's really freaking sweet. I would put JJ up against anybody and I would love for JJ 'cause Jeff, you know, JJ's just kind of hater on JJ a little bit, you know? - Against any putt putter in the nation. - All right, Jeff. I think JJ could beat Jeff at putt putt. - Dang, all right. - And I'd be put a $50 bill behind it. - The rook versus the vet. - Yeah, so anyways, JJ and I was like, I tell them, no doovers. You and I, right now on the Hawaiian Island course, let's get this. And their fourth hole, I drop in hole in one. JJ follows up hole in one. - Hole in one. - 11th hole. JJ slides, double little turn, hole in one drops it. I see it, I read it, I stroke it and I drop a hole in one right behind him. It comes down to the last hole where it's like, coned up, it's like almost an impossible tee and then it funnels down. So you have to, it's all speed, but it's all second shot. We're both far out. JJ's got a couple feet, drops it. It has to hit the hole to stop itself or it rolls out. JJ makes, I'm six feet to tie to tie for the whole thing or JJ walks off and I drop it in for the par. - Yeah. - It was a great battle. - That was so good. - Came down to 18. - It was like that. And then we did two go-karts rounds. Oh man. I just told myself before the race, I am speed. Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. Yeah, that's what I was kind of telling myself. And then I just kind of went lightning McQueen on it. Yeah. Hey, you got him. Okay, so that was our weekends. - You got it man. Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. - Do you do any bumper boats or the arcade? - Nah. The bumper boats, I don't know if I got wet in that. And it was kind of late in the night. And Gianna was like, "Dak, can we play games really when this thing?" And then no one went in to play games. - No, we did like a little that. We just try to make the most of a couple hours. 'Cause boondocks can get pretty expensive pretty quick. You know? - Good time. It wasn't the one up north, was it? - Nah, nah, that one. - Right off 25. - No, I have no problem with that one, but the one over here off the pole is pretty sweet. - Oh, sweet. - Yeah, okay. Let's set up a break. We come back. We talk about KCP to the magic. - Oi, what is going on? What is going on nuggets? - It's not looking too good right now. - They're getting worse and worse. - But say they add Clay Thompson to this roster. Add like a three year, but the third year is a team option. Two years, 15 million per, it's, it's $30 million guaranteed over two years, 15 per for Clay to come in and it's Twilight. Not have to do near as much of the weightlifting, heavy duty stuff that he had to do scoring wise for who and what they are now, the Warriors. With, nope, Jordan Poole, triple single, Clay, Dremond, Kaminga, all these guys who really never hit. Steph has to go for 30 and Clay has to go for 22 or 25 and he can't do that anymore. But do you know what he can do? Give you 15, five and five every night and play some of the best defense for 28 minutes a game. - Hit some open shots. I would feel better if that happened. - Of course. - I would have preferred cases to play. - I feel like it's going to because why not? - We'll find out today hopefully. - I think so too. Let's talk about it more on the other side. It's Miley's Sports. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ They could be dangerous ♪ ♪ Yeah, 'cause you got somebody else that you've been ♪ ♪ Foodin' them same tricks up your sleeve, yeah ♪ ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Say you want a little wild in your Friday ♪ ♪ Kinda sick of this same old scene ♪ - Okay. What do you think? Let me get a little more trust. Let me hear it, let me hear it. This is called "Me To Me." Okay. ♪ They're always drippin' ♪ ♪ Well, I know a guy ♪ ♪ I just know what you've been missing ♪ ♪ Say you've been lookin' around ♪ ♪ All over this little town ♪ ♪ Staring at the barroom ♪ - I think it's real good. I get it. I think if I like that country game, I'd be comin' in here, you know? Doin' it. - He's better than the other top guys. Like I listen to all of 'em and he's by far the best. - Livy, do you like this guy Morgan Wallen? You gotta come up closer. - Yeah. - What do you like about him? - Yeah, Livy. - Yeah. She likes him. She said he's pretty good. - A lot of females do. I saw that on display. First hand. - Whoa. Hey. Giggity. - Giggity. - Oh, right. - Hey, put on a yoked jersey to finish, too. - No. - Yeah, he finished with that. - He knows how to do it. After Peyton Manning the night before. - So, yeah, plenty of time. If you were at that concert, hit us. How was it? Was it everything you ever thought it would be in life? And yeah, man, if you could do two big shows like that, I told you when we were comin' from Omaha, I saw like four big buses. - Two buses. - Like two semis and one specialty truck. I was like, what is on that truck? And it was, you know, all draped in his, totally, you know, his tour. - That's awesome. - It was cool. It was pretty cool. - That's sweet. - Yeah, okay. So, we were not here on Friday. Jeff, we had some business stuff, and I had some stuff going on, too. We just didn't make it in. But Reggie Jackson, I think dropped on Friday that he was being traded for just a handful of picks. And it's $5 million salary as well, which I thought was, depending on how it all shook out, in a lot of weird ways we might've needed Reggie Jackson to be the seventh or eighth guy. Or maybe at least a little bit of a, you know, somewhat of what he was this year. So, to see him go like that, I was a little bit surprised. What I'm kind of thinking when I'm hoping it's not true, Alex, was that move was to set up something else that never went down, that never went down. - Are you talking about Russell Westbrook? - No. - Oh. - I'm saying something that maybe they were shooting, maybe they're in the bridges discussion, maybe they're here, maybe they were there, maybe bridges told them, hey, I will, don't trade for me because when I become a free agent, I'm signing with the Knicks anyways. That was some of his leverage and stuff that he was using. So, you know, you're shooting for the stars if you're the Nuggets a little bit, you know? Look at the stars, look, I never do that one right. Did I do it right there? I don't know. Anyways, KCP to Orlando, real quick, Olivia, what are your thoughts on KCP leaving the Nuggets? - I thought he was a good shooter. - Mm-hmm. What else did you like about him? His dreadlocks, he had some of the best hair on the top. - That he was a dog. - Yeah, he was a dog. His defense was great. He was a great shooter, Olivia's right. - Yeah, fit well, leader. - Do you think we'll miss him? - Yeah. - A little. - But what are the Nuggets going to do now? - Probably get a better player. - You hope a better player? Is there a better player left for them to get Alex? - At that position, I don't think so. - Is Clay a good, you know, Clay's going to the Hall of Fame. He's a top 100 player of all time. KCP is not near that accomplished of a player. He's a really incredible role player. We'll go down as a great role player of his generation. - For sure. - But who and what Clay is now? Still better, comparable, superior or less, what KCP is today? - I think Clay's better offensively. Defensively, I don't think he's as good, but maybe he's not even as good offensively as most people think. If he's only going to get what, between 13 and 15 million, we just saw KCP get 22 per year. So obviously, KCP's valued higher than Clay is. - Clay had a rough, rough season. They wanted a bench in. They couldn't get it right. I mean, he was a tough position for him to be in because he still expected to do a lot and was kind of having to share it with Andrew Wiggins and just he wasn't good. But the team wasn't near it. Good, look at the team. - Yeah, very consistent. - They were playing team though. Alex, like they were trash, to be honest with you. - Zero points in that playing game. - Yeah, but they were a trash team. He was still looked at to be the second or third best player on that team. Okay, let's add Clay to the roster right now, okay? Let's go into the future. - He's a good player. - Clay's on this team. Where does Clay, yeah, where does Clay rank? Got Yokich, got Jamal. He's not more important than Aaron Gordon. He's knocking at probably, get the same kind of minutes to, he's probably right there with Michael Porter Jr. Those two will be competing for, I don't know, touches for minutes. And that's a good problem to have. Maybe you offset a little bit of all the things Michael Porter Jr. is not bringing you with this big contract, with a great value contract like Clay, who wants to now go make the Warriors pay. Okay, I'm not gonna get 25 million. Okay, I'm gonna take some good money and go try to win somewhere else and make the Warriors really regret that decision. And the other only option I'm thinking is for him to be honest with you, is take a great deal to go to the Lakers, where his dad played. - Damn, I think that's gonna happen. I think the Lakers are gonna land him. - And shoot, that's kind of really it. If their Lakers are smart, you wouldn't, 'cause it's just another old dude. And again, the Lakers are, the Spider-Man's pointing at Golden State, they're looking at each other in the mirror. And he won't help them that much. He can help the Nuggets win at all. - That'd be great. - At least they have some shooting, absolutely. I mean, Christian Brown, he just doesn't shoot the ball well enough, I think to be a starting two guard. I think they're in trouble if that happens. - They're gonna have some scoring issues. - Unless, well, here's my thought here. - And the bench has no shooting either. - It comes back to Michael Porter Jr. again, because you saw Bridges. - Michael Bridges? - Yeah. - He's got some kind of, he's a better version of Michael Porter Jr. Not as a player, the value, the age, the situation, the upside, that kind of stuff. So there was a lot, I mean, he got traded for four first-round picks and a bad contract, which was a good contract to get rid of, essentially. - Like Boyon Bogdanovic also. - But he knew he could play, and he's worth the 20 million he's gonna make this year before the contract ends and you open up that money, the nets. You see what I'm saying? - So he's a movable too, so let's consider that. But comes back to, shoot, just finding our last between the dots. We're finding the right player, the right, there's still guys to be had, there's still deals to be had. Michael Porter Jr. I'm back here is, but Calvin Booth thinks in a couple of years could carry more water and weight. Can do more, is still ascending, and he's counting on it. And now the nuggets are counting on it, and now the franchise is counting on it. For him to, maybe a certain point, like I said, surpass Jamal Murray as that guy of, okay, who's gonna be shooting the ball 22 or 25 times? It's gotta be Michael Porter Jr., not Jamal. I don't know if that day will ever come, but I think there still may be some people in the organization. You got to trust the organization, that believe that Michael Porter Jr. is still ascending. - Yeah, I don't know, it feels like this yokey. - Because he could have been more moved, don't you think? - Yeah, he's still good. - He could have been moved for some value, I think. - Yeah, I think that they're just the max contract scares teams away all the time. It's so hard to tread that max contract. - Yeah, but you're already only a couple years left on it. And he's still the right age. And some people might think, oh man, if he's the man, then he can do more. Who's muffer, Michael Porter Jr.? - Yeah, I don't know. - I just, I would like to see the maximize this window more. Rather, it looks like they're just planning on putting Julian Strouther and Jalen Pickett as the back of the guards. - There's no possible way that's gonna happen. I promise you. - And if they're gonna do that. - There's no way in the world that will happen. - They're the way, okay, see, they're getting better every single day. - Peyton Watson couldn't play when it mattered on this game. And he could barely play now. And it's gonna be forced to- - There's other two guys who wouldn't. - Direction booths going in. That's their thinking, which I don't agree with. I think you need to maximize this window. As long as Nicole Yolks is in his prime, everything you can possibly do to win a championship- - I'd get Kevin Durant in here now. - Yeah, you got to do something crazy 'cause it's not gonna- - I'd get Kevin Durant in here now. They were never in on Paul George. They couldn't swing that unless, you know, there was some kind of sign and trade with Michael Porter Jr. or something like that, which would've worked. That could've worked. But you know, the Clippers now got nothing. They left high and dry. - Yeah, but they got James Harden for two more years. - Yeah. - Yeah, it feels like they've gotten worse. - See, if Harden still makes 35 million times two years, there's still a lot of value on certain guys. And that's why Clay's like, can't believe that the Warriors are offering him 10 or 12 million per or something like that. And that's why he's so offended by that. - Yeah, yeah, they can do all the lip service they want, we want Clay back, but no. - Okay, let's set up a break here. All of you, I want to ask you, who are the couple, your favorite singers in the game right now? Who you really like right now? Who's music? - One. - Okay, nice. - Do a leaf, huh? - Okay, we love Do a leaf, who else? Who's that one we're talking about on the way? We said she got a bunch of hits right now. Coming up, we're talking about it on the show earlier. She got that one espresso we like. And she got that one, please, please, please. - I know my name is I forget. There's a teenage witch named after her, Sabrina. - Yeah, she's good. Alex, you want to name a couple? Hot artists, do you like? - Oh, couple, yeah. I like Morgan Wallen and Zach, right? So I agree with Livy there, she's right. - You guys are funny. - Yeah, and then, I don't know. I like Sabrina, she's cool. Tate McRiff. - She gets a new, new in the game. Turn that up, it's just that new one. - Please, please, please. - Let's go out to this one. 98.107.5 HD3, streamers for watches at milehysports.com. Lots of ways to get involved with the show. No Jeff Gersh today, he'll should be back tomorrow. ♪ I heard that you're an actor ♪ - Yeah. ♪ To act like a stand up guy ♪ ♪ Whatever devil's inside you ♪ - Oh yeah. - Danny Jeff. - Oh no Jeff, Danny Alex and Olivia. Back on the other side. Let me get this one for like 10 more seconds. Let's go. That's milehysports. ♪ All I'm asking baby ♪ ♪ Please, please, please ♪ ♪ Don't prove I'm right ♪ ♪ Please, please, please ♪ ♪ Don't bring me to tears when I just do my make ♪ (upbeat music) - Okay, that's more Morgan. - And post below. - See, I like something that almost sounds like Matchbox 20. You know what I mean? - It does. - You know what I mean? - Nice. ♪ If you're gone ♪ ♪ Baby's chimes come home ♪ - Sorry, Lilly. - She's good today. - Yeah, she's good today. (laughs) ♪ Can't you help me, I'm bent ♪ ♪ I'm so scared that I'm hurtful ♪ - Hmm. Well anyways, now that's rock and roll. If this is rock, I wanna be right. - Yeah, sure. - 3038311340 is the hotline as well as the text line. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate the interaction and the participation. Where do the nuggets go from here? I'm not sure. They told you who they believe their core is and they got the core four. So, you know, we had said and were able to say for the past two years, nobody had a better starting five than the Denver Nuggets. We cannot say that anymore. So now can we say that nobody has a better starting four than the Denver Nuggets? - Yeah, I guess you could say that, but it's still not that-- - I don't believe that anymore, to be honest with you. - Well, KCP was the fifth best starter. - For sure, but what he was as a fifth starter, my point is you just go to the Celtics now. You know, Tatum, Brown, Drew, and Porzingis. That's probably a better four. - Take Derek White instead of Porzingis. - Well, anyway, you wanna match him up there. That's the unique, that's why they're the World Champion. So, give me it, you know, let's go further down. Let's go to Minnesota and go bear towns and you got Reed? I'm not as Reed, or-- - Yeah, Jamie Daniels. - Or Jamie McDaniels. That's now closer to us. That's not better, that's not good ahead of ourselves. Don't sell, they're better, they prove they beat us. - Okay, well, what do they got to show for it? Nothing. - Yeah. - Okay, so-- - Oklahoma City, I mean. - Shoot, and they just added that wipe. - Heart and center, yeah. - With Caruso. - But they're gonna have-- - Like the best team to make less. - They're gonna have a problem in a couple of years, 'cause they're gonna have to pay shed a ton of money, SGA makes a ton of money, Jalen Williams. - He's gonna-- - He's gonna get that, listen, if all these guys are making two, if Scotty Barnes making 200 million divided by five years, then these guys are, that's just the pace. That's the trajectory, they're making it. So, okay, C's gonna have a problem here in a couple of few years. You have to win, you have to get why the getting is good. - Okay, too short. - Yeah, I mean, shoot. I thought I wrote that, no, he wrote that. - Get a while, the getting is good. - So, I'm just thinking-- - It's so hard to use. - It's hard to maintain a dynasty for more than what two years-- - There's no such thing as the dynasty in the NBA anymore, then it was just, you Golden State got one on the very, very end. That wasn't an extension of the dynasty. - Yeah, you could look at it like that, but that was like a one-up. - Katie took a pay cut and all this, they made it work. - I'm just saying, like, since then, you know, how many, we've had seven straight, different-- - I think it's six, but-- - Okay, sit. - It's hard to repeat. - All right, even after this, your Boston's gonna be in trouble, after this NBA season. - 100%. - 'Cause they got three max guys now. - They'll be a certain point when Brown and Tatum kind of think or have had it, and they probably keep Tatum. They probably keep Tatum moving forward, like in a year or two, and, you know, Brown's kind of too smart for his own good, but he's a hell of a good player. It's funny that I love that. 'Cause there's certain things that guys we talk about in the show, or moments, or things, and Jeff, you know, is great at appraising. Man, he can appraise the hell over to those houses. But I told him, Jalen Brown's the 12th best player in the world, and he goes, "Eh, hmm, I'm not sure. Roll my eyes, I'm not sure about it, the whole thing." He thought it was round on the 20s, nah. We just proved otherwise. - He played like it. Definitely. - Eastern Conference Finals MVP, NBA Finals MVP. - It's not just about the style or certain things, about that stout, stocky defense. He's a more of a Paul George type of player than he is a prolific scorer, fill him up, Tatum type of, Luca type of story. - All around, right. - You know? - He did a better job on Luca than I think anyone else did. You know, playoff, so. - What do you think of the idea of starting Christian Brown and adding Russell Westbrook to the bench? - I would love that. What Russell Westbrook is-- - For 4 million here. - Yeah, absolutely could come play on this team. Would be super dynamic off the bench with the second unit. And I would probably do at this point, obviously, whatever you would ask him to do. I still think he's physically pretty gifted. He knows he can't shoot the ball and he won't try to do it. But you can't have Christian Brown who don't want to shoot the ball and Russ who don't want to shoot the ball and can't shoot the ball and then Aaron Gordon who really doesn't want to shoot the ball and can't shoot the ball that well. You get to a point where it's like, you know, what are we doing here? - Gotta have some shooting. - Yeah. - I like the dog mentality. I think he'd be really good for that reason, but. - For sure. We're a big piece away right now. We're a $25, $30 million player away from making everyone think, uh oh, you know, these guys are still the best. Who is that player, Alex? I don't know if it's out there right now. I still like the idea of Bogdan Bogdanovich in a trade. - Can you play on this team? - For sure. - As a starting shooting guard. I think that's the best thing you're going to get right now. - I'd be pretty good with that, actually. - Naji and a pick or two, I don't know. But I think Naji, you got to get him out of here. - I agree. I don't consider him as anything, you know, having any part of really any future plans with this team. They proved that last year. They showed, they told us that was a big mistake. It's going to be the backup four, backup Aaron Gordon. - Maybe yeah, kind of, we'll see, I guess. I hope he's ready to go, he looks the part. Some guys physically like, ah, no way, not yet. If ever, you know, yeah, this guy looks like a player. - Definitely. - He looks physically like an NBA player, and that's kind of probably, you know, 10% or 15%, 20% of the battle going into it right away. Okay, he could physically hang. And that's a big part of it. - So, yeah, Paul George to the Sixers. - Let's do more, yeah. Give me a little of them. San Antonio Spurs on a one-year deal. Gonna go play with Wembley, 39-year-old Chris Paul. - Graduate student coach, guy, player coach thing. - Yeah, the point God. - Yeah. - Tyree Smax, he signs the big extension. - So, well, let's talk-- - He's had a good off season. - They've had a great one. I don't know if they can get rid of Tobias Harris. - He signed, Detroit. - Oh, wow. - Yeah. - What a big upgrade for them. - They re-signed Ubray too, who was really good. - Ooh, great. - Ooh, great. (laughs) - Yeah. - They're the, I think that they're two in the East now, and I think the next, they're maybe tied with the Knicks. I love what the Knicks did. I love what the Knicks did. You just keep adding good smart players, tough players, playmakers, guys who could do lots of things. Bridges was a great addition for them. They're gonna be good. They're gonna be, they're gonna have a chance. - Locked up OG for five years too. - They'll have a chance to hang with those. Those are the three teams that matter in the East. I don't see anyone else that matters in the East. Don't say, don't say the Pacers. - As Milwaukee's following off that much? - Yeah, for sure. They're on a different tier now. They're with the Pacers actually, when it's kind of figuring out who's gonna be four, five, six, who's gonna be the last, you know, team to host in the first round of the playoffs in the East. But you know, the East has been so bad. It's nice to see the East back to them like, they, you know, you, you don't know what's coming. - Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah, what three, three good teams there in the East? I think, I think Philadelphia's probably at the best off season so far. I had, man, Paul George teaming up with Maxie and MB. That's a pretty good big three. - We'll set up a break. But Livia, I want to ask you some of your fun things you want to do this summer, or maybe like if we go to the mall, like what stores you want to go to or whatever, what's up with that? Because today we already got Alex, I got her this pink drink from Starbucks. Dad, can we get a Starbucks and get a pink drink? And I was like, yeah. So Livia, what do you think? What do you want to do? What would make for like a super fun week here of summer? Give me some of the things you'd be interested in doing. - Going to Bounce Empire. - Type Bounce Empire. That's a great idea. - Oh my goodness gracious. - But you know what, speaking of Bounce Empire, let's give them a shout out right now. You're up north, we're not, we're down south. But you know what, we rolled up north, we do it every now and then go to Bounce Empire, and it's great. It's like a super duper warehouse, not a warehouse, it's a thing of beauty, the beauty. The building's great. And you bounce for days. All kids, shapes and sizes, parents go, you know, enjoy yourself with a drink upstairs, birthday parties, all that kind of stuff. We don't have a deal with them. It's just great stuff I could say about them. I love those guys, Bounce Empire. They'd be great idea with us. - Go to the mall. - Okay, well when we go to the mall, we'll show up. - We'll show up. - What stores? - Clairs. - Okay. - Dillard's. - Nice. - Nordstrom. - What about Dix? Can I go look at some stuff? - The Dix. - Okay. Okay, cool, yeah. What about lunch today? What do you think? And should we do lunch? - Chinese. - Chinese. - Great choice. - Shoot. - I love me some Chinese food. - Sounds like a great day, okay. Um, 303, 831, 1340, the hotline as well as the text line. - Got annoyed given his Russell Westbrook on the nuggets. - What did he say? - Oh. - Russell Westbrook on the nuggets is blasphemy. As Stephen A would say, his crimes against Rocky should be put in prison. Don't need that flannel and skinny jeans wearing ass guy in a nuggets uni. This ain't LA. - Listen, everybody knows Russell Westbrook and I have a history that dates back 10 years. Drama in the locker room. I'm reporting for the Associated Press. I need a quote. He's wearing skinny jeans and a flannel. And I said, you got that Colorado thing going on, Russ. And he goes, F you. He told me to my face, F you. - F you bro. - F you, he said. I mean, Ryan, everyone's just looking at each other. And he goes, I'm like, what? F me. And he goes, this is LA. This is flannel. He says, this is LA. And I'm looking around the room. Anybody, Mike Rice. Hey, anyone want to get my back here? Listen, he did that, seen that one up in Boulder with my roommate with the mattress and they took it the whole thing, I seen it. - And he was like, F you, F that. This is LA. - And I was like, bro, okay, talk about the third quarter for a second. I need to get this quoted. And the rest is history. - Mike Rice was like, you know, Danny, that that is LA over there. And Mike's like, hey, man, he's trying to talk to you like that. I was like, thanks, Mike. I was like, thanks, Mike. But now Ryan Edwards was like, he was like the receiver in the replacements when the fight broke out. He was hiding behind like the locker jukebox over there. And I was like, Ryan didn't have my back at all. - I have nothing to do with this at all. - He was like, I'm trying to get on a kill way. I can't have this right now. - Man, what a hot head. He probably goes off on reporters for anything. - You've seen that. - That's crazy. I asked you to my face. He said, this is LA. It's like any jeans and a flannel, black and white flannel. - That's crazy. - Dude, whatever. Olivia Williams, Danny Williams. - This is the Hock song, "Hock 2" I got brought up for. - Oh, okay. I saw one where it's like, "Hock 2" whoo, whoo. Did you see that one? - It's like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, I can't think of this one. Who sings that one? - We'll come back and play that song. - 2024 is a wild song. - My life's sports. (upbeat music) ♪ Well, we never can't scrap ♪ ♪ But the Lord has won ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Hock 2 ♪ (upbeat music) - You gotta see it. When it's built, you know, you can edit anything to sound like anything, which is one of the great original lines of "Morning Me Hand" with Danny and cello. Okay. 10, 49 a.m. in the mile-high city, a little bit of time left. We appreciate interaction in the participation. Lots of ways to get involved with the show. You can hit us up still. Lots of movement in the NBA. It's been a wild one. Of course you want your team to make a splash. Add a guy. Don't forget we have four really good players in the starting lineup. Everybody knows that Michael Porter Jr. is capable of doing a little bit more. I think he's kind of, he's weird like, because if you've seen his podcast, he's like, seems wise. - Curious, Mike. - Yeah, he's curious. That's a great one. - Oh, that's the name of that. - I know, but like that's a great, that's who he is. He's got a lot of questions. He's trying to get it all figured out. He, you know, got a little Kyrie kind of some stuff in him. You know, people thought of like he was led by his dad, who's in his ear and all that kind of stuff. But that goes only so far. - He's smarter than anything. - Now Lonzo Ball's a big boy. I don't need you anymore, dad. You know? Or the big baller brand. So, I think Michael Porter Jr., what I'm trying to say is, has a couple more years before, I think he's got better basketball in him. And maybe a couple more years before he matures to his really grown man self, realizes this basketball game will come and go quickly. I know he's worth $100 million. He's got a lot of family drama stuff. He's been through all that kind of stuff. That's not his stuff. That's his brother's stuff. I go weeks and months without talking to my brothers at a time. And, oh, I love him. It's just that's life and that's how things work. So, he's got his own responsibilities, his own stuff to kind of live up to. And what I'm figuring here, what I'm being told by the Nuggets, is that they are keeping him. There's been no any smoke there of them trying to pursue a trade for him, nothing. And I think he's actually really tradable, to be honest with you. Not super tradable, but I think his contract and his age and the youth and the talent, the skill set, and now the championship experience, make him that contract moveable and the Nuggets have not tried to do it. And that's something to consider. How much better are the Nuggets if Michael Porter Jr. is 15 or 20% better of a player next year? That goes across the board. The stats, the minutes, the responsibilities, all of it. - I think a lot better. If you couple that with a healthy Aaron Gordon and healthy Jamal Murray, I think there would be a few wins better if he's really 15 to 20% better. - I don't think that's crazy to, you know, I think he's okay, let me give you another number to make it. - Last year is probably his best season in the NBA. - It was physical gifts and talents and who he is as an age, physical skill set talent. I think he's 80% of the player, he can be physically and gifted as according to his gifts. - He's got a little bit more. - He's 80% of the player that his gifts would allow him to be. If that makes sense. - So where could he get better then? - Oh, I think dedication to the craft, the team, not all the other things outside of basketball, toughness, pure straight toughness. I think he needs one of those mental head coach guys about being in the right place. He's, his whole bread and butter is shooting the ball. If he's not shooting the ball and goes in these deep, dark slumps and places, he can't get out of it because he doesn't, his game isn't about enough other things to make you valuable enough to where he's not hurting the team. So I think any great shooter should be with like a head shrink or coach guy just telling you like, bad shots, you know, bad thoughts gone. Next thing, the next good thought, you know, how the catcher and Major League two had to look at the playboy to get his head right, you know, to throw the ball right. - Oh, yeah. - You know, like whatever it takes. He started reciting like all these facts about the plate mates, you know, stuff like that. And it just helped him keep his mind. - You know, he rides motorcycles on Monday for shorts. - Yeah, and likes long walks on peaches and stuff like that. So, yeah, just kind of my thought there. And that's something the nuggets are banking on. They're not done yet. They'll tweak, they'll turn. They think it is Smith or a pick it can be Reggie Jackson. Okay, whatever. Well, I mean, type of player. They think they can get that for nothing. Okay, maybe you can, but I, I need horse, a horse for type of player. I need at least a horse for him. Maybe Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, I think Bob Don is that kind of player. - I think so too. - I think he's perfect. I might need, hey, I might need him. Where's Mason Plumlee? - He just signed this morning. - Where, with who? - Last night, I was one year. - If it's for like three or four million bucks, I'm gonna be pissed. If it's for 10 or 11, nine million bucks, I'm gonna be like, nah, I bet you it's for four, five million bucks. - He signed with the Phoenix Suns on a one year deal. - How much? - That I do not know, vet minimum, vet minimum, so yeah. Loved him as a backup center. They also re-signed DeAndre Jordan over the weekend, one year for 3.6, player coach. They really value his presence in the locker room 'cause he's not playing much on the court, so. - Two minutes left, worth of show, Olivia Williams wanna get back to you here. I wanna ask you, we look back when you're a big star on the stage in years and we go back to this moment and we're talking to all the things you wanna do in your life and all the cool stuff you wanna be able to accomplish. What do you wanna do in your life? Wait, what are your jobs? If you had two or three jobs in your life, can you tell me about what you would like those jobs to be? Into the microphone. - A scientist? - Okay. She does lots of experiments, she mixes things, she gets into things, she's pretty wild and I think that's what the science community needs. Keep going. - A baker? - Okay, she wants to be a baker. I love that. Are you gonna be like wedding cakes? What kind of things are you gonna be baking? And how much baked stuff am I gonna be getting as your dad? - I'll be baking like wedding cakes. - Okay. And then last, what's their next and last job of your life? - Singer. - Singer songwriter? - Oh. - Like Taylor? - Yeah. - Who would you compare yourself a young, like at their age to a young Taylor? Are you like a young Britney Spears? Are you like a young Katy Perry? Who are you kind of like? Who do you kind of model your game after? Do it, I like that. - Hey. - That's the right answer. - Good one model, yeah. - She's got a lot of hits. Well, okay, Olivia, thanks for being with us here today. We appreciate you and we love you. Good night, Olivia. No, I'm just kidding. Okay, good stuff, Alex, thanks. Jeff, we'll be back tomorrow, listeners. There's so much NBA stuff. We could just kind of go on for days. We'll have to kind of recap tomorrow. I'm hoping in the next year, 24 hours, 23 hours, we roll in tomorrow with a real, you know, cool signing, some kind of trade, a little bit of action on the nuggets front. But, you know, the mavs aren't better. There's a lot of teams that aren't better. The Eastern Conference shook it up. You know, people thought the Clippers were a big, huge threat. And the Clippers are done now because Quiet Leonard is a 50-game player. And now you're relying on James Harden, their toast. There's a lot of teams. I don't think the Mavericks will reach that high again. I think that combo of Kyrie and Luca, that's kind of the pinnacle. And then, who's to say the young and immature? We know they are. Timberwolves aren't gonna take a step back. The nuggets are okay, guys. We'll talk about it more on tomorrow. We appreciate you guys and we love you guys. 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