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This set comes courtesy of NCAA buzzer beaters.

For the fifth time in women's NCAA tournament history, all four number one

seeds have reached the final four. Even crazier than that though, not a single one of those

number one seeds had a game decided by 10 points or fewer on their path to Phoenix.

I mean, I've been watching this tournament for like the last two rounds.

Number one, Blanca Keenionus for Yukon. That's a good player.

Really?

Incredible.

You can't ignore it.

Yukon's pretty good.

Yeah, they're pretty good.

So good, in fact, that South Carolina, we'd all agree.

Good team.

Great team.

Yeah, before this tournament started, I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at DK Sportsbook

because you could lock him in at plus 850.

Yeah.

There are number one seed perennial title favorite.

They're plus 600 now?

They're plus 600 after last night.

By the way, six straight final fours for South Carolina.

That's the third longest streak in NCAA history men's or women's.

A number of things to clean up here because there's news breaking,

Olivier Rue, the Florida 7-foot-9 center has entered the transfer portal.

He's available to all.

There's a 7-foot-9 sophomore.

Oh, look at Tony shaking his head.

Gran de Boguto.

Yeah, he can't play.

If you're 7-foot-9 and not a top 50 recruit, you're stiff.

Talk about football.

He is literally a stiff.

That 7-foot-9 doesn't move around very well.

What are you smiling about?

I would take him in a heartbeat if I were almost any coach in the league

who thinks I'm good enough to turn 7-foot-9 into something.

I mean, he couldn't get on the floor.

He's much slower and he's much more rigid than everyone out there.

He just can't play.

Well, he couldn't get on the floor for a very good team.

It doesn't mean he can't get on the floor for a team that's 13 and 18

and bringing in a new coach.

I'm just saying there are dozens of major college programs

who need to take a shot on this kid, this kid,

because every coach who's worth a salt thinks that he can turn around

the guy that nobody else can help.

And maybe they can.

I would, if I were a college team, 7-9?

Damn, right, I'd take it.

It's got some experience for her.

Put it on the pole.

Yeah, air cement 90s.

Put it on the pole at Levitard show.

Is the 7-foot-9 sophomore still physically growing?

If you're a sophomore in college, aren't you still growing?

So he's 19, right?

Is he 19?

Yeah, yeah.

OK, who thinks any 19-year-old is fully formed?

He can get quicker.

He can be taught to play at his height.

Weird endorsement of the 7-foot-9 stiff.

A dry cleaning rack cannot get.

He could be more agile, right?

Florida tried him in two sports.

He wasn't good enough at either.

But one last thing on the women's tournament,

are we finally going to get good games in this final four?

I've watched all four of these teams play.

Hi, May Ahaka's sister plays for UCLA.

They're all super good.

The tournament's proven that.

But are we going to get these clash of titans

or is it just going to be Yukon running

through the entire competition?

Yeah, I mean, I think, like, first of all,

TCU last night was a good game

up until their best player got hurt

and then, like, South Carolina just beat him on an attrition.

But yeah, no, I think you've reached a point now,

these are all elite programs.

These are all elite teams.

And by the way, three out of the four,

was it, we're in the final four last year?

So it's like, this is, there's a continuity there

where I think we're going to get good games.

But there's also highlights kind of what I've been talking about

for women's college basketball for a while,

which is the halves and the halves,

the gap is so big.

And so it's like, it's so hard

for a Cinderella story to happen

in women's college basketball

the way it does on the men's side.

What happened with NIL in that sport

is really interesting

because around 2022, 2023,

you did have Cinderella's help.

Miami made an elite eight

and gave Kim Okie and LSU a good game in that tournament.

You had these programs that were, I guess,

on the forefront of NIL

and you had all these legacy programs

that just thought the logo would do the recruiting

and it took them like a season

and a half to realize, oh, okay,

I guess we have to dedicate the resources

even though we're Kentucky,

even though we're Yukon women's.

And now we're getting back to a day and age

where it's like the mid-90s.

You had Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, and Yukon.

And then everybody else is have not.

Well, everyone says that Geno Ariemas,

this team is the most overwhelming

that you have seen in the modern era.

Then I got to like watching South Carolina last night.

I was, all I could think of was LSU a couple of years ago

and how I was like, why are they guarding

Caitlin Clark like this and you guys are like,

well, Kim Moky is a dad of that.

I'm like, that doesn't mean she's making the right decision

out there, contrast with South Carolina last night.

And I'm like, this is a machine.

They're executing so well on every single play.

I could tell what the first, second, and third read was.

And there was no hesitation at all.

These ladies, excuse me, were playing the game plan to AT.

And so when you talk about Yukon and Geno Ariema

and how overwhelming they are,

this is going to be a great example

of execution versus talent to me.

Because for South Carolina to be plus 600, obviously,

at the only team with minus is Yukon, right?

This tells me like, okay, well put as a gambler,

we're only team with minus.

Yes, I'm notorious gambler, I mean, I'll ask him.

But it's going to be the exact example

of what we were talking about yesterday, which is like,

hey, you can't overcome a massive talent gap,

but you can overcome a talent gap

with good coaching and good execution.

Tune in for Kenyones, stay for the Fuji's bumper music.

Because this tournament nailed it

with Ready or Not as its official song.

Thank you to the video team for putting an assortment

of failing robots behind Tony, just keep playing

an assortment of failing robots.

Like arresting that robot, like a sick cough behind them,

just like carrying them down the stairs.

We have now, now is the time to laugh at the robots

because soon we will no longer be able to do this

and we will look back at this time

when we've been imprisoned by them

as a reminder of how dumb we were.

But I mean, I wanted to keep talking about chalk advancing

and what it is that Mike Ryan said about NIL

because Cory closed the coach at UCLA.

This is one of the powers.

This is one of the people who's winning

as the distance between the great and the less than great

is as large as it was when Ariama was making his name

in that sport with the Rebecca Lobos of the world

and they were just that much more dominant

than anyone else.

Cory closed says, quote,

I've never been as tired as I've been in the last two years

and it's made me think how much longer I can do this.

And I'm just being transparent with you about that.

There are so many things that are harder

and we keep losing incredible people

on the men's and women's side.

Now Jeff Walts, the Louisville coach,

countered with this and a lot of people

countered with some version of this.

I'm friends with Cory.

My favorite line I would tell her is if you don't like your job,

find a new one.

I'm listening this morning at 420

is the workers outside my window

at the hotel in the street are working.

I mean, you choose your profession

if you don't like it, find a new profession.

That's what many of them are doing

by the way, that a lot of them are Titans of the game champions.

Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett,

Ups and quits because he doesn't like it anymore.

Down here, we had Katie Meyer

being an incredible women's coach for 20 years.

And I mean, reach the tournament,

advance to the elite eight historic high watermarks

for the program.

And just as you think she's finally getting everything together,

she walks away from the sport

because of the way that it changed.

And they're wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with that.

I mean, I will judge you for quitting.

No, I won't.

I mean, Tony Bennett, I will forever judge.

Still a young man.

To me, it's like if you've decided

you don't want to put up with these new factors, that's fine.

Now, when you start to blame things,

oh, that's where it becomes problematic.

You know, the college coaches I've talked to,

you know what, they hate more than NIL

where they hate more than the transfer portal

was the realignment because of football.

That's what they all hate.

It's like we were all in conferences

that made sense geographically.

And now, all of a sudden, we're going road trips

from Chicago to Los Angeles.

All the time about this in press conferences,

the big 10, the ACC credit to the Cal schools

because they're actually not doing it

because they were kind of in no man's land.

But the big 10 schools do not shut up about this.

I think Corey Close is being more truthful

than the coach who says,

if you don't like your job, do something else.

The complication of college basketball

because of the portal in NIL,

it's what drove Larry and Yega into retirement.

I granted he was an old guy,

but I would not want to be a college basketball coach now

in a way that I didn't think even consider five, seven years ago.

Larry and Yega is an interesting one

because he got in the middle of this to the final four

and he would be guilty of being what a mean

is accusing him of you didn't start complaining about it

until you started losing,

until you produced a roster that was seven and 24 last year

with the players that you had.

And that's when you started complaining about it.

Closer here to the professional football team,

I'm going to talk to Jeff Hathley about this

on South Beach sessions.

But when I've heard him talk about what his experience was

at the head coach of Boston College,

he was arriving at his dreams.

You know how these coaches live, right?

It's 20 hour days, you're doing,

you know what the lowest levels of this look like?

It's 20 hours a day, thanklessly,

to get to your dream job,

your running a college program.

And you get there and you realize, oh my God,

this is gross.

I hate this.

I don't like who I am.

This is foul.

I'm dealing all the time with parents and family

and money and it's not even just playing time,

which could make me plenty unpopular.

It's business, but with fewer rules

than we've had around business.

So the player being empowered

laps upon your shores with what must be

a litany of endless daily headaches

that puts you to sleep at night

and then you can't sleep and you get up in the morning

and you've got another endless list of things

to get to.

I imagine that all of these coaches

are dealing with this.

The ugliest part of, oh, it's just a bunch

of greedy teenagers.

Yeah, like it, look, any coach has gone

and coached at the pro level and then come back down.

They've all seen the lay like, oh my God.

Like the ability to just focus on basketball,

not have to worry about the coaches show

and that these boosters need to meet.

And all right, yeah, it's so much stuff

that you have to deal with on the collegiate level.

But the trade-off was, I'll tell these little

pissants to do whatever I tell them to do

and they gotta do it.

And that's it.

And now you've removed that power dynamic.

You've basically given the players the same amount

of freedoms that a pro player has.

You can't coach like that on the pro level.

You can't tell, hey man, you gotta do this way.

Like, no, hell no, man, I make more than you do.

Well, now, at the cause of it,

but you still have to deal with TAs and like study halls

and this guy didn't make it.

So it's all the bad sides of college,

none of the upsides of the pros.

And that makes it, I can imagine to be a difficult thing.

I've spoken to a bunch of agents that rep coaches

throughout all the ranks and they all tell me,

universal consensus outside of a handful of outliers.

We got one of them down here in Coral Gables.

Every single coach in football is trying

to make it to the pros.

Every single one, this is crazy.

And there is no real blueprint to fix it.

Just hail Mary's.

Hello listeners and friends.

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Done lebertard.

Let me get some golf ASMR.

Stugats.

Oh, fuck me.

This is the done lebertard show with the Stugats.

We're going to get to Greg Cote's back in my day

in a second here, but I want to relive something

from earlier in the show.

I don't remember Greg how it is,

what it is we were talking about specifically,

but you were surprised by my question

and the reason I gathered you were surprised

by my question is because of how you reacted to it.

It's, it's, it's AI.

He's right.

It wasn't me.

I want to ask you as the news comes out here

on Tiger Woods, the police report has been released, okay?

He glanced at his phone when in the car

and the car ahead of him slowed down,

so it's it is a common affliction on the roadways.

I don't know if you guys have noticed

the sheer number of people texting on the highway,

texting at 55, 60, 65 and 70 miles an hour.

At Levitard show, have you noticed the number

of people texting at 70 miles an hour?

I haven't because I've been looking at my phone.

Yeah, so he glanced at his phone

and the car ahead of him slowed down.

Officers said he was lethargic, slow and sweating profusely.

His eyes were bloodshot, glassy and extremely dilated

and two white pills were in his pocket.

Hydrocodone, which is pretty strong.

I don't know, can you look up for me

if it if hydrocodone is as strong as oxy cotton

and if it's in the family of stuff Jeremy

because two white pills in the pocket,

I wanted to get back to something

that we were discussing yesterday.

The first time I was ever introduced

to the conversation in sports around addiction.

Baseball had suspended Steve Howe five times

and Tommy Lasorta was going crazy

because Darrell Strawberry was suspended

and Tommy Lasorta was speaking for a lot of people

when he said of Darrell Strawberry.

That's not a sickness, that's a weakness

that that was a choice being made.

When we talk about yesterday Tiger Woods

getting help or needing to get help

when you view everything happening with Tiger Woods,

do you guys think he's still making choices for himself

on how it is that he's doing this

or you believe he's addicted to the pain relief medicine

that comes after seven back surgeries

if you had to choose and be right.

Then he's choosing not to have a driver.

That's a clear one.

That's not him high 24 or seven,

not me and in his right mind.

That's a dude is choosing not to have a driver

and everything else becomes secondary after that

because if he has a driver, these accidents don't happen.

Now he's still has a problem perhaps with substances.

He still has an underlying problem

like we talked about yesterday

like what puts you in a frame of mind

where you feel the need to do this

beyond the physical pain.

All those things, yes, still exists.

It still needs to be addressed.

But at the very least a driver would solve fair enough

but that's not what I'm talking about here.

Yes, that would eliminate some risks involved

for himself and others.

Anthony Joshua also had a driver bad things

can happen all over the place

for a lot of different reasons.

I'm talking those specifically sickness or weakness.

Where are you on this?

Sickness or weakness?

I'm not turning this into a first take debate.

It's both.

I am a firm believer of that

as someone that had a mother that died

because they were a drug addict.

I see other families

and I see other people make the decision

that my mother couldn't

which was to really try and get clean and get clean

not half measures.

So while I understand it's a sickness,

I also don't think you can totally absolve somebody

of the choices that they make here.

If it's an addiction,

the definition is that it's out of his control.

Whether it's an addiction to pills or alcohol

or some of both,

I believe he is incapable right now of behaving.

I really do.

And when he says he doesn't want a driver

because it invades his privacy.

It's also why he didn't want a urine test

because they knew what they were going to find.

Is it fair to say he's not capable of behaving?

I mean, he went to TGL just fine.

He's been in social settings

and no one's been like, man, Tiger's a mess.

Well, that just means he's a functioning alcoholic.

You know, I mean.

Alcoholic, functional addict.

Functional addict.

I mean, addict.

Somebody who's out of control of their behavior

is capable of having episodes

where they're capable of hitting a golf ball

into a mat, into a video mat.

Yeah, I don't know.

I can't answer the question.

Is he high when he's playing golf?

I don't know.

I don't, he just flipped the car in a neighborhood.

And I think golfing, like if he were that level,

he wouldn't be flipping a car.

You're pulled over by the police

and you have two of these pills in your pocket.

Like you're taken to the station

because you have pain medication so readily available

that at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday,

you do not wish to be without it.

It's on your person.

It's what they find on you

when you're sweating profusely,

your eyes are dilating.

You guys saw the mug shot, like that mug shot.

Which one?

Beyond age.

That mug shot was haunting.

Yeah, intimidating, incriminating, incriminating.

No, but just haunting to look at everything

that's happening there and to be filled

with sadness looking at a man's face

when he used to represent vitality.

He used to represent youth.

Yeah, and also I think that

looking at my phone is the excuse you used

that's more palatable than I was hammered.

I was out of my mind, you know?

I mean, he did use that too.

I mean, there were several other distractions

on top of what was in his system.

Oxy, by the way, is 1.5 times more potent

than hydrocodone, but hydro stays in your system

about twice as long.

So that's called the delayed release.

The long release, the extendo.

Yeah, yeah.

I look, man, there's no easy way to say this, right?

In that he's someone who has a massive problem.

That's the only way you could say,

you have a massive problem and you need help.

That's it.

Like, regardless of whether it's a choice or a sickness,

he has a massive problem and he needs help.

And the one thing that he should not be doing

until he receives said help is operate heavy machinery.

I think that's one thing that we can all agree on

and it's crazy to me that he can't agree on it.

Like, you know, Tiger, what are you doing in your life?

He says it's because of a privacy thing.

He don't want to drive or like, come on, bro.

You can't, you can't, you get somebody to sign an NDA

and you don't have to worry about anything.

Your Tiger Woods, for God's sake.

But I mean, to that point, like usually get

to the point of rock bottom when you've lost everything,

when you've lost all your money

where you have to make a change.

When you've got the kind of money that Tiger has,

what is rock bottom?

He's not going to lose a billion dollars.

Like, what is his rock bottom?

Killing somebody, hurting himself past, you know,

past repair, like he's already been at that point.

Like, I wonder, I remember John Malini's stand up

where he's talking about the intervention

and how they pulled it off on him and like,

I wonder if he needs like an intervention.

Cause like, hey, I'm gonna tell you this,

that picture of him, you talk about the Muckshot Dan,

how the picture of him in the cop car

with his head resting against the window.

That's the one to me that's haunting.

It's like, you want your kids to see that man?

Well, they'll be like, yeah, that's my dad again.

Well, I feel bad for Tiger Woods, maybe I'm alone,

because I think he's out of control.

I don't think he's capable of reigning in his own inability

to control himself.

And when he's publicly embarrassing himself,

he's supposed to be such a private man.

That's why he's not hiring the chauffeur

that he can well afford.

And yet he's going through these public embarrassments

and posing for police photos.

I mean, that's terrible to look at.

I feel bad for the guy, you know?

I don't condemn him because I think he's just incapable

of fighting his addictions right now.

He probably does need an intervention

because it's clear, not just the latest episode,

but years of these wrong steps

that he's incapable of controlling his behaviors.

That suggests to me both sickness and weakness,

the distinction I'm making between the two,

the Tommy LaSorta didn't make

when talking about terror strawberry is,

if it's something you view as a sickness,

it doesn't come with your judgment.

If you're viewing it as a weakness,

it is coming with an inability to extend that person compassion.

I believe that what you're seeing play out in front of you,

he could have lost a leg in a previous accident

and is not learning from whatever it is

needs to be learned here.

You hear in sports all the time

that some pain or some shame will result in growth,

will result in improvement.

Did he or did he not almost lose his leg?

Never mind, whatever it is that he's suffering

the compounds, the problem because the car accident

to a body that has had seven back surgeries

when it's a car accident at that size of car accident

where you're almost losing your leg,

your body holds all sorts of trauma in it

that requires pain medication.

Yes, and it derailed his career

when he had that auto accident

and he's never recovered from it.

He's 50 now, he should be dominating

on what used to be called the senior tour.

I thought about this when Miles Garrett got into his accident.

I've told you guys the story,

I was riding a bicycle 10 years ago down the street

and somebody opened the car door

as I was riding the bicycle

and the bicycle stopped, the door did not give,

didn't come off on the car door

and I sort of flipped over the handlebars.

I have been dealing for 10 years with the things that happen

when your body seizes up like that in a moment

because of whatever the adrenaline rush is.

If you're in a car accident that almost takes your leg,

don't you imagine, never mind the derailing of the career

that whatever Tiger Woods' back pain was

because he needed seven back surgeries is gonna be

compounded by whatever it is absorbing

the car rolling over is going to do to your body.

You can have empathy and judge somebody.

This one I think is pretty easy for pundits to weigh in on

who aren't super comfortable talking about

things like addiction issues.

You had all the resources in the world, get a driver.

My mom drove with me and my sister in the car

while she was impaired.

She crashed into a mailbox and the car got total

because it was a cement mailbox.

My mom was sick.

She was also an asshole for doing that

with children in the car.

It's not hard.

Then when I was growing up back in my day,

there was a saying that people used to say,

the devil made me do it.

You remember that one?

The devil made me do it, right?

And what that saying is is it basically absolves

100% of the responsibility.

It's not to say that it's not a sickness.

It's not to say that like these people aren't suffering.

But when we say open the door and it's like,

yeah, it's a sickness, it then allows for the addict

to say, none of this was my fault.

I'm just a, I'm a victim.

I'm sick.

And it's like, hey, yes, but also you do have some agency

in this, maybe not as much agency as someone who's clear

and headed and sober, but you do have some agency.

And that's the part that we're coming back to with Tiger Woods

is he has agency in all of this.

It's not just the devil made me do it.

When you're sick, you seek treatment.

When you're physically ill, you seek treatment.

When you're mentally ill, it's wise to seek treatment.

Tiger Woods has all of the resources in the world.

Seek that treatment.

If you have that problem and if you are sick, seek that treatment.

Greg Cody has informed us that he has a back in my day

for the first time in many, many weeks.

I cannot wait to hear where we end up

on this pallet cleansing joyride.

And now it is time to take a trip down memory lane.

Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with back in my day.

Bowling.

I'm in a weekly bowling league.

Why?

Because I'm an every man, a lunchpale guy,

the face of blue collar.

And I love it.

The camaraderie, the competition.

Not a lot of people know Bowling was the first thing

I covered at the Miami Herald,

even before high school sports.

I was a teenager.

I'd sneak my friends' names into the bowling

agate with a made up score.

As a kid, I'd nap on a Saturday to the muffled scatter

and clatter of pins in the droning commentary of Chris Shankle.

But Bowling has changed from what it was back in my day.

We're in a handicap league, meaning all different levels

of player, women, and men.

On any given Wednesday night, the person bowling on the next lane

might be a sharpie with six strikes in a row,

or might be a gutter duster lucky to make a single pin spare.

But all Bowlers nowadays, except me, have this in common.

Everybody thinks they're a pro.

They waltz into the bowling alley with rolling luggage

full of four, five, six different bowling balls.

I'm the only one in my entire league, no lie.

With a single hand held bag containing one ball,

the others have a ball for oily lane conditions,

another ball for dry lanes, a ball for particular spare combos.

Please, the ball racks get filled up,

and there's so many bags and rollers of surplus balls.

The poor waitress trying to bring me another bucket

of Miller Lite has a weave through a slalom of luggage,

ridiculous.

Also, fellow wearing his name and script

on the back of your bowling shirt,

nobody knows who you are or cares.

You're bowling a 138, getting your lane,

and I don't mean lane 11.

Also, Don Carter, quit dancing into my lane

with your body English after the ball leaves your hands.

Another thing, if you're not using three fingers,

two digits in a thumb, you're not bowling.

Make bowling bowling again, three fingers,

a two ball limit, and no name on your shirt,

because you're in a handicap league for a reason, Jack.

Also, bring back Chris Shankill, even though he's dead.

I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was back in my day.

Yeah!

Woo!

Yeah!

Is that a Greg Cody first down?

You guys, I can't do that on the field today.

He's marching up and down the field today.

Whoah, I can't do that.

You sound a bit when did you guys were shaking your head?

Do you agree or disagree with some of his bowling takes there?

It seemed like the fingers was a problem.

The holding of the ball, you guys seem to disagree with in there.

I didn't know, my man.

I didn't know that the people were coming with multiple balls in the ball.

Oh my God.

I'm going to, Wednesday night, I'm going to take photos of what I'm talking about.

It's an epidemic.

It really is.

In the bowling circles, it's an epidemic.

And bowlers out there, y'all know what I'm talking about.

Greg, there's no way you take a picture of it on Wednesday night.

You're going to completely forget one.

Two, don't you play.

Do you play or do you bowl?

Like, what's the adjective?

I bowl.

You bowl.

OK, so it's not play.

You don't play bowling.

Oh, I'm serious about it.

I'm playing.

You bowl with Chris, right?

Chris is a part of your team.

Yeah.

Are you guys like the thunder cats or something?

It's like, well, we're the jets this year.

You know, it's like storm NFL.

We all get the name of an NFL team at random.

And we happen to be the jets, which is the name.

That's the lady that announces all the team names, right, where you said storm NFL.

Storm NFL.

So Chris has multiple balls?

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

This has got three balls?

Yeah.

And that's average amount.

A lot of guys, I swear, you feel like you're going through an airport.

People are pulling bags of luggage with nothing but bowling balls.

And they all have these fancy shoes.

They have the little sock that goes over the shoe that they don't take off until they're

stepping onto the lane itself.

It's a powder on their hands.

It's just like it's ridiculous, this handicap league.

People who are no better at bowling than me, with all these accoutrements, it's ridiculous.

And those balls of different weight, correct?

Different weight, different surface, you know, some of them are made for an oily lane.

I'm looking at a piece of wood.

I can't tell whether it's a dry lane or an orally.

It's shiny.

They're all shiny these lanes.

What does that mean?

Greg, all you need is one ball, a raggedy pair of shoes and about 12 Miller lights.

Thank you very much.

You got that right.

And here's the weird part.

I tend to bowl better in my third game, even though that's when I've got a little hammer

time going on, you know what I mean?

It's because you're not overthinking it.

It could be.

It's got to be that.

Yeah, it relaxes you a little bit.

You consider yourself the face of blue collar?

Yeah, yeah, I really am.

I agree.

Yeah.

You don't?

I mean, he's going to the bowling alley with the equivalent of a lunchpale.

He's going with one bag, one ball, one ball, one ball, just a casey at the bat poem tucked

into his bowling bag from the 1880s.

Thank you.

You mentioned the Jets.

David Fudonis has a great stat here.

You ready?

The last quarterback to lead the dolphins and the Jets to a division title is the same.

It's Chad Pennington in both instances.

Do you realize how long ago that was?

18 years.

That's crazy for the last time it to happen for both franchises.

The quarterbacks, the same Chad Pennington came closer to winning the MVP here because

of what he did with the dolphins that he did with with the Jets.

I've got some basketball stats to throw your guys his way as JJ Reddick is now adding

his voice to Lucas should win the MVP, okay?

You have last night in O.K.C., free throws attempted by Shay Gildres Alexander, the last

two games in O.K.C., 41.

Free throws attempted by the entire Nix and Pistons teams combined in their games the last

two nights versus the Thunder, 40.

This is not a good thing.

The way that Shay Gildres Alexander is saying, I'm the MVP, I let the speak, I let the

game speak for me, Reddick is trying to make Luca the MVP and the stats for Luca over

the last 16 games are crazy.

They at the time when this is being decided, Luca's averaging 36 and a half points.

That's Jordan territory.

That's Jordan at his best territory.

He's shooting better than Jordan did.

He's shooting 49 and a half percent on 36 and a half points of game and 39% from three.

He's also got eight rebounds, seven assists, two steals and they're 14 and two in their

last 16.

LeBron as the oldest player in the league had a triple double again and it's the perfect

role for him to be playing at this point in his career.

That's happened fairly quietly, all things considered.

The seeding of the team to Luca.

Luca's allowed to go 20 for 27 because Luca's allowed to take all the shots.

I mean, LeBron is playing the perfect complimentary game, taking a secondary role to Luca here.

Yeah, I mean, at the best that he could possibly do at this stage of his career.

Yeah, sure.

Luca didn't play last night by the way.

He was suspended for that 16 technical foul that he incurred the other night, which of

course lined up perfectly because they're playing the wizards, who nobody really cares about.

But yeah, I think LeBron is doing the best he could possibly do.

I wish he was shooting better from three, sure.

I mean, there's ways he could be better, but it's like given that his entire career has

been the ball is in my hands and I decide whether we succeed or fail.

And now he's off ball.

It is pretty remarkable how well he's playing.

To go back to the SGA point, obviously him being the front runner for MVP.

You've got Wembee, who's now talked his way and obviously played his way into being

number two.

Great game.

Yeah, great game last night, 41.

I saw a stab by the way.

I don't know if you want to start off the day then another one, another one just a quick

one.

Sure.

Six games with 40 or more points in his NBA career, Victor Wemba-Nyama has.

Do you know how many 40 point games the Iceman, George Gervin had as a San Antonio spur?

69, 69, 40 point games for the Iceman.

Pretty good.

The Iceman.

Had a boy.

So with that, I mean, obviously SGA won the MVP last year, Wembee has not, oh, wow.

The Iceman, I defer here to Greg Cody.

What are your thoughts there on the 69 joke?

You didn't call them the Iceman.

You didn't even notice the joke, didn't you?

Yeah, no, I didn't.

Of all the people to turn to and ask for the nuance of the 69 joke, you turned to your

life.

No, you know, it's too easy.

He's in a handicap bowling with you.

I don't like to say obvious pun related things and stuff like that.

I might have given it a very good, but that's about it.

But Shell Beedle is going to join us in a little bit to talk about this and other

things.

Wait, what was the stat?

George Gervin had 69, 45, but what about Wembee?

He's got six.

I mean, he's only played for three years.

All right.

It's a Iceman thing.

Iceman.

This has got three balls.

Greg Cody said it, not me.

He would know more than anybody, he's got at least three.

Do you realize, though, the general communications fracture in playing my dad singing Stad of the

Day and Jeremy, a cast member, looking at you and saying, so when are you going to give

us the stat?

And whoever's fault it is, it doesn't matter.

Do you realize the communication fracture, no, we know, we know, this has got three balls.