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Can We Talk About the Lakers?!

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0:00 how much did you guys put in we put in 100 bucks yeah 100 bucks should have put in a th000 that's a crazy bet for the Lakers at that part are you trying to quit JK or what yeah next time listen to me he's trying to help you [Laughter] [Music] exit and welcome back to another very very Joe's favorite type of topic episode of The Care Joe's favorite o are we going to talk about movs okay okay sports sports we got okay we got to talk about are you trying to say I'm less than a man cuz I'm not into sports no we said that you said that I'm less less of a man us less than a man you're you L than you're more man than any of us will ever need okay I will say this if you do your dream is that one day we are sports book betters that's the that's probably

0:51 how I'm going to get into sports exactly is if I start great way to do it though we've been betting on sports for years and you're not yeah but I've been busy doing business but I'm saying when we get there you got to you got to be a sports guy I will be a sports guy all right what's the thing Sports man I want to connect with my father-in-law by getting into gay soccer yeah oh yeah that's tough one but you can do it we're going to talk about basketball we're going to talk about this really epic and crazy trade that happened recently to the Los Angel oh that one are you able to explain what's so crazy about this trade cuz I still don't understand either yeah explain to people who who don't watch how how would you what part of this don't you understand there was a really really good um somebody was like can you speak to me in like lady terms or whatever what this means yeah yeah you mansplain we love that it's basically the same as uh Kate wiler got traded for Leonardo DiCaprio no that's not how it work it was more like Destiny's Child traded away Beyonce for

1:42 Chile from TLC in that era whoa thank you for that I get that one but why why did they do that like is there because Chile from TLC is looking a little chunky on stage okay is there so so you know how like sometimes things happen and then the public don't know but like the Inner Circle does cuz they're like oh they did this because of this contract there's a million theories but before we get too meta on it like let's just talk about like what specifically happened also where were you Anthony when this happened dude I was at home trying to play some Call of Duty and then this guy calls me the second it happens and the second it happens I'm also like suddenly in three text threads because everybody thinks it's a a hoax like it was like midnight it was like or 11:45 at night or some ████ what's the actual trade so basically the main players in it are LCA donic from the Dallas Mavericks and

2:32 Anthony Davis from the LA Lakers um Anthony Davis is like a 31 32y old like he's obviously want to ring with us he's been with us for like six seven years he's like a main like definitely a number two to LeBron like that's that's who we we built this team around le Lebron Anthony Davis is a phenomenal player mostly known for his probably like unibrow look but oh yeah that guy exactly I like that guy phenomenal guy gets injured from time to time so it's like you know all you pray is that he's not made of glass and he's going to stay healthy because when he's healthy he's good but you know he's he's done his part he's a great guy he just put up like 40 the other day yeah he's very phenomenal LCA though is this 25-year-old player all right so that's like six years plus younger who is undoubtedly like the next like generational Talent the game oh right yeah he's like top three in the entire

3:23 league easily arguably that did he win MVP last year he went to the finals last year he was MVP Contender I don't think he won the MVP last last year but like this guy is like he was Rookie of the Year in 2019 when he came into the league he he like his his main inspiration was LeBron James and then he just like worked his ass off in Slovenia or whatever and came over and then just became a Phenom like he averages like 277 and seven like minimum and plays like 40 minutes a game that's basically saying like this kid is the future of like the NBA in general like he cuz LeBron's obviously aging out the guy's 40 he been playing 20 years yeah he's old he's guaranteed he's playing with his son that's some undeniably gangster ████ but just he's what a long career he's yeah he's at he's also still playing well he's playing really well he's still averaging also 277 and7 and the crazy thing is no NBA players in the

4:14 history of their entire career have had that average and both of them now are on the same team two the only two people in NBA ever with that average that high he got lucky because Kobe isn't around anymore cuz then still well even he he also retired he would have been aged out sure well we would have know that but nobody beats heart he already retired yeah he already retired okay there's other people that are part of this trade uh but Jo like we'll never know we don't need to get too too M into it it was like we lost um who else did we l we gave away Max Christy uh there was it was a three trade with the Utah Jazz we also gave away like a first round pick for a later but point is everybody in Dallas pissed off like crazy like wakes up they're screaming they're doing like what the Dem s did when like they lost like they're going nuts on social media

5:04 and they're just saying it's like a f minus level trade do they all blame Mark Cuban no's out yeah Cuban's he doesn't own it no more he's a Min minority owner who has no stake in it I don't SP but they say he says he's head of best operations right but he's he literally is also the guy who was quoted was like I would if he was either keep Luca or divorce my wife get the divorce papers ready he's always been that guy like Luca is the guy they they spent like s that wouldn't that would have been his choice why why would they give away somebody like that Dei okay de E de i e they didn't have enough white guys on the team realistic hey SI we all know what it was right Dei they say he's getting chunky how is it Dei no it's this chunky Dei chunky boy oh what is that uh money money well how can it not

5:56 be money what do you mean La money different La contract is different there was a back door payment for them to get rid wa is it a trade or they lose them a trade but Dallas can't Dallas was about to have to pay him a lot of money right so here's the thing he was uh basically he's he's supposed to be able to be a free agent in 2026 and could have held the Dallas organization in Limbo by not signing the supermax extension worth 5 years 345 million so the fact that he got traded before the trade deadline this season means he's not eligible for his super Mac extension uh so Dallas kind of ████ him there they literally they wanted to destroy his leverage against them no they they they're basically like we're not going to pay you this m massive contract we're going to ditch you right now oh I I see I see and what's crazy just on some personal like tidbits about it it's like

6:47 this guy also just bought a $15 million house and he lives in a state in Texas with zero state income tax now he's coming to California where it's like the highest state income tax so it's like and he just got that 15 million house and he was blindsided by it his dad put out a statement saying like this was ████ this is messed up Anthony Davis didn't know about the trade LeBron didn't know about the trade um freaking Jason kid who's the coach of the Dallas Mavericks didn't know about the trade I didn't even know Jason kid was the coach that's sick I didn't know that they did to this yeah everybody was blindsided by it and to just have Anthony Davis so who made the call who made the trade well so the guy who is basically the GM for the Dallas Mavericks his name is Nico something or other that guy actually is notorious also for being the person who flopped the Steph Curry uh Nike deal wa you guys ever heard that story uhuh so

7:37 Steph obviously before he became the greatest shooter in NBA history he was given a presentation to be signed as a Nike athlete but the notorious story is that like the the presentation was just like not cool so he didn't feel the vibe so he ended up going over to Under Armour and then being their most successful athlete signed ever he blew them up too blew them up like crazy but Nike was supposed to have that but apparently when uh he walked into the meeting they like didn't even call him Steph they called him Seth like his brother apparently it was like a copy and paste presentation that like was for Kevin Durant yeah so he just didn't feel the love or like the care at all so then he bounced on them and became under aror like Greatest Story um that same guy is now the GM for the Dallas Mavericks who now just so he's like a failing upwards kind of guy the generational Talent he just how does he keep getting jobs

8:29 failing up well there's there's again there's a a lot of maybe he's talented in other things one of the funniest stories that we really enjoy about it especially being a Lakers fan is the idea that uh Luca had gotten like his third or whatever calf injury in like you know four seasons and he you know he was out for a series of games uh through that because he wasn't doing any conditioning he also quote unquote ballooned up to like 270 lbs so they were really concerned about his health his conditioning and he was just kind of being that kind of player um so and like they had made the statement from the Dallas Mavericks Camp so when Rob pinka which is the GM for the Lakers who's been getting a lot of heat lately for like not doing the right decisions or bringing on brownie or whatever you want to say he went into this negotiation and apparently like gas lit the ████ out of Rob pinka because apparently we were also supposed to give uh a lot more than

9:19 just Anthony Davis we were also supposed supposed to give our newest rookie Dalton connect who's been killing it um away as well as like another like round pick or whatever but then he gaslit the GM over there and was like well Luca's L Luca's conditioning is bad he's overweight he's not playing well he's injured and he's basically just repeating everything that they had said earlier so he's like we can't give you this much we can only give you this and then that trade happened and now everyone's celebrating Rob Pink's like Mastery and swindling for grabbing a new generational Talent cuz we know LeBron's going to age out and from Kobe to LeBron to Luca we get it but is Luca really like going down in terms of performance like no this guy literally just put up 40 minutes per game 20 28 point average went to the final s months ago does it matter that he's heavier no nobody gives a fly ████ he's playing his ass off and the funnier thing is like this is how every good villain Arc even starts if

10:11 you get side like you you literally just get swindled by your own organization that you gave your entire career in your life into you know and all the fans like were rooting around you and then they you just get kicked off for what being fat that's pretty likely that they got rid of him because of the the they didn't they wanted to avoid that payout that could possibly these are all a number of VAR there's no way they don't want to avoid that payout yeah for sure they're they're trying not to but wouldn't have that been worth it to keep someone so good we don't know cuz the new the new owners right they're the adon's right and they might have a different way of looking at this ████ yeah the same Adon that own the ████ uh the Republican party yeah no but but the the the casino yeah the um it's what's her name mam mson is now the wife of the yeah of Sheldon who died oh wow she's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks now wow so there there's a thought that

11:01 maybe she's more of a cheap skate doesn't want to ████ pay huge contracts I don't know nobody knows see we're all guessing there's also there's also technical like theories of like gameplay and stuff like that but we're not going to have fun with that here that's for like real basketball fans we're going to talk about the weirder and funnier things here JK news like for example how the NBA ratings were tanking no nobody's watching it bless and that's a real thing right yeah that is a real thing when when we say they're tanking it's year over-year like they went down it was like 15% it's not like nobody's watching yeah but like it it went down right but then ironically when you do crazy trades like this suddenly there's actually more press on this than the Super Bowl for like that's that's wild interesting okay that's like genuinely SW the whole Super Bowl Story the whole world was just like what the freak cuz that's nobody would do that trade he didn't even believe me for like 5 minutes when I'm telling him to ████ on

11:51 the phone and it was so fast that I had to Google it and be like nothing's on there because there's this guy Shams Karina or whatever who usually like uh tweets and like kind of like gives the news off and everybody thought he got hacked his Twitter because it was just such a ████ it's that unbelievable insane that's an angle to kick the ratings up that's that's a funny statement because it does like suddenly everyone is like I want to watch that first game for sure who doesn't as a official Sports commentator and someone who's really into basketball you guys know that uh that one movie about the Oakland A is it Moneyball with Brad Pit yeah so he gets a s█████ right but he statistic sizes everybody and he's like and and he's like oh this guy's good with this and he'll work together with this what if some nerd is like you know what this ████ he's actually

12:42 really good he's undervalued everyone's talking about Luca right now but his other dude he passes like a ████ and with him with our guys it's going to be really good Anthony Davis is very good Anthony Davis is really good he's very good the ironic thing is literally the second he went over to the MCHS he got injured and he had to get taken out of the first off thee got injured already it's not a bad one but there's just such an irony so everybody's already comments are like yeah and yeah there's there's thoughts that like Luca um there's an iron it's like buying a broken car just buy one it breaks right away even in my even my like you know my homies threads uh and stuff like that it's like us getting Lucas like we get the long game but like that didn't mean mean we felt confident about winning the championship or anything like that because now we got like a Luca and LeBron they both like don't really play defense they both kind try to do the same R they're both ball Hogs sure but not really but yeah sure

13:34 you they're both Playmakers so it's not to say that that's complimentary but you get the long game but then we just made a bunch of other tra I thought the Lakers game play was just pass it to LeBron so if LeBron's not getting it pass and you can now pass it to two people wow they're Unstoppable dude but they play play the same position they should just pass it to two people yeah but check this out so me and Anthony you got more more than one more than one ball we placed our bet at the beginning of the year right it was Plus 2500 2500 on the Lakers right so the night that this ████ happens they remove the Lakers from the betting app you can no longer bet them but yours is locked in fig locked well well yeah ours locked in but like then the next day they update it after it's all confirmed and everything like that and then it's plus 600 right now 600 right now oh you know why we just got our Center boom 6 Center so we just traded away

14:25 dton connect which is our but you still have your bet 2500 how much you put in we put in 100 bucks yeah 100 bucks should have put in a thand should that's a crazy bet for the Lakers at that part are you trying to quit JK or what yeah next time listen to me he's trying to help you exit but we just we just got our center now who is from the Charlotte Hornets Max Williams something like that anyways um he's he's 23 years old so it's like the Lakers are starting to look really really ████ good for absolutely no reason pink is doing a good job suddenly everybody's on his side and Dallas hates the Dallas Mavericks it's crazy wow what's what's the odds that there's some kind of a incentive for this trade that just nobody sees that it's like a a back door deal there's always got to be those when you're talking pretty likely

15:15 hundreds of millions of dollars well like what there funny um there's a guy Dennis Schroeder he used to be on the Celtics he played on the Lakers and then he was traded to anyways he's traded around a lot he's almost kind of like a NBA ████ right now U it's really ironic because he said that the the trade deadlines feel like a slave auction CU nobody gets like nobody gets their say right it's just a business at the end of the day you wake up the next day you have to move you literally are put on a plane he called it modern day slave trading yeah and then and then he gets traded instantly you're nothing but a basketball card and he got traded to like who was it again all I know is he he just been on the Warriors right and then Jimmy Butler just came over to the Warriors which is ████ crazy it always feels so like you know how like owners of team also own a million other things what's stopping them from making a deal here to get a gain in this industry that's

16:07 true that's ████ true oh yeah like they're like they're like you know what I'mma own all the hot dog carts around the colum cuz they're like and then I'm going to rig the games and then yeah sher's now going to the freaking Jazz so that's what sucks the worst right yeah it's like dude you're you're calling it Mo modern day slavery and now you're getting shipped to Utah Utah I i' rather be a slave like that cuz you got like 20 30 40 $50 million contracts I don't know if i' called slavery because they're being paid a s███████ yeah well I mean that's that's a hilarious part cuz the funny thing is when a company gets acquired or whatever like it comes with the employees yeah so is that a slave trade it's like it's like if Tesla leaves California it's like you get traded out if you want to keep that job no yeah so I don't know it's like what are you talking about you're still I

16:57 don't know but I guess it's like saying you it's like you made they made a trade with Toyota and now you're Tesla employee and tomorrow you got to go to Toyota so maybe it's more like that that would suck too yeah got to go to Toyota hell yeah I rather to go to Toyota baby come on but I mean think about it if you working for the ████ government right and then they're like you're in the military they're like tomorrow you got to go to Germany you just got to you got to go to that base you guys trade it to the slave trade dude yeah I know it's like it's just employment it's a part of yeah it's just employee call the funny thing is like you know that this is the industry right so it's not like a surprise we just pulled you out of your ████ country and everyone knows at this point of the Year this is when the trades all happen cuz teams are like basically trying to finalize themselves for playoff stuff imagine like an actual modern day slave watching the sports and

17:48 going this is like the slave trie this is just like me this time last year the Pacers got seacom who like crushed it for us hard that's why we made our playoff run but this is bigger than anything else I can you think those um those so that was their best dude oh yeah not even close he's one of the best guys in the league though not just their best dude he's literally like top five in the league like undoubtedly like my mom knows who he is but he's but he's slow and big now so and and they're all slaves right they need to work on Clippers cuz there's there's traffic cam girls that are all like watching this and they go they're just like us and they feel so sorry they feel so so sorry for them Clippers did get rocked like last night by the Lakers though to the point where like bronny came in oh that's always bad bronie has like the lowest

18:40 field goal percentage in like the history it's insane dude bronie is pure neppy higher yeah he's not he's not as good as people not as good 100% bro bro Anthony could put up more points than ████ bronny dude I don't know about that but maybe I honestly think you could hey ████ it he got a contract still with gu hey he kept LeBron happy yeah but the also isn't it like didn't that generate sales oh yeah like half a million jersey sales kind of more of what they want right yeah but I think they just wanted to keep LeBron happy yeah LeBron happy hey you think the the Teemu Factory children are making these basketball jerseys and they're they're shedding a tear for the that because they feel so bad for their enslaved Brothers yes that's smart that's good money they're going damn we got it pretty good around here you know the to Utah yeah the Nike Factory Thai children

19:32 are like making the Jordans and they're going I feel so bad for you guys you guys are slaves just like us just like us so stupid

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