NBA TODAY | “Giannis & Damian Lillard are best duo in East” – Perk claims Bucks will win NBA Finals

NBA TODAY | “Giannis & Damian Lillard are best duo in East” – Perk claims Bucks will win NBA Finals

Look look I love the honesty from Dame because it is true the buck stumbled into the All-Star break but hopefully Dame can ride some of this momentum into the final stretch of the season and there was actually another interesting moment during the broadcast when uh Giannis and Dame both spoke about being

The two oldest players on the East Allstar team I think Dame is 33 Giannis is still 29 so Austin do you think that right now with the urgency based off of them feeling their old bones is this the time for Milwaukee to win it all I think

Next year is the year where the pressure cooker really kind of turns on and they got to go out there and perform at that highest level um if anything this is kind of I don’t want to say a free year because with that type of roster and

With that type of you know you’re talking about players on that roster you talking about Giannis and Dame they’re expected to go compete now um they’re three and seven under the old head pops uh listen I called him he didn’t call back that’s what that’s why I know you

Stressed I’m like hold up man but listen he ain’t picking up your calls no he ain’t picking up nobody’s calls right now but listen Dame Dame’s got to get a little bit of Confidence from this weekend even though you know it was a weird game he still won MVP still went

Out there and won a Three-Point Contest get a little positivity flowing in that blood goes back to Milwaukee they know they had a tough last 10 games you know after All-Star breaks a whole new season you know that’s a whole new year I mean that’s how it feels like when you’re out

There at least everyone’s playing harder it’s go time it’s playoff time let’s see if Milwaukee can kind of tap into a chemistry here and get something going so I did hear your dad talk on ESPN radio over the weekend he did interview with PJ carlesimo and Mark heser and I

Thought it was interesting because he was talking to PJ who he knows really well from his days with the Spurs goes what this is the hardest coaching job I’ve ever had and he said the one of the hardest things is he doesn’t have a staff yeah like he took over in the

Middle of the year he’s got Dave Jagger but everybody else he inherited from the previous coaching staff and he goes I’m still evaluating the coaching staff almost as much of I’m evaluating the players he’s not comfortable there yet and it’s hard to enact any kind of

Change when you don’t have all your guys you’re in the middle of the year there’s already a lot of pressure like we’ve said this before when you have Giannis on your team there is always pressure yeah I don’t care what his contract says I don’t care the extension there is

Always pressure win they didn’t make that move for Dame Lillard to go finish in the second round again that is true but the Intel we got that actually matters is that please call your son back dog please some back it’s all good it’s but clearly clearly they’re going

To be make it more competitive I don’t know I think everyone looks at it it’s like it’s a break so I don’t think nobody want to come here and compete I think 200 is a lot you know to be scored it just shows that you know we

Didn’t go out there and compete like I guess you would you would want us to or whoever would want us to but um I think that’s just what it is let me grab my tea really quick we got a little shade from the commissioner that was actually hilarious but all

Jokes aside the allstar game is truly falling below expectations you know Austin I want to give you the floor here hey Park let’s get him cuz this cuz Hey listen I’m listen I first off that that this Allstar Weekend had some high moments the Sabrina step was great but

We talk about the bread and butter of the All-Star game it’s always the dunk contest and the game itself right right which this past weekend was a tough watch it was a tough watch when we talk about the All-Star Game listen I’m not expecting guys to be game seven dive on

The floor give you know give everything you got but there’s a fine line between not playing hard and even what they did last night 21 points bro Scott Van Pelt said it better than anybody if they don’t care why should we Kobe even said it man like listen guys play harder in

Pickup games in the summer guys are going to play oneon-one tomorrow when they go back to their respective cities and get after it more than they did last tonight so I don’t want to hear the whole injury thing again I’m not expecting these guys to play you know

The greatest defense there’s going to be some fre Olay in the All-Star Game there’s going to be some you know circus acts it’s an All-Star game but when that third and fourth quarter come around that’s when you we we we we like to see these guys compete this is the greatest

Pickup game in the world I want to see the best players get after it that felt Pro bowlish last night I felt like I was watching a football pro bowl like flag football that was flag basketball they’ve been trying to tweak the Pro Bowl so that it’s more entertaining for

The fans and they got rid of it yeah come on man perk to be honest it was embarrassing and it was it was disrespectful to the game of basketball to the NBA to so many guys that used to like the the NBA Allstar you to be an NBA Allstar it’s an

Honor it’s an honor like I played 14 years and never made an allstar game I was close to making it one time and Al Horford Bea me out by one coach vote do you know how it would have felt to be in the allstar game Russell Westbrook won

Backto back F uh Allstar MVPs one of the times he came off the bench CU he was playing so hard that’s how much he cared and at the end of the day players won’t say it publicly but in order to move the needle in order to get an allstar game

Where they’re actually competing you know what’s going to have to happen the NBA is going to have to increase the incentive meaning put a bank roll in front of their faces to make them go out there and play hey you know what if this team wins each player get an additional

500,000 we saw the results and we saw what happened with the n Season tournament guys was scrapping like crazy taking charges we saw a playoff version of LeBron James but again man you you go back and you watch you watch Jordan you watch uh Shaq you watch Cove you watch

All these guys that was in the all even Russell Westbrook like it was a badge of honor to represent and be a rep a guy that represented the allstar game and if I was Adam Silva I would have been pissed as hell like he was last night because it was an embarrassment all

Across the board so let’s talk about how we got here okay because this is the first weekend the NBA has the stage all to itself Super Bowl’s over everybody’s got this is the NBA’s big showcase and instead of us having the the three Marquee games on ABC the three big

Leadin all the way through on TNT and then ABC and then we have the allstar Saturday night and we have the allstar game and this is what when the nation turns its attention from football to basketball this is what the NBA is putting on display how did we get here

Football added a week so we have week 17 to the Super Bowl is one week later the trade deadline is now before the All-Star Game it used to be after and so the All-Star Game you saw the I think the Boogie cousins tra is the one that

Kind of changed things where right after the All-Star game Boogie gets traded and people are scrambling to find him in the locker room and tell him and get reaction I remember that changed everything because it kind of it just made the whole weekend kind of awkward for everybody so they moved the All-Star

Game after the trade deadline they also made the All-Star Game a break so it’s longer and they had to find a spot for it on the calendar but I think the calendar just needs to change like the calendar has changed so in in a way such

That this isn’t what the NBA wants to be putting its best this is not the best foot forward for the NBA now I come up with all these ways to change the game I like World versus USA I know you think you don’t like that but but in hockey it

Works I think there’s enough great players all around the world what if there’s not see that’s a thing though if the calendar changes you might still have the guys approach the game the same way and they don’t care and to me I think perk hinted to it my solution is

Pay the guys we saw we saw a million I think the winning uh Team the players got 500,000 right from the End season tournament we were talking about how how gamechanging that was that money was and I think no matter how high you are on the

In the NBA like that money matters to you and how you can transform lives and so pay them the same way we saw the them reap the benefits of the inseason tournament pay the guys who win the All-Star Game a little bit more but if it’s the calendar here and for me it’s

Paying them what you the Optics though of like these are Allstars making $50 million no but that’s but that’s why it shouldn’t be half a million be a million I don’t care how much money you got a million dollar is a million dollar they tried the charity they tried the charity

Giving you know giving money to charity and I think now like it didn’t really yield much so Austin what would you say is what’s the actual fit I think you could first off a million per player is a lot of money even if you’re a guy

Making $40 $50 million a year a million dollar that’s free cash man that’s that’s money you can give to your family your friends your charity do whatever you want with it but that’s a lot of money so that’s one thing secondly each All-Star player gets a ring right why

Don’t the winning team get a totally different type of ring we’re talking about Super Bowl looking type of ring an iced out uh All-Star ring the losing team gets maybe like a smaller ring with like a you know Jewel on it I I I don’t

Know try to make it more so where these guys take it personal compete but at the end of the day man it starts at the top we need the top dogs and the young guys competing it’s not LeBron james’ responsibility or Steph Curry they’ve done their time I want Deon Booker and

Anthony Edwards to compete against each other I want Jason Tatum and Anthony Edwards to compete against each other I want the Young Dudes to go out there and compete what what they doing out there just chilling and what what one second per what did you make of Anthony Edwards

Anthony Edwards comment saying like that was was so strange for me because he is such the opposite of that he is such a competitor for him to say I’m going to All-Star break and that’s my boy so I I love it but I hate the fact that he’s

Going like oh nobody wants to come to allstar game and compete why not you going against the best players in the world this the greatest pickup game in the world you compete in the summertime versus Average Joe’s in a gym in Atlanta but you’re not gonna compete against

Devin Booker the greatest two guard in the NBA right now or or Jason Tatum like these are guys that you need to go compete against and and and and this goes back to my point a Austin I’m glad you bought that up do you remember the time when when

Jordan was guarding magic right and then you remember the time when Co was Gordon Jordan and LeBron was J Gordon Kobe do you remember the breakup of Kobe and Shaq and Shaq and coob was going there that they had tension during that allstar game like we got to get back to

This point and you’re you’re so right when you nailed it because let me tell you this if you’re a young guy if you’re Anthony Edwards you should not say oh I’m gonna be shooting left-handed shots in the allstar game your mindset should be I want to come out here and actually

Win the allstar MVP don’t take that for granted of putting that Accolade up under your resume so at the end of the day we could we could come with all these hypotheticals and and what can move the needle the number one thing that’s going to get these guys to

Compete is a bank roll you’re GNA have to I think the money will help but you guys are right I do think Brunson played hard he did Kevin did but I do think that the point the point is is that the veterans have served their time and so fore foree fore for speech

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NBA TODAY | “Giannis & Damian Lillard are best duo in East” – Perk claims Bucks will win NBA Finals