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coverage round two what the Grizzlies ended up with what every other team ended up with and in addition to that that got out of the way because there was a presidential debate last night we’ll get to that we’ll get to all the news and notes of the day we’ll get you ready for the weekend it’s Friday it’s hot outside but smile let’s do it turn it up in your life should do what feels right instead of waiting for the next things to St stop run in your mouth get out of the house get yourself down and Sh me I me it wasn’t enough I want the me it wasn’t enough yeah yeah yeah yeah hope everybody’s having a good day all right so yesterday was a new experience uh it’s going to be super interesting to see how the second round of the NBA draft played out especially as a nonprime Time Event it was just it was just jarring to be watching the second round of the NBA draft at 3:00 in the afternoon on a weekday and obviously uh the coverage yesterday there were like uh you know whatever it is 30 picks that are made but it felt like if you were watching yesterday’s draft coverage that those 30 picks were all an interruption of the bronny James special that took place on ESPN yesterday it was like and I joked with Kevin oconor last night they should have just called it the bronny James special probably could have gotten even bigger ratings than whatever they’re going to get because interspersed in bronny James discussions were actual picks that were made including two that were made by the home team Memphis Grizzlies we we’ll get to everything that took place yesterday in the second round of the draft before I get to anything I welcome John Roser to the show John Roser aka the cologne Ranger the B spray bandit in your sack John the backp beat de Grim Roser John asparagus Johnny narb John Lance he’s Yogi [Music] Roser what up what what is your handicap 9.6 9.6 okay yeah Joe Biden’s better than you I know he said and then I saw somebody post his swing I was like come on bro stop he’s better than stop I I play hey look I play with and against six handicaps trust me Donald Trump even if you wanted to think he was wrong about other things he was right about I seen your swing you are not a six handy ain’t no 6and C in the world that swings like that ain’t no one of them but that was hilar I mean honestly I text you guys I mean I was was absolutely howling they like that was one of those where the joke was coming like it was already Goofy and then when they kept arguing about it it was like I’m already cackling and then that’s like fall out of the chair funny because I was already rolling when dude said I’ve won two Club championships not senior real Club championships and to do that you have to be very smart you have to be very smart and you have to hit the ball a very long way you have this guy he cannot hit the ball 50 yards I was I was dead bro when he said he couldn’t hit the ball 50 yards I was like come on man yeah come on and then it took a cognitive test I aced it it didn’t stop it didn’t stop after that now you got these two old dudes that are arguing about their golf handicap that was rius man absolutely riotous oh my God de Walkers here he is the microphone Mangler Senor quad Mr math nojo the reporter the photographer [Music] he I show up for my black job today so excited to be here uh so if anybody wondering what is a black job this is it dev has showed me the internet has has come up a list of black job list of black job if y’all wondering black Twitter has put together a list of black jobs uh including NFL corner back including a doorman at the club come on come on uh including what else do we have club promoter club promoter uh heypee man woman who does braids uh the fish truck man shoe plug shoe plug upcoming rapper who posted their video upon tweets come on Candy lady Kool-Aid maker candy lady scammer Nfl safety popey’s cashier NBA player stop L booy stop and podcaster it’s a job being a little booy is a job yeah yeah so there if anybody ever wondering put on $10,000 you ever want to know what is a black job I am here to let you know I here for this for the black Twitter wins again last night baby it was so funny honestly I mean I I get it everybody has to be sad about it but it was funny or no funny yes embarrassing yes funny yes yeah this you have to be very smart and you have to be able to hit the ball a very long way this guy can hit the B what are you talking about this is this is the presidential debate I did not have sex with a porn star I was like I was like wait what so funny I was like what’s happening right now our boy our boy Joe who Li dude I don’t even I don’t even know what that lense was he said I don’t even think he knows what he said I mean I look I got absolutely you guys will remember I I got roast did this is four years ago it’s funny I always say hey stick with me on this right and I posted something the effect of we got hundreds of millions people in this country and somehow these are the two we have to choose from that was literally in 2020 yeah and it’s like everybody saying the exact same thing right now it was it was Goofy then it’s goofy now goofy like what are we doing what do we do how is this the best we that we have to offer how wow bro in their 80s they’re arguing about their golf handicaps it’s all so crazy man and my man Biden he has no idea where he is he kept like it’s like somebody kept pulling out the router bro he just like he would start talking and he was like well the media wonders why nobody trusts them it’s because you could find these things from 12 days ago where it’s like they all just track there W Street Journal ran this huge article about real concerns about his cognitive abilities and kind of that he’s been in decline or whatever else and in every show spent the entire time you know if you’re on that side saying this is bogus this wasn’t even sourced properly and this you know what I mean like there’s not I was just with him and he is you know there’s that clip that’s going around everywhere yeah poor Joe Scarboro uh the guy there’s a clip from literally 12 days ago and he goes he is better and brighter and you know quicker and whatever than he has than I’ve ever seen him than I’ve ever seen him and then like 12 days later the guy rolls out on the stage and he’s like in asylums and murder he’s just he’s just losing the plot like like they obviously tried to fill his brain with a couple of different things yeah at the same time and he’s just conflating them he’s like going from one thing to the next nobody’s answering any of the questions bro if they asked them about child care and they just spent 20 minutes telling each other that they were the worst president ever he is the worst president of all time a panel of 159 people said he’s the worst yo that was wild crazy it was it was ridiculous man I loved it I love wildly entertaining wildly I don’t usually Tune In from from politics but last night I made sure I was in I was in front of a TV for every bit of day yeah all right so and and then obviously the cratering that’s today in the political media is just oh the dud don’t oh my go oh God it was you know what it reminded me of last night it reminded me of listening to a Tennessee post game after they lost to Missouri yeah and ran for like 4,000 yard run you remember that like two different Running Backs from Missouri had like 200 yard like they’re just they’re just beside themselves depressed so depressed so we got to do something what are we going to do what are we doing yeah that’s what it was like it was like the Tennessee Missouri postgame show yeah that’s what it felt like when I left it on the channel um look the afternoon was spent watching the bronny James special and that was just I got to be honest with you absolutely bizarre the whole thing was bizarre what them like having a draft picture in that studio like that was weird the way the studio was set up the draft picks in the studio them putting on the wrong hat like literally every pick and then Cassidy hover having to ask them about how they’re going to fit in with a team they’re not going to be playing for it was just all weird and then and then uh like and and I get it like it takes time for these trades to go through and things can’t happen because I was told uh today Edie and wells will be here but cam Spencer won’t be here you haven’t even posted anything about cam or anything because the tra the trade has to go through it’s not gonna be official until so then they have so then they have to do this song and dance even during draft night where it’s like you’re putting on the hat of a team like I have a bunch of like one of the years that I collected cards I have a bunch of those OJ Mayo in a t-wolves hat and Kevin Love in a Grizzly’s hat rookie cards because they take the pictures like right then in many of the Bron Clark you remember Brandon Clark If you look at Brandon Clark’s Draft Day photos he’s wear OKC hat oh wow yeah it’s just also odd they got to figure that out so that one’s strange and then they’re like using the panel time to almost exclusively talk about bronny James every other segment and then every once in a while they will kick it over to like Jonathan gavone and and and Bobby Marx who are in this weird little chair set up in their own section of the it was just all strange everything was strange about it they said imagine ESPN can’t do basketball stuff right that’s what our boy in the chat said they can’t do nothing right wasn’t it bizarre it was weird we thought it was we were watching up here like this whole setup is weird then Bob mys went on stage was like um Rich Paul said if you try to take bronny then he’s going to send him to Australia I’m like what is what yeah and the other thing right yeah well they kept teasing the Bob Meyers news yeah Bob Meers as news and then Bob Meers basically told us that rich Paul was calling all of these teams and telling them don’t take him or I’m going to send the guy to Australia and it’s like this is like the whole this whole second round and then they’re like oh yeah and then uh this guy who just played for you car just got drafted all right back to bronnie so what I’m being told right now is that rich Paul is calling everyone and telling them not and then you know then it became this hourong lecture about how we’re not supposed to say anything about nepotism or the fact that this guy’s only getting drafted because of his dad or that you know and then they’re having to like they’re having to pull back the curtain on the way that we know a lot of things work agents always try to do this and angle right like you could go back to once upon a time there was this uh uh there was a story about um remember when we traded Rudy Gay and like the first time around when his name like came up there was this whole thing about how you know when his contract came up like his agent was calling around saying don’t trade for Rudy don’t trade for Rudy he ain’t resigning with you he ain’t resigning with you right and so like you you’re trying to leverage whatever you can whatever is in the best interest of your client is what you are attempting to leverage and this kind of stuff happens all the time so that’s not that big of a deal but people don’t talk about it on air they don’t talk they they don’t talk about that much on air they also don’t talk about and the weird thing is like the only time because again you can say whatever you want about the nepotism thing and nepotism goes on in all sports and nepotism goes on in society and like we know right but people do [ __ ] about it like you know mean like like they like you know what I mean like it’s always presented as like the only reason uh that anybody’s complaining about this like people complain about nepotism all the time when it when it comes to things right and so but it was like don’t complain about this one because it happens other places and it’s like well they kind of complain about that in other places too and it’s like it it it and and and when it is complained about is when it where they feel like somebody is given an opportunity that was not qualified for the opportunity and that’s the only time where I was where I was like come on bro when they tried to lecture me about how like the un u like the unqualified wouldn’t understand this guy is a real Prospect you know like stop stop bro just don’t don’t try to lecture me on why the guy that we just watched him okay if you want to tell me he’s a project if you want to tell me you know what I mean it’s worth a f but like the whole like here’s what he shot from three unguarded and the you know what I mean like they didn’t none of it was balanced and the other thing that I couldn’t stand about yesterday was and I guess I don’t know maybe this is part for the course and the second round or whatever it was all just here’s what this guy brings to the table and here’s what’s go you know here’s who they took and here’s what this guy brings to the table and here’s you know and then they might say you know he needs to work on his body a little bit but blah blah blah but it was all like not one time not one time did the entire thing did anyone ever say you know I don’t really get this yeah like why are they taking a why are they taking another shooting guard when they’ve got you know this guy this guy and this guy why are they you know like this is you know and it was always this guy was higher on my board than where he’s getting selected so this is a steal but there was none of this like I it was just strange there was nobody giving an opinion that was and I don’t even want to say negative but the slightest bit objective right or balanced about the situation where you say like whoa like what yeah you’re taking this guy and that is one of the beauties of the NFL draft is that there’s always the debate about the pick right and it was like Bob Myers doesn’t know any of these players no W is there for news yeah and Stephen A Smith knows literally none he doesn’t even know he doesn’t know the players he also doesn’t even know like he would like be looking down at his thing and he’d be like uh it says right here that the Raptors gave up the you know most points in the league so they need to work on their defense like thanks you know what I KN I knew Bob Myers didn’t know anything about what’s going on when he said two players in a row two two or three players in a row every team in the NBA wants a 69 Wing that can dribble pass and shoot he said there were two players in a row and I was like well then and then every once in a while they’ll go over to gavone and gavone will say what he’s got to say about you know the player cuz he actually knows all of these players but he’s literally the only one yeah that knows any like that knows these guys so it’s like what are they doing why do they not have people that know these players they got one guy one guy like could you imagine if like you watching the NFL Network and they just had like they didn’t have le rck and Daniel Jeremiah and Mike Mayock or whoever they’ve got right or if they did that on the NF and they just had like they just put Brian eracer and whoever like some no it was like if it was like Brian erer and like Michael Irvin yeah who don’t watch any of those proc they’re just there for entertainment purposes but yeah if they yeah it was was just bizarre like Michael like Michael Irvin would have no idea who the third round cornerback out of Florida state that just got taken by the New York Giants is would have no idea and you know I know that Adam Silver always you know recoils at the fact that the games and the basketball the actual basketball is sometimes playing second fiddle to the drama in the news people like the transaction people like the stories people like the rumors people like the off the court stuff people like the outfits people like the you know what I mean like it’s this whole ecosystem of the NBA and games and actual you know what people are like the business of it which is the basketball of it right can sometimes play second fiddle and can sometime generate a lot less interest I will tell you our like for the match this is almost every year free agency and the draft will that will outperform anything oh yeah the trans that’s not the game it could be the NBA finals and it’s just not going to right we could be talking about game three of Boston Dallas and it’s just not going to and and part of that is you’re you you when you’re talking about free agency and you’re talking about the draft or whatever you are engaging every in those things but and those are the things to generate but I I I I guess I just kind of roll my eyes at you like saying things like you know we wish that the basketball mattered more that the games were more important or that people would talk about right basketball and the actual sport than all the other stuff that generat so much interest um because obviously you need people to watch for TV ratings you need to be in the arena for ticket sales like the basketball is still the business of it right Opera is not the is not the business people aren’t spending money on the soap opera people are spending money on the product right and and then you do your second round of the draft and you make the whole thing with nobody that knows any of the players except for one dude who’s in a side room you know and you made the whole thing about LeBron’s kid yep that’s and it’s like if you want people to care about the product they talk about the product right who are these kids what’s something interesting about these kids where did this guy play you know I mean you got one guy that has any ability to talk about the actual players and yet your entire panel that you have there cannot give you opinions on any of the players drafted it’s just freaking weird except number 55 who if I’m looking up the history of 55 picks they’re all been bums the best 55 pick in the last since 1995 has probably been Louis skola and that was 2002 but they generate numbers yeah there’s no and that’s why I said they should have just called it the bronny James special because that’s what generates numbers but what I’m saying is I’ve always felt like if you want like I almost felt like that should have been what is known as the ABC human interest broadcast on on the NFL draft right yeah there’s the human interest broadcast and then there’s the one for the football fans like at least give us an alternate broadcast for the basketball fans yeah because of someone who was you know obviously I’m watching it through the prism of somebody that’s got two picks I want to hear more about these guys and you don’t have that much more time but they’re even saying oh and the Grizzlies took Jaylen Wells and Jaylen Wells was you know he’s an interesting story and he’s a really good shooter he shot over 40% and you know I like this pick for the Grizzlies obviously you know uh every team needs shooting and blah blah and then it’s like back to bronnie James and Rich Pro calling everyone saying that he’s like what like huh I just I don’t know man it was I yesterday too as you see the way that second round plays out I was I will say um I’m always in favor of shooting and they were able they grabbed two guys that have a track record of really being able to shoot not like hey if we get him in here we can you know hopefully we can turn him into a guy that can be reliable like these guys have have shown they can shoot the basketball whether or not they can do all the other things that are important to be able to get on the for the Grizzlies or whether Roser is just going to be watching you know cam Spencer and uh oh I already blanked on the other’s name uh Wells jayen Wells Jaylen Wells yeah um you know down uh you know with the hustle next year but I mean I I always like the idea of especially and they have been very very good in the second round it’s like what if these guys can really shoot it man everybody everybody wants guys that can shoot and they went for shooting in that second round and so here’s hoping that those uh that those players can end up being very good I thought it was interesting that yesterday uh I said to you I joked about how somebody had told me Memphis just uses an ex Excel spreadsheet and they’re just going to take Zach Ed because he’ll be the highest on the Excel spreadsheet and whatever and then yesterday I said here’s some names to watch for round round two of the NBA draft according to the Excel spreadsheet and I just pulled Kevin pelton’s analytical model that he had posted up yeah yeah and Jet Wells was on there so I mean I mentioned that name yesterday as a guy right like I mean the analytical models say that he will be able to translate to the NBA that what he does he’s able to translate to the NBA I like his story D2 he started at D2 too bro that’s a dude that’s hung been hungry since the beginning right he was at Sonoma stadi in D2 then he worked his way up to D1 and being a high level player so we can rock with that bro we can rock with that why not I’m with it I’m with it zero and you know my guy fan yeah he will here I mean he wored up a zero in college we don’t have a zero here nobody believed in him nobody believed in him nobody belied nobody believed in him that’s why he wears it nobody believed in me from I had to go D2 nobody believed in me I went D1 nobody believed in me well zero I like that well zero is a good number so he wear number zero in college so maybe he’ll wear number zero here hopefully wear Z here zodiac GM also a fan of the pick Let’s Go zodiac GM big fan he’s a Virgo Synergy grad in a minus let’s go baby is he could he be the the best player to ever we zero for us who oh zero your guy this dude literally forg my dog my oh my God forgot about his favorite guy dth my that’s crazy all right what pick was uh what pick was uh 50 5 53 I think he was talking about the uh Yukon kid no no no no no oh yeah he was uh 37 right was was Wells no 39 39 there have been seven players for the Grizzlies to wear number zero for the Memphis Grizzlies they are Timmy Allen who jiren didn’t know jiren Jackson Jr did not know even though he was literally on the bench with him last year Jacob Gillard okay Shout Out J Gilly DeAnthony Melton my dog Avery Bradley Michael green and then we’ve got to go all the way back two more in 2003 and then in 2004 Drew Gooden in 2003 and in 2004 shout out Theon Smith Theon Smith yeah those are the players to wear number zero love to see it I just clicked on this article that says analysis and fits for all 58 draft picks from John Hollander and S Vini and then it only goes through 30 fake new fake news fake news bro F news fake news cuz I was going to tell you what they said about these I was going to tell you about these these guys yeah and whether or not that it was uh good ideas in their minds who they took for who they took with those picks he shot 44 off the dribble bro on threes oh is that right 44 off the dribble yeah then 42 on catch and shoots I love that yeah I love that man D he a bucket he a bucket and nobody believed in him it says analysis and fits for all 58 draft picks and there’s I don’t understand yeah that’s cap on the on holler man uh well on the Hollinger one there is the uh takeaways from and one of the things in his uh takeaways from was most divisive pick and it says I’m not sure how Zach Ed is going to work out in Memphis but I’m very sure he will be among the league leaders in opinions between now and opening day adding to the mystery Edy might not be available for summer league as he’s joining the Canadian national team training for the Olympics there are multiple elements to this discussion first the question of Ed’s ability to survive on defense in the NBA while he was very effective playing drop coverage in the Big 10 the speed and perimeter focus of the NBA will challenge him in ways that college basketball did not and second of all there’s a fit issue putting a Clydesdale out there with Greyhounds Memphis wants to run and John Morant and Company may end up leaving Ed in the dust the Grizzlies also seem to be tilting towards a smaller faster defensive alignment with former defensive player J Jackson Jr playing Center adding Ed to the mix would push Jackson back to the four and leave Memphis bigger and slower how will it work out we likely won’t get much information until October all right so yeah and and look if there’s one uh and this is all the questions that everybody has had and there’s one basic truism uh it is that that this is as I said yesterday there’s no lack of opinions yeah I will say there are a lot more positive opinions yes than negative opinions there are a lot of people there are a lot of positive opinions about this a lot of people that love him and are like dude he is way better than you think saw this is not your typical he mostly was in our comments yesterday who Raheem moer the running back for the Dolphins yeah he commented on our thing he played at Purdue yeah oh he did he did play he was he was in our comments yesterday like he’s excited too we got to get Drew Brees on the show he play or Kyle Orton former Cowboy we had like there’s a lot of people just you know like you saide Mo yeah I clicked on it I was like oh [ __ ] what did he say he’s just like a bunch of like emojis he’s excited I was explaining this to Kevin last night that and and you’ve experiened this on some level with uh having to post things about players all the time I tried to explain to him because I especially after cuz we were we were joking off the air I said bro I said I should kill you for like I was like because there’s so many people that have no idea what podcast we do who we are nothing about us but he post that video and it becomes so viral that then you find out much like the whole Dion Sanders thing that I went through last year it’s just people seeking out somebody to yell at yes and so then they started yelling at me and a lot of them like you know what I mean if you were to click on it or something right you’re going to find out that it’s just Purdue people right right that are like seeking out anybody saying anything and so I I told Kevin I said you know one of the things is like we deal with this sum uh amongst NBA fan bases I said but College fan bases are a different world I said I’ve lived that life for 20 something years and I was like and the other thing is what you find to be true amongst College fan bases is that they will then just become fans of your team and so you’ve brought in a whole lot of people that don’t necessarily or didn’t necessarily care about your franchise but now all of a sudden and obviously you would expect that there’s a high percentage of Purdue fans that are probably Indiana Pacers fans right that’s their home team that’s their home state team or whatever but we are of no competition with them we will be their favorite Western Conference team and in many cases be their favorite team because we and and and and and that college Fame is a thing where certainly we have Murray State night and oh bro every Murray State fan is a Memphis grizzli fan every person that lives in Murray Kentucky is a Grizzly’s fan everybody that lives in Murray Kentucky you know we experienced this years ago I remember when uh years ago you would see like the traction that they would get when they would post something or or even me if I’d post something about like Wayne Seldon he’d go Bonkers yeah because Kansas fans and it was like what in the world like he M like still stuck with him love him root for him and it’s like Javon Carter was like that bro oh yeah West Virginia bro they were in our com is heavy his rookie year I remember on the g-league level like a couple of my g-league things went like blew up a little bit and I was like what in the world and it was a mod caver cuz he went to Old Dominion and like this just group of Old Dominion fans like insane it’s a thing still to this day that’s insane still to this day to this day we get Oklahoma State Buzz yeah yeah because of ta there’s a lot of people that are like have been listening to us from Oklahoma since ta came on the team Dev like they that’s who they they followed ta and then they and then of course the team was good and now we got Marcus right yeah and now we have Marcus Martin so we’ve been we’ve been uh you know go pokes for a long time de you and you’ve already you’ve talked about it before because you travel with the team dude already in Indiana jaren’s from from Indiana Bane’s from Indiana from Indiana like we already have a contingency that show up to our games when we play in Indiana and so I said there’s a lot e now that’s crazy and there’s a lot that just like the fan base and he is so big and so famous and was so good and they had so much success there’s going to be a lot of people that love Purdue that don’t maybe they’re not even NBA fans but they’re Zach Edy fans and I’ll tell you that it happened here you guys might have been too young to remember this but the Tennessee Titans were already in Nashville right early 2000s they’re already they had already been in Nashville for a little bit yeah um here early 2000s on Sunday on Channel 3 the CBS affiliate they ran Colts games yeah wait for pton yes for pton Manning yeah damn cuz of mar oh wow yeah this there is a team right it’s right down the RO two and a half three hours away and they ran Colts games on channel three here because pton Manning was that big a deal and that many Tennessee fans became Indianapolis Colts fans there are still to this day you will you will find more New York Giants fans in this city because of people that went to Old Miss just adopted the Giants because of Eli Manning you know what yeah yeah and you say and so that college thing and the translation of the college thing is so much greater than anybody ever gives it credit for and I say this in in part because I play uh I’ve got I’ve got uh a couple buddies both in uh a golf group that I play with and then just friends of mine that are and like I’ll be like uh talking about like a Cowboys game or the Cowboys or whatever or they’ll ask me at the Cowboys and I and they’re all Cowboys fans and it’s all of like all these guys that I’m talking about it’s all because they’re Mississippi State fans like they are Mississippi State Al lumps oh Dak yes yeah yeah yeah and so they root for the Cowboys because Dak is the quarterback of the Cowboys and if Dak you know if the Cowboys thing didn’t work out and he went and played for the Houston Texans they’d be Houston Texans fans or whatever you know what I’m saying but they are I mean this is now this is years down the road right and they have always they they’ve been Cowboys fans since the day that Dak Prescott became their starting quarterback because I mean they they’ve never had more success at Mississippi State and with d i mean they were ranked number one in the country with that Dak Prescott Dan Mullen like I think it is it was it the very first it was the first college football player of rankings or whatever tell you know that de you showed the the pictures of that ja Camp over the weekend what was dude Brock py just held his football camp at Iowa State oh God and it’s it is it’s insan it’s like that it is just freaking kids going as far back as you can go you got all kinds of Purdue fans yeah that now are going to be coming into the mix and paying attention to this and being involved with the Grizzlies I mean his jersey is going to sell like crazy oh yeah that Ed Jersey going to go crazy in the it’s an amazing Jersey if he’s awesome it’s amazing and if it goes horrible which we pray it doesn’t it’s a good amazing like 5 10 years from now hey and you know the other time Roser appreciate this you know the other time where you see the college fan base thing gets insane is every year because I’ve been involved in this on the like where I’ve tried to bid on them every year the Memphis hustle do a Jersey Auction yeah for their special night or whatever and you see those numbers on some of the jerseys get crazy and I’m like what in the world and it’s all it’s not Grizzlies fans bidding on it it’s all the college fans and they’re bidding on their Memphis H I would imagine that there is a I would imagine that your audience for hustle games is three to one college fans yeah cuz one Adonis arms like that too Adonis had a big or maybe more my steps sister when she came in town from Austin she specifically asked asked me she goes hey can you get me tickets to a hustle game I know you do the hustle games I was like I’ve never really even talked to you about this she I was like yeah why do you want she went to Texas techet it’s when we had Jared Culver oh wow and she she still follows Culver she followed Adonis arms she knew when we had Matt Mooney years ago well that’s the other thing too cver Culver was part of the most successful Texas Tech so he’ll be jerck Culver will be a legend in lck till the day he dies Zack Edy will be a legend in Purdue yes forever yeah you know what I mean and so any time that you are part of that it’s the same way we feel about Chris Douglas Roberts or yeah you Derrick Rose or Joey dorsy any of those guys it’s like those were some of the greatest moments of rooting for a sports team any of us ever had and they’ll forever be like you you you lose sight of the guys that weren’t part of winning but the guys that were part of the best years those guys are always like that you you you become fans of them for life all of them and so it’s going to be it’s going to be super interesting to see how it plays out with Edie I I have no idea why the press conference is at 5 o’clock on a Friday I don’t I mean again P like PR class as you know I it’s the new yeah it’s PR 101 is the news I just wouldn’t do it at 5:00 on Friday just because it’s known as the bad news dump I would it’s the only time I would avoid in fact I don’t it’s just odd that’s when Biden should have wanted the debate to be I know right to well because people are done with their weekend the weekend people are done with their week the weekend’s already started like it has been well known through the history of American culture that like if you wanna if you want to say that somebody’s suspended for peeds 5:00 on Friday because then it’s not going to and then by Monday there’s going to be a whole new news cycle of things happening and so it’s just strange you know I get that there’s a timing thing that goes on and when you were going to be able to get everybody in town and the you know the second round pick obviously wasn’t to take it until yesterday afternoon and I suppose these flights don’t even come in like these flights weren’t even going to be in time in in time for us to be able to get uh you know Ed in here or uh or well so those guys aren’t even going to be in town until early afternoon and then they’re doing this press conference at like 5:00 today and they take photos and hang out with me I gotta get content because you know I get Ed at the draft oh yeah so now I get to finally get my Ed content it’s gonna be great cannot wait I get Ed and Wells content but I don’t have Ed at the draft I did get content yesterday though from Wales which is dope ah but I didn’t get any Ed stuff so this would be the first time what did you find out about Wells yesterday uh pry nothing I mean he has good hair uh I mean not much I got a selfie video from him that’s all I really needed about the D2 thing going from D2 to you know I haven’t done my deep dive yet but you know today’s gonna be the day all right so yeah they added jayen Wells um and then they added cam Spencer who was part of that Conneticut team and as I told you two days ago when the Knicks were putting together that old Villanova team there was part of me that was saying like hey we have alen Boston on every year during the college basketball uh you know NCAA tournament and he’s always you know he’s always said that that Villanova team was the highest rated team he ever had handicapping wise right we talked about that and then this year he said Yukon is the only team that surpassed that this is now the highest rated team I have ever had and so I said I isn’t it totally possible that we’re going to look up and there’s going to be some pretty some really good Pros off of that team like oh no wonder they had really good Pro you know these guys turned out to be really good Pros because they were mauling everyone on the college basketball level and so I am always going to be a little bit where it’s like oh well they took one of the kids that was from the Yukon team right like so like hey there’s no question the guy was part of unbelievable basketball yeah unbelievable basketball I reached out to zodiac GM about this he was not going to post it so I reached out and said what do you have anything on cam Spence you reached out to him he did not he did not respond he absolutely did hey Devin what is wrong with this guy hey what if Roser found out that I am zodiac GM he’s just feeding him lines just feeding him good information about the Grizzlies as creative as you are you would never think to do [Laughter] zodiac astrology think you you would not go astrology you would not go astrology you’re right yeah people ask me what my sign is I’m like I can’t remember I really don’t your sign is I I’m the scale thing what’s that the scale thing is crazy what is the scale thing what’s the scale thing aren’t I the scale thing what I just know the little symbol thing you are you’re a Libra yeah you’re a scale you’re a Libra yeah the scale thing scale I knew that social Fair minded yep yep diplomatic and gracious yep nailed it I believe in astrology I am a scorp it I totally believe in astrology now they got me pegged I am a Scorpio I am compassionate stubborn resourceful and brave resourceful is a little stretch go damn yeah so brave when is your I don’t believe in astrology anymore when is yours I’m a Pisces bro you’re a Pisces Pisces Pisces Pisces what are you okay here we go you are affectionate damn right brother empathetic damn right wise damn right what and artistic yeah I’m RT bro like Vincent Van go turn why she say you’re like Vincent Van go I’m black Vin cut your ear black van go go I’m I’m the black van go bro wasn’t that his deal wasn’t Vince Van go the one without a ear or something cut his ear off who’s the one that was deaf huh who’s the one that was de Helen Keller oh they said he hey you ask was a joke don’t ask Kelsey about her hey y’all should ask Kelsey how she feels about Helen Keller don’t don’t ask her oh no oh oh my God my God no way let go no way I think uh I think ladies and gentlemen I think we’re going to have a special guest on the show holy mackerel I did not expect this to be able to take place today my gosh this is crazy my gosh he’s here everybody welcome welcome to Zack Edy is is on the show everybody oh my God Zach Edy has made it welcome to Memphis Zach we’re glad you made it into town thanks for having me in was good flight everything okay I’m glad my flight was too slow for this show the studio is too small looks like it was made for shrimps this show should be sponsored by Long John Silver The Long John Sil Studio okay okay Zack well you Chris our our host here he he was not he was not wasn’t totally sold on you as as a Pros let me stop you right there what do you not like the 25 and 12 do you not like my two national Player of the Year Awards do you not like my insane winning record what did he not like long joh silver shrimps God silver shrimps look at you mini mes I feel like I’m in a studio with a bunch of Fisher pric Little People come on Zach we I haven’t we haven’t said anything about you we don’t have to get personal with us I’m too big for this place I think I think Chris he just wondered about the your speed and if you know it’s a great he’s a biggest I’ve been dealing with big ISM my entire life I was tall enough to ride Space Mountain when I was three you shrimps probably can’t even ride it now ask for Speed sounds like someone needs to read my favorite story The Tortoise in the hair the tortoise wins dumbass the tortoise wins Long John Silver shrimps I’m big you’re little I’m awesome you sof I shut up we don’t have to resort shut up name shut up I’m zie the biggest man in the world the tortoise wins the toris always he’s shaking Z it’s okay it’s okay Zack Zack I do want to ask you it was rumored the Grizzlies were trying to trade up in this draft and not for you but for Yukon Center Donovan kingan does that make you feel now we’re going to deal with rumors good I heard a rumor you suck oh they were going to trade up to get Donovan kingan pulled the tape I kicked his ass I kicked Donovan kingan’s ass on national TV it was on CVS what you ain’t got CVS I have CBS maybe you got Paramount plus you can watch it pull it up on YouTube joh they were going to trade up to get a guy I kicked his ass believe it if you will rumors and inuendo I’m big they say you wear a size 20 shoes Zach oh what you know what they say oh oh oh oh I don’t big feet big I do I do wear a size 22 Memphis ladies what it do I wear a size 20 shoe Memphis ladies what it do I’m Zach e I’m going to put the Christmas lights on the B pro pyramid Zach what is Zach what I I just just I want to get to know you a little bit better get to know zag zag what is uh what is your what’s your favorite movie my favorite movie what do you like to watch on television big the Tom Hanks movie it’s a great movie what is your I also like Harry and H and anything about Giants so who was your favorite was Andre the Giant your favorite wrestler of course favorite book James and the Giant Peach anything big James and the Giant Peach anything big man big favorite man fresh record cars real big yep belly real big yep anything big anything big everything everything real big everything big big I love lizo bre Zach I wanted to ask you Zach far away what were your thoughts on last night’s presidential debate I didn’t watch it I’m Canadian who cares who’s running Donald Trump and Joe Biden are either of them bit Donald Trump does say bigly then I like him I like anything big all right no more all right Zach we appreciate apprciate stopping by today yeah you’re welcome you are welcome size 20 Sho Memphis ladies what does he do we we’re going to take a break and we’ll Live From The Long John Silver studio for sh this is the Chris verd show qu City video when it’s all on the line you turn to the strong the stable the unwavering to those with a history of raising their performance to meet the moment it’s true in basketball it’s true in banking Grizzlies checking from Pinnacle play hard Bank easy open a Grizzly checking account with at least $100 and a recurring direct deposit by August 31st and you could receive a $200 direct deposit bonus into your account details at Grizzlies banking.com member FDIC I think we have the college basketball title Futures yukon’s number one I really like Houston not have them winning at all but you can’t be giving Drake jerseys what is wrong with you maybe the Drake curse is stronger in college basketball long how long has he been with riding with K rabama Jersey even retired the odds couple with Rob fiser Lang Whitaker John Roser and CJ hurt live Thursdays at 2 p.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app what’s her name Susie the one with the steamboat had a steam D hell oper number and disconnect me I’ll kick you from behind refrigerator there was a piece of glass Miss upon it broke tune in to the Jessica Benson show with CJ HT live every weekday at 8:00 a.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City 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look at it as far as the uh the number nine pick over the years there’s been some pretty good players that have surfaced at number nine of course Dirk nitzki who won a championship has been a lot of great guys but who knows if there is a great guy in this draft hey Grizzlies fans be sure to tune in to grizzly beat where the panel and I break down all things Grizzlies and take a look at the rest of the NBA as well the show is live every Wednesday 2 pm on YouTube at grind City media and the official grind City media app the Indiana fer have to do something you cannot let her get hit like this no because it’s not just you’re allowing people to think this is okay it’s you’re allowing her to think that you don’t have her back yes like whatever you think of her on a personal level she is wherever you’re going if you’re a member of that franchise wherever you’re going it’s where she’s taking you the Gary Paris show live weekdays at 10:00 a.m. on YouTube at grind City media and the official 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official grind City media app presented by Caesar Sportsbook now back to your host Chris Vernon [Music] know what me the all right we’re back Chris heard you guys had a special guest in that’s exciting yeah we did we heard we heard him when he what you guys think what you guys uh what you guys think after getting to talk to him a little grumpy big sorry I had to bow out uh but obviously he needed my seat it’s only uh it’s the only uh place where you there’s enough room for him he likes everything real big that’s what he said yeah real big car real big all right well as always we get on our studio and us as always we get the exclusive he’ll be doing a press conference to the rest of the media later today glad we were able to get him in and everybody get to know him before the press conference later today um he is 7 fo four and so it’s going to be uh it’s going to be interesting to see him this afternoon and especially as accomplished as he is I again I don’t understand why it’s Friday at 5 o’clock but whatever um I’ll still be I’ll still be excited to see what he has to say about being a part of the Grizzlies going forward and as we have said many times over the course of the past two days like no shortage of opinions yeah on this yeah I would say it’s easily uh the most polarizing of any of the picks that have gone on uh over the course of the they’re already kind of set up you got the concour already have Graphics up welcoming the guys here yeah on the box office and I think maybe up top there’s like Graphics they they welcome Zach Ed and Jaylen Wells to is that right they already set up bro we’re ready bro we’re lit okay should be a great look at that look at that look at that welcome Zack Edy set up so we ready bro there it is right there welcome Zach Edy there you go huh yeah all right well they already got it set up I I I will say that uh reading that Hollander thing it does kind of bum me out if you can’t play in Summer League team Canada thing oh it’ be so cool if he could play it just I mean honestly it could fall in any of the three other years you want to talk about big gym games I know right we have our schedule we have our schedule if you want it we have our schedule for summer league yeah oh so we got Kings on Friday wait there’s a game on Friday yeah July 12th do you guys are going to be bolting from uh what’s the last game in Salt Lake I is it the 10 I want to say the 10th yeah so we’ll get there the 10th at night and we’ll probably wake up at 11th and then have a day and then okay so 12 Play Sacramento at what time uh 400 p.m. their time or our time Central time so that’s six six their time they have Boogie I think they have Boogie Ellis on their team they got Boogie Ellis on the Kings uh got a couple other guys too so that’ll be fun uh the the wait wait who did they draft oh they drafted my guy AC’s kid oh Anthony K yeah there we go our first game is against AC’s kid there we go yeah how about that Deon Carter turn up this is the Carter so first game is against him uh second game is against the Mavericks on the 15th at uh 7 o’cl p.m. the 15th yep three days off on Monday on Monday play Friday Monday There’s no no game on Saturday or Sunday not for us oh wow that is strange huh three days off is crazy at Summer League wow okay so then there’ll be the second game that’ll be on Monday yep and then we don’t play Tuesday we play Wednesday against the magic at six o’clock Central Anthony black uh who they drafting they draft anybody good I don’t remember who the who the magic drafted did they have a pick I don’t I feel like they didn’t have a pick right yeah they did cuz I remember seeing my friends she was walking with their pick at the draft oh really they didn’t pick in the first round yeah they ped Tristan D Silva from Colorado cuz I remember she was walking with them and I was like oh that’s your draft pick yeah they pick 18th you’re right uh so they got him and they got Anthony black was second year guy so they got a couple guys maybe and then the last game well and also uh Joan Howard’s kid oh yeah they took him last year Howard jet Howard yeah he’s on that team so they got him and then the last game is Thursday the 18th oh okay so okay so they schedule you four right off the bat yep and then you you fall into the bracket play so you guarantee five games I think okay so the kings are the first one and we we said that they will have Devin Carter and then who else uh they took they took uh Devin Carter 13th and then and then uh did they take any uh well they took Jamal shed my guy from Houston but they traded him to the Raptors yeah they traded him to the Raptor so I’m not sure is that the only other did anybody else get traded back to the Kings I think they just moved off and and and traded him away yeah I think Boogie Ellis is there too so we know him we recognize him Boogie Els is playing for the Sacramento Kings he signed like a deal with them last night what do we think about David Jones not getting drafted he got a summer league deal at least he had a two-way right de got a two-way deal with Philly Philly Philly yeah and then uh uh what’s his name Tomlin signed with Oklahoma City niquan Tomlin yeah oh okay so we got two that’s that’s two of them uh but yeah and then the last game of summer league is against the Pelicans the Pelicans yep Thursday let me see if the M hold on the second the third one you said was the magic yep the magic took Antonio Reeves from Kentucky but they traded him to the Pelicans so I guess Antonio Reeves he will be there and then so yeah a couple of those teams traded their picks in the uh in the second round and then you said the last one is New Orleans yep okay New Orleans Trey Murphy they took uh the kid from Baylor yees Missy the center yeah they took him uh 21st in this year’s draft and Hawkins from last year will play right Hawkins from the Yukon team he’ll play yep he will for sure uh Antonio Reeves as I mentioned that’s a kid from uh uh Kentucky so he will be there cuz he just got he got drafted by the magic but he was traded to the Pelicans okay and how about that kid from Kentucky not getting drafted Justin Edwards that was CRA also 76ers right also 76ers yeah that was crazy that was seriously I think if I go back you remember when I did that whole bit I in fact I don’t have it sitting here in front of me cuz I don’t have my stuff still uh from doing it but let me look at uh player rankings if I’m not mistaken when I went back and did uh when I went back and did the player rankings for uh to find out like who the top 10 high school guys were in fact we can revisit that now now that we know that uh the way that the draft played out um so if you can pull up the wait wasn’t it like a number one number one recruit hold on pull up the pull up the draft if you will all right yeah just this dra okay and you can tell me where these kids went okay so this is 247 this is what I had written down uh a couple of months ago when we were doing the draft and I said just keep a lookout because there’s many occasions where we look back and the guy was ranked very very highly amongst his peers coming out of high school and then extenda circumstance for some reason or another he did not go like it was expected to go when the kid was coming out if if you just drafted these kids straight out of high school mhm right yeah so the number one player was Ron Holland went Fifth and I told you guys that was the one over and over again I said look man this guy was always ranked number one and when it’s all said and done I don’t believe he’s going to go where they say he’s going to go somebody’s G to take a chance on it right uh especially in this type of draft where there were so many unknowns yeah number two on this list I’ll just go through the top 10 was Isaiah CER 29th to Utah mhm that’s Danny a too yeah who has had success doing that he drafted all of the pedigree kids he Cody Williams Philip palsky isaah CER he just drafted the high school talent right there that’s right Isaiah CER uh three Justin Edwards just he was third undrafted undrafted third damn on 247 Sports he is the third ranked player in the class sheesh that’s wild yeah I mean it’s it look nothing is 100% this has been it’s had a very good track record over the years but I mean you’ll remember even I mean mus CE is one of these top 10 players he’s playing in Memphis next year yeah and that was years ago that was in uh 98 right something like that 98 99 around forever yeah maybe 93 number four on the 247 rankings of the high school players Cody Williams yeah 10th 10th yeah to Utah to the Utah number five Aaron Bradshaw I don’t even know who that a Kentucky recruit did he go to uh did he go to Arkansas with Cal or is he going somewhere else Aaron Bradshaw how about that he is five yeah a Kentucky Center oh he’s at Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State yeah 71 that’s a big Joker uh six DJ Wagner he’s going to be at Arkansas next year seven Mattis buellis we know where he 11 11th to the Bulls yeah yeah yeah eight jacobe Walter Baylor he went 19th to the Raptors mhm nine Stefan Castle fourth to the Spurs 10 was McKenzie mcken gacco oh I’ve heard that name MGB a KO yeah is he still at Indiana said he’s Indiana he is still at Indiana okay did he have a decent freshman year Big 10 freshman of the Year big 10 uh freshman All-American team yeah okay there you go uh and I’ll try to see who else is on this uh list if I scroll down Jared McCain was 14 Tik Tok King yep jar M was 16th to Philly uh any other Rob Dillingham was 21 went eighth to mini yeah minesa Aj Johnson there he is 24th he was 24th that’s the kid that everybody’s ripped the bucks for taking yeah oh the the ath average like 2.5 points in Australia or whatever yeah yeah uh bronnie James is 28 on this list uh trying to see if there’s anybody else Johnny Fury 35th that guy yeah it’s about where he went right yeah yeah he did go 35th oh he did yeah mhm yees Missy who’s the one I just mentioned he was 42 he went 21st yep cuz I just talked about that right and let’s see who is the lowest ranked High School guy at least on just last year if I could get to anybody that’s between 50 and 100 that actually got drafted yesterday uh according to 247 because there’s a lot of those right there at the top that when we went through them uh they did in fact get drafted some of them a little bit higher some of them a little bit lower Reed Shepard 79 yeah they went third bro there is a kid that plays at Cincinnati named Jizzy James J I ZZ i e tell me he’s awesome j i z Jizzy James that is the coolest name ever yeah little point guard too jizzel it’s jizzel James oh it’s jizzel yeah jizzel it is jizle he Aver is nine and two he’s a son of hold on oh my God no the son of pro Hall of Famer Edan James what I just saw it yep jizzel was taught the mindset of hardw work from one of the NFL’s best work horses his dad jizzel is a son of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back ederen James that’s amazing jizzel is an amazing name bro only edrian James would name his son jizzel of course he would that’s amazing why wouldn’t he dude hey look you’re going to love this so one of my first jobs many many many many years ago um this is now what God geez 20 something years ago now one of my first jobs I went and covered there the Colts were going to be coming to Tennessee to the Tennessee Titans uh facility and at the end of the week you know these teams will like get together and practice against each other to get live reps against uh another team and then it would culminate by having a uh like a scrimmage as it were at their field I can’t remember what they called it maybe LP Field whatever the hell they called it at the time uh in in Nashville right so the radio station I was working for at the time we we ran Titans games and so the guy was like uh will you know you got to drive but we’ll play for your hotel room you want to go cover titans’s training camp and I was like okay yeah I’ll do it so I went and the two guys there there’s one guy that was a writer for the newspaper and there was another guy who was like the huge radio host at the time in Nashville um the writer was Joe bid the radio host was a guy named George plaster who has passed away now but and you know how you always remember these people that were so nice to you they were so nice to me showed me the Rope showed me who to talk to they were cool to me the whole time right and they were like the guys in Nashville right and so I meant a lot um that they were so kind to me when I did it and so anyways I’m there during this week of training camp I don’t really know what I’m doing but I’m just trying to you know I’m putting my recorder up like everybody else after the deal and then after they played in the scrimmage I went in the locker room and went and did did interviews with the different like the Indianapolis Cults were there so like Marvin Harrison this is that whole crew like Dallas Clark I think was on that team Bob Sanders bro I I in one one day when I’m cleaning out like I have so many things that are archived I have to find it somewhere it would be on it would be on one of those like mini tapes you remember those like tape recorders with the mini tapes in them but I guarantee I still have it somewhere but that’s what I ran around with was this recorder with these mini tapes and I never threw any of that stuff away but I uh I go up to Ed and James Edan and James got all golds in and he’s in the locker room of course I’m so intimidated I’m like 20 whatever right and uh he like uh he like looks at me and I’m like uh you know Edan I I asked him something like you know just whatever regular question right media question and uh he looks at me and he’s like how old are you and I was like I’m like I was like I’m 20 21 and he’s like 21 years old huh 21 huh he’s like look at this dude look at this dude look how young he look you got young and I’m just standing there like I don’t know how to be cool in this situation at all to mention I am in shock and awe that I’m even getting to interview Edan James or that I’m even in this locker room in the first place you look over here it’s pton Manning you look over here it’s Marvin Harrison you look over here it’s you know Dallas Clark or whoever and I’m like uh um uh he’s like look at this dude he look how young he looked he looked like he about 14 you know blah blah blah and I’m like okay all right so then I like asked my next question he’s like no no no no no no he’s like where you from man and now imagine I’m like again it’s like I have not been doing this very long at all like where you from man I was like uh I’m from I’m from Memphis I swear to God I I I have got to find this tape Som when I’m cleaning out everything from like old boxes he grabs my recorder all right yeah he goes you say you from Memphis and I was like yeah and he goes grabs my recorder puts it up to his mouth and he goes in front of everybody in the locker room and he goes making Easy Money pimping hoes and stop and I was like what and he’s like that’s Memphis that’s Memphis and I’m like what what and he’s like m e m p h i s making easy money pimp hoes and Stu and I was like can can I just have my recorder I didn’t know what I was going to do so I I went back I went back and like you know of course my boss is like so what kind of audio did you get look at this I got this like let me tell you oh if you only knew I was in front of Ed James you brother you want to talk about rattled yeah buddy buddy Ed J rattled had the braids had the golds of course he’s a freaking tank yeah he just he grabbed my he he grabbed my recorder yeah you he started he just dropping bars into my recorder I would have I got to find that tape s somewhere it exists somewhere hilarious that is an amazing moment especially I wish that something like that would happen like nowadays that would have been like a viral moment oh for sure sure Edan sh for sure it would have been a viral moment right he was just doing it to make all the other guys in the locker room laugh shout out Edan James had thought about yeah jizzel James jizzel James might be my new favorite college B he averaged eight points a game last year he’s at Cincinnati right yeah who is his coach at Cincinnati uh I swear to God I don’t even know anymore I remember when Cronin left for UCLA and wanted West Miller oh yeah West Miller that’s right I wanted it to be Nick Van XEL yeah so it could be Nick Van there and Penny here then that would have been so cool that Mees for 10 years at UNC Greensboro west Miller did is that right he was there for 10 years Shez that’s a long time bro that is a long time to be at UNC Greensboro he’s on the 2005 North Carolina National Championship team H sheesh probably got punked by Zach Edy you crazy bro I canot you know what that’s the thing I’m mostly looking forward to today is seeing him in real life in person how freaking tall is he like does he have to duck to get in the room bro of course yes of course bro he’s always ducking under doorways and like how do you live life like that that should be my mini M question watching out for ceiling fans he hate ceiling fans man hat ceiling fans had hey you had we had a couple deals yesterday that I do want to mention the Tim Hardaway deal I guess that took place today they shipped his ass Tim Tim Hardway going to the Pistons a pergatory I liked Grimes with the Knicks I thought he had promise so that might actually be a guy that could play minutes for them yeah right and obviously they wanted to free up that money because they have said uh that they are dead set on resigning uh derck Jones Jr right which of course he was their best offender yeah uh on the perimeter last year and so that makes all the sense in the world that they would want to be able to have the mid-level exception to be able to sign uh Derrik Jones Jr you had uh I did not I did not love the Reggie Jackson deal I know it’s just a free up money deal for Denver yesterday he so good for them well no I didn’t like it because KJ Simpson got drafted by Charlotte who that’s one of the guys that I really liked the kid from Colorado and I’m like all the short guard yeah and now now you I mean where do you get stuffed when it comes to that kind of thing because it’s like if you got Reggie Jackson you’re probably playing Reggie Jackson or maybe Reggie Jackson ends up getting bought out being able to sign with the veteran he want to be around that Charlotte stuff he’s not going you wouldn’t think so he’s 34 years old right maybe yeah maybe the coach can be like yo be a vet cuz you know they got a new coach and everything all right but nah if I’m reg get me out of there Emanuel quickly got $175 million from the Raptors I mean is this just what these dudes are going to get paid now I think we’re just going to have to re on this really sounds but there is part of me that sits there and goes man you’re going to be spending almost $400 million on Emanuel quickly and Scotty Barnes two really in total two really good role players it’s like well Barnes could be I think Barnes could be the second best player yeah second best player on an awesome team IQ can probably be number four maybe I think iq’s like number six he was an amazing six man for the Knicks yeah I think like six seventh like best player on your team yeah if you’re going to be like a title team I just I like quickly he ain’t worth a hundred million more dollars than Marcus or Malik monk oh no no way did Malik monk get $75 million or $80 million yeah I mean you’re talking about total contract he got 78 four years 78 bro a100 million more and who just got Nick just got little you know mean that’s a little wild1 million dollar Nick Claxton just got four years a hundred million like 2 five is not as much as you think it is though when you got you’re going to have be you’re going to have guys making $80 million in a couple years that’s what I’m saying Che is quickly 75 million more than like a Nick Claxton I don’t think it’s just total contract that makes it a little startling to me’s 175 million bucks is like what’s crazy is look at the deal we got Brandon Clark for like when you look aters and Jaren jaren’s numbers are still now too but I well what I what I’m saying is okay let’s just say we we do have to readjust the way we think about this stuff and I get it more years more whatever like it’s still like that total contract like the monk thing happened like three days ago yeah so we don’t have to adjust that much he literally got a 100 million more dollars in total contract a 100 million like you ain’t I don’t know yeah yeah that’s a little wild that’s that’s a little wild I’m not in love with quickley no n that he’s not he’s like he’s like lesser Maxi you know what I’m saying like lesser Maxi like Maxi is turned up quickly like Great Value he would be great value except he’s not anymore it’s not great value the money he’s getting it’s not not great value you’re not getting value you’re not getting Great Value yeah he’s like the yeah he’s like lesser yeah Maxi yeah all right uh last thing before we get out of here there is a they have already posted which of course I love this is my favorite one is when they start posting uh mock drafts and players right after uh the draft takes place and so you know everybody there’s going to be a bunch of teams that are tanking for the Cooper flags and the ace Bailey and the Dylan Harpers and as I’ve said many times I’ve seen flag in person I mean he’s as real deal as it possibly gets you’ve seen him in person as well and I’ve been told Ace Bailey same thing like that he’s just like these guys are worth thanking for like these these guys are people uh people that are like really smart people think that these are like multiple time All-Star level type of players which you identified you know rather early um one of the things that was interesting just on this very first run through and seeing kind of who is projected in this to see if there I was trying to see if there was anybody that was either me Memphis or Memphis adjacent right like somebody that they would be playing against uh next year or and there are in fact for this year at least the first go round I thought it was interesting to see like if you just go through the top 10 on their very first mock draft right a player that’s playing at Duke a player that’s playing at Ruckers a player that’s playing at Ruckers a a French player a player that’s playing at Baylor a player that’s playing at Duke a Spanish player a player that’s playing at Texas a player that’s playing at BYU a player that’s playing at Yukon it does not seem at least on this first go there are not nearly as many International prospects like that’s a lot of college basketball players and and and and so this is what made me think right it’s like we had this change right before our eyes but now it it becomes to me very very clear we went through this whole bit where it was like okay these guys are all gonna go make money and I feel like we just had the cut off like this is the impact of what has taken place with the rule changes in college basketball and College athletics as a whole and being able to profit off of your name and likeness and being playing for these schools that now because that door got opened up these kids are going to college yeah right like we went through that whole span where it’s like a bunch of good ones a bunch of good ones none of them like even scoot Anderson even lamelo Ball even like we went through a bunch of them Ron Holland and and buellis right and it’s like if it was like it is now and it’s you know now it’s kind of Flushed itself out to where you kind of know what guys are getting paid it was still kind of a mystery even last year because it was first go round with this but you wonder Ron Holland probably goes to college and Bellis probably goes to college to I’m up and down this list and you don’t see gague you don’t see OT you don’t see right they’re going to college the so it’s like they’ve turned because of the money thing it feels like we are back to Turning college basketball into the minor leagues yes for the NBA and that had really had a massive Dent there was a draft just a few years ago or was it last year it it certainly within the last couple of years I I mean what who was the third pick in last year’s draft cuz we Wy didn’t play college basketball oh no it it’s Miller Miller did play college basketball Alabama right but then go just read me off the top 10 look Wy didn’t play college basketball scoot didn’t play college basketball me and Thompson both overtime Le Anthony black was at Arkansas balal Kabal yeah so what do we got two college kids two College he in the top six then we got jarus Walker number eight you had five of the top 10 play in college okay yeah that’s not bad more than what I thought wall now this year BR ain’t no college basketball players in that joint it’s all like overse Ed yeah Ed is like the I see Ed castle castle and clinging and Ed Dillingham oh yeah and shepher it’s five oh yeah it’s five okay I I think next year would be less though because a lot of players do end up going to college just time well it’s just you like you’re taking the OT and G League thing off the table Yeah and those have produced players yes I think OT still have a couple cuz they still got their league they probably will yeah but I mean again you can make a fortune playing college basketball now how much do you think Cobra flag’s getting oh a Duke and and he’s going to be able to get a Nike deal and he’s already on Team USA you see he’s on Team USA select team yeah that man that’s a bad dude bro he making a lot of money he one of them ones for sure he’s going to be making a lot of money yeah a lot of flag the crazy thing is that two and three are both ruter yeah that was a package deal I think brevin’s little brother’s still there yep he is Brandon Knight mhm man there ain’t no telling what those kids are getting Ruckers bro yeah it is yeah ruers at all the places the Jersey is that Jersey Jersey New Jersey shout out jersey man that’s unbelievable to get the number two and number three draft picks from at ruers Ruckers who is the most famous Ruckers basketball player ever uh I swear to God I don’t know Anthony Mason did he play Ruckers well son did I think his son was from here Phil sers is number one Phil sellers Quincy duie shout out Quincy doie Quincy doie no Anthony Mason Jr I think with the St John’s had that little that that that yappa on the left left hand but yeah number one yeah pH sellers Bob Lloyd James Bailey Quincy dubie Roy Henson Eddie Jordan who was a NBA head coach uh John Battle Mike Deany Hollis Copeland and Kelvin Troy are the top 10 players of all time and then you got the number two and number three players in the draft yeah that’s crazy they could be the best players that ever play at ruggers shout out hey shout out quiny du I want you what he doing right now all right uh last thing what are you most interested in hearing from Edie today what you say I mean outside of when he was on our show I want to hear him answer questions like about if anybody will will ask him about his speed and adapting guarding the perimeter things like that like I’m sure I mean clearly he had it out a high school as a screen saer on his phone with people talking trash about him so like he clearly knows all that and knows what everybody says about the polarizing thing like I want to see how he answered that like we know like do you know how polarizing you were like you know that you being Z Ed like that there’s some people that on this side there’s some people on that side like how do you and I always like people comparing themselves I’d like to hear who he kind of envisions him being able to you know the type of player he thinks he can be in the NBA I right like kind of like if you were to if you were to mirror your game after somebody that is currently in the NBA yeah who would that be yeah or Herman why will you be good or people say you will there are people that think you will be a bus in the why will you die it be so funny if he brings your name up today oh stop I never said he was going to be a bust I never said he wasn’t going to be good yeah yeah when I told you no I had I’ve been around you long enough to know when you have a conviction and say somebody’s going to suck you’ve never said that about Z beat yeah like with any other player like and then this has been the truth R zorat when we took him in the second round and you saw him you guy sucks that was a terrible bu you could tell immediately he was buns I remember uh and there was another guy that we went to the practice and I said this guy this guy could not score 30 against Memphis east tonight yeah so he can’t be drafted by the grizzly that’s crazy what are we doing here it might have been R I don’t remember who it was R zor yeah it might have been somebody he I don’t remember who it was but yeah no Zach e it’s all just I don’t I as I’ve said from the very beginning there’s a lot of people that do have convictions I don’t know no I don’t know the way it’s going to play out I want to know if he’s going to play right like people say like what’s the floor I mean I don’t I’ve never told you he’s going to be terrible I think the floor is like Enis caner who was valuable and he’s taller than en caner what what I’m saying is Enis caner couldn’t like he’s not playing he’s played off the court in the playoffs like he’s bad you know yeah it’s just too much to be able to handle uh but the guy goes in he can get you buckets he gets you rebounds yeah story right yeah and obviously so I mean I don’t think that the his floor is not being horrible no yeah he’s GNA have a career no matter what it’s just there’s a lot of people that have conviction about how good he is going to be or how good is I just don’t know I think there are players that I I do actually kind of agree with gavone saying he could be he is lowkey like a dark horse for Rookie of the Year cuz I could see him being better right away more more than a lot of these other guys in the draft and it just finishes everything job put throws up but like five years down the line five years down the line yes there are some guys in this tra the people that say like hey you’re playing with John Morant bro you’re going to get Buckets yeah cuz he’s driving and that guy has to switch to him yes and you just got to finish everything going to the I wonder know if he play Summer League too I know he’s playing Canadian Canadian national team let’s at least give us like one game maybe hopefully at least like one give me one you know what I’m saying just so we can have that either in Utah or in Vegas exactly just give one yeah I want to see that so we’ll see GG’s supposed to play right a little a little that was what they said at the end of the year yeah CL said he’s going to play Summer League that g probably do the do the Des remember the Des thing or two gam put the ball in his hand see what he can you know he’ll play one or two games in Salt Lake and then like one one one two in Vegas and then that’ll be it depends on how he plays and cuz I using when like Dez Dez showed off the rip I don’t need to be out here well then we’ll have these other guys Jaylen Wells and cam Spence yeah so it’ll be fun also last thing for the for the week I talked about black jobs well Ed Scott got named today at University of Memphis ad first black ad in program history oh wow and first ad in history to go from HBCU a to a FBS ad where is he shout out to Scott He Virginia then before that he was at Morgan State University so salute to you bro first aded Scott How old uh give me a second I’m does he look like a young guy or does he look like an old guy pretty young yeah he looks pretty young he got the The Joe Buton ball head with the with the beard he looks pretty young let see let me see Ed Scott a give me a second Ed Scott age Virginia he’s probably like y’all around y’all’s age like it’s SC let’s see uh sure enough yeah he got announced earlier today so that was it I think they had that at noon the press conference good for him for him so yeah salute to him bro I know people mentioned we didn’t bring it up so shout out him he’ll be here for a while before Missouri tries to hire him away I know right just let tries to take everybody every our baseball coaches our ads everybody baseball coaches they took wi they took this last guy they took Barry odm yep they try to they they they think we’re a farm system yeah Ste our whole flow these these these jerks and Columbia Missouri think we’re a farm system over here we’re not a farm system for you yeah bro big Memphis get your own ideas stop stealing our guys all right it’s going to do it for the show today thank you to John Rach across glass thanks to Devon Walker thanks to Kyra back in the studio thanks to Zach Edy press conference today 5:00 for Zack Edie and jayen Wells so pay attention to that on all of the Grizzlies outlets and we will be back on Monday until then we gone [Music]
On today’s show, we talk about the Presidential Debate from last night + the Grizzlies made 2 more draft picks during the Bronny James Showcase on ESPN yesterday aka the 2nd round of the NBA Draft. There’s a 2025 NBA Mock Draft + some trades were made yesterday.
3:00—Trump vs Biden Debate
11:17—Grizzlies select Jaylen Wells and Cam Spencer in the 2nd round of the NBA Draft + all of the strange coverage of Bronny James throughout the entire broadcast
46:00—Zach Edey joins the show (not really…but it’s a goofy and funny bit)
57:45—High School rankings and where the class of 2023 was drafted
1:18:00—Tim Hardaway Jr traded and Immanuel Quickley signed for $175M
1:22:00—2025 NBA Mock Draft
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3 Comments
Edey segment was terrible
Verno. I love you. You’ve lost your damn mind. 😂
Devin I need that shirt bruh.