Pardon the Interruption | Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury does not threaten Timberwolves – Michael Wilbon

Pardon the Interruption | Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury does not threaten Timberwolves – Michael Wilbon

What’s the state of our Union I’m Tony Kornheiser ethically non- monogamous oh you can see other people like Frank is Sola you can see Frank is Sola I can see Pablo I got you but not levitar no no lebatard he’s been friendzoned it like 20 years ago can’t be Z yeah it’s

Over for for Le welcome to PTI boys and girls in today’s episode the US women SLO to Victory Duke land’s another top recruit and Jake Paul plans to fight Mike Tyson but we begin today with the news that Carl Anthony towns has been diagnosed with a torn meniscus in his

Left knee and will be out indefinitely towns is averaging 22 points and eight rebounds he’s shooting 51% from the field and 42% from three towns is help Minnesota to the best record in the west wilbon where does this leave the first place Timberwolves with 20 games left in

The seas ton leaves him in a bad spot it it just does there’s no getting around it Carl Anthony towns is the senior member of that team and he’s valued he’s he’s a terrific player you may he may not be all league but he’s you know

Allstar caliber and has been for a while I mean he’s s feet tall he can shoot it he helps defend the size alone helps give Minnesota an advantage over teams in the west and it helps them against Denver if they were to play against Denver the side so much of it now we

Don’t know how long he’s going to be we just don’t know this is the reality of miniscus injuries you don’t know what’s going to happen you know rest treatment repair surgery you you don’t know and this is not just his situation the one thing Minnesota can’t go to Tony is Nas

Reed uh maybe the best big man off the bench in the NBA certainly one of them he can help them he can help them for a while but they would need him him and Carl Anthony towns to really mount a challenge at the top of the West and in

The Western Conference playoffs so I just feel bad Tony the the Timberwolves has played so well uh they’ve emerged Anthony Edwards has emerged as an MVP candidate to me and it just it makes the NBA less interesting if Carl Anthony towns has to miss significant

Time so I should state that it is the athletic that is reporting that the miniscus is torn this strikes me as what happened happened to Philadelphia when Jo L embiid went out sort of because I understand that an Carlon towns is not as good as Joe lmid and that they also

Have Rudy gobear to occupy the same space on the court that Carl Anthony towns would occupy and as you’re saying Anthony Edwards is the best player on that team but if he’s out a long time or it affects him during the playoffs it’s a crippling situation for that team it

Is because Carl Anthony towns is finally having a healthy career year and he is some something that really doesn’t exist all around the league in the top 23o shooters he’s the only one listed as a center so to me this is a a really big

Deal huge deal and a bad deal but again we don’t know how long no he’s going to be out we don’t we don’t know that so just disappointing Minnesota was fun to watching I know because of certain social ties you like Minnesota and you root for them and I I just like watch

Them they’ve been become exciting new addition it’s been a long time up there too since Kevin Garnett long time they’ve been waiting in Minnesota here’s here’s one thing to say what’s that if they were a team like Golden State and they had six or seven experiences going

All the way to the finals you would say okay you can compensate for this maybe but they don’t they don’t have that no don’t have Downer let’s move to men’s college basketball Duke just received a commitment from 7’2 in kand Malu watch who plays for the NBA Academy in senagal

The 17-year-old has started at high school camps both here and abroad and top high schooler Cooper flag from Maine is already committed to the Blue Devils tone which recruit intrigues you more and will these players at Duke put some of the star power back into men’s college basketball next

Season so the first thing you have to say is Big Ups to John shy I mean wow he has shown he can really recruit as the head coach at Duke I I haven’t seen either of these kids play in real games so I can’t comment on their games I mean

That that really wouldn’t be fair but I’ve read about them malow watch uh is a refugee from a war in South Sudan and is being compared to Victor wanyama flag is from a small town in Maine where there’s probably more moose than people so they

Don’t figure as your top one and two in a recruiting class necessarily I have watch their highlight tapes but Mike you and I would look good in a highlight tape so I I don’t know what that means I will say this this makes me very happy for men’s college basketball okay

Because this is the advanced drum beat on potential stars that you’re going to want to see at least for next year and they’re going to an elite program they’re going to Duke right so this is a big deal out there basketball’s better when Duke is great there’s Duke there’s

North Carolina there’s Kentucky it’s the Yankees the Dodgers in the red so Kansas do well I’m not putting them in that thing historically maybe I’m wrong about that or all right then I’ll add another baseball team down the road but what I would say is is that people either love

Or hate Duke but they bring people to television sets Tony they do I I know way too much about Cooper flag cuz it’s a 16-year-old high school basketball fanatic living in my house and I I hear I this is what I hear dad Cooper flag is one of the 10 greatest high school

Basketball players like shut up stop stop stop right now and I understand there the recency bias and that’s good for men’s college basketball today as you say Tony Tony men’s college basketball I don’t think there’s a one-year fix I don’t good for John shy or Chicago’s own that he’s doing this

Following Mike shashy which is we know is so difficult at anywhere to replace like the alltime great and to to keep it going so good for them Tony and it’s good if you can have any help to college basketball bone you can draw a straight line back now we’re going to talk about

Ben Simmons in a minute and you can go back just you know this last Dozen Years and you say no these one and done they don’t do it it doesn’t happen Zion it doesn’t it it provides it for a minute and a half and College basketball’s falling off

Tony I yeah but I think this leans towards what Jay bilis was saying the other day that there’s a lull last year and a lull this year but it can come back when a great program like Duke brings in people that you want see that’s a different story that okay well

Got got two they got two one program more than one program well you got other programs you’re going to love this we’re going old school today we’re ending the A’s on a boxing story like we used that Mike Tyson is going back in the ring yes

Mike Tyson at 58 will fight 27 year-old Jake Paul who you remember from your YouTube surfing I’m sure it will be in July at Jerry world at Jerry World it’ll be live on Netflix what you got to be intrigued by this look anytime you say

Mike Tyson in boxing in the ring even at 58 because Tony the sport is just it’s gone to hell it it just it doesn’t exist at the level you and I obsessed over it from birth until whatever 15 years ago so yes yes Mike Tyson you know you know

What I do now Tony on my Instagram feed somehow Mike Tyson Knockouts come up various Mike Tyson knockout Clips reals I immediately send these to younger people I say look at this don’t tell me about MMA look at Mike Tyson look at him knock people out start them within a

Minute of a first round these things were so exciting and I saw Mike Tyson back to the Box off we know Mike and we like to see this but Tony I’m gonna watch I am I’m not GNA lie but this Paul guy I mean part of me

Just wants Tyson to literally knock him out in some comic way out of the ring like they used to have in the cartoons but I’m going to yes I’m intrigued yes my first reaction was I got to get Netflix and my second reaction was is this is this actually going to happen is

This going to be a real boxing match or is it going to be some exhibition where they wear headgear and they’re one minute rounds but I would watch this mike in July I would watch this ahead of the Wimbledon final I would do that Mike

Tyson is 58 this other guy I would I would this other guy Jake Paul is 27 so that’s Nate Robinson Nate Robinson is still unconscious yeah he’s knocked out a bunch of people his brother I think is in the WWE so I’m willing to believe

That Jake Paul is a tough kid who knows what he’s doing so the question becomes for me how much does Mike Tyson have left at this ridiculous age to box at 58 because if he’s got a lot left that’s the end of Jake Paul that’s the end of

Chris Paul cuz this is Mike Tyson this isn’t some guy from the Food Lion but I don’t know he’s got we Jake Paul probably isn’t afraid of him you and I are afraid of him we watched him today we saw him we know we were there saw him

Ringside baby yeah yeah boxing we miss boxing we do we would root let’s take a break coming up what’s the word for the field the US women won on last night that’s the word and should Jason Kelce be a more prized television Prospect than Bill bellich wow I mean I think

Everybody over 50 would watch Tyson right yeah time to pit Fab vocab against drab vocab and what’s the word what’s first last night’s win for the US women over Canada was blank my word is soggy San Diego was deluged by rain and then they went to

Penalty kicks so it doesn’t seem to me like there was an advantage or a disadvantage from the field I I would say it’s a weird game but not an unsatisfying game no not unsatisfying Tony but I’m going to say unfortunate because you want to see that game play

Between those two participants and I know the US is owned Canada you know historically I I get it but I want to see that game played in better conditions and by the way whatever Julie FY says that’s what soccer should do on every note that game should have been

Postponed San Diego has that much rain are you kidding me that’s weird that was unbelievable you look at that you go that’s not San Diego is some sort of you know fake situation film editing no was San Diego turned it on last night and couldn’t believe and I watch some of it

No Tony it’s unfortunate to have two teams that are that good and you know have to compete in that situation I’m not saying it was unfair to either side I’m not I’m not saying the result wasn’t legitimate I’m not saying that either I just want to see it played in better

Conditions the snow thing was stupid too that was dumb come on soccer wise up this is what I think soccer has been doing for a while what’s next it’s blank that Jason Kelce is reportedly more in demand than bill bellich for a broadcast job it’s understandable Jason Kelce

Likes to talk he’s on that podcast with his brother he’s a character you remember when he took his shirt off in the box at Kanas City it feels to me like Jason Kelce would be good at this I don’t have that feeling from belich belich doesn’t like when you ask him

Questions belich doesn’t like when you challenge him at all I mean I don’t see belich doing well on a sitar around show because I think he would be disdainful you can’t honestly believe Mike even though you like belich that he’s some sort of happy elf I mean that’s that’s

Not who he is if you put him in a situation because he’s really smart with somebody he respects like Nick Sabin that might be great television but not this so I understand why Kelsey is preferred Tony it’s easy peasy it’s too easy and people aren’t Discerning anymore they do what’s easy and usually

Stupid this would not be stupid cuz Jason Kel’s going to be great let’s just put that aside yeah Jason Kelce you can put him on a set five wide although I’m sick of those you can put him in a in a game but Jason Kel is gonna be great but

Bill bellich is gonna be great too all right do you see that NFL 100 players of all time where Bill bich sitting there he the is or who with bell Tony come on now bellich in a hoodie when he doesn’t want to talk is Hell he’s awful right

Bich getting a paycheck to talk in that top 100 there’s no living person who’s a smart and as chatty as Bill bich on those 100 people and if you put Bill the day after you see him in a sit around no I don’t want to see that I don’t want to

See that I want to see with others look Tony yeah Tony I’m going remind you of something I’ve actually had a couple of private sit downs and sessions with Bill you like him smart engaging critical unbelievably inight come on now he does that cuz he doesn’t want to cuz he’s

Angry somebody took his this aort by the way by and Maran of the athletic Bill bellich and Travis Kelce in the proper context pton Manning would figure that out for belich they both will be great come on now it’s different not not in a sit around I don’t want to sit around the

Hell with a sit around too many of those anyway let’s take one last you in a sit around they pay you to be in a Sit don’t want him with us either countdown baby still to come you don’t want B Che with you another season ends early for Ben

Simmons if you don’t want him with you then don’t push him on me just with me I’m pushing my me fell checking me I do that an AFC team CH interest in Russell Wilson ha talk about happy time people happy 72nd Birthday Lynn Swan the hall of fame wide receiver for the Pittsburgh

Steelers was a great player in college at USC even better in the NFL Swan on one side John stalworth on the other they were on four Super Bowl winning teams Swan was the MVP of Super Bowl 10 when Pittsburgh beat Dallas 217 Swan had four catches for 161 yards and a fourth

Quarter touchdown that provided the margin of Victory the word often used to describe Swan as a wide receiver was Baltic imagine how it felt to be Terry Bradshaw in the Huddle knowing he had Swan and stalworth to throw to and if anything went sideways he had the Steel

Curtain to get the ball back to him well then he can hand it to Franco Harris lot of Hall of Famers Tony it makes me angry that people have to reduce Sports to numbers and they’re not Discerning enough to look at the catches we just looked at among others of ly Swan and

Understand oh my God he was was like a bird he’s great people aren’t they’re not smart enough as observers anymore to do that oh we got to have numbers he didn’t have that many catches get out of here happy anniversary Payton Manning on this day eight years ago the future Hall

Of Famer and Manning Cass co-host announced his retirement after 18 seasons and two Super Bowl wins one in Indianapolis one in Denver the Broncos have not been back to the playoffs since Manning left Jeff legald of ESPN points out quarterbacks have been Paxton Lynch Brock Osweiler Drew lock Trevor Simeon

Case Keenum Joe flacko Teddy Bridgewater Brandon Allen Jeff Driscoll and Brett rippen then they used five draft picks including two first rounders and $242 million on Russell Wilson and none of it has worked none of it they bet their cap in their future and they lost Tony I

Guess there’s some irony there because the Denver Broncos are John Elway and pton Manning and since then that list goes on and on and on to the break of dawn my goodness no no good happy trails for the rest of this season Ben Simmons Simmons has been shut down because of a

Nerve issue in his back the former overall number one pick of the 76ers and Rookie of the Year played 57 games for the Nets over the last two seasons 15 this season in nearly 24 minutes a game this season Simmons has averaged six points 8 rebounds and six assists shot

58% from the floor taking no threes Simmons’s entire career has been plagued by injuries next year is the final year of his 5year $177 million contract this year he makes $ 37.9 million next year 40.3 you think Russell Wilson hasn’t worked out during this contract Simmons has missed more than

61% of the games his team has played Tony it just seems like his career is lost and it’s too bad cuz Ben Simmons has obviously got a lot of talent to be selected where he was and shown the flashes at times during his career I

Feel bad for him I feel bad for for guys like him and Brandon Roy who you know there was great talent in their bodies and their bodies betrayed them what what are you what are you supposed to do about this other than feel bad he gets eight rebounds a game in 22

Minutes a game he can assist he can do a lot of he can’t shoot long and he can’t shoot from a foul line but he’s got talent he was rookie of the year and it’s it’s down the drain Mike it’s down the drain let’s go to the big finish if we

Could the Pittsburgh Post Gazette says the Steelers plan to meet with Russell Wilson before the start of fre agency next week you think that’s a good fit right it’s a great fit that’s the fit that’s it come on Mike Tomlin get him directed the Broncos today Cut Pro Bowl

Safety Justin Simmons does that make sense to you they have no cap room because of the Wilson contract they have nothing they can do Mike Woodson will reportedly return as Indiana head coach next season are you surprised by that well Tony they’ve won three in a row they’re nine

And 10 in the Big 10 they got a must game maybe against Michigan State that may have a must game get off Woody they could get to the tournament get off my man Raphael Nadal pulled out of Indian Wells your thoughts okay every time we mention Rafael Nadal in the last three months

He’s pulling out of another tournament let him go to the French where he one a million times see if there’s anything left and then shut it down Mike then shut it down last one lonel Messi in Miami take on Nashville tonight in the conquer Champions Cup are you intrigued

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Pardon the Interruption | “Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury does not threaten Timberwolves” – Michael Wilbon