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NBA Insider Shams Charania, Wilder/Fury, The Browns Had An Open Casket Funeral For A Dog

Monday, February 24, 202011 takes

A wild weekend in sports headlined by Trey Wingo posting weird Bear pictures from 4 years ago. (-) Wilder/Fury was awesome and boxing may be back. (-) College Basketball had an awesome Saturday followed up by a great NBA Sunday. (-) Swagger, the Cleveland Browns former mascot, had an open casket funeral that was totally normal. (-)Who's back of the week including Big Ben and Spring. NBA Insider Shams Charania joins the show to talk about how he got so plugged in to the league at the age of 25, which franchises are doing the smart thing, free agency 2020, and he breaks news live on air with a little help from us. (-) Segments include Tattoo Roast for Jayson Tatum, (-) Seeing Red for Jim Boylen calling timeouts with 30 seconds left in losses, (-) Madison Bumgarner's alter ego (-) and Monday Reading (-)

Fight Recap

Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Fight Recap
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Big CatBig Cat

UFC has ruined my brain for watching boxing

I have a take that UFC has kind of ruined my brain when it comes to boxing... I watched that fight and I was like why the fuck isn't he submitting him? Like, why isn't he taking him to the ground? Why isn't he kneeing him in the face? It's just there's a level of violence in the UFC that you expect when you see a fight and you're like I was sitting there watching like why isn't Fury just sit on him.

This is a subjective personal experience of how he perceives sports.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Fight Recap
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Big CatBig Cat

Deontay Wilder was gassed because he had to walk through the MGM Grand for 10 minutes

Watching Deontay Wilder have to walk through the entirety of the MGM Grand... it was no joke 10 minutes of him just walking through the through the back rooms. He was walking through a kitchen at one point I said right then and there I was like he is going to be gassed because that is everyone knows that feeling when you're in a casino and you've been walking around the casino for like maybe 20 30 minutes and you have a moment we like wait. I kind of need to sit down.

Wilder famously blamed his 40-pound walk-out costume for his leg fatigue, so the idea that the pre-fight walk sapped his energy was actually cited by the athlete himself.
Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Fight Recap
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Big CatBig Cat

Pay-per-view shamers need to get a life

You pay per view shamers. I see you you guys get get a fucking life the people who pre complain about the fight there like I'm not going to buy the fight because probably the last like three rounds and the undercard sucks. It's not about the fight. It is about the fight but it's also about the experience of buying the pay-per-view and being like, holy shit.

Subjective opinion on consumer behavior and sports fandom.

Recap

Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

Brad Stevens being too nice to referees hurts the Celtics

Brad Stevens like his face and the fact that he treats refs was so much respect hurts him because if he just raises his voice a little he gets a technical foul. That was a bullshit technical foul. What kind of just calling a technical foul with a minute left in the game is also who does that?

Subjective analysis of coaching psychology and officiating bias.

Interview

Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020
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Shams CharaniaShams Charania

The Heat, Thunder, and Nets are the most forward-thinking NBA organizations

I look at you know, you got to look at the Thunder I They've done a good job the Nets on the obviously getting KD and Kyrie. I think a lot of the Nets is situation has to do with creativity but also information... Indiana. I think has a great kind of culture already set... I like what Miami is doing right now.

Subjective ranking of front office quality by an insider.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020
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Shams CharaniaShams Charania

John Beilein failed in Cleveland because he treated NBA players like college kids

I think he thought that what his methods were in college. Were going to work at the NBA level and it just wasn't even close... one person described him as a dictator and that's not the way you talk to NBA players... once that Thug comment was made and he went back and said nah, I'm at slugs. I think the players knew that that was never said.

This accurately reflects the consensus reporting on why Beilein's tenure was a disaster and why he was forced out.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020
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Shams CharaniaShams Charania

I don't see any scenario where Anthony Davis is not a Laker next year

Anthony Davis any chance he goes anywhere, but the Lakers in this offseason? I don't see it. I don't see it... Could he take a meeting? Yes, but I just I don't see a scenario where he's not a Laker.

Anthony Davis did indeed re-sign with the Lakers in the 2020 offseason on a five-year deal.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020
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Shams CharaniaShams Charania

Markieff Morris is agreeing to a buyout and signs point to the Lakers

Pistons Forward Markieff Morris has agreed to a contract buyout League sources tell athletic... I do think it's the Lakers of the Raptors and the but I want to show you what we're still a might know... I'm pretty sure [Lakers] are the leader in the clubhouse.

Markieff Morris did indeed sign with the Lakers on February 23, 2020, shortly after the buyout.

Roast

Win
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Roast
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Big CatBig Cat

Jayson Tatum's back tattoo is grammatically incorrect

He did get a new tattoo on his back huge tattoo God's will God's will mmm. No apostrophe though, God's will God's will is God's will... if he wants to be the best player in the league. He cannot have grammatically incorrect tattoo. Kind of sucks has been Kevin Durant people like didn't know he had tattoos till he was like five years ago. They were all grammatically correct.

The tattoo literally says 'GODS WILL' across his back, lacking the possessive apostrophe required for 'God's will'.

Seeing Red

Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Seeing Red
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Big CatBig Cat

Jim Boylen uses timeouts to delay the inevitable loss because he's a football guy

I think Jim Boylen is so disgusted with losing. He is a football guy in a basketball guys suit. He's so disgusted with losing. I think he uses timeouts the end of a game to literally stop time to delay the inevitable loss. I got you like he can basically say look, it's almost like it's almost like the end of Sunday Night Football when you're like, I don't have to go back to work.

Subjective psychological profile of a coach's strategy.

Monday Reading

Void
Take Slip·Feb 24, 2020·Monday Reading
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Short guys wearing high heels is an alpha move compared to wearing lifts

If you wore lifts in your in your shoes. That's a clown move if you were heels, that's a I'm so confident in myself. I don't give a fuck. It's an alpha move, right? I will dress up as a woman Checkmate and be six feet tall Checkmate.

Subjective comedic take on social signaling and height.