Takes

Novak Djokovic is the greatest tennis player of all time.

I know the most about tennis. Djokovic is the goat and I've been right all along.

The Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy to win in all of professional sports.

For any hockey fan that's enjoying watching the highest level playing for the best trophy, that's the hardest to win in sports. The playoffs are still a man's game... it's two teams that basically beat the shit out of whoever they play against.

Connor McDavid is the best athlete in the world.

I'm gonna keep backing the best player I've ever seen... [McDavid] is breaking records and he's doing things that haven't been done in about 40 years in the NHL. He's joining the list of Gretzky and Lemieux every season. Watching him like night in and night out, it looks like a different league. It looks like an alien on the ice.

Bloodsport is one of the best action movies ever made.

I give Bloodsport a five balls. I love this movie. I'll always love this movie. It is a mandatory watch if you like action movies. It's the best.

Bloodsport is an unexceptional movie that is difficult to pay attention to.

Nah, it was fine. It was just... it's just one of those movies that you have it on and you're on your phone and you lose the plot... you're not paying attention. I mean, in that sense, it was like, all right, I can look up, watch him fighting.

PFT's $10,000 bet on the Heat and Panthers was an investment with a 10% ROI

PFT, I gotta start with you because you have to feel incredible relief for your bet. The 10,000 to win a thousand when you bet the heat up three Oh and the Panthers Up three Oh cashes gotta be the biggest relief of all time.

Derek White's Game 6 buzzer-beater felt like a series-winning moment

Game six was unbelievable. Just that win and the day after did, it did feel like a Game seven win. It felt like a series win. I was, I was basking at it. I truly was.

The 2023 Celtics' loss is as bad as being swept

I mean, the way that you won game six is almost better than winning the series. That was just such incredible finish... Game seven was game seven actually. It's true. And that was a good lesson. Yeah. Game seven is always game seven.

The LIV Golf relegation system is just the PGA Tour and Q-School with a different name

LIV golf is tweaking their rule format that they have. They are now instituting relegation and promotion in LIV golf league... which is great... LIV Golf just invented the PGA Tour. So you're not like guaranteed a spot on LIV golf. They invented qualification school.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the GOAT because he achieved his physique with fewer steroids than modern bodybuilders

Basically Arnold started talking about his steroid use for the first time and talked about his cycle and basically he wasn't on that much steroids compared to a lot of guys today in body building, which just goes to show that he is the goat.

Nikola Jokic is the best basketball player in the world

I agree. I think he is the best basketball player and I think he's proving it every single night... I think he's proving it every single night. And you know, I go back, my first summer in Denver was also Nicole's first summer... In Las Vegas for Summer league in that, not one point in time in Vegas did I say, Hey, we have a franchise player.

Nikola Jokic's game is more like chess than checkers

Some guys are playing checkers out there and then you have a few guys that play chess and see things developing and guys understand pretty quickly when they first come to our team, first time playing with Nicola, hey you better have your head in a swivel.

Ja Morant is a modern-day Allen Iverson in every way

I'm almost thinking four Philly. The personality of Philly sports. I say a straight up for John Morant. Philly can handle a problematic like Alan iv. He's like Alan Iverson every way to me. Like the way he plays and his off, if there was social media when Alan Iverson was playing, he'd have flashed a gun. Oh for sure. He got caught with guns like all the time.

Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious' is the work of a 19-year-old and doesn't hold up as seasoned material

As someone who's been doing it so long now, like I see the 19 year old because he was 19 and delirious. Like I see that all over it now... the material itself's not really like anything like light, like, you know, doesn't really give you any insight into him.

Ohio is the most underrated state for comedy

I'd say the most underrated state for comedy is Ohio. Ohio just has a crazy amount of clubs for me and my like, like what I prefer with like audiences. It's all blue collar pretty much.

Roman Roy will have the happiest life of the Roy siblings after the Succession finale

I actually think the one guy that that is gonna have the happiest life after this is probably Roman because he's still got billions of dollars and he's just gonna go off and be like a drunk horny weird asshole on his own, which is what makes him the happiest. Yeah. He's doing that type of shit. He doesn't, he never actually wanted real power.

Connor Roy was the only sibling with a real relationship with Logan Roy

Connor, that scene when they had the virtual dinner with dad thing that they watched that scene was basically showing all of us that Connor was the only one who had a relationship with his father that meant anything. Everyone, all the other three kids were just transactional. Like they want to be pa like the, the the next in line.

Betting on the Heat to win the series while up 3-0 was a 'sharp' bet based on expected value and ROI

It was a plus expected value on the bet, by the way... I was getting 10% return on investment. It should have been about 5% given the history of the NBA in three-nothing leads. So it was a sharp bet. I don't regret anything. I'm a process guy, not a results guy.

Joe Mazzulla visiting a hospital before Game 5 is 'Gary V adjacent' and psycho behavior

He said watching a girl dying and smiling and enjoying her life, that's what it's really all about. So he gained some perspective. It's kind of some psycho shit, but I guess it's nice... it is Gary V adjacent what he's doing. He's just reminding, he's trying to force himself to work harder by looking at people who are dying.

Rob Brind'Amour's post-sweep comments were 'the biggest loser talk' ever

The hurricanes got swept and Rob Brind'Amour afterwards said... 'we didn't lose four games, we got beat, but we were right there.' ... That's quite a quote. ... To come out afterwards and say the history books will show we got swept, but that's not what happened. ... On the surface that's the definition of Loser Talk.

Michael Block is losing fans by saying he'd be one of the best in the world if he had Rory McIlroy's distance

He also had a clip where he said if he had Rory McIlroy's distance... he would be one of the best players in the world. ... He then came out and he is 120th out of 120 participants. ... That clip... what are we talking about here? ... Rory McIlroy, you know why Rory McIlroy has that is because he's a freak athlete and he's worked insanely hard.

Championships are very hard to win; you just have to keep rolling the dice and getting to the playoffs every year

I'm also a big believer in like, championships are very hard to win. Just having a consistently good team that gets to the playoffs and deep runs in the playoffs. Like you just keep rolling the dice... The playoffs is the goal. What happens after that? There's a lot of like bounces and weird shit that happen.

Joel Embiid is a 'loser' who lacks 'that dog in him'

Joel Embiid? ... Kind of a loser. ... To answer your question [Big Cat] Yes. That you, there's definitively guys who do have the dog in them and don't. ... It is pretty wild to think about [how many Kentucky players score 40 in the NBA and Calipari only won one title].

Chris Bosh is the rare example of a player who actually gained 'that dog in him' after joining the Heat

What about Chris Bosh? Did he kind of get a little dog with the heat? Because remember he at the Raptors, he was called Soft. He might be the example of a guy who gained some dog. He got heat culture. Got Dwayne Wade, he got Haslem, LeBron. Getting him tougher.

The Denver Nuggets feel exactly like the 2015 Golden State Warriors before they started winning titles

The Nuggets to me feel like... the Warriors in 2015. Where the feeling I have watching them feels very similar to when the Warriors were first, before they ripped off all their titles... People thought they were a great regular season team, but too soft, too jump-shooting. I feel very similar things watching this Nuggets team.

Football is now primarily a TV sport, not an in-person sport

I think we've reached the point where we primarily think of football as a TV sport. Not an in-person sport. We lose track of the fact that people... well in our defense, 99% of the audience is TV. Probably higher.

The Denver Nuggets are an absolute wagon and I was wrong for not thinking they were this great

The nuggets are just, they're a wagon right now. ... I would like to admit that I was wrong. Nugs and six is what I kept saying I was wrong about not being right enough about the nuggets. ... I didn't realize just how great they were.

LeBron James is not actually retiring; he is just using the rumor to distract from being swept

Well, he's not gonna retire. That was classic LeBron to basically be like, oh, I got swept. Let me talk about retiring real quick so that the story then becomes LeBron might walk away instead of LeBron got swept.

Anthony Davis being ranked #53 on the NBA's Top 75 All-Time list is insane

Where's Anthony Davis on the top 75? ... 53. That's crazy. That's insane... This is just looking at Anthony Davis, the freak athlete, and then comparing him to old players that were by any objective stretch. Much, much greater NBA players than Anthony Davis.

The Knicks should not retire Carmelo Anthony's number; doing so would be 'soft'

You should retire numbers for, for winners. Not like nice guys that you're... I'm just saying it's soft.

Austin Reeves is the Lakers' glue guy and it would be a huge mistake to trade him

Austin Reeves. I swear to God, if we fucking trade Austin Reeves, I'm gonna be so pissed off. We need a guy like Austin Reeves. ... [He] is a glue guy.

The Heat only won the Eastern Conference because they were the better team, regardless of the 'Bubble' not counting

The Eastern Conference just further proves the heat where the better team, even though the bubble didn't count. ... You see what we did?

Red Bull is my family and where I truly belong in F1

Now going back like full circle to Red Bull... it's like, oh, like, yeah, this is, this is the family. Like this is where, you know, I, I'm happy to come home to and where I feel like I truly belong.

The backup quarterback is the best job in all of sports

You gotta realize like we are the biggest backup quarterback fans in the world. Like we think that is the dream job in any, in any sport. ... Chase Daniel backup quarterback in America. He's thrown like, I don't know, maybe like 200 passes and he's made like 50 million, like 15 years. Yeah. Pretty good job.

I would fire Joe Mazzulla right now before Game 4

If I were you, Hank, I would want to fire [Joe] Mazzulla right now before Game 4. Get Brad [Stevens] in there.

Boston as a city does not have what it takes to come back from down 3-0

No teams ever come back down from three-oh in the NBA. I don't think Boston as a city has what it takes to come down from three-oh.

Heat Culture is the strongest strain of culture in the world

Heat culture. I know I declared it dead... ever since that moment, I don't think there's been anything stronger in the world than heat culture. It is the strongest strain of culture out there.

The Celtics would not have fired Ime Udoka if they knew how bad Joe Mazzulla would be

If they had known how bad Joe Mazzulla was gonna be and how bad the season would end, they would not have fired Ime [Udoka]. They'd be like, 'Okay, I'm gonna look the other way. He just fucked one person.'

Brooks Koepka is the closest player to Tiger Woods in big moments

Obviously Tiger's the greatest... but I think Brooks is the closest to Tiger in terms of big lights showing up. Like the ice in his veins in these big moments. He's just there.

You play golf better when you're hungover

That just backs up, I think what a lot of us already know, which is you play golf better when you're hungover. Because you're like, get me the fuck out of the sun. I wanna get home. So you play faster.

The Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka rivalry is officially over

The rivalry's over. Bryson [DeChambeau] is not really a threat to Brooks [Koepka] anymore. Bryson won the bubble tournament—those didn't count. It's like the Lakers winning in the bubble.

The Ryder Cup should use a format that pits LIV players against PGA Tour players

If they did a Ryder Cup but it was a format where it was LIV guys against PGA guys... lean into it. Have it be like WCW getting into a ladder match against all of WWF.

Jimmy Butler has photographic memory for taunts and celebrations

I think Jimmy Butler might have photographic memory because his reverse celebrations when he taunts somebody back in the same way that they've taunted him are too perfect. He did the timeout thing that Al Horford did—even got down on the exact same knee.

If a person doesn't have hobbies, all there is is work

If a person doesn't have hobbies, all there is is work. I think work-life balance is good, but you know, a work-work balance works too.

Swimmers are split between engine-based athletes and coordinated athletes

You still have two different kinds of athletes. You have athletes who probably could have done another sport... and then you have other people that just have an engine... but they can't jump, they can't run, they can't do anything but that [swim].

If you admit to being dumb, you can never actually be wrong

If you say that you're dumb all the time, you can never actually be wrong because you never put out the pretense of you being right.

Jimmy Tatro shouldn't have taken a network TV job because he is a movie star

I think that you [Jimmy Tatro] are a movie star and I think that this [TV show] will tie you down and you won't have the freedom to do all these things that I think will be banging down your door... I've seen you and stuff. You're a movie star. I am not a movie star. I think this is where I end up. I don't think you end up here.

Jamal Murray has officially arrived as a clutch postseason player

I was gonna say Jamal Murray has arrived officially as like a clutch postseason player. That fourth quarter was awesome. Go nuggets.

LeBron James looked old for the first time in these playoffs

The story is LeBron James looking old for the first time cause whether it was the miss dunk, whether it was the flops... he just for the first time this these playoffs, he looked a little off.

LeBron James is a 'stack compiler' compared to Michael Jordan

So 13, if you take, if you take LeBron's first 13 years, who scored more points? That was her, that was her question. I don't know the answer to that question, but I think it's more fair way to join to, to judge it. And then she [PFT's mom] just wanted to know over and over again why they don't call traveling anymore... the answer no, she, her, her point was that he's played more years than Jordan. So he is kind of a stack compiler.