Takes

Frost delays in golf are soft

If you can't just... frost delay. You see frost delay that's soft. That is soft. There's frost on the grass. We can't play.

The Oakland A's are getting a raw deal and owner John Fisher is a piece of shit

It just dawned on me that the A's are getting such a fucking raw deal and the city of Oakland's getting such a raw deal... John Fisher. Fuck you John Fisher. Piece of shit. You fucking dick.

Jimmy Butler has more mental toughness than the entire Sixers organization combined

The Heat deserve a ton of credit cause the Heat are better than the Sixers and more than that, the Heat are just tougher, mentally tougher than the Sixers. Jimmy Butler has more mental toughness than the entire Sixers organization combined.

If the Celtics lose Game 2 against the Heat, I will be at the panic button

I think if we lose game two I'll be officially panic button out. But I think if we win game two, we're back.

The Victor Wembanyama hype has gotten hilariously out of control

The Victor Wembanyama hype has gotten so hilariously outta control. Wodge said he was maybe the greatest prospect in the history of team sports. People are saying he is a bigger deal than LeBron James, which is just factually incorrect.

Erik Spoelstra is the best coach in the NBA

I think Eric Spoelstra is the best coach in the NBA I think with all due respect to to to Steve Kerr and Greg Popovich right now what he's doing.

LeBron James has never played a player like Nikola Jokic in the playoffs

I don't think as great as LeBron James' career has been, he's ever had to play a player like Jokic in the playoffs... Jokic is such a unique force... He's averaging a 30 point triple double in these playoffs, which is insane.

The 2023 NBA playoffs are the most 'f-ed up' in NBA history

I will also remind you Big Cat that in our playoff preview in Austin, I, I was clear that this is the most effed up post-season [in NBA history]. You did. It's so weird. We have an eight seed, oh, two eight seeds in the conference finals. We have the first playing team, winning a series. We have two plan teams winning series. It's just the, it's parody. It's a lot like March Madness.

San Antonio is the perfect landing spot for Victor Wembanyama because of Gregg Popovich

If you want a young player to not have his career go sideways with bad coaching and a dysfunctional franchise, there's no better place than San Antonio for [Wembanyama] to land.

The 76ers' Game 7 loss was on James Harden and Joel Embiid, not Doc Rivers

Doc Rivers fired... He probably should have been fired. But it also is like one of those rare cases where Doc Rivers loves to blow it in big moments, but that loss to me was squarely on James Harden and Joel Embiid.

The Celtics have a 60/40 chance against the Heat, contradicting ESPN's lopsided odds

ESPN bullshit, fuck ESPN... they were like 97% Celtics had chance like that was the percentage that they were gonna win the series, which I thought was a little bit egregious, but I feel excited... I feel like it's a little bit closer than that. Probably like 60-40.

The NHL conference final matchups are absolute duds

Hot seat to have a couple. Yeah. First one is NHL. The conference finals. Absolute dud. Matchups. Absolute dud. It's Dallas verse Vegas. Carolina versus Florida.

Cheating in baseball is beneficial because it gets people talking about the sport

MLB they should just plan some type of cheating scandal right around now every year. Because it does get, like, cheating in baseball is, I think the only sport where it's actually beneficial. Cause it gets people talking about baseball.

I choked away the Masters with a four-shot lead

I'd characterize that as a choke. Damn. It was pretty bad. Yeah, I mean, I mean, come on, you got a four shot lead. All you gotta do. I was playing good and just choked it away.

Winning majors is the only benchmark that matters in golf

At the end of the day, all anybody cares about is majors and how many majors you got... At the end of the day, it's not how many wins in the regular season did you have? It's how many Super Bowls you win.

John Rahm and Scottie Scheffler have separated themselves from the rest of the golf world

I do think that those two have separated themselves, but I think it's also, I think Rahm is the clear number one right now. I think Rahm is clear number one, Scottie is clear number two, and then there's a big gap between everyone else.

Jason Day's ceiling is still historically high as his back issues have subsided

Jason Day who won last week... his ceiling is very high. People forget, but in 2016, Jason Day was, had a historically great year. His ceiling is very high. So two guys that are sort of outside the top five favorites, I would say Ricky Fowler and Jason Day.

Going to separate weddings as a couple is the dream scenario

This is the easiest question ever. You both go to your weddings and have the best time ever without your girlfriend or boyfriend... once you start going to 'em and you get in your wedding like late twenties, early thirties... they all just blend together, this one will stick out. Might as well have some fun.

Jayson Tatum officially has a 'dog' in him after Game 7

I think the real winner in this series should be us for saying that Jayson Tatum is the best player on the court and he needs to get a dog. We were dog used dog salesman adoption counselors and we set up a tent outside Jayson Tatum's house. And he adopted a dog from us. He's got a dog now.

Jayson Tatum is a top five player in the NBA

I think Jayson Tatum is a phenomenal, phenomenal basketball player, top five player. There are times when he floats and isn't aggressive and it drives me insane. Cause this is the type of guy that should go and take a series and that's exactly what he did.

The Process is officially dead in Philadelphia

There isn't much more to this. The Process is dead. It is officially dead. It's over. Doc Rivers is gone a hundred percent. James Harden's gone a hundred percent.

Joel Embiid cannot lead a team deep into the playoffs as the number one guy

He's clearly not a go-to guy in the playoffs. He's just not. Facts. And like that's something like even and if he does go, he is gonna go somewhere where he doesn't have to be the go-to guy in the playoffs. He can't lead a team deep in a playoff run.

Anthony Davis is a better basketball player than Joel Embiid

[Anthony Davis] is better than Joel Embiid. Anthony Davis does the exact same thing but has a title. Better.

The NBA MVP award should only be officially given if the winner reaches the Conference Finals

I think there should be a rule in MVP voting that if you don't get past second round, it just goes to the second place guy... okay you got the MVP, we won't give it to you until you get to the Conference Finals. Then you officially become the MVP.

The Golden State Warriors dynasty is on pause, not over

It's not demolition. Dynasty not over, just dynasty on pause... I think if you win another in the next three years, then it still counts. It blends together as the same.

Ja Morant's gun flashing isn't a legal issue, just a 'stupidity test' he is failing

I don't think that he was breaking any laws in this video. Was he? He was just being a dumbass, right?... Essentially there's a couple things that happened... it's almost like a stupidity test of like, can you not flash your gun and we'll be cool.

Parents having multiple children should buy a 'big gift' for the older siblings to keep them occupied when the new baby arrives

The only tip I'd give is I bought a big gift for my first son and my daughter and I saved it for when the baby came. So when the baby came home, I was like, 'look, here's a gift.' And it was like a toy they could play with for four hours, which was a lifesaver.

I am officially done having children now that I am a father of three

I'm done. Three's easy, I'm done. Four's... I mean, three's already a lot. Snip snip. I think I'm done.

The English Premier League is more exciting than American sports because of the high consequences of relegation and promotion

That's the beauty of it. That's why I love the English Premier League because it's relegation, it's promotion, the consequences are so much higher.

Modern NFL players and trainers are smarter for not lifting heavy weights to avoid the high risk of injury

I do think that players and trainers have gotten a lot smarter about like, you don't need the risk reward for getting up to those levels of weights. It doesn't make any sense because you have a much greater chance of hurting yourself than you do of gaining that 0.01% chance of improvement.

I agree with Giannis Antetokounmpo that failing to win a title isn't a failure

The older I get and the further along I get and the more perspective that I get in life, I absolutely agree with Giannis' comments. I completely see people on the other side... but in terms of as an athlete, how you have to mentally live your life to not put yourself into a really, really shitty way... I love his perspective.

The mental stress of being an injured high-paid athlete who can't help the team is the hardest part of the NFL

Knowing that you're getting paid millions of dollars to play this game and you're sitting in a training room not on the field... that weighs so heavily on your mind because all you want to do is get back out there for everybody involved and you feel like you are letting everybody down. I wasn't able to handle that properly.

If you are a top five player, you have to be able to pull your team out of the depths of hell

If you're a top five guy—and actually Jayson Tatum said it after the game, humbly, 'I'm one of the best players in the world'—if you're that guy, you have to be able to take your team out of the depths of hell in those moments. And that's exactly what [Tatum] did.

NBA Game 7s are a completely different animal where momentum means nothing

Momentum doesn't matter. That's one thing that I've learned is momentum means nothing. Because going into this series, going into this game, all the, all the momentum was going towards the Sixers after the Celtics won two, it looked like the Sixers were dead. Momentum means nothing. Game seven is one game. Throw out everything else.

The pairing of James Harden and Doc Rivers in a Game 7 does not look good on paper

If you have James Harden and Doc Rivers with their powers combined in a game seven, that doesn't look very good for the 76ers on paper.

As a Nuggets fan, I would much rather play the Warriors than the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals

As a Nuggets fan, I do not wanna play the Lakers. I would rather play the Warriors. I think that their game matches up better against them. The Lakers scare me a little bit on defense.

I would rather break my hip than have the hiccups for an entire year

I would absolutely say if you said, Hey, you can break your hip or you can have hiccups for a year. I'd take the broken hip all day, every day. Cause at least you know, like, this is how I can rehab and I know that there's an end in sight.

The NBA playoffs have been significantly better than the NHL playoffs in this round

The NBA playoffs this round have been a lot better than the hockey playoffs this round. [The NHL] has just a lot of blowouts. It's okay to admit it because there's a lot of 'this sport is better than this sport' talk, but let's have an honest conversation.

Hakeem Olajuwon invoked as much fear in opponents as Michael Jordan did

Hakeem easily [is the best player I played with]. Not even close. He was Michael [Jordan] in those two year runs. He invoked fear into the opponent when you weren't the position he was guarding. That's fear... Do you think Patrick Ewing, when he caught the ball on the right block was like, 'Where the hell's Michael?' But for Hakeem, you had to know where he was on both ends.

It is harder to get to the NBA Finals than it is to win them

There is a different, when you're, it's harder to get to the finals than win it. It is, I actually agree with that... there's a threshold in the playoffs that you gotta break through... you can only learn it by experiencing it.

The regular season is where you make your name, but the playoffs are where you get famous

The regular season is when you make your name, the playoffs you get famous. That's fame. People know me for hitting the three to tie it up in the NBA Finals. They don't say anything about when I hit a game winner against the Clippers in the regular season.

Having a soul patch makes zero difference to my appearance because my facial hair is already shitty

I have realized that me having a soul patch makes absolutely zero difference because people will just be like, PFT's got shitty facial hair. More news at 11. I've known that I've been face-bald for years.

Our backs are against the wall but we just have to win Game 6 to get home court for Game 7

Backs against the wall. This team is tough. This team has been there before. Just gotta win. And then you got a home court advantage for game seven.

The Celtics' fans were right to boo the team in the third quarter of Game 5

You gotta use some, you know, you gotta get, get under their skin, get the boys riled up. They did go on a, a mini sort of tiny run after that, so I had no problem with it.

The Celtics players don't like each other

It feels like a team that they don't like each other. The way they play is like something's off and it's not, they are so talented And then you watch that and you're like, what is that?

The Celtics would be playing differently if Ime Udoka was still the coach

It just seemed like, seems like that's not happening this year. And you have, it's having two first year coaches in a row sucks. I do think Ime Udoka would, would they, this team would be playing different cuz then it does feel like their defensive ability and intensity is different and Ime Udoka got the most outta that.

The Celtics' defensive intensity has dropped significantly under Joe Mazzulla compared to Ime Udoka

I do think Ime Udoka would, would they, this team would be playing different cuz then it does feel like their defensive ability and intensity is different and Ime Udoka got the most outta that.

Wasted years in sports are the worst feeling because you know you have the talent to win it all

It does feel like a wasted year and there's no worse feeling in sports than a wasted year. Yep. Where you know that you've got what it takes and you could win a championship and you just burn out in spectacular fashion.

Kobe Bryant's spirit won Game 4 for the Lakers, not Lonnie Walker IV

I think we can all agree that Kobe Bryant actually won that game for the Lakers, not Lonnie Walker. RG3 said Lonnie Walker's performance in the fourth quarter was out of this world. We know it was you Bean.

Julius Randle is not a good basketball player

Julius Randle is so bad. He really is like, he's so bad. There were so many times where he was like, either he'd be like, fade away three or just like Lackadaisical Pass. After the game he said maybe the Heat just won it more, which I don't think that's gonna go over well in the New York crowd.