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Bill I love you channel 80 you tune in we appreciate you it's time for us to jump right into it stop it straight talk brought to you by straight talk wireless so you heard about it if you have been under a rock all day long or away from Twitter Carmelo Anthony broke his silence with the one the only Stephen a smith on 1st Take this morning and before we even get into it stocks and Pat back an arborist of studios for even get into the sound I'm going to cop to it if you don't know about my feelings when it comes to one Carmelo Anthony I am biased in all shapes sizes forms when it comes to that young man I was one of the 1st people that I covered in terms of being sent out to go cover a sporting event when he won the national championship in New Orleans I want to say the 1st time I met Linda Cohn too by the way in an elevator she was so nice also home I got to talk to Linda Combe but I digress from that point on where it was Marquette Syracuse Kansas Texas and you know what mellows freshman year and only year at Syracuse was to him you know it culminating in and national championship him reaching the playoffs in his rookie year which you know Le Bron James did not do and don't worry we'll get into the Bron James before right here as well the Carmelo Anthony thing for me has been a vibe for the last 1514 years however long he's been in the n.b.a. These last couple of years have been kind of sad awkward to watch as a fan of his game I think the drop dead score is down the Wilkins is my favorite player of all time of course Mike is the god if you know. I live in Chicago who watched the Chicago Bulls It was it was almost as you know given that you were supposed to like Mike and enjoyed his career. But I've always had a thing for for crazy scores who probably didn't make it as far as some people thought they would and Carmelo Anthony is falling right into that category these last couple of years like I mentioned been awkward to watch they've been a little troubling specially when you when you try to see a guy fit into the last years of his career gracefully there's nothing graceful about this and Stephen a Smith pulled no punches when talking to Carmelo Anthony and of course it started after the New York Knicks situation where he becomes the Houston Rockets and we see him in those weird colors and wondering what's going to happen with Chris Paul and James Harden and Carmelo Anthony on the same team and this is what he had to say as far as being caught off guard when he was let go in both Oklahoma City and Houston was big. It was the one from oh this is a piece that we are we want we need a we've talked to we've been talking for 3 years 4 years it was trying to get me to come so. I finally went out and said Ok this is the piece that when these I get there. I'm thinking everything is good I don't every day I got to do and never missed a practice in all my work I was you know real professional everybody I don't think is one person. I wasn't a professional and what I had to do with my work and then it's come I just didn't understand come from. First can we talk about how can we make this better what can we do to you know to face what can I do to win that he had in mind that he wanted to come to me so about releasing me and let me go. Out in like I don't want to now if you hear it in his voice you can hear the learn some things from his time only not only have the end of the New York Knicks run but also the Oklahoma City run where you know there's the famous quote of him at the podium where Paul George is walking in and you know people ask him if he's going to come off the bench. He says to Paul they've got to come off the bench and you see him laughing and kind of you know thumbing his nose at the idea of coming off the bench but that seemed to follow mellow when it came to not just narrative but actual application of his talent was he going to be a guy that was willing to come off the bench and we seen this with stars who don't know when it's their time to kind of be more aware of their talents their abilities and where a league is trending a where league is going but the fact that he's taking us behind the scenes in this sit down with Stephen a smith on how things actually manifest themselves I think I'm all for because a lot of guys have things gone in the background and we as fans we as observers or we as reporters are so-called journalists only get half of the story now does it help you to do this and we'll talk about we keep your goals wrong with the David Griffin Le Bron James situation in a couple of segments but in talking about Melo and how he felt and how everything was handled Stephen a smith asked him When did he learn that he was no longer going to be a Houston Rockets and how did you learn I was actually ends and it's only 0 in my room right before the game and I want to speak that night because I have. Just me and I was going to let me know what I can do I am here to help and they let me know what I got to do you know he came in and he was like look at your service is no longer needed and I'm like I'm. Going to you know. Just not work now and you've got to figure out you've got to figure out something to do on some not to do I got a game tomorrow. Tomorrow So then I started taking even deeper on like a minute I was going to make the rotation and make a man rotation as we found something I've already started to accept the fact that I got to come off the bench which was very hard for me. And I moved on from that are you telling me that I can make. On this team as a team. In basketball say it out there's a couple of sayings actually cole world is one of them and the other one that I think applies his life comes at you fast whether you're ready for it or not and we have extended an invite to Daryl Morey. The Rockets president of basketball operations from the show so you can you know state his case if he so chooses to do so but in the end Carmelo Anthony got hit with the politics of basketball at the worst possible time of his career when his career was on the down side when he was outside of his window when analytics and all the other things that kind of push players who should mid-range contested isolation jump shots like him and had done that and that's the other thing too by the way you know I think Melo is going to be a victim not only of the time he played but who he played with in terms of his competition and I've got my mellow talking points ready I'll always had them like I said unabashedly so I am a mellow fan as man got eliminated 5 different times by the eventual world champion in the n.b.a. We're talking about one of the greatest scores not just in his generation because I used to say that but one of the greatest scores in league history believe what he's like 8 170100 points ways from being the top 10 score of all time and say what you want about what he wasn't and there have been a lot of detractors and a lot of people who have been very verbal about Melo I'll never forget when George call was writing his book into his book store and sitting down with him at a Vegas Summer League working for n.b.a. Radio you know years ago and George called spilled the beans about the deal because the deal had been freshly the New York Knicks had signed Melo to his 9 figure deal and he talked about the things that Melo was going to have to be that he hadn't been before that well this is this is the endgame this is this is what we see this is this is the result of all those years of Melo being allowed to be mellow which is a generational type score but also the people who maybe didn't push him enough or coached him hard enough or if he wanted to be coached so this is not something for me where . Sit back and I just go boo hoo for Melo because I'm a fan of Melo but I understand that there are different things at play here and he went on to speak about ego and all the other things offish coddle Bulls fans out there for him he dropped something on you that I was aware of and you heard rumblings of it going on and if you're if you were in the city of Chicago you knew exactly what was happening but he got into it so well we'll do that coming up here that that was straight talk wireless everything feel less only at Wal-Mart if you want to jump in it it say is e.s.p.n. Is the phone of a day 7293776 what Stephen a Smith interview with Carmelo Anthony do for you or to you as an n.b.a. Fan as a Melo fan did it change your perception of him at all coming up we'll hear more from Melo in his sit down with Stephen a and if he's at peace if his career is over that's next on spending company I'm Jason Gough this is e.s.p.n. Radio were brought to you by Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches. 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Career just short of winning a championship as the best player or one of the best players in the league for a you know a few years there was a time there that 1st New York valiance where Carmelo Anthony every Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon wherever time zone you were in was must see t.v. Must watch t.v. Put 40 on the wall down on the bulls every single time he stepped in the Guard as Jimmy Butler made his. Bones guarding Carmelo Anthony that was the 1st time the Jimmy Butler really got a look from Tom Thibodeau an extended look after he you know effectively slowed down I will say shut down but slow down Carmelo Anthony on a few possessions and I think that's when the legacy of Jimmy Butler was born in the eyes of. The star maker as well Kobe Bryant is mentioned on the top as guards if not the top as guard for him in his life was Carmelo Anthony from block to Ark I don't think that you could find you know many players who are at the level in terms of prolific scores in the n.b.a. And his generation that were better than Carmelo Anthony but we find him where he is in charge at things to say about Carmelo Anthony at the end of the playoffs where he mentioned I actually was in the offseason here not too long ago couple of weeks ago a few weeks ago where he said that in playing with Carmelo the only thing that I think he thinks help Melo back was his need to score 30 plus points a game no matter what and not feeling out the game some way sometimes that's why Chauncey Billups not only is no cheap but a respected point guard in the n.b.a. Annals because of his understanding an i.q. Of the game Chauncey while with those bad boys Part 2 version of the pistons I want to championship was a guy who knew we get the ball too and also more importantly knew how to keep the ball away from you know I think that's important job for point guard is any but the knock on Carmelo Anthony was that he didn't want to win as much as he wanted to shine Well yeah the answer that question was posed by Stephen a Smith What was the goal in the long term for not only the end of the New York career but the Oklahoma City and Houston career as well like at this point. I don't . Want to. Use and don't want to. Go so when it's only thing left for me to do is when. I want to play and I want to go when exams. Also want to play I want to get back out on a court I missed a game I was away for. And again. I have a whole season. I got back I got I was going to grow as a person as a man and I deserve a novice out on one another so I would never stop loving again until I decide to say this is over and I compare. That hurts I just talked about this in a pod cast not too long ago a couple days ago I should say locally here about whatever industry it is when you feel that industry doesn't love you back and how you bounce back from the we've all had our professional you know fails in our professional. Moments where we have felt the best and specially if you doing something that you love you know we live in history of radio t.v. Guys and girls out there when when you feel like the game doesn't love you back that's a that's a tough dark place to be and especially if you're an athlete because you have a final opportunity to not only capitalize on your talents mana terribly but also to make sure that you're enjoying yourself like there was you know all the All-Star games all those things probably went by way too fast and now you've been dropped on your head where nobody wants you in the n.b.a. It was as well the feeling be like if this was it if you don't lead another in the Age How are you going to handle that I think I would be. As good I know it's going to be I think I would be at peace. Because right now I'm in limbo and I wake up every day. Say my resume go work do there's a b. And c. But I know that this would be. I would have to be at peace with that and work on that knowing that I won't be in limbo anymore and I can move on to do other things . You know that I need to focus on right now I can't do those things because I don't know what team I'm going to be on I don't know what situation I'm going to be on so it's hard for me to focus on anything else other day stand in going to the gym training and keep my body right. We've all known the person or maybe even the person who didn't know when the relationship was over right and it sounds like Carmelo Anthony is still not coming to grips with his relationship with the n.b.a. Being over because the n.b.a. Still talks to him still calls him on the phone still invites over to some of the barbecues you know the all star Vince I mean you know you up next from the n.b.a. Yeah are you up from the n.b.a. Is wild by the way because you know you don't answer you don't jump in the shower recorded history in the morning you're not up but you're up because the n.b.a. Wants you to be out hopefully that analogy didn't take anybody back to their you know their childhood or their days of running around town like you should and you're all grown adults now get your life together stop answering you up texts I send them but no honestly this is this is sad to hear a man come to grips with the end of something and if it isn't the end then what do you do now this is the part for Chicago Bulls fans and for n.b.a. Fans but for Chicago Bulls fans especially all Mobbles fans friends out there when everybody was killing Melo for taking the $54000000.00 difference in terms of a contract that's not what $29.00 as opposed to 75 where that what the Bulls could pay him and I did tell everybody in this city when I was doing local terrestrial radio that hey listen you guys can tell you later that you passed up 5400 dollars never mind the fact 54000000 dollars on the table I don't think you could have brought that home a lot is that a very passive 54000000 dollars and let's live in a call for 7 months out the year but I digress because we found out that there was more to that story than met the yeah this is what Carmelo Anthony had to say about his time when he was thinking about sun and with another team besides the New York Knicks I was going to answer Congo. Never rolls so no I was there. I was there. And then I started getting worse just behind the scenes. This person will be there I didn't really write it isn't that and it was all of that started to come up in the midst of my decision making I was going to live any day that meant when your last. Day was the last team. Because I knew. I was writing some move on from that situation because of what I was dealing with and going through in New York after I met with New York last meeting and said. Tell me what you're going to do. For us to put it seemed to go compete and try to win that was my conversation with a lot of things I was a promise of things I would say and I say you know what because I belong in New York I'm a role which I want role words from. A guy who no longer is the prisoner of his own silence the guy who took his cool off and shows a vulnerability might be too much too little too late is the famous song says Carmelo Anthony on with Stephen a Smith the 1st take crew this morning shorts out there on Twitter if you want to go go ahead and check out most of that interview and of course it will be on e.s.p.n. Dot com or yes pm The television station actually row is going to be replayed across a bunch of the station so make sure you're looking out for that I'm Jason Gough this is painting company Rod solo here on e.s.p.n. Radio coming up an n.b.a. General manager turned some heads yesterday with comments he made about Le Bron James he spoke again today you're here next this is spinning company Jason going for the radio I'm surprised that it seemed like these quotes are so negative on the Brown and his camp the other saying was that they were Griffin to have maintained a very positive relationship the extra attention the pressure and it's worth it when you're in Cleveland of course they find their shots that this would come out. This spring and Company. New Shelby power nitrile plus premium gasoline is interfered with 4 levels of defense against. Where corrosion good and friction. Is sort of like having ninjas protect journey that helps keep your engine running like new new Shelby power nitrile gloves premium gas these fuel. Emissions excuse you shall be pretty. High I'm Jay foreigner c.e.o. 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Whether it be a cartoon like forcefield or a marvel edition type you know you know. Holes in kind of vibe where all of a sudden then I was on the other side of it and you can get through and hopefully you've watched some of those movies so you get that reference as I run out of action and knowing you are you talking about you know we're not a words here. But they were given that this to say about the the building of a team around one Bron James he said it was miserable and people took that as oh being around Bron James is miserable the experience being around her will Bron James or the actual Le Bron James relationship was miserable and this is one of those things where a truth teller can sometimes get in trouble for telling the truth and not sometimes more times than not they're not and you know full disclosure I've worked with David Griffin in the time that he was doing his radio thing on Sirius x.m. N.b.a. Radio 4 last couple years of work when like 3 or 4 times and I've learned a lot of basketball a lot of the ins and outs of signing people scouting and all those things during commercial breaks and David Gergen has always been an extremely confident man because he's got a championship trophy that he could point out but that championship ship trophy that he could point at was mostly in part due to his interactions with the Bron James and him coming back to the Cleveland Cavaliers So now David Griffin after saying what he said and the piece which was about him I mean it was about everything that goes into being a general manager his life some of the things that he's dealt with the ups and downs and a piece of it obviously Prince professional highs that have been reached with the Cleveland Cavaliers while he wanted championship in Cleveland with Le Bron James of course the. Is going to be a focus on it now kudos to the interviewer because to get a person to be this comfortable David isn't new to media he's been in the n.b.a. Been around the n.b.a. And actually been on the other side of the microphone interviewing athletes interviewing coaches interviewing G.M.'s for series like some n.b.a. Radio for a couple of years so he knows what's going to get out there what's going to blow up but him being his authentic self which I think very few of us are able to be when it comes to this industry His him being is authentic self maybe you can turn off that that often to city and made waves and we look for these things when it comes to our daily sports lives somebody mentioned Bron James in a manner that might be desirable right so when he called the experience with the James led Cleveland Cavalier team's miserable and questioned James desire to win which is a different story and different different you know tension we can get off on but the whole misery part of it I found very very interesting So now what happens is it seems like it seems like the people around the Bron James and Le Bron James camp I pressed a button on him because after the article of the excerpts of the article come out of raw James tweets and says quote All right all right enough is enough the throne has been play with too much now he may use the improper too which is one of the things that is a deal breaker for me in all kinds of relationships if you're not going to use the right to then you know you got to go double 0 there because there's more to it but he uses the they want to go to so with too much and I want to play if they're coming soon smiley face 17 fire him oh geez a crown James Gang and then the black fists there's a lot going on there Le Bron I don't know which message you were trying to send I don't know if you said in the community after you know David Griffin because we unite and pounce on people when we see that this I don't know of your sentence Dury and Brownian and Bryce after him when you quote when you had Jay. Going like this there's so many different signals being sent up in the year here I don't know who's going to attack 1st so after that you can kind of feel if you read the tea leaves here that the people involved with Le Bron James Wetherbee Maverick Carter or Rich Paul or somebody reach out and say hey Mr Mr Griffin look down. Your left hand there in the and see the ring that you more where because Bron James might want to get back out there and clarify some of these things and this is what he had to say in his on the jump regarding those situations now the all the talk that he said was surrounding the misery wasn't actually about Le Bron James was given it was my inability to deal with that media scrutiny it wasn't the man himself it was everything that came with the team led by Le Bron James had nothing to do with being miserable with Le Bron we had and have a very positive relationship so I was disappointed that the story really became about me and his and station allies version of quotes that were taken totally out of context and and quite frankly none of the information was new information and it seems rather right to the point seems rather simple I mean being around that situation pressure packed and where you know we watch sports because you on our team used to win but think about if your job's on the line if you have to move to a new city and go how shopping and all the other things or if you got to be out of work for a little while because you've lost and not just lost like 40 games or not just lost in the 1st round lost in the finals because for a good 9 years stretch there if Le Bron James didn't win the n.b.a. Championship everything was a failure. That's the way we put it all that's the way we compared to Le Bron I'm sorry to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Tim Duncan guys would won multiple championships playing in the same generation as him so yeah just imagine having as much control as putting the people around the Bron James but not enough control to influence how Bron James interact with those people or if he signs off on those people this is what he had to say on the in organic and miserable portion of the statements that he made in the piece everything was so much in the public eye all the time that was not an enjoyable process when the only thing that Mark success for an organization is winning a championship that's not a terribly enjoyable thing that was obviously a journey that was well worth going on but all of the noise around it really sapped a lot of the joy from it it was very inorganic because what we did we went from a team that was in the lottery multiple years to a team that Le Bron comes back to and you must win a championship right now that's not an enjoyable process from a team building perspectives because it's not sustainable and it is totally an organic David Griffin now you always public is g.m. Former g.m. Of the clue the Cavaliers under Le Bron James is watch Wow Will you championship I'll say this is we get to break here. You might be truth but you have to understand that nobody wants to hear the truth I am Jason Gough this is spending company on e.s.p.n. Radio baseball season rolls along to need some are in Georgia the Yankees host Red Sox presented by Indeed coverage begins at 12 30 pm Eastern on e.s.p.n. Radio on the E.S.P.N.'s coming up next who will blink 1st Jerry Jones is e.q. Elliott the person who doesn't have any eyelids That's next on income p.s.v. a Radio p.p.l. Alyeska running back is entering its 4th year with the team he wants a contract extension secretly wants to pay whatever it is $1516000000.00 you're going this is the most important story of the n.f.l. . For Speed and company next. This weekend everyone gets 10 dollars 50 dollars. Every day any day even. Taking extra $10.00 off you $50.00 per. $50.70 to come between. These 2 companies. 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Eliot and now we are playing the very public game of chicken where who's going to blink 1st is it going to be easy Q Elliot from his I would assume if you spend this much time in Kabul I would hope he's got to like a flat there right life is not going down and hanging out the same resort where you got to keep asking for actually to queue in the modern reader right like he's out and you got to have a low spot down there if I was him because if you go there in the off season you go there when you hold now out nobody saw some land Zeke So maybe Zeke's hanging out of his palatial condo on the beach and he's watching all this stuff happen and he's not blink in and Jerry Jones can't blink so he's not blink in and everybody's looking at each other and nobody's blinking except it might hurt one more than the other to blink we seen these things play out before where players get less than they thought they were going to get and they still pay the still rich still the richest person that they know in their inner circle and sometimes outer circle right there still might be the richest person in the locker room I live you know Bill doesn't walk into the Jets locker room with a tin cup and a bowl of soup and a jacket the Knicks Fredo would wear you know like like you know like he's not he's not hurt now here right he's paid still right I mean he might begin Rob by people that he should. It into his home but he still paid so for me the more public this becomes the more Jerry Jones and Stosh Pat look up the 1st couple of games for me on the Cowboys schedule because the more personal this becomes the more it feels like Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones are willing to well in or ride this thing out and busy q.o.l. Is real and sure about this you've got Ms games play like you got you can't come back and start running around on a practice field and say I'm not go play in a pre-season had no plan and you plan a preseason as it is I don't really running backs in this league get what maybe 2 carries in the preseason really start out against the Giants and then add a redskin and the Dolphins are those 1st 3 games this isn't owing to video from Emmitt Smith I believe was 9293 when when Emmitt Smith said out for those 1st 2 games you can beat the Giants and the Redskins and the Dolphins without Elliot No if you look at their team and the way that they're presently constituted I think that that Prescott can cold alter the ball enough Markovic you make enough plays that defense who has amassed quite the quite the front 7 like on the low Laden Vandar as a guy with a lot of people laughed at in the draft last July without with a draft and well he started into quite the player Jaylen Smith come back from that drop foot that horrific injury in the Fiesta Bowl against the Ohio State Buckeyes a dude who is getting ready to be paid Byron Jones a do move get ready to be paid to Marjorie's lords just got paid you can when you can squeak out a few 2118 to 2021 to 7 teams in those 1st 3 weeks no so if if if the schedule is lining up the way that is lining up for Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys Now the problem is you can't lose any of those games if if Elliott is willing to press the button and miss games which I think he has to do if he's real about this holdout if he's willing to do that and they. 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Right that's a goal into and then beat the Dolphins like everybody's going to this year on to their body in Miami football is not going to be something that you guys a chair for this year but let's say they lose those a few Well I mean let's be real about it right now if Josh Rosen are right if it's Patrick on a quarterback battle that means that your quarterback position is up and up and up enough the media's You know seeing you doing the most you see you bring your Saturday shenanigans into Are we playing you're making a point I was making a point and by the way they should be losing every game they possibly can to try to get Trevor Lawrence here in a couple years but let's say they lose those 1st 2 games that's when you can press the button but you've got to you've already got to be out your alley and Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones are talking like people that don't think they're going to pay him and we'll get into a little bit later on the reasons why you should probably take better care of your brand this is one of those situations to me if you're not and this is this is something that I found startling because if I am one of the best players in the league and I just happen to be a Dallas Cowboy they have said very clearly as my mom would say you know good English bad manners they have said very clearly we're not going to the market centers on anything so if you just tear up the world if you're a marketer say you go for all but 101700 yards 13 touchdowns make that Prescott look like the mayor. Then go home and set the market so if they're not paying his e.q. Elliot the $60000000.00 or whatever it is he might want then if you're dollars Cowboy how how can you really be looking at the front office thinking that you're going to be rewarded for your great play the Cowboys are running this thing like every n.f.l. Owner hoped they would less need in those boards they're going looked at a little funny right now for signing talk Jerry Jones not going down that road coming up we'll stick with this conversation about seeking the Cowboys in all things and until next spending company e.s.p.n. . You don't have to have a. So. 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Insult of the plane is in the air now where are the joy so you know sit back relax yourself don't put your own Put your seat back that's Ramit yours that 2 inches that's 2 inches of rest that you get on your seat is not really worth being in another person's lap behind you be a better fly than that of God Wow Thanks probably a really really good flier after not knowing him at all and initially following me to me wondering what I did wrong to be followed is our guy in the spell pencil performance line and he Benoit and of violence for Sports Illustrated and the Monday morning quarterback here on spending company with Jason and how you doing and I'm doing well how are you doing good I'm good so let's figure this thing out together Ezekiel Jerry right away that would be a crazy u.f.c. Match up but Jerry who's going to blink 1st in this situation. That's a tough one because I don't think running backs have a lot of blabber down to Melbourne recorded for example are going to kind of leverage it all I don't think of detail and has some leverage and then the question is well how much to what degree in there is a really complicating factor which is that you need to do jack Prescott still at some point and you need to do a Marri Cooper's deal not my cancer Elliot's people were aware of that and we need to do the.