The Drive with Josh Graham - Kemba Walker - 07/1/19

Drive with Josh Graham 5 Castle Dr. back from vacation. Temple Walters no longer afford it and the rest of the MBA world is waiting on Kawai Leonard fittingly appears to be off the grid. Also, there's a new Kawai sound that's going viral. Right now on the Internet. It's about a minute, I just can't get past how badly Charlotte box things with the franchises best wherever ever, other than Bobby feels that in the team moving out of Charlotte to New Orleans. I think yesterday was the darkest day in Hornets history. Being incompetent is far worse than being irrelevant. It's much more heartbreaking to have greatness on your roster in your presence and still not be able to achieve the not having it all. But why I say NC State fans have had a lot worse than say in the NFL. Cleveland Browns fans.

The Browns never had a shot. You can't really raise up your hopes if you know if you have no talent. If you have no hope. NC state has that and they just continually get kicked in the nether regions.

Time and time again the Charlotte Hornets had an all NBA player on their roster and could do nothing with it.

He said he'd take less publicly in the media and Charlotte. We offer them less, to the tune of $50 million less than the super Max and that's okay if you want to completely strip it down and not have these massive contracts on the books while Nick put tomb and Marvin Williams and Cody Zeller are still on the payroll but coincidentally with the news of Kimba signing with the Boston Celtics.

You sign the backup point guard from Boston who started 30 games last year scared to share $20 in your you might be thinking you have to do that you have to salvage something Charlotte it. It's a smaller market franchise.

If you lose the franchises best player. It's going to be debilitating for you especially if you have bad contracts on the books. How can anybody expect to have success in the situation the Hornets a rent then I see a headline, an hour after Kimba Walker signs with the Celtics and we get scary. Terry Rozier I see that the Miami Heat or landing Jimmy Butler. I don't know how they did it because the only team in the NBA that had worse contracts than the Charlotte Hornets were average were the Miami Heat bigot Jimmy Butler and then they find a way to move what was seen to be an unmovable contract and Hassan Whiteside today in return for Myers Leonard, who had great postseason games for a team that was in the Western Conference finals and Mo Harkless going back to Miami doesn't sound familiar to you. A smaller market franchise losing the franchises best player has an MBA legend running the show with bad contracts. Does that sound familiar at all, but that's what happened with both the Miami Heat and the Charlotte Hornets. The Hornets are imploding while the Miami Heat or rebuilding and building a better team. Despite the fact they have bad contracts and to consider the historical aspect here of what happened with Kimba Walker and how just embarrassing it was that Charlotte equipped them with absolutely nothing in the last five years. Kimba Walker with his all NBA nod this year is just the third all NBA player to not play for a playoff team. The others, Lebron James this year with the Lakers and DeMarcus cousins with the Sacramento Kings.

Kimba is just the third all NBA player in the last five years to not make the postseason. They did almost nothing with the franchises best player in the last eight years just to playoff appearances equip them with help out Jefferson easily.

Kimba's best teammate these out an assignment Charlotte. He was there for just three years. That's your bigger Hornets fan than I am. I don't consider myself Hornets. I believe you're not entitled to support you have to earn it in the Hornets have not done that. The bobcats did not do that so no I don't call myself Hornets fan you do. Aside from out Jefferson was the next best teammate Kimba Walkers had the last eight years.

Jeremy Lamb DJ Augustine the corpse of Ben Gordon running around who is Kimba Walker second best teammate he's had in the last eight years probably has Jeremy Lamb. The thing that bothers me the most. With all of this is the fact that if the if the Hornets were not going to offer Kimba super Max deal even if Butler say before they found that he was even on the all NBA team discussions out there. If he gets there.

He's going to qualify for this if they knew at that moment they want and offer him a super Max, then that means that the only reason why he stayed on this roster throughout the entire year is because we were hosting the All-Star game got means the All-Star team as a starter and Michael Jordan sent them out to all the different belts and shoe stores and stuff throughout Charlotte on press appearances throughout the entire we can as a hose and that was the music while they kept him so to me Hornets that Sears is a Hornets man, like what you left your making me laugh because here's the thing. Are you suggesting that he was kept on the roster because of All-Star weekend just just a basic question yes or no yes. Do you think that factored into this, which then you have to look back to what happened two years ago with HP to moving the All-Star game is HP to at least in part to blame for the Hornets not getting anything back for Kimba Walker know I blame Charlie Michael Jordan for that.

What I'm saying is that the All-Star game was a 2017 rather than 2019. Maybe what you're suggesting does not happen.

Charlotte moves the last summer, possibly because he would've been on that All-Star team in 2017 and I guarantee you that Jordan made money All-Star weekend from all the events and everything for Jordan Brennan. Everything else they trotted timber Walker out there like it just kind of something over the weekend like they never had any interest in, and bringing Kimba back if you wasn't going to take hold of 160/5 years of their offering. That's only 160/5 years is 51 million sure of what the super Max is Michael Jordan. I'm I'm tired of people saying Charlotte's too small to small-market franchise all the stuff you're Michael bleeping Jordan Riley. If it's the ninth most populous city in the country. Thank you. If Pat Riley has enough name a power to get meetings with Kevin Durant a few years ago to get meetings with Jimmy Butler to have someone Jimmy Butler want to meet with Pat Riley in the name of culture even though they have bad contracts if they have the name power. I don't want to hear excuses for Michael Jordan. This is a slap in the face Charlotte Hornets fans. It's a slap in the face and I think I think you just pet you have to pay Kimba Walker to show fans that you care more than Kimba Walker.

It's it's to show fans that you give a damn who it is because you've never entered the luxury tax you never dated.

So now the perception is that you're an owner that's not willing to spend, even though we know you're a billionaire. We know what your competitive nature is we saw it first and foremost and it it's just been an absolute utter disaster. Again, I'll say it, you're not entitled to support to support in sports do not entitled to it. It has to be earned and if it was me if I called myself Hornets for I want to give them a penny you could tweak the show at sports of dry at 336-777-1600 got a little worked up there. Brian Geiser from ACC sports.com to join us and just a bit will continue talking about Kimba and talking about what's happening in NBA free agency were still waiting for Kawai Leonard. I don't know how he's going to announce his decision is a good to be by carrier pigeon is going to do it on MySpace. Somebody said he was going to announce his decision on PBS.

I actually had to look it up to make sure that wasn't actually the case.

I actually I like that. Laugh more than the original goddess that lives great almost as good as the original if not better. Kawai was only one that could do this because I mean you basically have to not laugh. No, not that good.

What he's doing.

Like everyone sign was like $2 billion got exchanged or signed off on the first 90 minutes of free agency. Yesterday was the only player out there that could make the Lakers the Clippers and raptors basically do nothing because they're waiting on him and he's all like well it's not for 4 July.

I actually actually have that sound you just played. Here's what Kawai says to anybody who suggest he has to sign yesterday, had to sign yesterday. We do have new Kawai Leonard sound though this is gone viral. I wasn't on the air last week, so we were able to capitalize on this the way that we normally do around here surge of Baca is very very present on social media, and he was sitting next to Kawai Leonard, you're going to hear a nickname that's terrific for Kawai and Kawai giving us another soundbite that is absolute gold fungi or fungi was so good to know just isolate that part at the end there. Kawai what he had to say fungi's great. That's what I'm to call him for now on, fungi, and fungi came through just with this line that now everybody is turning it to twitter accounts and now this is just a way of life. What Kawai said here you know that Brian wind horse even had a crack at this the guy from ESPN trying to channel his inner Kawai this is from yesterday that five hour show that ESPN put on to baby what what it do baby if you're trying to come up with the most Caucasian sounding clip ever like if I came to the table with this. Could you beat me to baby the capacity of that clip). Just the way that he delivered it to baby sound like me. After about five rum and cokes of the bar. I woke up I woke up to a lady and I just tell her to baby. I'm sad to admit that out of the five hours of coverage. ESPN had on yesterday I was pretty much glued to the TV for more hours of it was nothing else on him. It was it was it was just as crazy like you are better suited following just will just what I know you want to get coverage. That's what I did. I was sitting on my couch microphone is refreshing will just twitter account. That's all I was doing homework.

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Everything's off the record this is to make it on the radio. This is to make it on twitter. This is not anything I'm going to tell anybody else that's a rule of thumb, one of my other rules is when your tweed when you're drinking. Do not open your twitter account that leads to poor results and I got caught up in American fever. I was excited the United States they scored five minutes it was Megan Rubino, Megan or Pinot should begin that free kick that nobody touched the back of the net and then she scored again and I got goaded on social media into saying that if the united states women's soccer team wins the World Cup for the second consecutive tournament that I would die my hair purple like Megan Rubino week I set it on social media, and now I feel like I have to stick to this tonight can I say there's an alcoholic loophole can I say yeah but that there there were bears involved with the 20 is is that fair or my completely linked to this now. I think your link to it but I mean Desmond Johnson producing intern Erin in here as well.

I am somebody was going follow through on my word how I how long does it have to be purple for.

I said a week week is that possible I don't know I don't now how the suspense will Matthew this is another Caucasian question. You have no idea how this works with. I either you or Erin to do some homework for me figure out if there is a diet of sorts that will make my hair purple but just for a week because here's what I fear it is July 1. And it's a big month for us here at the sports up to be celebrating the one year anniversary even though I'm not that big and anniversaries. The show being on the air but were a few weeks away. It's amazing what a little over two weeks away from ACC football media days in Charlotte where it worked. 2 1/2 weeks away from that and the and then after that the Wyndham championship starts at the very end of this month in Greensboro so the worst thing that could happen is the United States wins the World Cup.

I pay pay off this bet with purple hair like Megan or Pinot then I'm going to meet with Dabo Sweeney and Phil Mickelson with my hair purple see that's not what I want this okay so this is a perfect time for us to sitdown have talked Josh because you get yourself in these situations all the time. It is this is that this is me a proclamation it's jubilation it. I want to see the United States team when I'm in love with Megan were Pinot and this this seems like something I can do as a way to celebrate with this team. To mark this moment I never dyed my hair any color I didn't participate in the blonde tips movement left in the sink and Timberlake that there is a God that the pair purple. The point is that Leno has the public from yes it is abraded that no I know that when having that of the straight Caucasian going were start off a lot of Kind of Frosted Tips You're Talking about, like Lance Bass Justin Timberlake Frosted Welders. There Is a Prostitute.

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THE PURPLE HAIR.

THE BRASH PUBLIC PERSONA IN THE MEDIA. SHE REMINDS ME OF A ROCK 'N' ROLL SINGER WITH THE LEAD SINGER IN A BAND WHERE SHE'S AN EXCELLENT PERFORMER BUT YOU ALWAYS YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO LISTEN TO WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW QUITE WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE AND HOW SHE'S GOING TO DELIVER IT NOW. I SET THAT ALL UP TO ASK A QUESTION. IS IT STRANGE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE UPSET WITH MEGAN WERE PINOT AND HER STANCE POLITICALLY. REMEMBER, THE FACTS ARE IMPORTANT HERE A FEW MONTHS AGO SHE WAS QUOTED SAYING I WANT TO GO TO THE BLEEPING WHITE HOUSE. SHE'S NOT A FAN OF THE OCCUPANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, SHE WOULD NOT VISIT THAT TO THE WHITE HOUSE IF SHE WAS INVITED AFTER WORLD CUP WENT THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. THAT WAS MONTHS AGO. IT WASN'T RIGHT BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT. IT CERTAINLY WASN'T DURING THE TOURNAMENT, BUT THOSE COMMENTS CONTINUED TO COME BACK BECAUSE IN THE PAST MEGAN WERE PINOT KNELT DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM RIGHT AFTER CALLING Her NECK BEGAN DOING SO WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS, BUT THERE ARE RULES IN PLACE, THING THAT PLAYERS CAN'T DEAL FOR THE ANTHEM FOR THE US NATIONAL TEAM. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. SO WERE PINOT HASN'T BEEN DOING THAT.

INSTEAD, SHE HASN'T HAD HER HAND OVER HER HEART AND HASN'T SANG THE SONG AS THE REST OF HER TEAMMATES DO FOR THE US TEAM.

AS YOU CAN EXPECT PEOPLE WERE PRETTY CHARGED UP ABOUT THIS. I THINK THIS IS RIDICULOUS BEING UPSET. I'M NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT HER POLITICAL STANCE. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT FINE I JUST DON'T HAPPEN TO CARE. I'M ONE OF THE MOST POLITICALLY THE MOST APOLITICAL PEOPLE YOU WOULD EVER MEET TOM BRADY. HE SAYS HE'S HE LIKES TROMP TIGER WOODS GOLF WITH THEM.

ROBERT KRAFT CLOSE BUDDY BUDDY. I DON'T HAIR HER WITH THE POLITICAL FOR AFFILIATION IS THAT DOES NOT BOTHER ME MEGAN OR PINOT SAYING THAT SHE DOESN'T LIKE DONALD TRUMP THAT DOES NOTHING FOR ME HERE, BUT HERE'S HOW I KNOW THE ARGUMENTS RIDICULOUS. PEOPLE SAY ALL.

SHE DOESN'T HAVE HER HAND OVER HER HEART. SHE'S NOT SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. IT'S RIDICULOUS. UNLIKE THE Stuff. IT'S RIDICULOUS BECAUSE IF WE DIDN'T CONNECT THE PAST DETAILS OF HER SAYING THAT SHE WANTED VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE AND THAT SHE KNELT FOR THE ANTHEM. AFTER CALLING Her NECK STARTED DOING SO A COUPLE YEARS AGO IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT PAST INFORMATION WE WOULD NOT NOTICE WHETHER SHE HAD HER HAND OVER HER HEART OR WAS SINGING THE SONG.

DO WE REALLY CARE THAT SHE'S NOT SINGING THE SONG OR HAS HER HAND OVER HER HEART. SHE'S NOT KNEELING DURING THE ANTHEM.

SHE'S NOT TO SIMPLY NOT SINGING THE SONG AND DOESN'T HAVE HER HAND OVER HER HEART.

HOW RIDICULOUS IS IT FOR US TO SUGGEST THAT SHE HAS TO DO THESE THINGS. OR ELSE SHE'S UNPATRIOTIC. HE'S TREASONOUS SOMEHOW. GOING TO START A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ROOTING FOR FRANCE BECAUSE OF MEGAN.

NO, NOT HAVING HER HAND OVER HER HEART AND SINGING THE ANTHEM WHILE OVER THE PEOPLE AND THERE'S IN THE STANDS HAVE THEIR HANDS IN THEIR POCKET AREN'T SINGING THE SONG MIGHT BE CHECKING THEIR PHONE MIGHT BE SCRATCHING THEIR BACK MIGHT MIGHT RAISE FROM THEIR SEEK TO GET THE CONTENT I GET TO THE CONCESSION STAND TO BE A CROWD FOR A MOMENT.

I SAY OVER HALF THE PEOPLE AREN'T STANDING THERE WITH HER HAND OVER THEIR HEART SINGING THE SONG SO LET'S LET'S HOLD PEOPLE OUT ON BS HERE IT'S BS. IF YOU ARE MAD ABOUT MEGAN WERE PINOT NOT HAVING HER HAND OVER HER HEART AND SINGING THE ANTHEM WHAT YOU'RE MAD ABOUT REALLY IS HER STANCE IN THE PAST THAT SHE KNELT BEFORE AND WHAT SHE BELIEVES POLITICALLY AND YOU'RE TAKING IT OUT ON THE FACT THAT SHE HAS DOES NOT HAVE HER HAND OVER HER HEART AND THE FACT THAT SHE IS THAT SHE'S NOT SINGING THE SONG NOTICE IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE PAST INFORMATION NOBODY WOULD NOBODY WOULD NOTICE IF SHE WASN'T GOOD. YOU MEAN LIKE IF THIS WAS A SOME GOT SOME GROWTH IN THE BENCH OF THE US NATIONAL TEAM DOING MOST OF IT NEVER WILL BE A QUESTION OF FACT SHE'S ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD AND SHE HAS THAT VIEW IS WHAT RUBS PEOPLE THE WRONG WAY AND FOR ME IT'S UTTER LUNACY FOR PEOPLE TO SUGGEST THAT A PERSON COULD SPEND SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT IN AND SWEAT EQUITY TO GET TO THE POINT TO BE REPRESENTING YOUR COUNTRY ON A NATIONAL TEAM DOES NOT RESPECT THEIR NATION MEAN LIKE IT SAYS IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AND WILL GO THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE JUST TO GET TO THAT PLATFORM JUST TO DO THAT TO TO NOT PUT THEIR HAND OVER THE HEART AND ALWAYS OTHER THINGS PEOPLE PEOPLE MEET REALLY NEED TO SIT BACK AND FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE HATING ON GOING FOR RIGHT THING RIGHT. IT'S PEOPLE WHO THINK IT'S THE ACTION THAT THAT'S OFFENDED PEOPLE. THAT'S MY PROBLEM.

THE ONES THAT CLAIM IT'S THE ACTION THAT'S OFFENDING THEM MORE THAN THE THAN THE CALLS MORE THAN WHAT HER POLITICAL BELIEFS ARE. THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE MAD ABOUT AND THEY THEY THEY ARE PACKING THAT INTO BEING MAD ABOUT THE FACT SHE'S NOT SINGING FOR THE ANTHEM OR HAS HER HAND OVER OUR IF IF SHE DID SING THE SONG AND HAD HER HAND OVER HER HEART. THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE MAD RIGHT NOW.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE MAD STILL AT MEGAN WERE PINOT AND NOT LIKE HER BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE SAID PUBLICLY ASSIST THE WAY IT WORKS. YOU ARE LISTENING TO THE DRIVE. IT'S BROADCAST LIVE IN THE LAW OFFICES ATTENDED TO DO UPWARD AND SPONSORED BY AIR FRANCE TWIN PEAKS Restaurant Paintball Blvd. in Winston-Salem, the perfect place to watch the calf gold cup US getting a win last night even though they didn't really even played out while the men's team in Philadelphia last night, calf and I guess follow free agency to me. My site was must watch television +5 hours of MBA free agency coverage Twin Peaks is your local sports hub which is fitting because you're listening to the triad sports up Twin Peaks eats strengths scenic views coming up behind eye center will be in studio and I'll tell you who my favorite is when an NBA title next year here on the drop talk talk talk talk is 609 24 communicate back to the drive Josh Graham Brian Geisinger is ACC sports.com zoning studio all around expert almost 24 hours of MBA free agency. It's really amazing how quickly guys get together with teams in order to sign like things are allowed to talk to these players until 6 o'clock yet minutes, maybe not even minutes into it PG we are to have deals done. I mean how crazy is that none of these guys ever talk to each other before 6 o'clock Sunday night in these deals just magically happen yeah it is funny to me like you tampering looms large, always everyday when the free agency. But hey, that's still in the league is found says try to find some ways to seems like in season enforced tampering. As we saw some of the fines that Magic Johnson had over his during his role with the Lakers.rivers but yet which was me that was and not to me really felt misguided to the one that rivers landed like you who would like to find a coach of the rover thinks of a team that has Space and is interested in free-agent for talking about had like the sign said free-agent like the coaches should be allowed to go on TV. Let W you know, I wonder how Doc Rivers feels today.

Let's go to our direct line to Doc Rivers who I mean, you got to be pretty ticked off today to hear all the stuff about tampering and you're the one getting Doc Rivers. You're the one Dr. Evers are you there tomorrow so daughter and I thought I thought maybe our line was disconnected to Doc Rivers and we pay a ton for that direct line was on the phone with with the why try to make sure that he understood how important it was brought here in LA when LA being clipper world to come and join our family know that liberals often silently overbilled you equation a suitable bulk of the clippers, but I will protect our protective though.I want to protect you. You started calling, call Kawai before 6 o'clock last night right after 6 o'clock last night. Yes, maybe it was about 60 throughput sure was busy watching his pager. He said he didn't get to it on Kawai there's a lot of different time zones to use get very very tricky. Although I will say this though this is the first year they've ever had. The more your liquor moved at the start of the moratorium from midnight July 5:59 PM on June 30 first search party June 30 and I thought a that was a lot better allowed for them to make an easy made for television event was ESPN hand with the jump which was great to and I don't think there's a coincidence that there was a flurry of free-agent signings and stuff like that on day one in years past the stuff dragged out over the course of the next week and basically all were waiting on now is for the offer mentoring Kawai Leonard to pick a landing spot dating dream will follow in like for the most part free agency lease in terms of the big names is sort of done. After that, I know you got some things to do, you're probably pretty busy.rivers. Thanks for doing. If you see you see Kawai in the next two days 1/2 to know it's not all blank. Okay, if not all, there's other guys looking at the pool report to an AAA Blick for everything okay Chris got to his book talk to it on Tucker's looking at these rosters right now.

I love what Utah's done last the last few weeks with Mike Conley being acquired and getting Bogdanovich. I love what what they look like presently.

But I still don't I still keep going back to the Golden State Warriors. I put together a Kawai Lakers list and a Kawai raptors list of the best teams in the NBA. If spoiler alert. If Kawai is a Laker there and favored to win it all the same thing with him going to the raptors to problem you think you think there's a favorite if they if he goes back to the right. I think exiting Danny Green would follow him to to Rebecca Arkansas got the soul back Lowery Sciacca in the year better Van Fleet meet the same. It's the same cast that they had this past year. So yeah, I think that I think the lease provides a far cleaner path to the title in the West, which is going to be pretty rough-and-tumble next season if Kawai chooses to go to the Lakers I'm trying to think off the top of my head happily ever seen three top five players on the same team before problem. No mean no we have not to answer your cloud I mean don't go insane. I just got close at times, but at no point were dream on clay top five players right same with his greatest Chris bosh was a Miami same thing thereto so you know this would be unique. It was just BD secondary pieces around them in Los Angeles likely would be as good as what we saw around Steph Katie Dray mind and in clay, especially those first two years in the bay like if Kawai does go back to Toronto Danny Green follows the Lakers if have three guys under contract. They have some Space but basically like the market for guys they would use to fill a roster with like kind is dried up man liked if gangrene falls Kawai and Sophie's off the board you have Beverly's gone you've lost out on on some awesome rivers off the board meeting.

There've been so many 3D guys, Trevor, Reza, I can keep listing. I am really but exactly that that like guys of the would've used the builder construct a roster around Lebron in a D guys are gone. Silica Lakers really really really like this is a timing thing with them and they really need to find a way to get Kawai Leonard to come to LA if not, other have to get awfully creative and assembling a roster around ADN Lebron Golden State landed DeAngelo Russell late last night were still trying to figure out the details of the sign and trade. Golden State still my favorite to win next year's title if if Kawai chooses to play back in Toronto.

I have warriors one raptors to at the very top.

The two finalists from this past year. I still trust Steph and Raymonde to get Golden State to the playoffs. Clay will be back at some guidance and I can't think of somebody we underestimate more than Steph Curry. People were suggesting this is to be a playoff team without Clay or Katie on the roster. I get out of the West is that it is built that is still one of the best shooters and not be best in NBA history is the best in NBA history and in the guys still top you 34 player in the world. Like stuff is that Steph is not good and that impactful.

It's disrespectful to suggest they don't get to the playoffs even without you look like if you want to make that argument. You've really got a hammer home the depth of the league and you've really got a undervalue DeAngelo Russell and you really gotta like be uncertain of us to work Clay Thompson when he's in a come back at how good it will be when he does come back will ensure that your spirit bawling and saying like they're not can make the playoffs because of like you because of no Kd know what you're missing the point. But am I'll say this about DeAngelo Russell. I'm not crazy about Russell. I think for a guy who is perceived to be elites to be an All-Star is deftly a good players young player still should be getting better but you know he made and also roster in a watered-down Eastern confidence that bumped up his value when the reasons why he made a roster roster is because he just got inexplicably hot from a couple areas on the court specifically shooting contested floaters. He was like over 50% for like the 60 week leading into the All-Star break.

He doesn't get to the rim. He doesn't get to the free-throw line. He's a good three point shooter but not a great off ball mover so I think all those things are sort of like infinite is negative defensively. I think a lot of those things have inflated his offense of value. I think anyone can look good fit next to Curry is the ultimate gravity guys in the NBA entry monitoring is one of the league's top frontcourt playmakers, but I don't think the fit was Russell superclean. He runs a lot of pick and roll.

Golden State doesn't allow to control lessons Curry and he plays no defense is not superlong and versatile.

They ran more pick and roll. Without Kd in the lineup right right you been in the playoffs against the raptors especially tried to go to and against the boys as they try to run a lot of Curry Tremont to control which is like you.

One of the best place in all basketball seriously. But what I will be curious to see was Russell is if they use him in and he would buy what he was costly to like you could be protected first round pick to Brooklyn there out a lightly protected first round pick. That's going to be no being conveyed to Memphis. Years from now when when Curry and and Raymonde are past the primes and you lose a guy like it was Dolly who dismally play much in the regular season, but matters from a culture standpoint, defensive standpoint offensively guy always making the extra pass a connector that's not really what Russell does home and there's just not a lot like wing death behind him to soar like soak up those minutes goes it was clearly was clearly anxious to find some sort of scoring*talent to replace Durrant as they move into this new arena and as Curry and Raymonde are still in the primes like I get the notion of content now content. Now this is your this is your window of an Russell was really the only guy that could be available to them because they did not Space it had to work out with the signed trade, but the one thing I want to get in here. I think it would be fascinating to see if Russell becomes a tray chip for them going into the deadline, let's say hypothetically they could turn to Minnesota a team that was connected to Russell and say hey… Assuming the Timberwolves re-signed ties Jones to say hey how about Robert Covington ties Jones for DeAngelo Russell Novak is a roster I would actually prefer to see Golden State with healthy Clay Thompson, Steph Curry, Robert Covington ties Jones Tremont Green center acts. That is a keynote actually excite me more than DeAngelo Russell trying to fit in. Next dream on green stuff, not that concerned about Clay Thompson. His help we see so many knee injuries and ligament seal yeah ligament seal and it's not to be immediate. Come back in late February mid-March maybe and six or seven. We could probably take for five weeks for him to get back to full strength which means you need to get into the playoffs and you need to get to the get past the first round, essentially for Clay in order to get back to full strength.

I believe the lawyers can do that and because of that, I still have them as the favorite to win next your title you like the raptors.

If Kawai goes back to Toronto right how far down as Golden State on your list who insist it's so tough about you and assuming Thompson comes back right there. I like there there certainly one of these, you know, like a top four top five favorite because as we as we well know you know it's been a couple years like a nuclear's of a migraine suffering Clay Thompson's really really good and can win a championship is just where are the where, unless they are able to swing a deal with Russell of something for of some note where is the depth center for this roster right.) I have no idea who's playing like adding adding Russell's good could very well cost them to von Looney was an important player could cost them Jordan Bell like that.

I don't know who's playing center for this roster. I don't know whether wing depth is like they're just I got lots of holes but I trust in Curry and Raymonde CI would select their top five there in the top five favorite to give me gifts just cannot give you one word answer. I'm just gonna say to teams you tell me which roster you like more right now lawyers or jazz fool warriors only if they have the best player Warriors or Sixers warriors, who's the best shooter on the Philadelphia Sixers civil Tobias Harris or Josh Richardson assuming that you know the Beyoncé dislike signing trait is been a little murky, but brothers, both those guys are great shooters. They're not JJ Reddick in terms of how they move without the ball but actually think the bigger issue for the 76ers is where's there off the dribble creation now like baby Ben Simmons to make a huge step forward for them. Next, you have a lot of questions remain elite defensively good don't know, like when you need to get a bucket into the game were you what's the plan like Simmons doesn't have a pull-up shot. I just I like Ben Simmons but am I'm here to see like what their offense looks like neck looks like without Reddick's gravity without Butler shot creation, tomorrow without Kawai on the Lakers Lakers or warriors Lakers and to top five players Houston or Portland God all I'll say Houston but the caveat here is, it depends what Portland does, with the Hassan Whiteside rights they traded for him today. Right because they don't know how when marketers America should be back so I'm not a big Whiteside fan and I'm not going to go. I don't need to list all the reasons why, despite his Dwight Howard levels of delusion for how he needs to be.

You will offensively, but how about I so this is something that Zach low floated in column last night.

Like finding a way to get Kevin love the Portland now that is something that would fascinate me and of Whiteside's expiring contract is a big salary that you could use to help her to match salary with the Cavaliers and stuff like that.

That would intrigue me as a possibility. Nephew Kevin love their let him play center and then when their kids comes back you let love vacillate between the four and five that I like employees. They don't need Kevin love. They've got to see her little one Jaelyn Ward follow BG on Twitter at the guys on the third.

Oh yes and hubby could on the way. The best sounds in sports and the saddest reality you don't want to hear about regarding Kimball Walker.

This is the sports of your on the drive lives with Josh Graham, 609 20 and I figure hanging out from ACC sports.com Adam the meaning of ESPN covers the NFL, NBA, major league baseball and I was listening to him on the air last night as the Braves were facing the New York Mets and all in on this Braves team Ronald Acuna Junior he had a homerun I believe is the most satisfying sounding homerun this year and maybe just in recent memory.

It has me thinking of what the best sounds in sports are just just listen to this crack of the bat last night Adam the was calling to scamper ESPN, which is why I was thinking about this and will have Adam on the show today, but that he here was the Ronald Acuna Junior homerun from last night you were talking about. All I want all I want is just that crack of the bat because it is as securely. It is a beautiful sound in sports. This sound is as good of a sound you'll ever hear that skills are ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous, but if were thinking about. Best sounds in sports.

What immediately comes to mind Cletus at sports of dryad 336-777-1600. We pulled the couple a sound does just give me another one. Give me another satisfying sport sound Swisher Steph Curry's wishes, like the old cement swish. In general, running the sound right here it's just beautiful.

The same thing right it Steph Curry or Clay Thompson like chocolate water.

Like many hats up there like that but the best part about basketball's wishes, the way it sounds. You can tell a couple of things one if it's a metal map or just a nylon net both on-site and you could tell how many people are in the gym.

It's kinda like when you hear audio you can tell if it's a hollow room at the big room like that right there.

I can tell it's a nylon net and it's an empty gym which I'd argue those two elements nylon net empty gym make for the best basketball swish sound actually writing test that you have the reverb going on there yet you know if there's 10,000 Cameron crazies screaming or knocking here that swish you need like design. Williamson like like mega boom dunked to like actually hearing the rim rattling like it. I would nominate that actually is one of the other better.

Sounds in sports like that of the power don't buy know one of the like.

Delete Lebron Jan assigned types that you could hear above the roar. The crowd is also like an elite sport. Think this swish this swish here of a nylon net sounds better than a swish say with like a metal or like with you know what I'm talking about people outside the chain that I think the chain that is actually a little sounds a little bit better.

It sounds a little less pleasant. No real essay. I think I kinda like it's a little grittier little more like a little more like character.

It's just it's it's more young trending of the best way to put it just sort of a sound that's going in a couple different direct this swish on the on an island that is unified is a splash little chain. It's like it's going to like 10 different directions at the same time an answer like that chaotic nature of getting this message via email when you hit a golf ball.

The sound when you hit a golf ball.

One of the best in sports see if we have that really quick wound while I was in it I guess. Let me have that Martha man that you know you hit it clear that he suggested gets when the ball hits the bottom of the cup, though maybe just hitting the ball.

This right here is is as good as it gets.

I think it sounds like an iron. I don't think that's I don't think that's a driver I think it's maybe like a nine iron.

Many sitting here all kind nominate one more.

What else you got so is that a Durham Bulls game last week was next to the Norfolk tides bullpen honestly just here the catchers mitt pop is like it is.

That is a satisfying snap to that.

I really like a lot, but it has to be like a fastball.

Yeah right you know I speak talking like 90 mph plus on the heater but the pop of the mid-is a is a wonderful sound and these are all very good.

336-777-1600 on Twitter at sports of dryad days. If you have any other sounds you care to nominate. Feel free to do so. I mean out of those three or four that you've brought up that we've brought up here. Basketball is it's good to be tough to beat were biased and that being in North Carolina going swish in the empty gym. Let me let me hear the three that we've played so far, back to back to back.

Let's start with the baseball crack of the bat okay then we have the basketball swish nylon that swish golf swing, that's tough. I do have one want to nominate with backing basketball units all right will just just just play it for us and then we will all know what it is just the basketball being dribbled about bouncing basketball its own kind of it as little reverb to it to. Can we agree to air going bad sounds the screeching of sneakers.

Not a good sound it's it's I mean we love basketball, but it's not very pleasant sound that you doesn't really bother me, it does bother me when I watched on TV a mistake it for whistle that happens sometimes.

Now when we all grow accustomed to the sneaker sound. Have you ever taken someone it doesn't watch basketball to a basketball game.

That's the thing that bothers the most we just grow accustomed to it because that's just part of doing business. When you go to a game that's the way I see it this project. So actually, I like the sound of sneakers but only because I remember when I was in when I was in high school writing sports for my high school newspaper used to write these very like clichéd articles of the start of basketball season about the sneakers scratching up and down the court and so I finally piously enjoy that sound because it makes me think of the start of basketball season, which is a wonderful time of the year I didn't hurt Aaron what what do you think is the best out of the bunch that we've suggested so far so affordably suggested action like the sound of the wooden bed but I just show video if you yeah we got one more for nomination here.

All right, this is actually probably not even like cool anymore but were going to these players running into each other, playing football and not sure if that's pleasant pleasant sound.

There's a deep down feeling amongst all of us that love football was secure.

For those committed to be more we loved about you. You want pads on Pat. Some of these are helmets on helmet that I use a lot… Serving as an MBA headline that I'm sure a lot of people are going to react to that just came down it's not free agency news Golden State is retiring Kevin Durant's number 35. I just irritate that just came down the boyars PR no other Golden State warrior will ever wear 35 again. You know it's been retired with others. That's guilt that is pure hundred and 10% guilt man play there two years, three years they have humans is UNC basketball making decisions for them on jerseys that can be on a no no other blue devil where God's number one how it do baby baby wow you are listening to W STS Winston-Salem WTO to Greensboro W PC in Burlington WMF or Highpoint. This is the dryad sports do you live with just brand for 600 9:20 PM Of all trades in broadcasting. One of our favorites to catch up with at this time last year. He was preparing to broadcast on television the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in Coney Island last night I was watching a little bit of baseball and catching some on the radio while driving around the Atlanta Braves in the New York Mets and Adam was doing that game but when I got back into my apartment to watch some of the Sunday night game. I before we get to the basketball Adam. I want to address this during the game. Ronald Junior Junior hit the homerun for the bravest opposite field and I believe him going yard. Here is the most satisfying sounding homerun I've heard in a long time. Among great sports sounds. Here's how that homerun sounded from Acuna just lack of the back him hitting your I mean it just sounds different. We hear the expression, Adam, it sounds different.

Coming off some players. Bats that would be the definition of that yes I like to play in person. A couple of that guy. We got a use. Guys are trying so hard to get the guy out and find a swamp at some .21 years old. People get a job at some point, but swing right now might be the most on the swing to watch in baseball it when he comes to the plate quickly turning into, but the television I love the jewelry. I love it attitude. I like that.

He played the game really well. You turn me into a cranberry on the court calendar years does give me just the crack of the bat one more time what it sounded like when bat met baseball and not in city field just a great sound. How you stack up.

How does it just how does in terms of sport sound stack up would say this one right here when you're in an empty basketball gym. The sound cool.

I like to backtrack a little bit more when it when you know you know when it's going like good shooting in the NBA right now. I don't volume the like are not really good. Sounded cool it be okay contact on a swing program. All right, so we still going homerun swing from Ronald Junior Junior before going to the links of her talking about golf. How does this sound stack up all it says hit so clean it sound like an iron shot to one more time out of your thought I about the impact of a blog traveling 400 you know when the swing sounds good but it looks pretty sounds good. The reaction is grander so go feel like that the SPM, with this getting to the basketball now went when I'm trying to figure out the right chords to strike talking about hornets fans and what's happening with Kimball Walker talking to Hornets fans because the Hornets had awful contracts. We know that when you have $82 million tied up and to seller beyond Bo Marvin Williams and Nick the tomb, among others. That's that's not a good situation to be in. But there's another team that had worse contracts than the Hornets did and is run by an NBA legend to that made moves yesterday talking about the Miami Heat getting Jimmy Butler and getting guys from Portland as well and moving off the Hassan Whiteside contract when you see the Hornets lose the franchises best player and get nothing in return for and still are in an awful situation. You give $60 million essentially three years of Terry Regier. How is it you think Hornets fans should feel today will sugarcoat it. I don't feel good. Right now, based on a look at the level of movement that we saw it like showing up in that one episode when Bart decides to play hooky from school for a little bit like casting mill out right now.

Any go and Bart shows up and realize that it was time to sign up for like which you wanted to do that year on ballet because of it like that's what it feels like right now with me if you like Bart Simpson walking into the gym and going. I forgot today was the day to sign up for this because there was so much movement allowed me entirely. The leadership dramatically was in the playoffs like a Brooklyn like a Miami and some were talking about will go to Miami as potential pop or seed in the conference base that one drop and one free-agent run and just feel like they missed out now listen mathematically have to miss out old Chicago ocular that went out got better and after the very least in a mathematics a numbers game. Not everybody is good to come out on top because of the volume of movement were thinking everybody suddenly better.

Clearly the case when you get better. Somebody's got to get worse and I think Hornets invented up with the short end of that but I think you can recover from this absolutely year, a year from now were to be having very similar talk, maybe not as drastic as will be to stop in the last two days but have solar talks, you can recover from this. But it's not fun to be on it. Kylie Irving leads leads to the nuts along with Kevin Durrant but looking at the place Kimball Walker is arriving our efforts no longer there, as he's going to Philadelphia. There's a report from earlier today that the Celtics are signing in this canter.

If that is the case, do you believe the Celtics upgraded their roster with Kimball in the place of Tyree and there being no longer I work for it in that room for a lot more important rightly moderate NBA owl might be the better based on today's NBA, maybe a little bit black your order to receive them, offered applicability of that offense is so essential to what the author was able to do what you want a bigger lot yes like it would Tyree go on and Walker coming in with corporate mix of guy Galen Brown markets mark that core along with Gordon Hayward. I think that the pretty good-looking lobster and a lot of it may be a year ago, 14, 15, about how Boston just because they were getting Tyree boarding a word that doesn't necessarily be better or make people want part of the reason they were so good when they put seven days of the conference finals on their bench like a defined goal a lot of different guy may be needed in your car for that word. What you write about. But I hear you like that year there was little definition of [a little bit better so I feel like maybe back it happened again would you call whatever team Kawai Leonard chooses the sign with whether it's by pager PBS broadcast carrier pigeon or MySpace.

What would whatever team he selects be the prohibitive favorite and Adam means mine man like when the title with what would be the best. Let's just say it's the Lakers and the raptors right now because if you do not. That means Danny Green probably returns there and that roster remains intact and Pascal Sciacca probably gonna be better the Lakers you have three of the top five players in the way I do no good thing that you willing to take back either to take a different wall or do different point of it made Kawai Leonard Moore above focal point. Obviously we go to the ball a lot more in Los Angeles. They are doing so like your talent alone.

Looking at rock third deck of my morning and they were looking at the team score read about 12 scores of the NBA allotment. The point wherever it wherever Kawai goes probably that the prohibitive favorite because it aptly pointed out that the world around Kawai noted city goer Adam the meaning of ESPN with the seer on the drive it's it's glorious background sound.

In addition to the great sounds. We just talked about in sports a few moments ago and I think you're the perfect person to answer this next question because you cover all different kinds of sports college football college basketball NFL NBA softball, you name it, but last year you did the Nathan's hot dog eating contest on television in Coney Island on on national TV.

4 July. Now that were going to watch it all later this week.

Once again, give me a sense for what the atmosphere is like there and how it's different. 30,000 people into a relatively all and combine naturally feel a little bit of a body of electricity in Beverly Hills for introduction, George J really bring about the introduction letters when the open show like sermon building elevated above Coney Island like charity, a cherry picker is a great rent you need. That just yet. A lot of other hundred thousand people in NFL game in Seattle on the wall in NBA great to be a different betting but have a field goal. Make the building a big sporting event, you may not be all sporting event in the eyes of the general homeless competitive eater, you will enjoy this Adam is his name is Gideon OG's from North Carolina. He is the tallest athlete to ever compete in major league eating in the upper echelons of that he actually Once upon a time, this is the proudest honoree had an addition to being the corn eating champion. He also beat Josh Graham. Once upon a time in a homecoming court.

We went to high school together.

He beat me in a homecoming court if you can believe that.

That's right, Adam, and enjoy the city. It's good to hear your voice.

Hope you're enjoying your summer will catch up soon. You got that out of the mean of ESPN. I can't believe I lost it I still hold it against him.

That's to this very day that 6 foot nine basketball star Gideon OG beat me in in the homecoming court homecoming court no wasn't welcome court now. I was I was definitely the third and weakest link. Out of the three.

Here is my here is my strategy when it came to popularity in high school like I was the guy who wasn't very popular but I fit into every group.

I was a chameleon, a social chameleon. I know nobody hated me so I can when I was the third when I was the third of probably three. The three finalists dear for the homecoming court. It was only because any other person that will be up for it had a group of people that probably hated their gods. Nobody hated being right like Kimball Walker a little bit. Is it where okay who hates Kimball Walker is a real issue with Kimball nobodies out here say screw Kimball Walker baby pit basketball fans filled with wild, going nine years, probably against them. If that's true yeah I I'd like to think I finished second, I'd like to think there was some Russian interference in the voting. What this guide this guide be to me, but in reality he was the basketball star who is six, nine, or zip today about what I'm competitive you competitive eater really had were you not listening. I didn't hear that part know this guy, this guy was in the hot dog eating contest will wow you know we're just having this conversation were talking about the fact that this guy with… You got this a bit. I was doing other things while while that was going on but that's you believe this, I can actually buy gravy or should I be bothered by the is it so it was, he won the corn eating contest. This is how other people are qualified for the event. Yeah, you're right, and other events. He down 57 ears of corn and 12 minutes you how you what you are.

You like all five of the hot dog to come is fine down in 12 minutes.

This ears of corn for 12 minutes after inhaling corn kernels about .200, 200 and 200 wings in 10 minutes. 200 wings into the not hot not to rob. That's what he did in 200 wings in 10 minutes. I could probably get through maybe 50 is been some time with some porcelain. After that, my man. Also the winner of the first ever kale eating championship. Does that mean for litigators – wow, kale male competition eating for kale permit her to rest, really hard Brent Wilkerson news gonna be in studio tomorrow which God knows what direction that's going to go in from the Greensboro news and record I heard he was on the show last week while I was filling a just talking trash about me for no reason. This is what I heard. I always hear it secondhand I'm doing something I'm getting a bunch of text about Steve Spurrier and Grant Wilkerson new was on a couple of items on Saturday with me in the rundown. I don't remember him giving you any any any lip or anything like that about me being drunk after two Coors lights I think was the pressure I wasn't with me that wasn't so health two Coors lights will get to the bottom two Coors light and eight wings about it.

But look at the bottom of a number of these things and we hope to catch up with Bob Ryan tomorrow. David Glenn will be on tomorrow shall a lot of fun to be had, tomorrow, but we have orders of business to take care of here specifically one order that stick at the house does what he gotten tickets that I have news on two separate movies. Some casting notes.

One of them.

You'll be very interested in it is a Disney live-action remake. Do you have a hip-hop airhorn you all call tweets, and that airhorn sound effect is more annoying than Josh Graham all really welcome to the house and