The Drive with Josh Graham - Bad Takes from NBA Finals

As I drive there is so much I want to get to from last night Lake's sports talk radio work us in the afternoon.

We usually get the last crack at it, which means I've seen awful takes all day long. There are three tanks that seem to be popular today that just make me want to go outside our studio right now and start fistfight. These are just the worst number one Bob Myers, the general manager of the warriors Steve Kerr and Golden State are to blame for Kevin Durrant getting hurt last night to break some news for you right now players and basketball get hurt athletes in sports get her.

It happens. It's a shame you hate to see it. It was depressing to see it happen in the finals. It was depressing to see it happen as he was playing well right out of the gate and seemed to be okay but nobody is really to blame here, Kevin Durrant wanted to play Kevin Durrant is a 30-year-old man who's pretty confident.

He knows his body he was cleared.

He practiced he wanted to play in the NBA finals for all the heat that he took for going to Golden State. He was willing to take that because he wanted to compete for championships. He wanted the playing games like game five of the NBA finals. So you weren't going to keep them off the floor and Kevin Durrant. If these cleared and says he can play. He has a right to play in that basketball game. He has a right to give it a shot. It's an elimination game in the finals, so we wanted to go Golden State covered all of its bases to Steve Kerr said that Bob Myers was going to do the Kd talk last night. He was gonna sit down. He didn't have to do this by the way, usually you don't see GM's talking during the finals. It's a little surreal to hear you probably have heard in the day, but again I just want to remind you this is the voice of the general manager whose team just one in the NBA finals on the road in an elimination game but is at the point of being moved to tears because of what just happened with Kevin Durrant Erie was talking about what led to Kd ultimately getting back on the floor) come back. She went through four weeks of the medical team and was thorough notice experts in multiple MRIs and multiple doctors and we felt good about the process he was cleared to play tonight. That was a collaborative decision. I don't believe there's anybody to blame but I understand. Is this world and if you have to. You can blame me, Kevin Durrant. Let's play this prep. Let's play this through to the people who are blaming Bob Myers today for letting Katie.

But how does this work he practices these questionable Kd is a 30-year-old man. He is a former MVP. He wants to play you telling them know. Hey listen, Kevin went. We don't want to dig out were trying to protect you. 30-year-old man, were trying to protect you. I actually thought when I started seeing him work out before the game. When I saw them warming up that this was going to be a Zion Williamson situation all over again. Zion got injured with the foot February 20 against North Carolina game at Cameron and he didn't return until about a month later March 15 against Syracuse. I was at both of these games and I remember watching Zion in warm-ups. I thought oh my gosh we got this all wrong. Everybody asking always a good it only be able to play a couple of minutes is he going to be 100% is going to look like himself. I realized, and just watching warm-ups with Zion that we had gotten it all terribly wrong and he went out and he looked like the national player of the year that he was. He went 13 for 13 and was tremendous. That night I thought that's what we were going to see last night. The moment I saw him dunking in warm-ups. The stroke looks good. And then early on he hits his first two three-point shots and he's playing 10 of the first 12 minutes in the game. I thought that's what we were going to see and then his body didn't help hold up now. Bob Meyer said that this was an Achilles injury before it was a calf we don't know if that's really connected.

I have difficulty really believing that but that doesn't mean Bob Myers is the blame and Kd isn't the blame either and here's another hot take.

I seen today that I flatly reject to That somehow Kd being injured. With this Achilles is going to ruin his next contract. In other words, if Kd chooses to opt out of his contract that the bottom feeders of the NBA, who haven't had a star to rally around in a decade, and in some cases even more. They're not going to offer the max to Kevin Durrant were talking about the clippers, the nets in the Knicks. I'm sorry even if it's at the expense of one year, you're still going to sign Kevin Durrant and Juergen offer what ever the max is I don't think that's really at risk because here's a newsflash. Remember my breaking news report that players get injured in sport sometimes here's another thing, star athletes get injured in sports often to and in basketball. Do you know how many great players. Great players have missed full seasons of the NBA Paul George Kawai Leonard Joelle impede Ben Simmons Blake Griffin Steph Curry Michael Jordan if you go back John Stockton how about David Robinson, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird missed a year and you can fill me forgetting anybody guys often miss years guys who who adults but that doesn't mean it's abnormal that Kevin Durrant's gonna miss the season with the Achilles.

I still think the Knicks the nets the clippers there still good to put everything on the table because what had the Knicks had the last decade other than a downtrodden.

Carmelo Anthony and Amari Scott Meyer with the clippers hat. Aside from a pretty good run for two years, but you can get behind, but never a top three player in the sport. Never a top five player in the sport what the Brooklyn Nets have what what what had. Brooke Lopez offered Kevin Durrant so that's take that bothers me. And lastly, Nick nurse the timeout he called with 2 1/2 minutes remaining with Toronto up six and then with the basketball that that somehow cost them the game. This was making me cool easy. I mean we we tried over and what it will analyze things in sports all the time with Tar Heel basketball. We love to criticize Roy Williams when it's convenient what he does. It uses timeouts were doing the same thing in the NBA with with nurse here because Toronto had Kawai Leonard scored 10 three-point attribute on 12 straight points and they thought that it was going to happen again.

And the reason it did, it was because the call timeout ridiculous. It's just as likely to swing without the timeout, then with. I understand the thinking for nurse. He doesn't want to lose a timeout and he wanted to draw up a plated over the kill drop six. If you draw up a great play that gives you a great look and you get a bucket there over so I completely understand Nick nurse: a timeout even though it didn't work out the way you wanted to.

That's not the reason they lost Golden State one that basketball game. Kevin Kevin Durrant, Clay Thompson and Steph Curry hitting no shots of the end.

I'm not convinced they don't hit those shots if Nick nurse doesn't call timeout so that bothers me to drive to be a broadcast in the law offices of Timothy D. Wellborn Studios.

This is the drive and you could learn more about them. Wellborn online@timwellborn.com or to chat with the new voice of the Charlotte Hornets jump okay and just a little bit has been Johnson taking your calls at 336-777-1600 behind-the-scenes and InterNIC is in here and turning as well just I was with you with pretty much everything you said except for one part and that was the I will call it brushing off, but the glossing over of players that have had season-ending or long-term injuries and were able to come back which you did not mention was that out all those guys you mention. Only Kobe Bryant was one that had an Achilles injury and Kobe still had two decent seasons after the Achilles and he had a lot older. He was a lot older we had like spiders over what Durrant is now, but my point is the Achilles injury if in fact he has a tear which was don't know you have them put that information out but it start to look more more likely that's probably the case partial Bob Myers isn't crying unless it's a ruptured oratory, how much less I like all the things on it ruptured, but the my point is basketball players are never the same after this injury you will net.

We literally what we watched last night was the end of Kevin Durrant's prime like he is never going to be a 30 point per game score ever again. He's 30 years old right now right.

It takes about six months to a year to come back from Achilles injury, usually about a year for NBA players all those all mixtures will all those teams even if that's true all the steam to stop and offer in the back. I maybe so, but what they did exactly what they pay for when he does come back if you take another year after that to get even remotely close to what he was before.

So you're talking about not seeing Kevin to rent at full throttle until the age of 32 now well is going to give you with actual facts about that.

So 2013 medical study. They had 18 players had Achilles injuries over 23 year span and MBA. Seven of those players never even came back totally okay. What position did they play they played POSITIONS whether center guard forward all but usually the Achilles is a death sentence for four centers and forward so heavier players selected Chauncey Billups taught the Kobe Bryant to let a letter back muscle players were a lot older when they had their Achilles. Three, four years older than what you write is a significant amount of time.

Either way, that's still that's that's the length of the contract were to be talking about an expert exactly.

So, all the while they are for good great years and not at super max level was my point. Like the MER unit. Are you willing to pay Kevin Durrant $44 million for 20 points per game for two dollars when in the MBA Knicks you're not going to usually get stars to play for the clippers in the nets. Unless you have these max offers that you can offer. Yes, I definitely offer Kevin Durrant's Topamax from the clippers and on that and I know you get about 1920 points per game is Michelle of why I don't I I'm still not willing to accept 1920 points per game. I'm not going there but there are a lot of things today that people are overreacting to that. I also want to get so I got to bonus awful takes that icing today that are bothering me every bodies piling on the Toronto Raptors fans and everybody come on now, but let's have a little bit of reason in this there were idiots right and most circles of life when there's 25 to 28,000 people in one venue, you're bound to have some idiots let's not act like it's the majority write a handful of idiots and at first, people wondering what shearing was happening when Katie went down. Let's not forget there was a fast break that Toronto was leading on the other end and then right when that play indicate he was still in the floor and was quieter and then when he got up there were cheery it was cheering and you had any in the background waving and soprano fans were waived tried to get them to quiet down. I felt like they were cheering at first this was my reaction.

I wasn't in the building. Of course, that they were cheering because he was getting up see that all the time. That was my initial reaction now. There probably were idiots who were cheering that he was down, but Toronto what we know about that fan base. What we know about Canadians in general. They've earned the benefit of the doubt to say probably the majority of people in that building were not shearing the fact that Kevin Durrant was hurt on top of that court. Kyle Lowery getting crushed today for that corner three. The shot was blocked. There's pictures of this pre-mongering a hand on it. This reminds me of how the kicker for the Bears got annihilated after he hit the ball up the crossbar and the goalpost in the playoff game.

When we learn the next day. That was bought, but no one cared because the initial reaction was that was cool, but the shot was blocked pre-mongering made a great play was about Kyle Lowery hitting the side of the backboard. It was a great play made so really there's just a lot of nonsense all over the place today coming up why cam Newton will look different in 2019 is the drive live with Josh Graham, 600 and man and there's a lot going on in many can we can all get very excited about massive headlines that we can follow months on in the national wall we can. Everything is so that we need to keep an eye on John folk eager to join us in just a bit. I don't even know where to begin with Carolina Panthers minicamp news so I guess probably I'll start with cam Newton if we would just happen there. The women's world you live right now Thailand already in the first. One thing he will often or other goal right to become a thing. Is this what were going to do the entire tournament now see there's one bit of content on this show a reoccurring piece of content that always works on this show. It's not ACC basketball. It's not college football. It's not the NFL.

It's aggravating me like there is nothing that entertains the audience and the masses more than being being bothered so me getting into a training camp or making a minicamp update for the Pampers are being interrupted with whatever the hell that was women's World Cup. Meanwhile, clearly confusing.

Abby Wambaugh played five years ago with Alex Borg.

It is been one of the biggest stars in the sport per scoring the beat or to take the lead against Thailand early on, that is a really funny thing that happened and you also calling the first half the first.

As if it's bleeping cocky that's for the average man that was meant as know any of that stuff.

So there are just trying to follow. Be patriotic and it was Abby Dall Kemper remained popped up and it confused because the scroll was just talking for a goaltender though. Maybe. But it was there that I turn my eyes away. I look back and it changed.

It trip me up there thereupon. Thank you for that. But that really should be the degree of the optic can you give me the music one more time I'll tell you what this update really should have been from Bass considering his soccer acumen. What music the music you were to leave, I felt that what you think-subtleties that I'm usually really good at following this should have been the like.

He should of just coming here and fed actually really know your lot. Our I have no idea right now. I will now on Twitter. It was Roosevelt who just scored and apparently were still in the first 10 minutes of this game so go USA go USA go, and I'm worried about what the rest of the show's going to be because of the United States are going to score this often. I'd imagine were going to get more of these awful updates from that heat. He's not doing this purposely. He's not being this bad at delivering simple information on purpose. He's doing this, trying to give an update on the game, but he doesn't know how amazingly I think this works better because going back to the original point. It bothers me the most transit do seem to gravitate toward. For some reason. Not sure why but I have literally no idea what to talk about the cam Newton was throwing today and he had the shoulder surgery in January.

None of us your doctors. However, there are. There were a lot of doctors on Twitter yesterday, wanting to talk about Kd and Achilles injuries which is great, but there certainly were a lot of football thrower technique Twitter experts to looking at camps and it looks a lot different.

This is going to be massive news for the Panthers. The biggest thing I took away was Albert Maria reporter reported from SI on the Monday morning quarterback talking to North Turner. The Pampers RC that cam has been trolling from.

I was just mentioned casually. Remember we learned about Gordon Rodrigue because there is this rogue like savanna reported cam throwing a football behind like this. This part an offense that the Pampers app. Apparently I was a couple weeks after cam started throwing games been throwing for about a month now. You can call way ahead of schedule. What I call is the shoulder injuries behind cam. This should be the story that dominates training camp.

We overreacted to the second surgery because we lacked information. All the information we were getting coming from either cam Newton on the YouTube page, or from the Panthers. There will there wasn't any independent reporting being done to tell us what was happening with cam Newton.

I don't really care about his throwing technique adjustments. I really don't know if Turner's encouraged he was going to speak at length about it and I think it's a lot of wait-and-see does that mean he could throw a deep ball again. That's what I want to know. Maybe we'll find out in the next few weeks.

Maybe we'll find out in training camp. Maybe we won't find out till game one against the ramp, but boy I just can't do serious minicamp talk.

It's called minicamp. Imagine having really serious conversation around something that's called minicamp.

What imagine what your summer camp that you went to was called a minicamp you want to take that seriously either where you go and I were going to minicamp Minnetonka for the sun now wears where where is this minicamp over going to Lake Norman to hang out just a couple weeks it's gonna be fun. Hopefully our shoulders don't get hurt. They are in pads.

It's June. If somebody gets hurt, it's alarming. It rarely ever happens at this point, nobody's really running into each other so it's it's hard for me to take minicamp seriously adjusted last night I watched game five of the NBA finals at Twin Peaks. Got myself some wings and here's what usually happens the wings are so big there that I always have leftovers the next day and I almost didn't finish the leftovers Twin Peaks a great place to go and get here take the advice that man does are giving you here get the naked wings naked wings at Twin Peaks. That's the way to go.

That's what I got last night. In addition to the 29° beer and of course you don't have to ask. It was in the 20 throughout man's eyes month find Twin Peaks perfectly selects the NBA finals or the Stanley Cup finals which resume tomorrow with a game seven dog to come.

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When I think the movies obviously to CCR. It's a scene where the dude driving in this card is banging on the – having himself a great all day with my favorite comedies jump okay.

You can follow him on Twitter at a WOFOCKE new voice of the Charlotte Hornets just moving into the Carolinas in recent weeks have settled and are you at this point John, thank you for spending time with that I want to go back to you about. I think you're right that there's a certain generation of people that you immediately flashed to that you find your car in the lot.

After he got driving around but I would encourage people because my older brother back there. Most of the CCR video that dog gone it and it just coming from plastic like the guys in flannel shirt you already put on the like final college. I may never want to go your app you wanted any time you hear it you think of a Fogarty leather couch and drummer with a beard and everything it may encourage everybody to Google that defined and watch that video quite like it pretty good were refilling the plot that I'm down here now and my wife will be coming down in a couple of weeks to get the family all back there but you know love in the first couple couple days: the hornet know everybody here in the organization. The black car – here's what I want you to do while were doing a basketball conversation with John folky, the new voice of the radio on the radio for the Charlotte hornet.

I want you to find this music video is talking about looking out my back door. CCR wants to give me a recap of it. After this interview was over at the end of the interview. Look up this this music video.

He says it's great. I want to know what exactly happens and it because I haven't seen it yet, but John looking at last night's action in the NBA really none of the game made sense to me. It didn't wear. Kevin Durant gets hurt and then DeMarcus cousins who was set to be benched like 20 minutes at 14 and six. That was awful down the stretch.

Golden State had 12 more made the reason Toronto did. Yet the game is tight and then Toronto's up six and the timeouts called and then all the sudden Golden State is new life in a cup hits a couple of three they win the game on the road without Katie without Yvonne Looney. I just ask you a very simple question here the hell happened happened and I thought it was. I thought it was an incredibly fun game while at the same time, you know, incredibly sad when you think about the injury and the possible verity of it to rent. But you know when you go beyond that got caught up in leapt up and opened up what was happening out there.

They would even with the injury they control.

Hell, you know, Kawai Cook over the port authority 12. That final payment and then that timeout over there with the final run by Google and then you know couple of the audit… It was called community you know and watching the replay that really thought that would a legal is loose and conclusive of anything but the other one you're talking a pleasant cousins.

Mistakes that he made when was the last time you ever saw a moving picked called in the final minute of an NBA game.

I agree I agree, but it wasn't the right call. Like after watching the replay public on and about okay I'm moving. You know if it was you like.

I don't know if it was at the beginning of an you know in that moment. Not that big of a deal but that it and how much it got for curry.

I think they had to call it because that's the way if you don't call it.

You could determine the outcome of the game and fill your I didn't have a I really didn't have a problem with that one way that the group anyone working call play right away and then when I came back and that really felt that that was a legal platelet you know I think it's funny how physical that gave one and you have a car like that. If you Kawai or Lowery or yellow by Lowery in the far right corner of the lot of play going on back onto thought it would like to finish the rent without their article, they got off to an inhabitant whether the Kawai taking over at that whatever like or five convection stretch there in the fourth quarter. It was it was a fun game of the injury to Katie man I want more games like people, I want and I want down to the wire because that they're gonna basketball. I want to talk to you about Kevin Durant. Now John folky, the new radio voice of the Hornets with Golden State hat take two more games off Toronto the way there presently constituted Canada.

I don't really you know they won't without Kevin Durant. They want with Kevin Durant they got to the greatest shooter in the history of the game. Clay Thompson, I would be hard-pressed to say that the warrior can't do anything now would you government 90% chance that probably not, but I doubt that wouldn't count them out got guys Dr. you know you talk about cousin really did a play last night Betty at that great birth date going for a while.

I think about going through here then. Now you know when you look at what Toronto had That they have a way to collect your way. At that ability with some of their lineups, but you got the greatest players in the game right now on that and then one of the more unique players in gray migraine and obviously, Lord above them all because of the impact that he have.

I wouldn't say they can't gain Kevin Durant. The last two years we saw an emotional Bob Myers last night talking about Kd and the way he's been covered. The way he's perceived when he went to Golden State a few years ago the tags. He was most commonly given was him being selfish. At points and being a coward for going to that team him being soft for going to that team. It seemed like last night. He shed a lot of that it's it's hard to attach any of that criticism on Kevin Durant for him trying to attempt in play and his condition and also suffering the injury as a result, in your mind, though, now that we have seen this year how he's been covered and saw what he was willing to do last night.

Do you feel the coverage that surrounded Kevin Durant, particularly this year is been fair, I never really under narrative. Having covered the league recommended Ricky in Seattle and covering him. Then came the way that he would come out a meeting with the superstar that and he would come out here with warm up.

That on the bed talk at the reporter that came by I felt a number of time that your group or orbit superstar there or more demand on the time to cut those, but I I constantly think about that version of Durrant with the start and yet always had time answering every question in the current recorder that I think to you in terms of that era to cover your is on Kevin on the folk to cover him and speculate about it. Everything like if you come out right away and address some of the things that were left out there, baby narrative is different, but I think at the end of the day, you know, when we look back on what happened last night and I think a lot of people were moving my back Kevin Durant. That payment deleted with the sonic you know what that that don't. Okay guy that you could fill out the college can play flag football and the guy, you know, in my mind that there after shootaround or pregame on the on the basketball answer everybody's question though.

I think that we don't you know I understand and become a bigger bigger you have to make adjustment to think like that. So I think what he did last night reminded a lot of people. Oh, you know that we know this guy we know who you really haven't changed allowed to have John folky is the radio voice of the Charlotte Hornets following on Twitter at JW folky, he's somebody as well that we figured out seems to be a fan of the big Lebowski as he remembers particular scenes that surrounded this song but apparently it's a great music video to so we've given our producer Desmond Johnson an assignment behind the scene to watch this music video based on what you've seen so far – what have you found what stands out the running as it is right now your session, like an addict or something is eminently or whatever it is, the lead singer sit on the couch. John Fogarty's name on Fogarty's house like just hanging out having a jam session all but it's a great song by John hardware out of the car for a quick. And the fellow that can help myself better where my car and get article yeah I would say they can enjoy everything that is the PR that is how would you describe what they're wearing wearing nothing crazy leather pants with leather payments from either my days probably around 8990 that's not really equally white outfit that people wear leather pants and now it's time just talking to John bleeping folky and time to squeeze in the time and for us and letting us in on a music video that I think a lot of people are familiar with because the big Lebowski you got it. That's John folky on Twitter at JW. I get to see the dude banging on the dashboard right now. I'm surprised you haven't cut me off yet. During this interview because I'm looking at my screen.

I'm scared.

I'm petrified because when I look at the I look at my all you mess with Josh.

We zero over Thailand, hanging out, we have not seen the filing side of the field been watching this back down on Thailand right now. Quarter past you're making it more difficult thing. Like I think most for familiar with the concept of 1/2. Most people like there are people get confused with. How many.

Are there to be three could be more but house I that's the constant in basketball and football and in most sports that we have like what's the next thing to say. It's an inning. Yeah the first-inning we got got some soccer. Let's do that soccer and sake soccer things happening here next after a 10 year hiatus in the limelight an unlikely star has reemerged to become the hottest star in Hollywood you're on the drive with Josh Graham, 620 my laptop. I don't want to be ignored by the US national team. I think the game ending anyway. The big stories of the day are coming up in the NBA finals were last night, and when I'm looking at the bigger headlines from yesterday usually get the last crack of things in the afternoon and I've seen a lot of really bad takes today. How did I notice we need to pull up my laptop women's national team is here to let you know they don't have time for your well nothing now know well nothing five goals of the multiple award by a single team will come is three. I don't even know doing radio told the injury time is concluded and that we get a final score on this because I'm terrified that if I continue to be interrupted here frustrating place to be because I thought this would just be a nice idea. I actually we were discussing this before the show and talking about what a great idea. Would it would be enough. We had some way to let people know that the United States had scored their national team had scored a goal. What a great idea. That would be thinking maybe there's one on or two of those a game and it will be important to let people know what happened but were at the point now though right now you will people around everybody right now and I filing today. Goals more gold than Phil Jackson had championship rings. Are you kidding me still years away from getting it started to build its driver's permit. According to a radio producer for ESPN in Miami. There's a bar in South Florida that serves free shots after every United States goal never going to be stories that come out later today because I've actually participated in this before you go to a restaurant for United States soccer game and I don't think it was free shots but we do shots we degree right at the beginning were going to take shots after every single goal that score. So we did that and we got worried when the United States scored like two goals in the first 10 minutes turned out they 121 imagine or worry one paying for shots when they were at a pace of I don't know what the math would be 18 goals.

I was the pace of the first 10 minutes in this case, 13 shots of alcohol where you wind up if you're somebody who is participating in this like that's what happening in Miami. According to this producer that they are serving free shots for every United States goal. When do you bow out. When do you say I can't do this anymore or do you say since it is the middle of the afternoon. You know what I'm at the point now. How often is this could happen. I just get a get it over and I'm in a call out of work tomorrow because I know after about the seventh shot, let alone the 13th go to be pretty banged up to be in bad shape. Think the proper bar etiquette for something like that would be if you got into it begin with the understands we fall out. You can't bow out right but you keep going but I'm asking you what were what I stop. I'm asking you where where you would stop because you're not doing 13 shots are you 13 shots of what good question. It's great question actually. What do you think you could handle. The best way to ask it if you were taking 13 of something that would be third 33 677-1600 is the part gold slaughter 13 shots of it I would be ripped tequila than sonic. Great idea awful. 13 maybe fireball heartburn. The next day or if you have a esophagus. These are good options out.

You recommended by Dr. hey, you take 13 shots and fill in the blank but I'm asking myself, what would be the worst of the six usually the best case scenario. I think probably probably a fireball would put you in the best spot 13 shots in a city know I can do that anything's possible.

Tequila would be a disaster know I think actually essentially try to do at noncollege and it did not work out.

I can't handle it.

I haven't even I had tequila for the first time this year and probably about two or three years and I me I hadn't been drinking that day really and I I had decided to step out for second. I did the fake phone call I put up my phone as I got a call you that I puked in the bushes with José Gagne, my friend Saul was happy to get tired. I was a good dad take this call right, why, why do walk over there why are you still talk I got it figured out very quickly is what I'm telling you what I'm saying is, that would be the last option you tequila stay away, but the first option if you're taking 13 shots of something to celebrate US American goals. I mean criminal Apple. Maybe it's how you know that kind of money Jim's go to we do drink liquor. You can take a shot well know these these goals will come in like every two minutes on your everything shot as they had the goal yeah oh yeah we do nothing at halftime the game into 13 nothing.

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The nothing lockable laid out in bars and apparently does get them some help. It looked like an Alabama football game before they got a quarterback that nobody could score their beer. We are at the end of this game three to nothing at halftime. The 13 nothing.

Sorry Army football where you have 1/2 dozen possessions in a game and somehow control the ball for 42 minutes was a tired flick a ceramic marathon will do in the past two hours. Only some time talking about soccer, but I'm a little in the soccer team. I really am.

The US women's national team you're seeing.

Why they are tied his the favorite with France to win the tournament and I love this team.

Alex Morgan and Carly Lloyd and Julia Roberts back who was previously Julie Johnston, the wife of the NFL tied in Megan for Pinot scoring in this game. The Carly Lloyd end up scoring just for classical Alex Morgan had five yeah Julia Roberts did not score have what a scrub it in scoring this game actually think that is for there are more goals digitally or explore gaseous order that everybody scored just give me the rundown of people who scored in the game so I don't think of for right now give us a minute Alex Morgan at five Megan for Pinot had one Horan had one Rose Lavallee had her Lavelle had to Roosevelt had to die is doing the math.

Radio Megan Avenue had one for Pinot Pinot should really change last name know you should just learn how to pronounce couple and here I mean she's a star Sarah Samantha knew this leave us it is just one I love. I just punted is punted into that first there maybe the key and radio is just butcher it and then say nailed it.

That got us onto due to the failed 13 13,005 probably it's just a sad state of affairs for Thailand got Scott Van Pelt probably said it best on Twitter what was Thailand doing practice what were they working on what was their mindset coming into this game. All right guys ladies really facing the US women's national team who won the World Cup there. The defending champs given the full her Brooks speech, that time is done and over and tired of hearing how great the American soccer team is your about to be the greatest soccer game of all time. Everybody's going to know about Thailand women soccer by the end of the day, and here's the amazing part. Surprisingly, everybody does know about Thailand women soccer and I don't know you are listening to WSJ us Winston-Salem W COG Greensboro WPC M Burlington W MFR Highpoint what is 609 24 must communicate to the drive Josh Graham whenever a big story happens in support of the morning show host to get the first racket they like game five of the NBA finals last night then passed along to San Patrick right on the sport, something David Glenn early afternoon still has it while it's fresh in the three we get the last crack at it here in the afternoon and usually what happens is you gotta take a different angle and push things ahead when the conversation gets to the point where your driving home in the afternoon, but today DJs with us. David Glenn early afternoon today.

I just found myself going through Twitter and watching television and listening to radio and I had to turn off the radio and turn off the television because I just seen so many hot awful takes today regarding the warriors went over the raptors DG in your mind just in your research. Following this game and what you heard this morning getting ready for your show. What's the worst take you heard today or the one that you rolled your eyes at most. In response to the warriors went and got work today what we've heard for much of the last 30 days which is good. Do you know where Kd is not a team player. All is not tough enough. JD is worried about his next contract rather than for fulfilling his current contract will take it as we now know you Kelly were wondering and of course he would bring Jeopardy last night because he played you don't care your Achilles while watching. If you continue did not bode well. I know there were bad one, but I am not sure they are worse recently.

What's the biggest ramification though Katie's injuries going to carry into the summer like we were just thinking out loud and Kd has followed the lead that Lebron's lead. The one year contracts year to year.

That way you keep teens trying to be competitive. Year to year and risk and leverage of the potential view going elsewhere if they don't try to keep rosters strong. Maybe that's something you don't see as much because now we see an athlete get burned getting injured on this one. Your deal as they get separated 011 as you can opt out.

If he chooses to.

What do you think the biggest consequence of Katie's injuries going to be in the next month. Short-term repercussion the Toronto Raptors are your new favorite to win the front burner repercussion because with the help Kevin to read the warriors were to win their fourth NBA title five years without him the coin flip game in Oakland on Thursday. Another coin flip game goes back to Toronto for game seven. That's a pretty big repercussion for the NBA as a whole and those two franchises. In particular, in the bigger picture. I'm not sure working to be able to draw an all-encompassing rule about this Josh.

We will even know for sure. For example, right now were all wired differently but I think it's fair to say that most human beings would react one way if they thought their employer did not have their best interest at heart, but something went wrong versus if they did have Kevin Durrant best interest at heart, and sometimes stuff just goes wrong in my experience, the way most people are wired. If Kevin Durrant even leave you know that the GM fighting through tears. Healing for Kd if you think that anything that symbolic of how the warriors really feel about him and Kd believed they were patient.

30+ days and and he's appreciative of that will then Kd could opt in for one year. Kd could ask for a five year deal arcade Kd could find other ways day long or short term, but if you have any question if some of those articles and wondered why nobody from the warriors put out a statement on his behalf thing. Hey Kd is Kd is a team player. We don't doubt MSR doctors holding him back. That's what we don't know and that that's why I don't think Kevin Durrant situation can be applied to the NBA at large. At least not until We Know Which Way, Kevin Durrant uses own franchise take that bothered me today.

DG was the one that was just instant wrong reaction somebody gets hurt. So we jumped to he ruined his next max contract is not to get a max contract from other teams. If he chooses to opt out and that just simply doesn't make much sense to me when you look at players who have missed all or most of an NBA season you go through current players you have, Paul, George, JoEllen Beebe and Simmons Kawai Leonard Blake Griffin still current.

Steph Curry, if you go through history. You can find Kobe and MJ David Robertson guys who have missed your significant time in a series is a season as well and they turned out to have pretty good careers even after their injury. Katie's 30 years old and I wonder in your mind when you're talking about the New York Knicks, the LA Clippers and the Brooklyn Nets three franchises largely over the last few decades that have been bottom feeders.

Being the ones potentially who have the space to land a Kevin Durrant and might be the front runners. According to reports, do you view them thinking any differently and it comes to offering Kevin Durrant a max contract after the injury we saw last night. Kevin Durrant average $40 million a year or more over the next 3 to 5 years and that's whether days with the warriors jumpstart world goes for five years in terms of tent.the term or goes for something shorter to be cranking out something in that neighborhood. On average, now could impact the end of his career.

Maybe you could just be an example of a lot more tread on the off of the fire for a guy. Remember he turned 31 this year and it's not like the old days were some guy didn't make the NBA full. There were 2312 years of tread off the fire and now Achilles injury not impact him down the road monetarily. Of course it can, but nobody could weep for Kevin Durrant remembering the broader set guy is already made hundreds of millions of dollars if the guy is going to make no doubt about it. Hundreds of millions more because again those salary plus what you make off the court. This is not a guy I worry about paying the rent or you waking up without a roof over his head. The way real world people have problems in Third World countries is going to be fine. Short-term financial futures not significantly altered off the backend that very first world mega millionaire problem to have, and I think even Kevin Durrant would be willing to say. He knew there was some risk to the play last night and he's willing to live with that part of the results.

We made a poor decision on today's show earlier David Glenn's with Billy after the house where I had Desmond Johnson interrupt.

I gave him permission to interrupt the show every single time that the US women's soccer team would have scored the game started at three. I figured okay were probably can have one, maybe two interruptions possibly for teen 13 did nothing. Winners today the US women's soccer team beating Thailand in their opener and Jill Ellis right now is at the podium. She's answering questions about its not showing mercy and I agree with every part of this and I wonder what you think is the quote for these players for years now from now some of them have been working some of them even longer. I don't find it my job to go on and harness my players and bring the men.

This is a world championship."

US putting up 13 on Thailand.

Do you have any issue with it. I don't the World Cup in that matter.

I've been a coach soccer and other sports and especially at younger ages. It can be outrageous. What one seemed to another.

It can even be outrageous when you know the for a school at the high school level playing in unequipped what a school best women's soccer player in the world. These are 24 countries that are there because they earn their way there and you can you can change your tactics in the second half. If you want to. But fundamentally, I think Jill Jill Ellis is right.

Sorry that your show was interrupted 13 times. You know the quality of content that you provide your picture you painted has me thinking of like Chevy Chase or the vacation docket document traffic circle and he keeps saying no in London. There's big there's big bet there's big there's big that you go all over and over what happened when she was three to nothing at halftime so about an hour or so ago. It all happened at one point like we were joking like a segment started.

And then I get interrupted and then literally two minutes later it would happen, and it was a 30 minute stretcher. So where it was just constant that these things were happening and it was bothering me. You know what that might be the greatest form of entertainment. I found that more than a basketball and cam Newton and the Panthers in the NBA finals.

The thing that people enjoy the most on the show host when he's irritated and mission accomplished.

Earlier today, but looking at cam Newton throwing cam. I wonder what you take away is when you learn the news. According Albert Greer for the Monday morning quarterback. The cam has been growing for a month now. We learned about two weeks ago and Jordan Rodrick reported based off of video that someone obtained videoing the Panthers without their permission. That cam was throwing the football. It's the first day of minicamp. What's your biggest take away from the fact that he strong regulation size balls and is been doing so for the last month. You know, part of my response. I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on you so many fans made with Kevin Durrant injury and pretending to be medically knowledgeable when they're not. So my bottom line is, for example, when the Panthers trainer Ryan Vermillion said publicly recently that cam has met every threshold every line that they have set up for him. He had built across that milestone when he said that cam has been throwing pain free hugely important because two years ago the Colts were not saying similar things about Andrew Locke.

After his shoulder surgery and we all know how that train wreck went when he missed the entire 20 17th even after the cold more often. Don't worry about it will be fine. By September, nobody said he was throwing pain free.

Ryan Vermillion Panthers team trainer said cam is so I think trust the medical professionals behind the David peppers the smart owner.

He knows he has an investment worth billions in terms of the pain, but tens of millions in terms of cam yesteryears left on the deal so they know smart timetable better than we do on the outside. I get yelled.

Bilby second death cam is injured, but at least this point I think those professional medical people deserve the benefit of the doubt. Speaking professional medical people.

Tomorrow were going to be joined by a guy who's written the book on sports injuries and the most important ones that have impacted modern-day sports the last 50 years. That's Dr. David Geyer who is a Wake Forest alum out of Charleston.

He will be on tomorrow show a sports orthopedist to talk about him and Kevin Durrant in the news, but one more thing on cam. Do you think that this story goes away. By the time training camp gets here knowing that cam's throwing it and things look good. Obviously it's a different throwing motion. But is this still going to be the dominant story during camp in Spartanburg. No doubt about it, one going to be cam Newton. I think it circle the number one priority at each of the 32 mandatory minicamp or as you said late July preseason The one for the Panthers's health.

One might be the fiddling back and forth Ron Rivera's new defect is going to be a combination of the 34 in the fourth grade in their new toys like Gerald McCoy to go with that change a defect, the philosophy, but it absolutely starts with cam Newton. There is no doubt about it, we can have fun with his new receiving core and new and improved Christian McCaffrey and Luke equally at the quarterback of that defect that had the chance to be dominant again, but the night it starts with cam and if you did not help you. The Panthers don't go the way they're supposed to go. That was the biggest weapon of last and I think that's why that has to be the number one thing under the microscope come late July. Once again, DG always good to hear from you next week that they care about you is DG Salerno all your deserve to hear that the music maybe doubly. The music is very good. Like in soccer. Growing up playing soccer this this was the song we all got behind, but this is to translate the other games as it might were doing this for the Americans. That's fine. You know that were not doing it for Zimbabwe. I don't know Zimbabwe is in the field when the next time that women think the Sunday Sunday and then the VN accident the following Thursday next Thursday, five days five days in between games I are you you never watch the World Cup before watch that but I've never liked sat down with like a booklet explained everything about Don. Five days in between the pool. Is that enough time among single elimination. Today was an update already thought of them in now crank this out baby because the World Cup just started another go to the house