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Okay, let's go! It's part of my take. There's anybody far to sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by Draft King Sportsbook. Go download it right now. Use code take and you can get a no sweat bet up to a thousand dollars if your first bet loses today is friday a February 23rd and this has been just the jj reddick week. He's pissed off the entire world. It's his world. We're just living in it. He pissed off Pat Bev, pissed off Doc Rivers. Yeah. He pissed off not ball-knowers online. Yeah. So a fan. So when JJ says like I only get 50,000 people watching an X's nose thing, I'm one of those because I know ball. Humble Bragg, that's what I want.

I now we like JJ Redic.

He's a friend of ours.

He's a friend of the show. But I feel like this is just JJ Redic doing his full return to Duke form. Yeah, I think kind of doing a little bit of a, there's a couple of things that he said that I was like, I disagree with that. But when he goes on first take, I think he's just playing up the fact that like everyone used

to hate him and they see that face and they see him being like I'm... He said that I was like, I disagree with that. But when he goes on first take, I think he's just playing up the fact

that like everyone used to hate him and they see that face and they see him being like, I'm smarter than you. And it's like, oh yeah. That was Duke JJ Reddick, I don't like him. I think it's more the Duke JJ Reddick in the mindset of like, I'm the only one that appreciates like true knowledge. Yeah, you guys don't understand true knowledge.

J Bill is does that from time to time to death?

When he gets deep in his bag on that lawyer shit?

Yeah.

And sometimes we just want to time to death.

When he gets deep in his bag on that lawyer shit.

Yeah. And sometimes we just want to watch people scream about the cowboys at each other. Yeah, and it was an interesting week for him because he basically started the week. He bashed Doc Rivers and said, you know, he always has an excuse, which I agreed with. Doc Rivers does have a lot of excuses we played that on Wednesday.

And then on I think it was maybe Wednesday or Thursday he went on first

take. you know he always has an excuse which I agreed with doctor is does have a lot of excuses replayed that on Wednesday and then on i think it was maybe when's there Thursday he went on first taken was like wise everyone care about what i said about my former coach which uh... yeah of course if a player calls out his former coach like we just did an entire robber griffin the third verse j grudin story arc with this that's like everyone will always tune in if a player is like my former coach, Johnny Manziel, just bash Brian Hoyer and people are talking about that. That is always going to be what people want to want to listen to. This is also the next iteration of saying something in flammatory, getting invited back on shows to defend your inflammatory thing. We're now he's going back on shows and he's fighting back and he's like, this shouldn't be inflammatory.

Yeah. Then the discussion becomes like, why aren't we as a society smarter about what we choose to watch? Right. Basketball knowledge. Right. And it's funny because in 2024, I would have made the argument that fans are more knowledgeable than they've ever been in any part of like sports history. Yeah. There is countless things that you can watch you can watch if you want to learn more about the game that you love. Like just it's the internet.

There's podcasts, there's clips, there's everything is at your fingertips when it comes to becoming a more knowledgeable fan. Unfortunately, what JJ misses is we are fans and fans are a lot of times dumb, I'm counting myself. And we like drama. We like to make knee jerk reactions. We like to have stupid debates with our friends. It's not hard to figure out that like, we wanna be entertained. We're dumb creatures who want to be entertained, sports should be entertainment. Being like, why isn't anyone watching my Zion Williamson, primary ball handler clip? Yeah, I guess I'd watch it, it'd probably be interesting, but yeah, I also wanted to beat like, why isn't anyone watching my Zion Williams in a primary ball handler clip?

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