How to DESTROY a Franchise: Mad Max & Matt Barnes on Kings, Bucks & NFL Chaos
All The Smoke
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mad Max is back and he's not holding back.
Max unleashes on the Bucks' disrespectful treatment of Giannis, shares hilarious behind-the-scenes stories about Chris Webber crashing at his spot in Sacramento, and breaking down why the Kings franchise continues to disappoint Matt's hometown.
Then, NFL legend Jake Plummer and former Broncos WR Nate Jackson join to discuss the Patriots' Super Bowl run, the 49ers' bizarre injury epidemic conspiracy, and what it takes to survive championship-level football.
From NBA trade deadline chaos to NFL playoff intensity, this episode brings unfiltered smoke from legends who've lived it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome back to Unplugged. |
| 0:07.3 | Before we get into a little bit of football and basketball, this show, I want to start with my hometown team, the Sacramento Kings, who've lost five straight games. |
| 0:19.2 | According to a reporter close to the team, the team could |
| 0:22.9 | attempt a full-blown fire sale approaching the trade deadline. Sabonis, Levine, DeRosen, Ellis, |
| 0:30.4 | Malik Monk, Schroeder, all reported available. And I just want to take this opportunity to kind of reflect |
| 0:36.5 | on what it's been like to be a fan of the Kings for a long time. |
| 0:41.3 | I mean, you know, rarely do you get a chance to be a fan of a team and play for that team, particularly at being your hometown team. |
| 0:49.3 | I got a chance to play for SAC for two different stents. And both of them, unfortunately, just winning starts at the top. |
| 0:58.8 | And you can tell, you know, particularly in my second stint, |
| 1:01.5 | just what kind of mess it was from the management side. |
| 1:08.0 | It wasn't long ago with 2023. |
| 1:10.3 | I came back around. I was actually getting a chance to |
| 1:12.9 | do some TV for NBC in the Kings and light the beam had taken the league by storm. First time back in the |
| 1:20.9 | playoffs and I think it was 16 years of the time, if I'm not mistaken. Loss to the Warriors in game |
| 1:27.3 | seven when Steph went crazy, but the city was on fire. |
| 1:31.4 | There was a lot of hope with Deerrin Fox and Sabonis and what they were able to do after that |
| 1:35.8 | big trade that got, sent Halliburton to Indiana and Sabonis to Sacramento. But nearly two |
| 1:42.0 | seasons later, we look at it and it's an empty shell of the momentum they had kind of built with that roster. |
| 1:51.4 | Two of the main characters, Deere and Fox is now in San Antonio, the starting point guard for the number two seed in the Western Conference. |
| 1:59.3 | And then Mike Brown signed a good deal to be the head coach of the Knicks, who are now |
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