Straight Fire - Spain Steamrolls Argentina, Messi Ran Out of Gas & LeBron's Next Stop
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🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Jason discusses Argentina’s no-show in the World Cup final against Spain, why it’s clear that Spain was the best team on the planet throughout the entire tournament, the narrative that Lionel Messi ran out of gas the deeper into the tournament he got, and which team makes the most sense for LeBron James in free agency out of the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers and Golden State Warriors.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. |
| 0:15.3 | What is up, Streetfire, fam? |
| 0:17.3 | It's me, Jason McIntyre Street. |
| 0:20.2 | Boyer. For Monday, July the 20th, here we go. |
| 0:27.1 | Here we go. It's a busy two weeks for your boy. Cowherd is out. I'll be hosting alongside |
| 0:34.1 | Rachel Nichols should be fun, but it's going to be busy. It's going to be hectic. It's going to be chaotic. |
| 0:38.6 | Fortunately, we've got a lot of sports still to talk about the World Cup, sadly, is over Spain. |
| 0:45.2 | Victorious, we'll talk about that. |
| 0:47.8 | I did take a couple days off last week, and I did not get to talk about the England |
| 0:52.8 | Argentina game. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm going to touch on that. I can't believe this, folks, but we are in the middle of July, and I don't know if you've seen the list of NBA free agents who have not decided where they're going yet. This is crazy. Obviously, there's LeBron. But James Harden opted out. He hasn't signed yet. Cuminga was supposed to be maybe |
| 1:11.5 | headed to the Lakers hasn't signed yet. |
| 1:13.0 | Draymond got out of his deal with the Warriors LeBron. But James Harden opted out. He hasn't signed yet. Cuminga was supposed to be maybe headed to the Lakers, hasn't signed yet. |
| 1:13.0 | Draymond got out of his deal with the Warriors so they could go after LeBron. |
| 1:16.8 | Basically, LeBron is holding up a ton of players. |
| 1:19.5 | Jalen Duren with the Pistons is not done. |
| 1:21.7 | We're waiting on Watson in Denver, Ben Matherin with the Clippers. |
| 1:25.4 | There's a million guys. |
| 1:26.6 | It's insane. |
| 1:28.4 | We're in the middle of July. |
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