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From My Perspective
The Game 7 Showdown: NBA Finals Reaches Historic Peak and Ron Killings Returns
The latest episode covers major developments across WWE, NBA, NHL, and breaking Lakers news, delivering comprehensive sports entertainment analysis with passionate perspective.
• Money in the Bank aftermath with Seth Rollins and Naomi winning briefcases, questioning if LA Knight would have been a better choice
• Ron Killings (R-Truth) returns to WWE on his own terms with a serious character rebranding, raising questions about fan reception
• Gunter defeats Jey Uso for the World Heavyweight Championship, setting up Goldberg's retirement match
• Florida Panthers win the Stanley Cup in an exciting series that highlighted the trophy's unique traditions
• NBA Finals reaches historic Game 7 between Pacers and Thunder with MVP candidates emerging on both sides
• Los Angeles Lakers sold for $10 billion with Saudi backing, raising questions about who will truly control the franchise
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Welcome, welcome, welcome back to another episode of From Our Perspective. We missed you guys. We had to take an unexpected week off. Thank you, guys, for all the prayers, by the way, just want to point that out. Thank you. Everything is all good at home for now, but we had to take a week off. But we're back. We missed a lot, and when I say a lot, a lot. So we're going to get right into it, though, but how you doing Q?
Speaker 2:You already know the best show boy, mr Bill aka. Say your name up on the spot, might not wit you to my what's going on, dm hey it's going good, man.
Speaker 1:It was going better than last week, but thank god. But, like I said, we missed a lot. We're gonna get to the main thing towards the end of the show, but we got to start out with what we mostly missed. And what we mostly missed was the money in the bank PLE. We don't have to go through it in detail, but I do got to mention Q. He did win, he did beat me and now he does hold the PLE crown. He actually kind of did it, like you know, cause of the cause of R-Truth, or Nail Ron Killings that's how he did it.
Speaker 1:Cause the last main event. I picked Logan Paul to get pinned, he picked John Cena to get pinned, so, but, like I said, we don't got to talk about the main event. I picked Logan Paul to get pinned, he picked John Cena to get pinned, so but, like I said, we don't got to talk about the main thing, talk about it in detail. I just want to hear from you Q, seth Rollins winning the Money in the Bank briefcase, naomi winning the Money in the Bank briefcase and Ron Killings being hired back from the WWE. It looks like they're putting him in a little bit of a program as well. Those are the main three things I want to hear First Naomi.
Speaker 2:I was going to pick Naomi, but you went in and picked Naomi, so I switched my pick. You know what I'm saying. I would have actually beat you. You know what I mean. I did beat you, but it would have been nice. It would have been a more comfortable margin, like we're going to talk about later. It would have been more of a comfortable margin. So, nah, naomi.
Speaker 2:I think Naomi winning was the right choice, but that being, said, the only person I felt like would have been a bad choice in Money in the Bank would have been Rhea. Yeah, I agree. So any woman. That's what I also thought was going to be the best match. Not only do women hurt especially the past year those money in the bank or those type of matches the women's matches tend to be better. Yeah.
Speaker 1:This one wasn't as good as the last few, but it was still a solid match.
Speaker 2:I feel like it was still better than the men's yeah you right. No shade to the men, but I feel like the women's Money in the Bank was better than the men's this year, and I think it was last year as well. Like I said, anybody winning it would have been a great choice, besides Rhea. Not because Rhea's a bad you know bad choice, but just the fact Rhea's already over and Rhea she don't need a briefcase for a storyline.
Speaker 1:She's the type of woman that can just show up and say I want it and get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she. You know what I'm saying. Let her. She's been in a tight end picture for a while. Let her chase other things. So I think it's dope that she did not win it. Naomi's been killing it ever since she turned to heel, so I think that was an excellent choice. Like I said, seth Rollins, I don't know how you feel about it, but when this new faction was getting started, I felt excited about it and I still kind of feel excited about it. But I don't feel like he needed the briefcase for it to go over. And then you have LA Knight coming from SmackDown to beef with him on Raw after he lost the briefcase. I get what you're doing. You're stretching out the time between you know, before Seth really actually cashes in, gives him something else to do, but I still believe LA Knight should have been the choice.
Speaker 2:It would have been the popular choice, but I don't know for you, but when I was watching it, it wasn't just LA Knight that was getting a pop when he was on the ladder, it was also Pinto A Knight that was getting a pop when he was on the ladder, it was also Pinto. Pinto was getting a lot of pop when he was on that ladder. I don't think they need to put him with his brother yet.
Speaker 1:They're keeping him far away from his brother. I think eventually they're going to have to do it to boost up their tag team division. Right now they're going to keep him far away. I wasn't really feeling it. I'm a little out on the Seth Rollins group. I was excited for it in the beginning. Now I'm kind of iffy on it.
Speaker 1:When we talked about it, me and you both said like Seth Rollins is like the obvious choice, to the point where it felt like it's too obvious, like he's not going to win because it's too obvious, like he's not going to win because it's too obvious. That's how I felt. I think I still picked him to win because, no, yeah, I still picked him to win because, like I don't know, you picked LA Knight, the match in total. I didn't think the match really picked up until the interference, until Bron Break or Broncery came out. Jacob Fatu came out with JC Obviously Jacob Fatu. He finally told Solo he hates him. That was the high point for me in the Money in the Bank match. Seth Rollins was like oh okay, it is what it is.
Speaker 2:Exactly. It don't feel like nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree with you. I wasn't a big fan of it when the interference started to come in, that's when the match picked up, but that was towards the end and Jacob Fatu was the best part, and that's what I'm going to look forward to is Jacob Fatu and Solo instead of Seth Raffles?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do want to shout out Andrade. Andrade put on some spots. He did his thing.
Speaker 1:He knows his job well.
Speaker 2:He got hit in the man area early in the match. I don't know if I would have been able to recover. So shout out to Andrade Andrade, not sorry, not Andrade.
Speaker 1:My bad.
Speaker 2:Andrade, I don't know if I would have been able to recover from getting hit in the man region With a ladder.
Speaker 1:The end point of the main region. Nah, with a ladder, the end point of the ladder too, nah.
Speaker 2:Shout out to that man, you hear me. And then still got up and did all his spots. Yeah, nah, shout out to Ajardé.
Speaker 1:But yeah. So, like I said, obviously me and Q wasn't big fans of Seth Rollins winning, but it is what. It is Not sure who he's going to cash in on. I thought it would be Gunter We'll get to that in a little bit. I mean Wolfie for the word of it. We'll get to that in a little bit. But we got to talk about R-Truth, now known as Ron Killings, getting hired back. Obviously, wwe they heard and listened to the fans. They heard and listened to their employees because obviously, obviously the backstage was not happy about it.
Speaker 1:He's back. You gotta give uh ron killing that's his real name now his new uh wwe name. You gotta give him credit because you know, you read what happened. He was legitimately uh not fired, but he wasn't legitimately told that they wasn't going to renew his contract. Apparently, he was not answering WWE's calls when they were trying to hire him back. The big gun, nick Khan, had to come in and be like hey, bro, we want you back. Ron Killings said oh, y'all want me back. If y'all want me back, we're going to do it my way.
Speaker 1:Apparently, in interviews he's been said that he wanted to get back to a more serious character and when they said he wanted him back. He said if I come back, I'm coming back as Ron Killings. He did it. He put out a nice promo on his first show back on Monday, cut off his dreads and now he is still in a program with the WWE champion, john Cena. He actually has a match against him today, if you're listening to it when this show comes out. He has a match with him on Friday Night Smackdown. So Ron Killis is back. How do you feel?
Speaker 2:Can I tell you the truth, bro, I'm scared. I'm going to tell you why I'm scared. People love him as the comedic relief, and that's what these fans crammer for me, and you included. We was on the brain of our truth bandwagon as well, but we're not getting our truth. We're getting around killings, and I'm concerned that. Are these fans still going to react the way? Are they still going to react the way they did when they were trying to get them back? Because that's not the person that y'all brought back? Ain't the person? Ain't the same person? No, and so what do we like and what does a serious R killings run in WWE look like now?
Speaker 1:On what you 100%. It's not that I'm concerned. It's honest that he wants a serious character. What he had was a great situation. He didn't have to wrestle much. He may wrestle a couple times a month. All he had to do was show his face for about 10 seconds on TV and it's the highlight of most shows Throw a little joke, we good, we good. Now he has a serious character.
Speaker 1:My issue with this where is this going to go? Because Ron Killens is like 53, 54. Yep, if this was 10 years ago, I would be a little bit more on board. We all know the man looks 30, but the man is 53. Yeah, he's older. How will he hold up?
Speaker 1:The character he's portraying now is a character that's probably going to have to be in the ring a lot more than the R-Truth character. I'm willing to see where it goes. Logically, you would think logically, this story would end in him winning the title, him winning the title, but his age and the fact that John Cena has the title, it's like uh, I don't think you're going to win it. So after he's done with John Cena, I don't know what else he's going to do. I imagine I could be wrong. I imagine that this re-sign is only for like a year. I'd be surprised if it's more than a year and they was like, hey, we'll bring you back as Ron Killings, you got a year, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1:So I don't know. I'm glad he's back, love, that another black man has a job. I'm interested in what he's going to do. I just don't think you, being so old, you had a good thing. Like I said, apparently he wanted to be more serious in the ring. I get that. I understand that Not everybody wants to be that comic relief. Everybody feel like some people might think he's a joke. His character was portrayed as not smart. He probably didn't like that at times. I can understand that. But he did have a good thing going on. Let's see what he does.
Speaker 2:So he was trying to set up his post-WWE run. Like you said, the way everything the team is reading is if their contract is a year, hey, we're going to bring you back. We're going to bring you back at the number that you basically want and we're going to try to keep the fans quiet. And we're going to try to keep the fans quiet and we're going to give you know, but he's setting up the long run. But it's just. I hope this momentum that he has with the fans carry over and I also hope that whoever's booking the matches, triple H, whoever in storyline and creative, gives him something to work with. You don't just have him go up here and start losing after he did all of this. Yeah, because then if everybody.
Speaker 2:He's probably going to lose. He's going to lose to.
Speaker 1:John, but he's probably going to lose tomorrow or today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's going to lose to Cena, but after, like you said, it's the after Cena, it's the situation after scene. Where does that go.
Speaker 1:It's interesting. Like I said, r2 had a good gig. Obviously he's seeing himself doing more now he's doing more. Let's see where he goes. He's up there in age, but hey, I'm happy for him. I'm happy he's back on my TV. R2's a great guy. Ron Killis is a great guy. I'm happy for him. I'm happy he's back on my TV. Archie was a great guy. Ron Killis was a great guy. I'm sure the locker room is probably the most thrilled to have him back, regardless of what character he's going to be playing on TV. He's in the locker room and people love him.
Speaker 2:He holds it down for everybody.
Speaker 1:So one more thing about WWE we got to bring up. The following Monday was a World Heavyweight title match between Gunter and Jey Uso. From my perspective, man, I was like, oh, jey Uso just going to get him another little victory to pad his WWE title reign going into SummerSlam before it takes it off of him. But I was wrong. Gunter defeated Jey Uso clean as a sheet. No, jey didn't tap out, he passed out. We have a new world heavyweight champion. Jey Uso did slide himself into the King of the Ring tournament to see if he can get a tight shot, but before I pass it on to you, reading the tea leaves.
Speaker 1:Gunther came out the following week. The reason why Gunther won the title one of the major reasons is so he could face Goldberg for the WWE title in his retirement match. I understand it's Goldberg. I used to be a big fan of Goldberg, but now he's old, he looks old, he wrestles old. I'm not a big fan. You're not the same guy. That match didn't need the World Heavyweight title on the line, but they're going to do it in Atlanta in Saturday night's main event in a couple weeks. I'm going to go ahead and pass to the UQ your thoughts on Jay losing it, your thoughts on it being for Goldberg to have a title match and your thoughts on Goldberg getting in the ring one final time.
Speaker 2:So first going into it, I never thought Gunther would win. I was either Jay was going to win or Seth was going to cash in. This was the only two things that was in my thoughts was Jay was going to win and Seth was going to cash in, and I kind of had made peace with Seth winning. I didn't agree with it because I felt like it was a quick run for Jay. Jay should have had the title a lot longer. I ain't saying Jay should have went on a Roman run, but he should have at least had like a 100-day run because he was over. This is the problem with WWE. Going back to LA Night LA Night's over. Get the people that's over that work their way to get over. There's time in the spotlight and night Jay's got abbreviated LA night. He's in there but he ain't getting the spotlight that he deserves. And Karrion Kross, who's over with the fans like crazy.
Speaker 1:He ain't getting no matches. He's getting his 10 seconds backstage and people are loving every second of it.
Speaker 2:Dude's on main event. Why is Karrion Kross on main event and he's over with the fans. It makes zero sense, zero sense. But, like I said, the people that's getting over. Naturally. I don't know if you remember Zack Ryder. I don't know if you remember Zack Ryder?
Speaker 2:The fans love Zack. Ryder Bruh never got over him. You got. The fans is telling you who we want. They tell you who they want. Stick with who they want we want. They tell you who they want, stick with who they want. Sometimes it's that simple. Sometimes, you know, don't reinvent the wheel, don't try to come with too many curveballs, because several islands winning and money in the bank is not a curveball. Everybody saw that coming. Hell, let's be real. You saw Naomi winning. You could see that Naomi was going to win.
Speaker 2:Now I normally be on my dirt sheet getting the possibilities of who going. I normally be on my like dirt sheet, like getting the possibilities of who going, like surprises and all that blah, blah, blah. But I hadn't really been on that like the past couple weeks. So I didn't see the Goldberg coming this soon. I knew it was coming because they had been setting it up. I knew it was coming, but I didn't know it was coming for this. Gunther winning, setting it up with him and Goldberg for the championship belt. Like you just said, they already had a storyline. There's no need for a championship belt. They have a storyline. Now I do think, as far as Goldberg, the better opponent for him would be not Jay, but Gunther. Gunther I don't know how to pronounce the man's name Would be better, because Gunther is a ring general for real. He's going to make Goldberg's retirement match look ten times better.
Speaker 1:And those five minutes is going to be the best five minutes of Goldberg's.
Speaker 2:Especially in the past. What 15 years? Yeah, yeah, that match is going to be a high-fiving match because Gunther, that's what he does and that's you know. I'm not no shade to Jay, that just ain't his, that ain't his bag, that's Gunther's bag. So that match is going to look great. But I don't think the title was needed, yeah, and then you got Jay in this King. You got Jay going against Cody for this, uh, crown.
Speaker 1:King of the Ring. King of the Ring, also King of the Ring also to become the number one contender of their respective uh world title for SummerSlam.
Speaker 2:And then you got Sammy and, um, randy, randy, randy. Now my thing is, who wins these matches? Because the storylines either way, if Cody wins, then it's him versus Sammy or Randy. A lot of history between there. If Jay wins, the history is really with him and Sammy, not necessarily Randy. But I'm interested to see where that goes. But let's be real, the Goldberg-Gunta match. Are you really going to be checking in for that? Yeah, let me not say it. Let me refer to the question it. Does that draw you to the tv?
Speaker 1:no, I mean it is goldberg's last match. It doesn't draw me. It's gonna be anywhere between two and a half minutes to five minutes. Like I used to be a very big not a very big, but a goldberg fan when he was in his which early 2000s, he looked I'm a big fan of believability. Goldberg had the believability. He had the look like somebody that will rip you apart in the ring. He had the intensity. He had everything. He was great, especially in the WCW days and it was one year with the WWE winning the World Heavyweight title. He had everything.
Speaker 1:The aura behind Goldberg was humongous. He came back his second run a couple, almost 10 years ago. He came back. He had some little moments, mostly quicker matches like two and a half minutes to five minute matches, cool. But the thing about what Goldberg for me? Man, he looks old, he moves old and, like I said, he had his moments. But the last couple years he's had some horrible moments in the ring too. Apparently he concussed himself before he went in the ring with the Undertaker, which people say was probably one of the worst matches ever. It was really a bad match. So I mean it is a hit or miss thing with Goldberg right now. It could be a nice little, quick little sprint, like he had with Bobby Lashley, a quick little five-minute sprint, or it could be a disaster. I'm hoping the latter is going to be a nice little sprint.
Speaker 1:I'm just not a fan of Goldberg. He's somebody that deserves a retirement match. I'm glad he's getting it. I personally, from my perspective, would have liked it against somebody else. That somebody else is somebody that's not clear to wrestle. That somebody would have been Big E, because I know he's a big fan of Goldberg. That would have been my dream Not happening, obviously, but he has got to just go ahead and get this retirement match over with. We put Goldberg and take him to the back of the barn and say, hey, you done. Put him in the Hall of Fame and call it a day.
Speaker 2:Do you think real quick. Do you think it's a possibility that he actually win this match and they have another one? It just popped in my head. It just popped in my head. Do you think it's a possibility that?
Speaker 1:he wins this match, I think it is a small possibility to have his last match, depending on how. If it's important to him to have his last match in SummerSlam, depending on how, if it's important to him to have his last match in Atlanta, where he's from, or just have his last match in SummerSlam, goldberg seems like the type of person that want his last match on the biggest stage, and the biggest stage you can get right now in SummerSlam Atlanta's nice. I can see it. I hope not.
Speaker 2:So win the title in Atlanta, you get your last hurrah, then he carries over to SummerSlam. Like, do we really do we want that? No, but I feel like now I'm starting to think.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's going to happen. There's a possibility, damn.
Speaker 2:There's a possibility now and it's no shade to no shade to Goldberg.
Speaker 1:But but he's just Some legend. There's a reason why. There's a reason why Adrian Peterson, even though he's not retired, is not. Even though Adrian Peterson Wants to play football still, there's a reason why no team has signed him.
Speaker 2:I was going to say there's a reason why he's retired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently he's retired. Yeah, apparently he's not. Oh, he ain't got it anymore.
Speaker 2:Man, I seen you was in. I seen you was in a ball fight, yeah.
Speaker 1:I still he's big, I still somebody I wouldn't mess with. But next week we do have King and Queen of the Ring, PLE. We'll see, We'll talk about it. It's next week it is for real.
Speaker 2:You see my face like that for real.
Speaker 1:It's next week and the following week, I believe, is that Saturday Night Main Event. They're coming quick, fast and in the hurry man.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you they are not messing around. Yeah, it looks like the summer is jam-packed, but then it's like November to January, we have one PLA.
Speaker 1:Crazy, ain't it Crazy? Let's talk about some jam-packed stuff. Well, it's going to be you mostly, man. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to chat on any games, but we do got to talk about Lord Stanley. He was given out to the Florida Panthers. They went back-to-back 96-97. Like Jordan, you watch the games. You got to tell me about it, man, because I mean, I got the notifications. They seem like entertaining games, but I just wasn't in a place to watch them and I was focused on the NBA a little bit.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the last two games, game five and game six, they was kind of like five to two, five to one, right, so they went like the first four games. The first four games was magical. Game one and game two went in overtime. Game one it was like what was it? 30 seconds left or something like that, it came through with a shot. I'm not going to name names, I don't know. It's no disrespect to the hockey players, I'm not a hockey fan. Names I don't know, it's no disrespect to the hockey players.
Speaker 2:I'm not a hockey fan, that's not my bag. But this year NHL Stanley Cup Finals made me want to watch more hockey. I was trying to come up with a team. I was talking to one of our co-workers about it. He's a Predators fan. Everything national for him. He's been on fire. Shout out to Josh, he's a Predators fan. He's like come on, be a Predators fan.
Speaker 2:I'm like I don't know. I don't have the same connections to Nashville that you do. You know what I mean. I said I'm going to put some names in a hat and I'm going to draw. You know what I mean. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pick my team, most of my teams. They don't repeat cities, like I'm a Pacers fan but I'm not a Colts fan. You know what I'm saying. It's not what I do. But back to what I'm saying. Game one and game two was incredible. Game three was really good. Game four I didn't see the overtime because I stepped out, but I saw like the three of I don't know what they call it halves Periods, periods, periods, periods, periods, periods. Yes, he didn't have much.
Speaker 2:I don't watch hockey. You know what I'm saying. I don't really watch hockey, but yo, the first, the first four games was very magical. I also at one point now that I picked Florida at the end of one of these pods, just throwing a name out here, I was going with it. Florida did end up winning, so I got there right. I don't know, I don't know much about hockey, but I know I picked Florida and I know they won.
Speaker 1:Something I've been told by a lot of people is that hockey games are incredible to go to live. I'm going to have to knock that off my bucket list one of these days. Go to a hockey game. Because they do the celebrity mic'd up, they seem like it's incredible to go to. I will go to a hockey game one day. But something I want to bring up talked about Laura Stanley, the Stanley Cup trophy. I've went down some rabbit holes before, but then I went down a deep rabbit hole not too long ago. The aura behind that trophy is absolutely incredible. Like you know, you think the Vince Lombardi is something great. You think the Larry O'Bee we'll talk about that in a little bit is great. You think the World Series trophy is great? I didn't know until recently that the stand there is only one, the Stanley Cup trophy.
Speaker 1:It's not like the Vince Lombardi. They make a new one every year. It's one trophy. They have a little thing around it. They engrave all the players and coaches names on it. Uh, once, like every like 13 years or something, they replace the bed. They take the old, take the oldest band off, put a new band and start over and, like, each player gets to spend like a couple days with the trophy after they win it. The trophy trophy has done some crazy things. The cup in it has baptized a baby. It's been in some weird places. I think it went up to Mount Rushmore. This trophy has done some crazy things.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it was one singular trophy and it was basically giving out a fantasy football trophy. You know how people do fantasy football. I didn't realize that until recently. That's incredible. It's basically like giving out like a fantasy football trophy, like you know how people do fantasy football. Yeah, I didn't realize that until recently, and that's incredible. And even some other auras, things like it's given to the captain first of the team that wins it. Also, if you don't win it, you're not allowed to touch it. You might watch ESPN or something and they have an NHL analyst out there and they have Brandon Trophy in and you can see like it'd be an analyst that's never won it. They try to stay far away from the trophy as possible because apparently it's bad luck if you touch it, if you ain't won it or you're not allowed to touch it. The aura around that trophy is next to none.
Speaker 2:It's different. It's different than every other trophy, the NHL first. Let me say this you know, uofl got a hockey team that just started this year.
Speaker 1:I'm going next year. I was trying to make a game. I didn't know it was a club team. Is it an official team? I didn't know they had a club team.
Speaker 2:Close enough, we play other universities, I mean close enough. You know what?
Speaker 1:I mean.
Speaker 2:Look, man, why you on the team for man, let them dudes get their stuff off dog.
Speaker 1:Hey, hey, club team, official team, it don't matter, it's a team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can go down there and drink and have a good old time. Why you hating on the team man? So first off, I wanted to say that, but I didn't know it until recently neither, and I was watching Pat McAfee and they interviewed the guy that goes. I guess it's tour with the trophy.
Speaker 1:He's got his own security going.
Speaker 2:He goes everywhere with the trophy. And they asked him what was the craziest thing you've? Yeah, he goes everywhere with the trophy. And they asked him what was like the craziest thing you've seen? And he was like, honestly, it's a lot of people think it's a lot of crazy stuff. But he said people drink beer out of it, drink alcohol. Like yeah, everybody does that. He said the baptism. He talked about the baptism and he's like it's not. He said yeah, it's been in the clubs and bars, but not like crazy amount of times. He was like it's not as crazy as people think it is. He said people ain't actually doing inappropriate things with the trophy around. You know what I mean, because I guess, to your point, they still respect the trophy. So yeah, nah, it's dope, the hockey was dope. I'm going to put my name name in it. I'm going to put some names in the hat and I'm going to figure it out.
Speaker 1:We expect the answer before next season starts.
Speaker 2:I'm doing it on the pod.
Speaker 1:Alright, we'll do it on the pod. Definitely got to hit up a hockey game, though I will figure that out next season we will hit up a hockey game, but let's go ahead. Slide to the bread and butter of the From Our Perspective podcast and we got to talk about the NBA Finals. People was talking bad about this matchup. People saying, man, it's about to be a bad matchup, the ratings is about to be low, okc going to sweep them. It's going to be a gentleman sweep this and that and the third. This has honestly been one of the best series in a while. We have a game seven. I want to say we have a game seven the first time since 2016, and that was the 3-1 comeback by the Cavs. This will be the 20th game 7 in the NBA Finals history this Sunday Game 7. But before we get to Game 7, we got to talk about a couple games. Obviously, we haven't really talked about any of the games. We haven't actually been on the pod since the series started.
Speaker 1:Game 1, tyrese, with the incredible sock. Game 2, okc they kind of put belt to ass on Indiana afterwards. Game three Benedict Matherin came out of nowhere and did his thing. Game four is the one game that stands out for me. The Pacers was dominating and then that last five minutes of that fourth quarter, shea was getting whatever he wanted. Some of it looked pretty illegal to me, but hey, scott Foster didn't see it the same way that I did. But hey, game, what was it? That was game four. Game five OKC brought home another one behind Jalen Williams dropping a 40 ball, and we have game six, where Indiana put Belta Ass on the OKC Thunder. So now we have a game seven. I know Sunday's going to be a nerve-wracking day. You're going to be sweating, probably wake up in a cold sweat that morning. But can I get your thoughts on the game 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, anything that stands out to you?
Speaker 2:no, not really the game 4. They walked us down. We didn't close out the game. We had turnovers, we didn't. Yeah, Shea got away with some stuff, but I wouldn't even say that was a Shea thing, Because going into the series, you know Shea going to get cops. It was some foul calls tonight that it was like all right man, they're giving these OKC whistles now. All right, now Come on now. But you come into the series expecting. That Game four to me was they walked us down. We didn't close the game. We had a bunch of turnovers. We let that game get away. Game five OKC's going to win at home and that's cool.
Speaker 2:It was coming down to game six. Okay, how are you going to come out? We came out cold. Both teams, really, you know, kind of came out a little cold, but then we picked it up and we carried through game six. Tj McConnell continues to be a beast off the bench. Tyrese Halliburton yes, he's hurt, but he showed up and put forth an effort, which the blowout in game six was important because of the simple fact Tyrese didn't have to play the whole fourth quarter. Tyrese played like 22 minutes, 23 minutes, something like that. Tyrese didn't play that much in game six, so he should be. He gets out slow. He still had to play, but it's a little time to rest. And then, of course, we get two more days before Sunday night.
Speaker 2:I'm excited for game seven. I'm not really. It's kind of one of those I'm going to. I guess I'll be nervous close to the game. But like pre-fight I was kind of like, oh, it's cool, it's going to be fun. Then I was like I don't know, I might be nervous, but now I'm thinking about it I'm excited. It's more like we've been this way all year. We've been this way throughout the finals. I'm excited. Man, hey, we're going to get this. I think the key for us. You said it Like when we talked about going into the series and I said what's the key?
Speaker 2:I said make shots. You said, well, that's for any game. But nah, it's more important when you play a team that plays defense the way that Oklahoma City does. Oklahoma City is going to give you open three-point shots. You have to make them. If you miss them, you lose those games. Yeah, Because even if you turn the ball over, you can't turn the ball over a lot at all, but you're going to turn the ball over some versus OKC, because that's what they do. That's how great of a team they are on defense. They're going to make you turn over the ball, but they're also going to give you open three-point shots. You have to make those open three-point shots. That's why.
Speaker 1:I said, the key to the series is can you make?
Speaker 2:your shots, absolutely right. Yeah, that's what it boils down to, and that's what it boils down to Game 7. Are you going to be able to handle the crowd and are you going to make your open shots?
Speaker 1:Yep, and Game 7 is going to be rocking in Oklahoma City. Something I want to ask you, though. I mean, obviously we don't know who's going to win it, but I'm asking you as a NBA fan, not a Pacers fan.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to separate the two at the same time, but I will attempt to.
Speaker 1:Who are your frontrunners for MVP for each?
Speaker 2:team. You know it's crazy, though. I was sitting there watching the game and I was like we might have to talk about MVP and if it's Indiana, I have no clue TJ going to get a couple votes.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. If we win game seven, depending on what TJ do, tj might win. It can't be Tyrese, because Tyrese had a game where he scored zero points. Of course we lost that game, but he scored zero points, so it really brought us down to Siakam or TJ, or even Obi, obi, tyrese, mike McGibbons, because every game that we won, we won because of Obi as well. Yep, obi and TJ are picking up a lot of the slack. That because Miles Turner ain't hitting shots, neesmith ain't hitting shots, neesmith ain't hitting shots, neymar ain't really hitting shots.
Speaker 1:He had that one lights-out game and then after that he's been in so-so.
Speaker 2:And that's the thing. Benedict Matherin throughout the season he was the bench scorer. A lot of bench points came from him, more so than OB and TJ, don't get me wrong. Ob and TJ did a thing during the season, but it was more of Benedict Maffin and he hasn't had a game. That's why, in the fourth quarter, I was well, PR was watching the game, but I was like he needs to play Benedict, because, benedict, for us to win game seven, benedict's going to have to be aggressive. Today was his birthday. Shout out to him if y'all heard this before, but he's going to have to be aggressive. Another person that I think has to be aggressive is Nimar. Oh, because last year because they brought it up during broadcast Nimar balled in that Eastern Conference final last year after Tyrese went down. Yep, we're going to need you to ball like that again.
Speaker 1:I want to give him a big shout-out. He has impressed me tremendously this series. Not for his offensive prowess. I didn't really think about it. I knew, but I completely forgot that he's Canadian and he grew up with Shea. I'm sure in the meeting before you know, pre-scouting meeting he was the one he stood up and said, hey, iouting meeting. He was the one he stood up and said, hey, I got you, don't worry about Shea, I got you. Now we know he's the MVP, shea going to get his.
Speaker 1:But Nim Hart has been making it hard on Shea. He has been Very, very hard. You can tell he's been. He got on his skin and sometimes the best defense is the power of friendship. Because they grew up together. He knows them well, he knows what he likes to do, he has an impression. I even think it could be a situation like a couple years ago when LeBron was still in his prime dominating. He obviously ain't shut down. He ain't shut him down, but he slowed him down enough that he may even get a vote for MVP just because off the strength of him making it hard for Shea.
Speaker 2:You're right. You're definitely right. He could get votes. I did like what we did differently in game six Instead of doing a full-court press, we picked you up at half-court. Then that saves our legs later down in the game. So I do like that. We switched. But as far as OKC, I really think.
Speaker 1:It's between Jalen Williams and Shea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think it's going to come down to you know, if they you know, lord forbid they win game seven. Yeah, I think it's going to be who has the better, who has the more impactful game, not necessarily who scores the most points, but who has the more impactful game, because Jalen Williams' point production has gone up every game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's been very impressive as well. He has grown a lot in this series alone.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I think it comes down to who has the more impressive game, but I got Pacers in seven.
Speaker 1:Pacers in seven. I did. I mean I wanted the Pacers to win. I did. I told my, I said before the series started this game, this series is going at least six. It's gone past six. I'm just happy we got a game seven and I can't wait for 8 pm Eastern Standard Time. I'm going to be sitting right here in my chair with an adult beverage watching the game, enjoying every second of it. I would love another buzzer beater. Tyrese, they calling you the moment. Hey, if you get you another buzzer beater, you might, they might give you a couple votes. Right now you don't deserve any. If you get you another buzzer beat, you might get a vote, or two.
Speaker 2:Hey, let me tell you something. If Indiana Wayne may send you a text with the ass like what's up, you already do his laugh. I was just going to say.
Speaker 1:I will be up ready to do a live whip some alcoholic beverage and I'll break out one of my cigars just to celebrate with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I'm going to be teased, but I'm excited for Game 7.
Speaker 1:Excited for Game 7. Also, that'll do it for another episode from my perspective. But you're right, we got to talk about one more thing. Nothing too crazy, but one of the most recognizable franchises in the NBA was sold for $10 billion, would it be? It came across the timeline surprisingly, jeannie Buss, for some reason. I guess she wanted an extra $10 billion in her pockets. Was you as shocked as I to see that the Lakers was sold?
Speaker 2:No, I'm telling you why I always because I listen to Brian Wilhersh and he always talks about how, as far as for as popular the Lakers are, they are the most cash-restraint team Because their family's business is the Lakers. They don't own a bunch, the Lakers. They don't own a bunch of other stuff. They don't own the arena. They don't own the property around the arena, they just own the Lakers. So you figure at some point they're going to want some money. The $10 billion the $10 billion don't surprise me either, because the Celtics the.
Speaker 2:Celtics own. The $10 billion is $. Surprise me either, because the Celtics the Celtics, you know what I'm saying. They sold for $6 billion. They was valued at $6 billion. The Lakers is valued at $10 billion. So you know what I'm saying. They're going to get like $3 billion apiece. They're going to get like $3. Not $3 billion apiece, they're going to get like $3 billion. Then they'll split that apiece and it's six of the Lakers kids, it's six bus kids. The thing that surprised me was I would have assumed that all the kids would have had to vote yes to sell the team, but it didn't. It just had to be a majority. So I know, like Congress and most things, things, majority wins. We talking about something the latest. I figure it had to be a unanimous situation.
Speaker 1:That's what surprised me. I wanted to bet you. Jerry is not too happy in his grave Because that was his dream.
Speaker 2:That was his baby. Yeah, that's another thing. I didn't think he would be happy about it, but I ain't gonna say that. But since you said it, I don't. That's another thing. I didn't think he would be happy about it, but I ain't gonna say that. Ever since you said it. Yeah, I don't think he happy about it.
Speaker 1:I don't think he's happy about it. There's no reason to be happy about it. I mean, obviously he doesn't have no control over it. I mean it's Jeannie Buss and the families. They have the choice of if they wanted to sell it or not. He willed it to them for a reason, but apparently Jenny Bush is still going to have some control over it. A lot of people are saying this new owner just saw his name. The new owner is 50 Rich.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he started a new money capital or whatever to raise $15 billion Mark.
Speaker 2:Walter, mark, I don't know why I was thinking Tim something, tim W, but it's Mark W. Mark Walter, yeah, they was trying to raise $15 billion. I think they started like last year or whatever, because you know he owns part of the well, he owns the majority of the Dodgers. He's part of the organization that owns part of the Dodgers and they spend money. They spend money, money. But of course you know that's a no-cap league, as it were. Nba is a cap league. But they raised $15 billion. $10 billion of it came from Saudi Arabia and you know, saudi Arabia, you couldn't own Saudi Arabia organization or people couldn't own majority of the team, but they put their money into this capital and so it looked like you know it looked like Mark owns a lot of, but Saudi gave $10 billion of this.
Speaker 2:you know what I'm saying to this organization. So my question is and this might be too deep in the rabbit hole who actually owns the majority of this team? I know they're saying he owns the majority of it, but if Sonny he's at the very least, he's the face. He's the face. But if Sonny that's what I'm saying Like who really owes him joining his team? Sadie gave him most of their money.
Speaker 1:They're going to want some say, yeah, I mean, mark is the face, but the Sadies they got, they gave the money. I don't want to say they got their arm up under like he's a puppet, but they might.
Speaker 2:They got their arm around his neck saying, hey, we want you to do this. Maybe I don't know, maybe that's the other thing. When I found out that they gave a lot of money, I was like I'm like interested. I'm also interested in that, like who really going to end up running this team, because that's the other thing with Jenny Bush, yes, she's the president right now. I who really going to end up running this team? Because that's the other thing with Jenny Bush, yes, she's the president right now. I mean the governor, sorry, the governor of the team right now.
Speaker 1:That ain't going to last long. No, a couple years. Yeah, now, when you're not the majority owner, they can get you up out of there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I wonder how long, because I'm sure it's in the contract. I wonder how long it is. Is it like a two-year thing, three-year thing, what is it? Because Mark Cuban thought he was going to be in charge of basketball operations. He had that one Immediately.
Speaker 1:Right, he's still on his little portion, but he ain't got control over nothing. Mark is just collecting a little check. He's just collecting a check.
Speaker 2:And Bust, they still own 17%. Now it's like 17%.
Speaker 1:They're collecting 17% of that check.
Speaker 2:Which is still a nice check. The Lakers are still the Lakers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but my thing with hearing about people saying he's filthy rich they're saying that he's going to be willing to go into that second apron. Do you think there's any smoke to that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think he will. I think he will and he won't. But going into the second apron, it's cool for a first year or two, but after a while you got to get out of it.
Speaker 1:There's no way he's going to no millionaire billionaire. You gotta get out of this. There's no way he's gonna no millionaire billionaire. They didn't become that by losing money, by spending more money than they bring in. Eventually he's gonna be like alright, guys, I didn't pay this luxury tax enough to break it up.
Speaker 2:And not only that, not just the money. Also it hurts you the way you build your team Because all the exceptions you can't do them no more If you end up if I listen to Wendy's podcast, if I make sure I got it correctly if you end the apron too many years in a row, it don't matter where your draft pick is, it gets moved to the end. So you only going to spend so many years on the end of that second half because it's starting to hurt you the way you build your team. So we shall see. I'm very interested in the reporting comes out about who voted no in the family, because I'm pretty sure it was one of them brothers. And then I'm also interested to see is he a puppet for the Saudi or does he really got control of the team? I'm interested in those two things.
Speaker 1:That's going to be it. We will find out. We'll be here to talk about it whenever we find out, if he's a puppet, wherever he finds out, if he's running it and if he decides to go in that second apron and see how long. But you know, from our perspective got you, especially when it comes to basketball. But I'll do it for another episode of From Our Perspective. I'm your boy Deion. We have a game seven the two most beautiful words when it comes to sports, especially series-based sports. Game seven, sunday 8 pm. Eastern Indiana Pacers versus the OKC Thunder. I cannot wait, but again, I do it from my perspective. Please like, please subscribe, leave a comment on who you think will win Game 7 and bring home the Larry OB Q. Go ahead, take us home, man. You see that.
Speaker 2:Enough, said we holler at y'all later.