It's the Friday before the Super Bowl and Pablo, David and Amin's tenure as our substitute teachers is coming to an end, so of course we start with the Miami Heat. Pablo has a mini scoop about Kevin Love's now infamous activity on Instagram during the Jimmy Butler saga and it stuns the gang. Would Jeremy Taché be the funniest possible person that could be running Antonio Brown's social media? Then, we discuss the beef that unfolded last night on social media between Kevin Durant and Kendrick Perkins. Plus, Josh Allen won the NFL MVP over Lamar Jackson last night and the crew discusses whether the media should have as much power as they do in voting for awards that could have major impacts on players' earnings in their careers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What scoop does Pablo have about Kevin Love?
Because he's worth it, right? Now, there are sometimes guys that are like, okay, technically you're worth it, but I really don't want to pay you this money. But that's a lot rarer because, again, the benchmark isn't make all NBA once. It's you have to have... multiple appearances in the first four or five years of your career.
The reason why this is all in my head is that Ben Simmons is now at the end of his five-year supermax, and they're working on a buyout. The Brooklyn Nets are working on a buyout of Ben Simmons. And Philadelphia, when they sign him, there's despondency. He didn't get a supermax, but he got a max. And you can lose. You can get really screwed with these deals if you don't get it right.
So Ben Simmons, A, did not get a super max.
I said he got a max. Yeah, well, you started with he got a super max. Oh, you said them both. But I just want to clarify to people who are doing it. David said this, and David said that. Which one is it? Thank you. It was a regular max with some bonuses in there. He didn't achieve them. The thing with Ben Simmons is you had a perfect storm of, A, legitimate injury, and then, B...
a weird organizational decision to abandon him in the most vulnerable moment. So when he passed down that dunk against the Hawks in game seven, instead of his head coach, his superstar, his general manager.
Wait, what is it? I forget. What did his head coach sound like?
Well, look. You know, it wasn't my fault. And it wasn't Joel's fault. I'm not gonna say whose fault it was. It wasn't Darryl's fault either. It wasn't Trey Young's fault.
It was painful, man. That presser was so painful. But to Pablo's point about the voting, I mean, to me it ends up, it's going to have to be like a committee, kind of like the college football committee.
where like you trust people to be objective like it used to be basically it is hilarious it used to be basically us journalists hey we trust you all to be objective never once when i used to vote did i think this might make this guy more money right now it's a lot more obvious it's just one to one hey if this guy makes it he's going to be able to make that money i don't want to have to think that way i want to just respect the game and let the chips go where they may so this this is why for years i've been beating the drum
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