The Rush: LeBron sits vs Houston, speaks on Trump, gets endorsed by The Answer
Neither LeBron James nor Russel Westbrook played in the Rockets primetime win over the Lakers, Allen Iverson weighs in on whether MJ or LeBron is the GOAT, LeBron James responds Donald Trump’s about the NBA’s anthem protests, and Greg Popovich called Nikola Jokic the reincarnation of Larry Bird, a title for which a new strange contender appears every day. PLUS: Eight time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt breaks down footage of Tom Brady and other players running the 40 yard dash at the NFL Combine.
Video Transcript
[BABY BABBLING]
- But I'm big scoop. Oh.
JARED QUAY: We should be in the middle of the Olympics. Instead, they're postponed to 2021, leaving plenty of time for Usain Bolt to chat it up with his daughter Lightning.
- Look at you.
JARED QUAY: That's a cool name-- Lightning the Bolt. You can't beat them in a relay. Later we'll see what the world's fastest man thinks of Tom Brady running a 40.
But first, we gotta step inside the bubble. I've been looking forward to the Lakers versus Rockets in primetime since the schedules were released. But it turned out to be a bunch of nothing.
- Zero, man, zilch.
JARED QUAY: Sure the Rockets won last night, but LeBron and Westbrook sat out with injuries.
- That can't be.
JARED QUAY: Yeah, at the last second, both of 'em came down with a bad case of load management. Prayers up for my dawgs. Hope you're all right.
- [HUMMING]
JARED QUAY: And while we're talking about the "King," the "Answer" has the answer on MJ versus LeBron.
- As much as I love Michael Jordan, dawg-- man, LeBron James is the one, dawg. He the one, man.
JARED QUAY: You heard Allen Iverson. Jordan might be able to stop bullets, but LeBron doesn't need to. Yo, 'Bron, you think you could take Jordan one on one?
- I can sit here and speak for all of us that love the game of basketball. We could care less.
JARED QUAY: Actually that was his response when told that the president had strong feelings about the NBA's anthem protests.
- When I see 'em kneeling, I just turn off the game. I have no interest in the game.
JARED QUAY: Meaning he probably didn't watch the Spurs get beat by the Nuggets the other day, and missed Gregg Popovich saying this about Nikola Jokic.
- Jokic, he's like a reincarnation of Larry Bird.
JARED QUAY: Look, I hate to call out Pop, but we know that's bull[BLEEP]. If we learned anything this week it's that Larry Bird's reincarnation is this tomato. Ooh, that look like Larry Bird. Ain't that right, Jeff Van Gundy?
- What is that? Oh, that's disrespectful.
- He's just taken it too far.
- We caught up with Usain Bolt at the Super Bowl earlier this year. And while we can't watch him go for gold, we can watch him critique these NFL players 40s.
- All right, I'm gonna show you a couple of people running 40s. And I want you to give me expert training on what they did good, what they did bad. All right?
The first person we got his John Ross, who has the world record for the 40-time at the NFL combine. So let's check it out. And so you tell me if this is good or what he could've did differently.
- For me, he didn't get into his running. He was leaning too far forward. It's good-- 30 meters is good. But you gotta get up and run.
- Think he missed the patting on his chest as he was going past the line. That's my thing.
- But I equal that time in joggers, bro.
- All right, we got Tom Brady.
- Ah, no.
- Ah, yeah. Moving.
- Everything's bad there. Everything is bad there. Listen--
[LAUGHTER]
- And then last but bot least, we got my man, Chris Jones' who's gonna be playing. Uh-oh. Look at that. That's 310 pounds.
- Ahh!
- He look like he's screaming as he runs.
- Yeah. And then oh!
- Oh!
- That's a big body moving fast. And then check this out.
- He's just trying to get to the line though.
- The man ran so fast his underpants came down. You ever ran that fast your underpants came off, man? That's the Flash.
- No, no, no. We've got some good tights.
- All right.
- You need to talk to the NFL about that.
